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I think a more modern reactor design / more research seem more useful and a better approach
http://phys.org/news/2014-08-n...
http://www.triplepundit.com/sp...
https://www.eskimo.com/~nanook... ..

Just get going :)

Of course Swedish parliament sadly has treated the environmentalist anti-nationalist well-fare party as some sort of center-party everyone can agree to rule with even though they are the most extreme ones after the communists. So as such we have shitty hippie stuff such as wind-power, rotten grass, rotten sea-.. uhm.. tubeanimals, energy from trees and other stupid things which won't be able to compete and won't be as efficient as say solar-power anyway so why bother?

The animals supposedly brought up phosphor and nitrogen from the sea and as such could be used as a fertilizer, that's OK I guess but I'd prefer they used plants rather than animals if they are brought up just to rot them and make energy out of them. These animals supposedly undevelop/destroy part of their "brain" once they have fixed themselves somewhere but still.

I hate these anti-progress idiots ("economical growth is bad - it ruins the environment!", Sweden have some other complete utter ridiculous leftard idiots, "who cares that mass-immigration cost money? It's irrelevant, one just need to raise taxes!", yeah, because money come from nowhere and the government / all states are just stupid who don't increase taxes. In the end it would be nice if these idiots understood that you can only share what you've produced and if the immigrants suck at producing something of value then you'd have less worth to share.)

Also white-genocide and so on. 1 800 migrants / day, 10 000+ / week, this for a country with less than 10 million people and about 8 million Swedish born and well, I don't know how many Swedes, 6 million?

I think a more modern reactor design / more research seem more useful and a better approach
http://phys.org/news/2014-08-n...
http://www.triplepundit.com/sp...
https://www.eskimo.com/~nanook... ..

Just get going :)

Is it this this?

yes it is. I just found this link:

http://www.eskimo.com/~rkj/doctor.html and was coming to post it.

Now you got me a youtube video, thank you very much.

I was positive that I had seen this, but you have no idea the amount of drugs I have done since then. =)

I'm not crazy, and it was from 1984, which fits in me seeing it in the early 90's.

So, fuck you all that kept saying Curse of the Fatal Death when I made it clear it was early then that. Stupid Anonymous Coward bitches.

You speak like the modern age has had a fundamentally different attitude towards science.

From what I'm told (I didn't live during that time, so I don't have firsthand knowledge), we used to have a government that strongly encouraged scientific research and development and considered it part of the greatness of our nation. Whether you consider it a problem with faith or with politics or with capitalism or education or whatever, I don't think you can say that about our relationship with science today.

The political class is endangered by a properly educated populace, and keeping the educational system from actually educating people has been done deliberately. I used to think it was just hyperbole, and the problems with the education system was simply an accident of incompetent administration, but I have come to realize it has been done on purpose.

It's no wonder you can't find kids interested in pursuing a career in science the way it is presented in school these days.

Read this: http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/miscon/elect.html

and then come back to educate other /.-ers. I'm a civil engineer and even I didn't know some of the stuff in there. Did you know that electrons flow through metal at a few cm/minute? I sure didn't, but after reading this text a lot of other stuff made a lot more sense to me.

Not much really. While it is possible to effectively protect a device from such snooping it is very expensive due to the testing and handling requirements. I don't see it on the link but I think there is a commercial Tempest standard.

http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/tempestintro.html

The page has good info and you can try the anti-Tempest fonts for a grin. It's based on the paper also referenced on that page.

<tinfoil>
How else does ball lightning float?
</tinfoil>

After all, when asked about the color of the sky, a parent could answer like this.

Let us give thanks that some people have the sense and honesty to say "I don't know," and try not to look down our noses at them. Bad parenting is darned hard to unlearn.

--
Toro

No. I'm saying science suppresses a lot of good ideas.
Today it happens less because of hidebound thought and more because of funding.

http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/supress1.html

Among other things...we have the lightbulb.

