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Dr. Emmet Brown, THE film scientist nut.

(1.21 gigawatts) / (88 mph) = 30 757 874 newtons

Well, "at Google it is not just possible but 'mandatory' to have fun and work at the same time".

So I guess they don't have any programmers working through the drudgery that is systematic bug fixing. They must all be too busy 'uniting the world, one user at a time' and shooting nerf guns at each other.

Submitted: Thursday May 11, 2006, @09:38AM
Rejected : Thursday May 11, 2006, @09:42AM

Google has unveiled two new search tools in it's growing inventory of products. Today Google released Google Trends and Google Coop. More information is available at their respective faq pages. While Google Trends seems like a variation of Google Zeitgeist, Google Coop seems like an effort to actively incorporate user feedback into their search engine. No word about this in the Google Blog yet.

And your rhetoric in picometres. Is the concept of hyperbole a little bit much for you?

"Non-Earth-based marines" It really, really wouldn't surprise me if it's revealed at some point that the US is operating airships, rilly rilly big airships. Lots of background noise over the years has suggested this.

I'm going to weigh in over here mainly becuase my quiet slumber in the minix newsgroup has been disturbed by a call to arms from ast to correct some of the FUD here on Slashdot.

Drivers have measurably more bugs in them than other parts of the kernel. This has been shown by many studies (see the third reference in the article). This can also been shown empirically - modern versions of Windows are often fine until a buggy driver gets on to them and destablises things. Drivers are so bad that XP even warns you about drivers that haven't been through checks. Saying people should be careful just doesn't cut it and is akin to saying people were more careful in the days of multitasking without protected memory. Maybe they were but some program errors slipped through anyway, bringing down the whole OS when I used AmigaOS (or Windows 95). These days, if my my web browser misbehaves at least it doesn't take my word processor with it, losing the web browser is pain enough.

In all probability you would know that a driver had to be restarted because there's a good chance its previous state had to be wiped away. However a driver that can be safely restarted is better than a driver that locks up everything that touches it (ever had an unkillable process stuck in the D state? That's probably due to a driver getting stuck). You might be even able to do a safe shutdown and lose less work. From a debugging point of view I prefer not having to reboot the machine to restart the entire kernel when driver goes south - it makes inspection of the problem easier.

(Just to prove that I do use Minix though I shall say that killing the network driver results in a kernel panic which is a bit of a shame. Apparently the state is too complex to recover from but perhaps this will be corrected in the future).

At the end of the day it would be better if people didn't make mistakes but since they do it is wise to take steps to mitigate the damage.

Mmmm. The Bugatti Veyron. You want one. Your dog wants one. If I had the money to blow on a car, this is the ultimate. Even Jeremey Clarkson, who gets to drive all the nice cars he likes, said it was the best ever. (He says that a lot, but this time he meant it.)

I have this hand held device that could "kill" your chip and leave you helpless...

this part

"The new license is utterly unacceptable for use in a BSD project." - Theo de Raadt

I never go a week without seeing a new article about how bias the BBC is. I read about 4 different newspapers every day though. Maybe it's because you read The Mirror..

BBC Bias is certainly a very talked about issue.

6 million sites can't be wrong!

I know I really shouldn't rise to the bait, but the original poster did say "a web site that utilizes all of the screen space available in a browser window". That doesn't mean bigger than 800x600 or smaller than 800x600. It means fully using all of the space available - whatever the size may be. Something like a liquid layout.

As I remembered it, a lot of librarians really don't like the Patriot act, and Google conforms it
Not keeping records is a workaround: thay can't be compelled to hand over records that as a matter of policy they don't keep.

They'll be next in line after the ISPs for compulsory record keeping.

Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source to the enterprise, today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) saved the federal government more than $15 million in datacenter operating and upgrading costs by migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

these forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the company's views as of any date subsequent to the date of the press release.

Source: Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source to the enterprise, today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) saved the federal government more than $15 million in datacenter operating and upgrading costs by migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

these forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the company's views as of any date subsequent to the date of the press release.

