Re: vacuum-safe laptops ?
Hard drives won't be able to, you'd need solid state flash disks. Sustainable operation will dry out lubricant in bearings, so any fans won't last very long. Any cooling requiring convection won't work, radiative cooling only. I suppose backlighting should be able to do, don't see how LCDs will get damaged. If high voltage is sufficiently good insulated, otherwise it will arc. It all depends on how hard your vacuum is, of course. And how long you want to operate the device. You'd need an old laptop, passively cooled (if it won't foul up your vacuum, immerse it in silicon oil), outfitted with flash sticks or flash drives. All of this is an educated guess, of course. On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 06:35:02AM -0400, An Metet wrote: Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate myself) which laptops, if any, can safely go to zero air pressure (dropping from 1 atm to 0 in, say, 1 minute.) -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net pgpJXkSpVhEzs.pgp Description: PGP signature
vacuum-safe laptops ?
Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate myself) which laptops, if any, can safely go to zero air pressure (dropping from 1 atm to 0 in, say, 1 minute.)
RE: vacuum-safe laptops ?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of An Metet Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 6:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: vacuum-safe laptops ? Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate myself) which laptops, if any, can safely go to zero air pressure (dropping from 1 atm to 0 in, say, 1 minute.) What's your application, exactly? A rocket? I don't know about rapid decompression, but one problem is with the disk drives - the heads rely on entrained air to maintain separation from the disk surface. Most drives are not hermetically sealed, and have a (filtered) port to the outside to equalize air pressure. Some drives *are* sealed, and will operate at low pressure. I've seen this issue disscussed in the context of computers and laptops at high-altitude astronomical observatories: most machines will suffer head crashes if you try to use them at 10,000 feet (jets maintain an internal pressure altitude of about 5,000 feet). Some applications use solid state drives to get around this: http://www.globalspec.com/featuredproducts/detail?exhibitId=10540fromSpotlight=1fromSupplier=0 Some displays may also be a problem. This is more an issue for big plasma displays. Sony makes a special plasma TV for high altitude use: http://www.superwarehouse.com/Sony_PlasmaPro_PFM-42V1A_S_Silver_42_Plasma_Display/PFM-42V1A_S/pf/330392 A useful article is at http://www.iht.com/IHT/SUP/031999/digi-08.html You might want to look at the Itronix GoBook Max. http://www.gobookmax.com/ This device supposedly meets MILSPEC: http://www.dtc.army.mil/pdf/810.pdf which is a USG survivability spec. It includes an explosive decompression test, but not to high vacuum. ..and of course, all this gets pricy. Peter Trei
US Seeks Bobby Fischer Extradition
Now that AmeriKKKa has successfully invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq in violation of international law, tortured with impunity, and mocked the rest of the world with its arrogance, what will it do for an encore? Settle old political scores, of course. So it comes as no surprise that the US has had former world chess champion Bobby FIscher arrested in Japan, and is seeking his extradition to the United States. Seems in 1992, Mr. Fischer played in the world chess championship in Yugoslavia which was under UN sanctions prohibiting people from engaging in a business enterprise there. The US, which has a long history of creatively interpreting UN resolutions to suit its own ends, decided unilaterally that this prohibition applied to sporting events, a view held by no other nation in the world. After Fischer won the match, a federal grand jury indicted him, and he was magically transformed from world chess champion into a fugutive facing 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Unable to protect his business and personal interests in the United States as a fugitive, his belongings in the US were stolen, and his chess books were freely reproduced in violation of his copyright, depriving him of the rightful income from his intellectual property. Another reason Mr. Fischer's life was magically transformed to shit. He's openly critical, as any sane person would be, of Israel and the Jews. And as we know, you can't do that and be a public figure in AmeriKKKa without being attacked, although to even suggest that this is the case instantly gets one accused of hate speech. So it should be interesting to see how this case unfolds, in a country where Martha Stewart can go to prison for lying, but Colin Powell can't. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law
Re: USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt
Actually, frequent prosecutions could work to the advantage of a select few who choose to become martyrs. Since it would make it much more likely supplicants would be called upon. Please explain this thought? If people are intentionally trying to set up the jackbooted thugs to break down your door then the more often the thugs take the bait the more likely the baitors will get to spring their traps. I posted a few months back offering an alternative to religion in recruitment: the terminally ill. That's not good for this purpose; their lifetime is too short. Do you have evidence to support this (e.g., average survivial times of the TI from their first learning about their condition)?