However, this writer will discuss just a few of the inventions and ideas by the best known scientists. Milton (1996) explained how the invention of what is now considered a very ordinary object, the light bulb, was initially mired in controversy and disbelief. When Thomas Edison was finally successful in finding a light bulb filament which could glow while sustaining the heat of electrical conduction, he invited members of the scientific community to observe his demonstration (Milton 1996). Although the general public traveled to witness his electric lamp, the noted scientists of the day refused to and claimed the following about Edison:

        "Such startling announcements as these should be deprecated as being unworthy of science and mischievous to its true progress." -Sir William Siemens, England's most distinguished engineer (Milton, 1996 p.18)

Sure, from a quick google search see:

http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f218100/218164.htm#ic

"This Court's findings amply establish that Microsoft's agreements "significantly discourage[d]" consumers from actually adopting Navigator. "

and more... it was part of the original case that microsoft sought to prevent OEMs from providing netscape, either instead of or as well as ie, and there's plenty of information available from google...

Also see:

http://www.eskimo.com/~mighetto/lsmonop.htm

Microsoftâ(TM)s campaign to foreclose Netscape from the OEM channel involved a âoemassive and multifarious investmentâ in a âoecomplementary set of tacticsâ: (1) contractual restrictions forcing OEMs to take IE with Windows 95 and 98 and for-bidding them from removing or obscuring it; (2) âoeadditional technical restrictions to increase the cost of promoting Navigatorâ; (3) exchanging valuable incentives for OEMsâ(TM) commitments to promote IE exclusively; and (4) threats to âoepenalize individual OEMs that insisted on pre-installing and promoting Navigator.â

Specifically the "penalize individual OEMs" - effectively threatening to harm them if they provide netscape...

Ballistic calculators for mobile devices isn't new. Exbal has been around for Palm and Windows Mobile devices for several years now. The only interesting thing is that this application was approved by the iTunes Application Store. I guess people are surprised Apple would allow a firearms/shooting related application on the App Store.

I think ballistic calculators on mobile devices is a gimmick anyway. I just use JBM to generate a ballistic table for a specific gun/ammo that I use in competition, make a hard copy, and keep that with the gun (some people even print it out on a small card and tape it to their stock).

Correct.

Tables were introduced in Mosaic 2.

The first releases of IE, btw., also did not support tables.

When I googled to see what the vi "." did, I found this, so the answer is no, but you can download an extension to do it.

But what I was going to say was that there are two options that I can think of:

• If you typed in the command at the M-x or M-: (lisp eval) prompts, you can always just use the command history and rerun the command that way.
• Alternately, you can repeat the next command by typing C-u and the number of repetitions followed by the command. So "C-u 75 -" will draw a row of 75 dashes. You can do more complex things by first recording a keyboard macro ("C-x (", keystrokes, "C-x )" and then prefexing the macro eval command ("C-x e") with a repeat count. If you're afraid of going past a certain point and don't want to carefully figure out exactly how many times to repeat, you can use narrow-to-region first.

Those two things, along with query-replace, automates most of my tasks for me.

Alternately, my text can be de-deratiocinated by plugging it, or something not unlike it, into one of your run-of-the-mill markov chain scripties, such as the one at http://www.eskimo.com/~rstarr/cgi-bin/markov.cgi . Or via Gary Burd's python script : http://gary.burd.info/2003/11/markov-chain-generator.html

I can't reveal the source of my infos, however, here is the top secret extract from the mechanism detailed above (results will vary): You're not going to get any "sense" from me. Things make sense only when someone is trying to sell you something. If you don't believe me, well, you bought it. Beirut radio periodically rebroadcast the general's announcement, which was dubbed Communiqué No. 1. The message was ignored by President Franjieh, who remained safe inside his presidential palace at Baabda, on a letter suggesting that the General lost one billion buckaroos on that program the first time around and balks at the suggestion that lithium ion batteries are not yet ready for primetime. Remember, though, that Lutz is extremely involved in the Volt project, so it's not too surprising that he had plenty to say in response to the Palestinian guerrillas, and there were fears last week as gunmen again began erecting street barricades and kidnaping scores of civilians. [With apologies to 1976.]

Try here. And here.

I was skimming through the electricity misconceptions site too http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/miscon/eleca.html#light...and I came across the section:

"LIGHT AND RADIO WAVES TRAVEL AT 186,000 MILES PER SECOND? No."

