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Pastrami and Wi-Fi: Schlotzsky's offers limited free service: The deli chain is providing free Wi-Fi in 10 stores as part of an experiment. I picked up on Schlotzsky's just in time to include them in a book that Adam Engst and I are delivering to our publisher next week called The Wireless Networking Starter Kit. (The News.com article from the link above misdefines hot spot, and probably way overestimates the number of wireless nodes. It's more likely that 15 million adapters (cards and access points) have been shipped, not nodes installed, and nodes aren't hot spots, which are publicly accessible locations.)[80211b News]

The first study to actually measure temperatures at the poles has revealed that mid-winter temperatures at the South Pole are about 40-50 degrees Fahrenheit colder than predicted by current climate models.

A common theme in the post-election moaning is global warming, the argument being that somehow a Republican administration is going to bring about global environmental disaster. There are plenty of factual problems with this Administration, we really don't need to make up extras.

This report received NO media attention, and it will no doubt be summarily ignored by those who want to keep whining about the US break with the flawed Kyoto Accord. But it points out the importance of making environmental policy based on facts we have, not on the emotions we feel.

Frigid South Pole atmosphere reveals flaw in global circulation models
Jim Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor
(217) 244-1073;kloeppel@uiuc.edu
8/28/02
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Atmospheric measurements made at Earth's geographic poles provide a convenient way of validating and calibrating global circulation models. Such measurements also might provide some of the first conclusive evidence of global change in the middle and upper atmospheres. But new data shows that the current models are wrong: Temperatures over the South Pole are much colder in winter than scientists had anticipated.
As reported in the Aug. 28 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, scientists have found that temperatures during mid-winter in the stratopause and mesopause regions at the South Pole are about 40-50 degrees Fahrenheit colder than model predictions.
The work was performed by ECE Professor Chester Gardner, Weilin Pan, a doctoral student at Illinois; and Ray Roble, a senior scientist at the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.
"Our results suggest that wintertime warming due to sinking air masses is not as strong as the models have assumed," Gardner said. "But, in all fairness, since no one had made these measurements before, modelers have been forced to estimate the values. And, in this case, their estimates were wrong." [...] [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign] via [Business Briefings]

Will Someone Please Teach Bush To Pronounce Nuclear

10:53:46 AM

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The word is not nucular.

Fixing View In Browser

10:42:01 AM

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Andy Fragen makes another improvement to the Radio Outliner.

Fixing View in Browser. I think that I've found the cure to make "View in Browser" and "Save As HMTL" work from the Radio File menu.
Here are the changes I made. Be aware, until Jake checks these out I can't guarantee your results. But it works for me.
Make the following changes.
In Frontier.tools.windowTypes.commands.saveAsHtml you need to add this line.
local (pta = html.setPageTableAddress(@websites.["#data"]))
I put it in the very beginning of the script.
In Frontier.tools.data.windowTypes.outlinerFile.saveAsHtml you change this line in the renderOutline handler
From:
if string (adrOutline) contains "<rules>" //rules?
To:
if string (adrOutline^) contains "<rules>" //rules?
I think those are all the changes I made and now "View in Browser" and "Save As HTML" both work for me. [Surgical Diversions]

Grok Your Knowledge

12:02:47 AM

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Many have tried, none have succeeded. Will Grokker be the first?

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