Terror in the Skies, Again?
I don't quite know what to make of this. Is it just paranoid rambling? http://www.womenswallstreet.com/WWS/article_landing.aspx?titleid=1articleid=711 Terror in the Skies, Again? By Annie Jacobsen Note from the E-ditors: You are about to read an account of what happened during a domestic flight that one of our writers, Annie Jacobsen, took from Detroit to Los Angeles. The WWS Editorial Team debated long and hard about how to handle this information and ultimately we decided it was something that should be shared. What does it have to do with finances? Nothing, and everything. Here is Annie's story. On June 29, 2004, at 12:28 p.m., I flew on Northwest Airlines flight #327 from Detroit to Los Angeles with my husband and our young son. Also on our flight were 14 Middle Eastern men between the ages of approximately 20 and 50 years old. What I experienced during that flight has caused me to question whether the United States of America can realistically uphold the civil liberties of every individual, even non-citizens, and protect its citizens from terrorist threats. .. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Blast from the past: USENET Transport Binding for SOAP 1.1
USENET Transport Binding for SOAP 1.1 10 February 2002 Authors (alphabetically): Sister Tornado Copyright© 2002 Sister Tornado. Reproduce with credit at will. Abstract SOAP [1] is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment, using XML. This document details transporting SOAP messages over the USENET. [2] Status This is a draft. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1 Notational Conventions 2. Use Of USENET Message body 2.1 Encoding 3. Identifying USENET transports in WSDL 4. Request / Response semantics 5. Examples 6. Security Considerations 7. References 1. Introduction By binding SOAP to USENET, we can take advantage of USENET's store and forward messaging to provide an asynchronous, broadcast, one way transport for SOAP. Two one way messages can be correlated to provide request / response semantics (this closely follows the SOAP model). This allows SOAP to be used in a number of scenarios where HTTP is not suitable (partially connected nodes, one way notifications etc.) The author wishes to acknowledge that the shameless cribbing of much of the text from SMTP Transport Binding for SOAP 1.1 [0]. 1.1 Notational Conventions The keywords MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, RECOMMENDED, MAY, and OPTIONAL in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119 [3]. 2. Use of USENET Standard 2.1 Use of USENET Message Headers The USENET Message standard requires the use of a Subject field. This field SHOULD be used to identify the service being called. For example: Subject: SoapRobot 2.2 Use of USENET Message body SOAP payloads in USENET MUST be packaged into the body of the USENET message. 2.3 Encoding A content transfer encoding of base64 is RECOMMENDED. A content transfer encoding of Quoted-Printable MAY be used if the SOAP payload meets the requirements of RFC-1036 [2]. 3. Identifying USENET transports in WSDL The URI http://schemas.xmlsoap.com/soap/usenet/ SHOULD be used to identify USENET transports compliant with this specification in the transport attribute of the soap:binding element of a WSDL [4] document (see section 3.3 of the WSDL spec.) The address of the SOAP service in the soap:address element of a WSDL document SHOULD be the name or handle of the intended recipient and a comma-delimitedlist of newsgroups where a request may be posted. For example: soap:address location=[EMAIL PROTECTED],example.alt.soap.messages.fake 4. Request / Response semantics SOAP applications requiring request / response semantics will need to perform some sort of message correlation. This SHOULD be achieved via the standard Message-Id and Followup-To USENET headers [2]. The request will include a Message-Id header, and the associated response should include a Followup-To header that contains the Message-Id of the request, and a new Message-Id header. The responder SHOULD also reflect the incoming subject header into the response, prefixing it with Re: . 5. Example A request destined for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Path: server.example/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/relay.site.example/site.example/injector.site.example%jsmith Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 February 2002 23:27:00 -0700 Subject: SoapRobot Newsgroups: example.alt.comp.rec.foo ?xml version=3D1.0 encoding=3DUTF-8? SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle=3Dhttp://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/; xmlns:SOAP-ENC=3Dhttp://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/; xmlns:SOAP-ENV=3Dhttp://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/; xmlns:xsd=3Dhttp://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema; xmlns:xsi=3Dhttp://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance; SOAP-ENV:Body m:echoString xmlns:m=3Dhttp://soapinterop.org/; inputStringA human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. --Robert A. Heinlein/inputString /m:echoString /SOAP-ENV:Body /SOAP-ENV:Envelope The resulting response from SoapRobot Path: server.example/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/relay.site.example/site.example/injector.site.example%jsmith Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 February 2002 23:51:00 -0700 Subject: Re: SoapRobot Newsgroups: example.alt.comp.rec.foo References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?xml version=3D1.0 encoding=3DUTF-8? SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle=3Dhttp://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/; xmlns:SOAP-ENC=3Dhttp://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/; xmlns:SOAP-ENV=3Dhttp://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/;
