Windows infected in 12 minutes

2005-07-05 Thread William T Goodall
It now takes just twelve minutes for an improperly protected[1] Windows PC connected to the internet to become infected. http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1511 [1] Most of them in other words. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog :

The Oldest American?

2005-07-05 Thread Travis Edmunds
http://www.mexicanfootprints.co.uk/ The discovery of 40,000 years old human footprints in Central Mexico challenges accepted theories on when and how humans first colonised the Americas. The timing, route and origin of the first colonisation of the Americas remains one of the most

Re: Glyph and Glyphability. Need Python reference.

2005-07-05 Thread Julia Thompson
Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Jul 4, 2005, at 9:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally found it by changing my search. Cream pie sketch was zip. OK, so I'm not senile just yet. ;) What would be the total weight of an eighteen meter diameter cream pie? No tin. Depth? If we go rule of

Statistic

2005-07-05 Thread Julia Thompson
I came across the following statistic just now: 18% to 22% of twins are left-handed fewer than 10% of non-twins are left-handed I'm wondering why that would be, now. Does anyone have statistics of the handedness of children born prematurely vs. children born at full term? Twins are more

Re: Statistic

2005-07-05 Thread Dave Land
On Jul 5, 2005, at 1:18 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: I came across the following statistic just now: 18% to 22% of twins are left-handed fewer than 10% of non-twins are left-handed I guess it's twice as likely as I thought it was that I have a missing twin out there somewhere... Dave Sinister

Re: The Oldest American?

2005-07-05 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Travis Edmunds quoted: The discovery of 40,000 years old human footprints in Central Mexico challenges accepted theories on when and how humans first colonised the Americas. This is not news. There are human remains in Brazil that _may_ date from 30,000 years ago. Alberto Monteiro

Re: Statistic

2005-07-05 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Julia Thompson wrote: I came across the following statistic just now: 18% to 22% of twins are left-handed fewer than 10% of non-twins are left-handed I'm wondering why that would be, now. Maybe because they are mirror images of the sibling :-) Alberto Monteiro

RE: The Oldest American?

2005-07-05 Thread Kevin Street
Travis Edmunds quoted: The discovery of 40,000 years old human footprints in Central Mexico challenges accepted theories on when and how humans first colonised the Americas. Alberto Monteiro wrote: This is not news. There are human remains in Brazil that _may_ date from 30,000 years

Re: Statistic

2005-07-05 Thread Julia Thompson
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: I came across the following statistic just now: 18% to 22% of twins are left-handed fewer than 10% of non-twins are left-handed I'm wondering why that would be, now. Maybe because they are mirror images of the sibling :-) That's only for

RE: Baxter's Manifold: books

2005-07-05 Thread Kevin Street
Ah, Baxter - one of the modern SF masters! (But why do so many of the best writers have names that start with B?) Bryon Daly wrote: I just recently read Stephen Baxter's first two Manifold books (Manifold: Time and Manifold:Space). I'm wondering if anyone here read them and what they thought

Re: Statistic

2005-07-05 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Julia Thompson wrote: But then that raises the question -- what were the handedness of Good Spock and Evil Spock? :) The Mirror Universe is not a true mirror, because both of them split from the same Universe and have the same chirality. Alberto Monteiro

Re: Glyph and Glyphability. Need Python reference.

2005-07-05 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, Cream pie has a noticeably lower density than water. Am I going to have to go to Marie Callender's later this week to buy some for the purpose of determining density? :) Certainly. My guess is that its density is a fifth that of water.

Re: The Oldest American?

2005-07-05 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Kevin Street wrote: This is not news. There are human remains in Brazil that _may_ date from 30,000 years ago. But it's fascinating! For one thing, I wonder where those early North And South Americans went to. Did they disappear? They were assimilated :-) And were they Homo Sapiens, or

Re: Windows infected in 12 minutes

2005-07-05 Thread Russell Chapman
William T Goodall wrote: It now takes just twelve minutes for an improperly protected[1] Windows PC connected to the internet to become infected. [1] Most of them in other words. The significant point here is that unless you have access to a second machine with a burner and a reasonable

Re: Glyph and Glyphability. Need Python reference.

2005-07-05 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert J. Chassell wrote: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, Cream pie has a noticeably lower density than water. Am I going to have to go to Marie Callender's later this week to buy some for the purpose of determining density? :) Certainly. My guess is that its density is

Re: Statistic

2005-07-05 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:18 PM Tuesday 7/5/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: I came across the following statistic just now: 18% to 22% of twins are left-handed fewer than 10% of non-twins are left-handed I'm wondering why that would be, now. Does anyone have statistics of the handedness of children born prematurely

Re: Statistic

2005-07-05 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 04:19 PM Tuesday 7/5/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Alberto Monteiro wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: I came across the following statistic just now: 18% to 22% of twins are left-handed fewer than 10% of non-twins are left-handed I'm wondering why that would be, now. Maybe because they are

Re: Statistic

2005-07-05 Thread Robert Seeberger
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: But then that raises the question -- what were the handedness of Good Spock and Evil Spock? :) The Mirror Universe is not a true mirror, because both of them split from the same Universe and have the same chirality. And that is obvious

RE: Baxter's Manifold: books

2005-07-05 Thread PAT MATHEWS
From: Kevin Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com To: 'Killer Bs Discussion' brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: RE: Baxter's Manifold: books Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:35:47 -0600 Ah, Baxter - one of the modern SF masters! (But why do so many of the best writers

Re: Brin: ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny

2005-07-05 Thread Leonard Matusik
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 13:45:49 -0700 (PDT David Brin wrote: --- Leonard Matusik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found Brins piece for his 6/12 blogspot so very cool. It was on a RAND publication regarding netCulture. cool. I didn't know that Ronfeldt posted my private musings to him. Do you have a