Now I'm only doing first year undergrad Physics...but I was under the impression that Einstein's Special Relativity said light was constant - regardless of frame or reference, or medium, and that the only reason light may appear slower in a medium is due to photons being absorbed and reemitted by atoms, as opposed to it actually being 'slowed down' by friction or whatever.

The author justifies his claim by saying that would be ignoring the wave model of light and only taking into account the photon model...however, I was under the impression the reason we have the ray model, quantum photon model and wave model is because all three are somewhat incomplete, and thus for different problems we need to use different models...?

'iunno, can someone who *is* a Physicist or something clear this up? Is the speed of light really 'c' regardless of anything? Ie, is this author completely lost? =P

~Jarik

As a former Electronics Technician in the Navy, I have to agree with the parent. The Navy Electricity & Electronics Training Series (NEETS) is a great series of books that teach the basic of electronics. After studying these manuals, I successfully built a Superheterodyne receiver, also known as your basic radio receiver. You can find all of the NEETS modules online here in PDF format. I still have them on CD from when I went through the training in 1998.

As for your link to electricity misconceptions, all I can say is that I find the information there disagrees with what I was taught by the US Navy. It reminds me of the old electron flow vs hole flow arguments. The important part is that electric circuits work the same regardless of what you're philosophy is concerning the movement of electrons.

Best of luck with your search. Just remember that soldering irons are HOT. I've heard good things about the Art of Electronics as well.

Aero

In fact electrons in your typical electrical wire don't move anywhere near the speed of light.

http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/miscon/speed.html

Getting excited about a new version of a web browser: how 90's is that?

I really hope that this isn't truly a "new" discovery.

You can't have everyone leave a larger interval because that would require the road to be carrying fewer cars.

I really hope that this isn't truly a "new" discovery.

william beaty did this in 1998 - with nice animated GIFs too:

http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/traffic/trafexp.html

Tailgating is a response to other impolite drivers.
I've been practicing those suggestions for 5+ years, and it's hard to do because of all the impatient jerks. It pays off though when they jump into your lane thinking it's faster, go flying up to the bumper of the car in front of you, then have to wait until a spot opens up in the lanes on either side that are going faster. I get a chuckle every time it happens.

I really hope that this isn't truly a "new" discovery.

1998 called and wants Its amazing news back Except he even built animated Gifs to illustrate!

Traffic Waves

how many times people keep "discovering" the same thing. This has been on /. at least twice in the past.

Everything you need to know:
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html

More:
http://jalopnik.com/335832/traffic-jam-mystery-solved-++-blame-the-wave

People need to do a simple google search before starting research.

http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html

i guess this needs to be posted so others can read it.
i wish i could get a grant to study the obvious.

I'm not too sure about using strlen in a loop like that. C strings are NULL terminated so each time you are going through that loop and doing your test you are also having to iterate over foo to find its length (unless foo is const variable and the compiler notices etc).

I'm not so sure about the "you forgot to terminate your string constants" bit. My understanding is that string constants are NULL terminated in C. I would be a bit cautious about assigning a string constant to a fixed sized array though (it feels wrong... If copying happened there's potential for wasted/too little memory, questions over whether you are actually throwing a pointer to rewritable memory away, are you trying to change read only memory later etc). Whether more memory is zeroed before use depends on your platform, libraries, how the memory allocation was done and your compiler (e.g. on Linux the glibc malloc function switches between brk and mmaped memory allocations depending on size and mmaped memory is zeroed by the kernel before being passed to your program).

Well then, we are now talking about Tempest now, aren't we!

AES256 encyption can be done at speeds of 48+ MB/s. http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai/benchmarks.html This is on a Opteron 1.6 GHz, and it's a stock library. When I last looked, a Skype stream takes 5 kB/s, so 10 of those is 50 kB/s...

Out of curiousity, did any of those ISP's back in the mid 90's that offered lifetime internet access for one large initial fee survive the dotcom era?

Yeah, Eskimo North is still around and doing well, and I think Drizzle is also doing well too.