Source: Red Hat, Inc.

Psychotria - You seem to be unaware of Google: prozac side effects.

From the first result: "Prozac is associated with insomnia, restlessness, nausea, and tension headaches, which normally go away within one to two weeks from the time it was first taken. One possible Prozac side effect, which remains for the time it is taken, is its effect on your sex life. It often reduces desire and can delay or interfere with orgasm, in both women and men. Fatigue and memory loss are other possible problems. These side effects subside when you stop taking the drug."

Sounds like "muffling several higher brain functions" to me. Also there is a scary list of other side effects.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ubik+%22arcade+cl assics%22+c64&btnG=Search&hs=IcF&hl=en&client=fire fox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial

lol. is it time for the retro retro-gaming revival yet? ;)

If you drill a tiny hole through a block and looked through it, you would realise you can get a really clear single spot of whatever your looking at directly in front of the "sensor".
It has almost infinite focus without a lens, you just see whatever is directly at the end of your pinhole tube.

If you now consider these tubes spaced out across the entire size of your monitor you can see a rectangular image area in sharp focus directly where you should be sitting.

You will basically get a really clear image.

Its the same principle as an insects' compound eye.

Normandy isn't a town
not in France, however it is a village in Surrey, England

I've tried writley icell and Googles customized homepage and find them all slow as molasses.

The nomachine testdrive service is faster and you get a real desktop into the bargan. Where can I sign up for such a service.

You're right, this has been reposted pretty often and all over the place. Almost always by an anonymous coward.

Search results here

Hope the fool takes you up on your kind offer. Or just gets a life.

"Putti are those plump little naked boys with wings that one often sees in Renaissance, Mannerist, Baroque and Rococo art. Typically, a putto (the singular form) depicts an angel or cherub in a religious scene, but he may also come in the form of Cupid. In either case, a putto's presence symbolizes love, whether Divine or of a more earthly nature. Incidentally, you never run across ugly putti in art; they're so cute you could just pinch them." - Art History Glossary

Images (illegal?)

Is this is a class issue? Naked kids in anime "comics" are disgusting and illegal. Naked kids in statues are artistic and legal?

GP: Life is never black & white.

AC: Oh yah?

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in _the_United_States

Well, apart from pink & brown, there's red, yellow, brown and green

Trying to catorize by skin color is silly.

I mean a quick butchers at Google gives 155,000 entries for "Offshore hosting" which kind of removes the teeth from this.

Who else are they saving? People you would have accidentally hit and killed while flying out the windshield of your car?

Yes, smartass.

If you're a driver, an 80 kilo adult doing even 30 miles per hour (a low guestimate for a passenger in, say a 50mph crash into a static object) hitting the back of your seat might fracture your skull, snap your spine, break ribs, puncture a lung- you name it.

Human bodies travelling quickly in small spaces cause damage. In Ireland, there's a history of highly graphic safer driving commercials- one of which that demonstrates the damage an unrestrained passenger can do in a two-collision accident: Link or search for 'damage seatbelt commerical' on google. I couldn't find the advert anywhere online.

Also, you don't have to be flying out the window to cause injury to another passenger. I found an aussie advert that's a lot less graphic than the one we have.

New South Wales Advert

The bottom line: buckle up, selfish.

• Digg creeps ever closer to Slashdot
• Digg closes in on Slashdot
• DIGG should catch Slashdot this month Check out the huge traffic increase
• Digg breaks top 5000 ranking on Alexa.com
• Digg vs. Slashdot Alexia Graph
• First time ever: Digg officially surpasses Slashdot
• What happened to Slashdot 2
• Engadget and Digg both bigger than Slashdot now!
• Digg overtakes Slashdot

People there are so obsessed with beating Slashdot that many actually installed Alexa specifically so that it could track their visits to Digg.

More such results continue on the second search page. Only on page 4 do they start to lose relevance (an interesting correlation with the study that was featured yesterday, n'est ce pas?)

Camera phones are fast replacing a number of regular phones

Are they? The "article" quotes no source and no statistics for this claim. How can anyone be sure?