We werent doing anything wrong
http://www.wvgazettemail.com/static/stories/2004071346.html Couple in anti-Bush T-shirts were arrested at presidents speech By Tara Tuckwiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] A husband and wife who wore anti-Bush T-shirts to the presidents Fourth of July appearance arent going down without a fight: They will be represented by lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union as they contest the trespassing charges against them Thursday morning in Charleston Municipal Court. Police took Nicole and Jeff Rank away in handcuffs from the event, which was billed as a presidential appearance, not a campaign rally. They were wearing T-shirts that read, Love America, Hate Bush. Spectators who wore pro-Bush T-shirts and Bush-Cheney campaign buttons were allowed to stay. We werent doing anything wrong, said Jeff Rank. The couple, who said they had tickets just like everybody else, said they simply stood around the Capitol steps with the rest of the spectators. We sang the national anthem, Rank said. The Ranks hardly fit the image of rabble-rousers. Jeff Rank, 29, has a masters degree in oceanography. Nicole Rank, 30, has degrees in biological science and marine biology. They have been married for seven years. Nicole Rank arrived in Charleston soon after the Memorial Day floods. She was working as deputy environmental liaison officer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, making sure cities and counties obeyed federal environmental laws as they repaired roads and bridges. After police arrested the Ranks, fingerprinted them and took their mug shots, FEMA told Nicole Rank she was no longer needed in West Virginia. I have not been fired per se, she said. But I was released from this job. And when they release you from a job, you no longer get paid. The Ranks started to go home to Corpus Christi, Texas, but they only got as far as Roanoke, Va., when it occurred to them that they might not be able to contest their arrest if they werent in Charleston on their court date. A phone call confirmed their suspicions. So they turned around. Weve been living in motels ever since, said Jeff Rank, who spent Tuesday evening in his motel room with his wife, their cocker spaniel Feinman, and their marmalade cat Rowr. Its extremely difficult [financially]. We can only afford to do this for so long. But they had to stay and fight the charges, he said, because we didnt think we were guilty. Since Bush took office in early 2001, people have been banned from displaying anti-Bush messages at dozens of Bush appearances across the country. In September, the ACLU filed a federal lawsuit against the Secret Service, seeking an injunction against the Bush administration for segregating protesters at his public appearances. The Secret Service agreed that such censorship was wrong, said Witold Walczak, one of the lawyers that filed the lawsuit. They had an internal memo dated September 2002, saying they couldnt treat protesters differently or worse than anyone else at a presidential appearance, Walczak said. The judge said any agent responsible for doing so could be held liable for damages. The Secret Service had been telling local police to sequester anyone displaying an anti-administration message, usually in areas completely out of sight and earshot of Bush. Because the Secret Service agreed with the ACLU that it shouldnt be doing that, the judge dismissed the case. Prior to filing our suit in September, wed get a couple of confirmed protest zone complaints every month, Walczak said. After we filed, there were practically none. We had two documented incidents between September and March: one in Little Rock, Ark., and one in Knoxville, Tenn. But now, lawyers like Walczak are carefully monitoring cases like the Ranks and two similar incidents recently in Pennsylvania. Were trying to assess what is going on at these appearances ... whether these protest zones are resuming, he said. We are continuing to monitor all campaign events by both Republican and Democratic candidates. Were prepared to go back into court if we see discrimination occurring. Because Bushs Fourth of July stop in Charleston was billed as an official presidential visit, not a campaign rally, That makes it an even more glaring violation of the First Amendment, said Andrew Schneider, executive director of the ACLU of West Virginia. Its an Orwellian way to keep speech out of sight of those the speech is intended to critique ... We want to nip this in the bud before it becomes a habit of future administrations. A Bush spokesman did not return a telephone call seeking comment on the necessity of the free speech zone. To contact staff writer Tara Tuckwiller, use e-mail or call 348-5189.
