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by russss 16y ago
Printable version: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
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by russss 16y ago
Zero. Microwaves are non-ionising.
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by russss 16y ago
You get what you pay for, and for $8k I don't think you'll get the opportunity to specify your orbit.
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by russss 16y ago
Yes. There's not nearly enough capacity on one of those tubesats for a workable propulsion system and any kind of payload. A lot of the cost advantages of the tubesats (which, incidentally, have never been launched) come from their stand
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by russss 16y ago
Money laundering is a big problem for betting exchanges, but it's not an unsolvable problem. Countries that issue betting exchange licenses generally have very tight anti-money laundering requirements.
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by russss 16y ago
We want to make betting on a betting exchange easier to understand for the average punter. Loads of people (at least in the UK) still use high-street bookmakers with bad odds. Betfair is a bit of a mess (don't view source if you value your
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by russss 16y ago
I don't think it's an offence for a US citizen to gamble over the internet, but it's not legal for us as a betting exchange licensed in Malta to let you use our product. So you can register on Smarkets, but you won't be able to deposit from
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by russss 16y ago
Yes it does, but it limits you to 100 per minute. ( http://bdp.betfair.com/index.php?option=com_content&task... ) We ( http://www.smarkets.com ) are about to launch our own free RESTful trading API.
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by russss 16y ago
Yes, the rules ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoCom ) dictate that the GPS should cut out if the device exceeds a speed of 1000kts AND an altitude 60,000 feet. A lot of GPS units wrongly interpret these limits as being 1000kts OR 60,000 ft,
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by russss 16y ago
There's some talk in the high-altitude ballooning community about using hydrogen - it's much cheaper - but as yet I don't know of anyone doing it.
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by russss 16y ago
The site itself isn't bad, there's a fair amount of decent advice on there, although nothing that isn't really available elsewhere.
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by russss 16y ago
It's 1/r^3 for a dipole magnet.
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by russss 16y ago
This video is working fine for me with Chrome on Linux.
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by russss 16y ago
Yeah, it was screened with a live orchestra and broadcast on German TV in February - there are some rips around, although the intertitles are all in German.
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by russss 16y ago
The pg_collkey extension gives you access to ICU's unicode collation functionality from within Postgres: http://www.flexiguided.de/publications.pgcollkey.en.html Also see my blog post about it here: http://russ.garrett.co.uk/2009/01/18/u
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by russss 16y ago
If you use "pg_dump -F c", pg_restore is able to parallelize the restore, which makes things go a lot quicker.
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by russss 16y ago
It's not copyrighted (of course you can't copyright a single word), but it is a protected term. You're not allowed to use it unless you're qualified. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_over_the_term_Eng...
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by russss 17y ago
As far as I know this isn't just speculation, it's fact. The US DoD required a 1500-mile crossrange capability on the Shuttle because they wanted to launch from Vandenberg into a polar orbit, immediately drop a satellite into orbit over the
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by russss 17y ago
That's a silly argument - any site which uses a non-trivial number of backend servers will have an internal network using RFC1918 v4 addresses, and there's no shortage of those (djb covers this). As someone who runs such a site, I'd only th
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by russss 17y ago
All incredibly old jokes aside, you can see the actual live webcams from the CMS experiment here: http://cms.web.cern.ch/cms/Media/CMSeye/index.html
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by russss 17y ago
The awesome thing about the LHC is that they expose loads of its operational details live on the web, so you can see what's happening right now in confusingly large amounts of detail. "Page 1", which is the main accelerator status screen:
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by russss 17y ago
The guidance computer doesn't have enough RAM to contain the code for the entire mission, though. They have to load in a new program once the the orbiter is in space, and another one before it de-orbits. There's a fascinating (and very deta
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by russss 17y ago
Those are my gauges (although I no longer work for last.fm) - the code and design notes for them are up on Github: http://github.com/russss/arduino-gauges I also helped out with the analogue tweet-o-meter from a couple of weeks ago: http
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by russss 17y ago
By RAID 0, they likely just mean "no RAID", where the redundancy is across machines, not just disks.
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by russss 17y ago
ADS-B data isn't linked to the transponder code - each plane has a serial number assigned by the ICAO. So this is the simply one plane flying several different routes.
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by russss 17y ago
http://www.radarvirtuel.com/ is a similar concept but they seem to have more ADS-B receivers in play, so there's better coverage of Europe (and also some of the rest of the world).
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by russss 17y ago
I would say the BBC displays absolutely no bias in quoting the guy's responses verbatim...
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by russss 17y ago
Oh come on, the Daily Mail? Really? Here's the original BBC interview: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8511670.stm And here's their article reporting it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8511701.stm If you read the interview you
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by russss 17y ago
I second that, I did a comparison a few years ago and pgbouncer blew pgpool away: http://www.last.fm/user/Russ/journal/2008/02/21/zd_postgres_...
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by russss 17y ago
Other advantages of Pingdom which aren't easy to emulate: * Pingdom measures response time and availability from multiple points on the internet, which is very useful for working out if there are issues with your connection. * Pingdom will

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