An increasing number of mobile phones are being produced and sold with camera capabilities.

"The convenience factor is very high but the quality and flexibility of digital cameras still far surpass camera phones," said Liz Cutting, senior imaging analyst, The NPD Group.

In 2005, 45 percent of all mobile phones sold in the U.S. were camera phones, up from 26 percent in 2004. Asia followed a very similar trend. Western Europe had a higher incidence of camera phones at 64 percent, and Japan had a much greater adoption rate with more than 90 percent of all mobile phones sold with camera capabilities both in 2004 and 2005.

"Even though there are an increasing number of mobile phones with camera capabilities, people are using them more for spur-of-the-moment picture taking and not for planned events where they are taking along better quality and higher resolution digital cameras," said Knoche.

InfoTrends projects that worldwide camera phone shipments will grow from 233 million units in 2004 to 903 million units in 2010. By 2010, camera phones are expected to account for 87% of all mobile phone handsets shipped.

The primary drivers behind this explosion are improvements in imaging functions (i.e. image sensors, zoom, and auto focus); rapid declines in prices for this functionality; higher speed wireless bandwidth; and easier-to-use handsets, services, and peripherals.

On Window's there is so much software out there for each and every task that even hardened geeks sometimes install crapware just to see if it's worthy.

My advice is install Total Uninstall, an install monitor that scans your system both before and after and install and allows you to reverse ALL the changes. ...then experiment with all the software you like, use your judgement, go on it's fun.

You might like to checkout websites like Pricelessware and similar pages (the top 4 are good) for freeware. Also remember alot of Linux favourites (like GIMP and Inkscape) are available for Windows.

You're the one who took this offtopic (in a negative tone: "yeah, nope") to talk about audio formats, and a few people said that mp3 is good enough, because in the context of my comment, it is. That doesn't count as getting ripped on, and certainly isn't a flamewar.

We all agree with you that there are better formats better suited to other circumstances. Calling us idiots was uncalled for, and any "stupid shit" belongs exclusively to you in this thread.

On a lighter note, who does Slashdot piss off?

Actually, silicosis is a common disease in many parts of the world where dry, dusty conditions exist, and it has a long, long history;
  http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Silicosis+i n+mummies&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=crackpot &ll=54.346352,-2.046547&spn=0.251346,0.684586

as you can see crackpot is somewhere between the yellow road and the red one, presumably its sending them across the gap instead of around because it's shorter even if the track is marked as 10mph, as that's a long way around

• Can't access the physical CD
• No sound

Other than that though, it's an excellent product. I've been running the Q front-end for Qemu, and used Virtual PC 7 on PPC. This blows them both away. But please can I have a sound card? Pretty please?

Usenet thread containing my walkthrough comments whilst I was performing the install is here (scroll down the thread a little).

Cheers,

Actually, as far as the security angle goes, it's for post-mortem purposes as much as anything else. If anything does go terribly wrong after deployment, at least we can trace back and fix it -- and then release a patch. Initial audit is little more than taking a quick peek at the code in an editor, compiling it on an isolated machine, running it as a non-privileged user and seeing if it does what it was expected to. Which is not much, but it's still more than we could ever do with Closed Source. For every bad guy out there who would write a piece of malicious software and release it Open Source {and that really isn't as easy as it sounds; most of the people who are good enough programmers to write Open Source software actually have better things todo with their time than mindless vandalism}, there are at least ten good guys who would put a stop to it.

But that's not to say that there aren't other benefits to our insistence on Open Source software: for one, we have nothing to fear from the licencing gestapo, which is a huge bonus. For another, we aren't constrained to work the exact same way someone else thinks we should work -- instead, we can modify the software to suit the way we work. For example: instead of downloading a "standard form" letter from a server, editing it in a word processor, printing it out and faxing it, we have only to fill in a web form and click the submit button -- and a neatly-formatted fax comes out of the customer's fax machine. If we get a positive response, the details are already there waiting to be recalled; and we need only click another link to transfer them to the customer database.