So if I compile it with all the ASM and patented algos for speed then I'm not FIPS compliant or did they change things? I thought the holdup was that OSSL was trying to get source code validated rather than just binaries but with all the f-n options it would take forever??? I guess I'll have to wait 2 weeks for the announcement. If the source was validated then WOOHOO! like everyone else. This is a major step for compatibility! and provides OSS with a superior advantage to commercial software. Otherwise this is another like what took them so long article. I think Crypto++ had FIPS for awhile now... see: Crypto++ Fips 140-2 level 1 Conformance

LOL @ you linux dweebs and your pointless waste of time. Can't you see that everyone is dropping your lame-ass knock-off of the lame-ass unix like a bag of shit. Just install a decent OS and go spend your time doing useful, productive, and fulfilling things. Imagine if you took all of the time you spent in a stupor trying to drag linux into this millennium and applied it to something like volunteering at you local homeless shelter, or donating to charities. It sadens me to think that so much nerd effort is wasted on useless dead technologies like linux.

He's not cuddly but he is smart.

"One of the Omni readers who scored highest on the Mega Test was John H. Sununu, then the governor of New Hampshire, and later Chief of Staff under President Bush. His score of 44 correct gave him an estimated I.Q. of 180 (achievable by approximately one in 3 million). "

What's odd, though, is that 2 of the variant-guys had 160 IQs. While 2 of 40 is pretty noisy data, the chance of finding even one is about 1-in-30,000, making the odds of finding 2 in a group of 40 about 1 in a million (assuming random kids, of course). While it's rampant speculation on my part, I'm curious if that's a statistical anomaly or whether the variant group has a low mean but an unusual number of extremely high values.

It also means (again, assuming 40 variant boys) that those two kids personally accounted for almost 10% of the summed IQ in the group, meaning that if they are just a statistical anomaly, the group mean would be about 4 points lower than measured, increasing the difference between them and non-variant boys by 25%.

Hmm - with the standard distribution of intelligence in the population (same link), 25% of people have an IQ 10% or more below the population mean. If that's true for this group, they alone would account for 50% of 25% of 25% or 3% of the overall population with an IQ below ~74, but the given frequency for an IQ below 74 is only about 5% for the entire population, and about 2/5 are female (link), leaving only about 0% of the total population, or suggesting that non-variant males have IQ below 74 only a miniscule fraction of the time. Since 20-25% of mental retardation is due to some kind of damage (i.e., should be roughly equally distributed), that seems implausible. So it kinda seems likely that either (a) the difference between means isn't as large as this study suggests, or (b) the IQs of this group don't follow the normal distribution that overall IQs (and, with tweaks, most other human traits) follow.

Based on that, in my largely ignorant opinion, I suspect that any actual difference between the means is less than is suggested by this study. FWLTW.

When I was in 8th grade, our teacher brought in a tornado machine that she had built at home. It is really a very simple project to do, and it actually works. Here are two sites that show some working examples. http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/tornbox.html http://www.tornadoproject.com/cellar/workshop.htm The second site seems to be more like what this inventor is trying to do. Most of the other tornado machines found on the internet use fans to produce suction. However, it is not necessary to use fans, simply haveing warm water will work well enough. Our teacher added a large tube to the top of the tornado box to produce a chimney effect, adding more strengh to the updraft. It was not necessary to heat the water to the boiling point. We used dry ice to generate the mist to show off the vortex.

The binary opposite of the color 'black' is 'not black'.

I dunno bud, if your defining black as something other than the opposite of white, then your doing something bad. Even if you consider that you might have other slots available in the bit slice you are considering, you really should make them Don't Cares for sanity.

!white = !00000000 00000000 00000000 = 11111111 11111111 11111111 = black.If you're having to think about things some other way, something is wrong. Or you're a mathematician :P

Anyway to stay on topic, here's my particular path so far in the quest for coding:

Walk through this online course:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/

Now write at least 3 different (as in technique) programs that crash your computer before you continue. You can boot into Windows if you're feeling lazy. :)

Buy C++ Primer Plus, and go as far as you can till you're bored out of your mind and itching to code something real. (Optional)

Get this library, then go thru tutorials. Then frolick and play:
http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut.htm l

Make a xxeyes program. Like xeyes but looks away from your mouse. (That way you can get outside crosseyes dammit! :D)

Make a program that scrambles an image into 10x10 blocks.