RE: We werent doing anything wrong
Original Message From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: We werent doing anything wrong Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:26:53 -0400 So...given the legal precedent, might a citizen's arrest of the arresting agents be defensible in court? (This assumes that there are large numbers of protestors, of course, willing to apprehend the rogue officers.) AFAIK, citizens are still free to arrest anyone they see comitting a crime, however dangerous to one's health :) It might be much more effective for some terminally ill 'demonstartors' to use some sort of difficult to detect explosives that they could detonate if an attempt were made to arrest them for asserting their right to free speeech.
RE: We werent doing anything wrong
So...given the legal precedent, might a citizen's arrest of the arresting agents be defensible in court? (This assumes that there are large numbers of protestors, of course, willing to apprehend the rogue officers.) -TD From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: We werent doing anything wrong Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:36:32 -0400 http://www.wvgazettemail.com/static/stories/2004071346.html Couple in anti-Bush T-shirts were arrested at presidents speech By Tara Tuckwiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] A husband and wife who wore anti-Bush T-shirts to the presidents Fourth of July appearance arent going down without a fight: They will be represented by lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union as they contest the trespassing charges against them Thursday morning in Charleston Municipal Court. Police took Nicole and Jeff Rank away in handcuffs from the event, which was billed as a presidential appearance, not a campaign rally. They were wearing T-shirts that read, Love America, Hate Bush. Spectators who wore pro-Bush T-shirts and Bush-Cheney campaign buttons were allowed to stay. We werent doing anything wrong, said Jeff Rank. The couple, who said they had tickets just like everybody else, said they simply stood around the Capitol steps with the rest of the spectators. We sang the national anthem, Rank said. The Ranks hardly fit the image of rabble-rousers. Jeff Rank, 29, has a masters degree in oceanography. Nicole Rank, 30, has degrees in biological science and marine biology. They have been married for seven years. Nicole Rank arrived in Charleston soon after the Memorial Day floods. She was working as deputy environmental liaison officer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, making sure cities and counties obeyed federal environmental laws as they repaired roads and bridges. After police arrested the Ranks, fingerprinted them and took their mug shots, FEMA told Nicole Rank she was no longer needed in West Virginia. I have not been fired per se, she said. But I was released from this job. And when they release you from a job, you no longer get paid. The Ranks started to go home to Corpus Christi, Texas, but they only got as far as Roanoke, Va., when it occurred to them that they might not be able to contest their arrest if they werent in Charleston on their court date. A phone call confirmed their suspicions. So they turned around. Weve been living in motels ever since, said Jeff Rank, who spent Tuesday evening in his motel room with his wife, their cocker spaniel Feinman, and their marmalade cat Rowr. Its extremely difficult [financially]. We can only afford to do this for so long. But they had to stay and fight the charges, he said, because we didnt think we were guilty. Since Bush took office in early 2001, people have been banned from displaying anti-Bush messages at dozens of Bush appearances across the country. In September, the ACLU filed a federal lawsuit against the Secret Service, seeking an injunction against the Bush administration for segregating protesters at his public appearances. The Secret Service agreed that such censorship was wrong, said Witold Walczak, one of the lawyers that filed the lawsuit. They had an internal memo dated September 2002, saying they couldnt treat protesters differently or worse than anyone else at a presidential appearance, Walczak said. The judge said any agent responsible for doing so could be held liable for damages. The Secret Service had been telling local police to sequester anyone displaying an anti-administration message, usually in areas completely out of sight and earshot of Bush. Because the Secret Service agreed with the ACLU that it shouldnt be doing that, the judge dismissed the case. Prior to filing our suit in September, wed get a couple of confirmed protest zone complaints every month, Walczak said. After we filed, there were practically none. We had two documented incidents between September and March: one in Little Rock, Ark., and one in Knoxville, Tenn. But now, lawyers like Walczak are carefully monitoring cases like the Ranks and two similar incidents recently in Pennsylvania. Were trying to assess what is going on at these appearances ... whether these protest zones are resuming, he said. We are continuing to monitor all campaign events by both Republican and Democratic candidates. Were prepared to go back into court if we see discrimination occurring. Because Bushs Fourth of July stop in Charleston was billed as an official presidential visit, not a campaign rally, That makes it an even more glaring violation of the First Amendment, said Andrew Schneider, executive director of the ACLU of West Virginia. Its an Orwellian way to keep speech out of sight of those the speech is intended to critique ... We want to nip this in the bud before it becomes a habit of future administrations. A Bush spokesman did