Reimplement pong.

Make a program to play wav files. Brownie points if you can get a spectrum analyzer or some other representation working with GLUT. (Read up on fast Fourier transforms, which is what you'll be using. Don't use a library for it, thats cheating :) )

Check out wxWidgets. Walk through the tutorials.

Make your own text editor.

Make a basic sound player app with a spectrum analyzer. Make it echo/reverb output. (Read up on FIR Filters)


I'm sure I've forgotten things...oh well. Just tackle whatever sounds fun.

It's tempest in a teapot, not a teacup.

Now V'ger will voyage on and catch up with original episodes. Your doom is now postponed. Postponed until the Next Generation.

Now to take a break and find Star Trek, the Pepsi Generation.

Apart from the fact that this is electromechanical rather than electronic, this *is* TEMPEST. I had a fair amount of TEMPEST training waaaay back in my military days (those damn 90's); I found it to be one of most the fascinating things I ever learned. Good site for an introduction

Well, just about every kid in the 1950s read comics; most of those of course weren't juvenile delinquents, but his skewed sample provided ample grist that resulted in Senate hearings on the topic.

Actually, the last large calendar reform I am aware of was the French Republican Calendar in the XVIIIth century.

It adopted some very interesting ideas, like:

- The use of a 12 30-day month year, followed by an end of year festival of 5 or 6-days, so that months had identical lengths.

- A 10 day week, so that each month had an integer number of weeks and each day of the week fell always on the same day of the month.

- Month names were changed to reflect the seasons, and each set of three months had rhyming terminations so that you could identify the season from the month name.

In all a very cool but also very different calendar, which was quickly abandoned 12 years later when Napoleon overthrew the republic.

Lots of info on the Internet in sites like this one:

http://www.eskimo.com/~lisanne/frenchrep.htm

in 1999 during the seattle anticapitalist protest

I think you meant:

in 1999 during the seattle riot

Unless protesting can somehow be construed to include the wanton destruction of public and private property.

Most of the protesters in Seattle during the WTO meetings there were neither violent nor distructive. Most of the violence and vandalism were caused by anarchists. During the meetings though a few media outlets reported this it wasn't well publicizied.

WTO Meeting of 1999

...
The situation was complicated around noon, when perhaps a few dozen black-clad anarchists (in a formation known as a black bloc) -- many of them likely from Eugene, as discussed above -- began smashing windows and vandalizing corporate storefronts. This produced some of the most famous and controversial images of the protests (one particularly widely-distributed photo showed a Nike-wearing anarchist vandalizing Niketown). Reaction from other protestors was mixed (some attempted to physically block their activities) and the police were unable to make arrests. A widely circulated communique claimed to dispel myths and explain the actions of the black bloc anarchists. [2]
...

However anarchists dispute that they were primarily responsible for violence:

Seattle Anarchism and Revolution Page

In case you missed it, tens of thousands of people succeeded in shutting down the WTO in Seattle. Check out the NO2WTO news page for more info.

There has been much finger-pointing by Seattle officials (who will soon be looking for new jobs) and the mainstream media. Whether you were an eyewitness to the protests downtown, a resident of Capital Hill, or just watched the news between Tuesday and Thursday (Nov. 30 - Dec. 2), it should be clear that one group of black-clad thugs were responsible for all but a couple isolated acts of violence. Their weapons of choice were clubs, rubber bullets, teargas grenades, concussion grenades, fists, steel-tipped boots, vehicles, and pepper spray, among others. They were, of course, the Seattle police and others brought in to "keep the peace" by any means necessary.

In contrast, the "violence" the media kept talking about and using to demonize anarchists was a relatively small amount of grafitti and broken windows (the estimated cost of the property damage was a small fraction of the cost due to losing a couple of shopping days)

In general the majority of protesters in Seattle were peaceful.

So rather than fixing the actual cause of the issue the brains of the world came up with this? Granted, it is probably too late for conservation and alternative energy measures to reverse the effects of global warming, but the idea of putting together such a large project which would have world wide scope is simply outlandish. It's like having a blow out on the road and using 50 packs of gum to plug it. OK, so it *might* work to start with but lets all remember the ISS. That was *supposed* to stand for the "International Space Station". Who picked up the brunt of the dinner check on that idea? Let's focus the funding on alternative means of transportation and energy resources. If we *have* to build the ring, spend the $500B on the space ships and use the rest to off set clean energy production methods and the costs to the consumer, such as passing funding to the auto manufacurers for developing fully clean cars using solutions such as hydro engines (see http://www.eskimo.com/~ghawk/rotary.html for an example). HAY! Here's a good idea for the money! Let's spend it on terra-forming Mars and move everyone there! Oh wait, let's not tell them about that cuz it will cost WAY more so they will definitely want to do it! A-F

While I can't prove it conclusively without having a way to go back I think the upgrade to the R4B9 firmware is what is making this card so unreliable.

Sony Ericsson flat out refuses to send me the old firmware. [Their updater just updates as soon as you double click and doesn't give any option to save the old firmware.] Cingular refers you to Ericsson.

At any rate if you have a GC83 and your using linux I seriously recommend thinking twice before upgraded your firmware. There is no going back and you may regret it. Well I certainly do.

Here shows someone elses experience with that firmware on a GC82.
http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/programming/
He apparently has copies of the old firmware for GC82's there, but I rather suspect it would be a bad move to try them on a GC83. Of course you use any file you find randomly on the internet at your own risk...

If anyone has a copy of R3B9 for GC83 or even one of the older firmwares and wants to provide a link I'd be very grateful. More importantly, I'd like to know if the firmware can be downgraded sucessfully without causing problems.

Rick Mourneau's Lexical Semantics details his creation of a machine translation intermediary language.

Absolutely fascinating stuff if you're into that sort of thing. Though definitely a less AI-esque attempt at the problem.

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On an unrelated topic: if the stupid captcha's instituted by the idiotic editors continue for much longer, I will go out of my way and null-route all slashdot ad sources at both home and work.

Keyloggers do not work against you, because you are booting from known media. (On the other hand, if the NSA REALLY wants you, they will hack your bios - but no one else is probably that anal).

How is this possible? First of all, the file format must be flexible and extensible, not fixed. Also, generally, the various fields are explicitly tagged in some way (as opposed to, say, specifying that fields are in a fixed order, or begin and end at fixed byte offsets). Also, generally, the file format includes a version number in a well-defined spot at the beginning of the file that never changes its representation, so that a version 1 program can at least recognize (if not process) even a version 99 file.

Then, all you have to do is rig things up so that programs ignore information that they don't recognize (i.e. tags that they don't know). You can also get creative whenever you add information to add it in such a way that the results when the new informaation is ignored are reasonable.

Often, you use a major/minor scheme in the file format version number. Typically, changes to the minor version number are backwards and forwards compatible, but when you make a major change to the structure that old programs won't be able to deal with, or add significant new information that they won't be able to safely ignore, you bump the major version number, and then the old programs say, "Sorry, I can't read this file, it requires a newer version of me." (But at least the older program doesn't interpret the newer file as garbage, or crash while trying to read it. That's crass.)

Needless to say, XML (among other metaformats) is amenable to just about everything I've touched on here.

Future compatibility sounds impossible at first, especially if you've been subliminally taught by Microsoft that every upgrade to a file format "obviously" requires an upgrade to all the programs that deal with it. And it's easy to come up with "strawman" arguments why future compatibility is "impossible" -- in some worst-case scenario. But it can be made to work, most of the time, and it gives you a glorious kind of freedom and flexibility that distinguishes excellent from mundane software.

Thankfully, with the ascent of Fox News and the passing of the stalwart network news anchors this is no longer the case.

That's a news channel! Oh my God! I thought Fox was a parody! And who said I liked liberals? They are bunch of loser crybabies. Conservatives on the other hand are loving, wise, peaceful, benevolent, brave, and trustworthy.