Anyway, if the staff want hacking tools, they don't have to download them off the Internet. We've got them all right here on our workstations :)

At last, something that is cheaper in the UK! When I moved into my flat two years ago I bought an energy efficient washer dryer for £300 and it works great. Uses less than 1 KW to wash and about 2.5KW to dry.

the record companies did actually lose at least one court case in the usa about price fixing, so it is legitimate to call them a cartel.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cd%20price%20fixi ng%20court

If you want an download only single to succeed you have to have a unique name or customers won't find it on Google.

You only know about this because journalists were able to investigate and publish stories quoting people (even if most quotees said 'no comment'.) If they had received National Security Letters, you would not know about it. Neither would the journalists. Google search.

Its not as if the NCBI is the only ones publishing genomes. taking a few examples from our useful links page

• UCSC
• Ensembl
• TIGR
• GenomeNet
• GeneLynx

Its Google is not even doing something new type in a human gene (say ABCA1and you will get taken to the gene data pages anyway

The only reason why they picked on Google is that it would get headlines, now move along nothing to see here

I always thought that a prime number is devisble by 1 and it's self, because the exclusion is in the definition of a prime then 1 can be prime.

Google doesn't quite know, some people say a prime must be >1 and some people don't.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=opera&rls=en &q=legislative+and+regulatory+%22amend+itself%22&s ourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

You obviously have no argument to say that Blair is different from Hitler. It is merely our joint hope.

IS it just me, or has the notion that rapidly rotating superconducters can be used to generate/repel gravity cropped up in numerous "conspiracy theories" about UFOs etc? Do these predate general science?

Bob Lazar claimed this, IIRC, as did a number of other 'crackpots' who tell of reverse-engineered alien tech.

Weird, is all...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+claim+j umping&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

You see the tens of thousands rioting at the Sorbonne and all over France and it makes you wonder exactly how the Anglo world became a sheep herd.

Simple. They've been slipping us prozac for years. ( ;o) )

The funny thing is, even sone Microsoft products are more complete on OSX than in Windows

Q8bot is a very small bot, consisting of only 926 lines of C-code. And it has one additional noteworthiness: It's written for Unix/Linux systems. It implements all common features of a bot: Dynamic updating via HTTP-downloads, various DDoS-attacks (e.g. SYN-flood and UDP-flood), execution of arbitrary commands, and many more. In the version we have captured, spreaders are missing. But presumably versions of this bot exist which also include spreaders.

As far as I know, it works. I agree that the error message is misleading.

if you want to find out what something means on google, put define: before it, like so http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3Actf&star t=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

I didnt realise that CTF was 'commonly played by children', I'd never heard of it til Quake hehe..

Well, different designs of motor have different performance characteristics.

For example, the starting torque of an asynchronous motor is actually well below the maximum torque, since at that point slip is infinite. Also, one would need a precise, low-speed control option for a mars rover; the speed of an induction motor depends on (among other things) the frequency of signal driving it. But the current in the rotor is created by induction, and at low frequencies, one gets less inductance. Obviously, one could use gearing to run the motor fast and the wheel slowly, but that would limit maximum speed.

An induction motor is a good choice for a solar-powered car, since the solar powered car is basically a constant load that gets driven at a constant speed. It's not so ace for a mars rover since, though you want a nice maximum speed, you also want to be able to do slow/precise positioning.

IMHO this discussion about the motor choice is 'swings and roundabouts' anyway:- Off-the-shelf coreless brushed DC motors can be 80% efficient, and a doubling of control electronics complexity for a 20% increase in efficiency doesn't seem like the greatest trade-off.

As to the people in this thread talking about brushless motors: its true that there are no brushes to wear out on brushless motors (and they have other benefits), but that mode of failure might not have been a priority at the design stage.

Reliability theory considers product failure to follow a "bathtub curve", with three modes of failure: Early failure, random failure and wear-out failure. Brushes wearing down would be a 'wear out failure'. The specification for the rovers called for 90 days of life; if the brushes are known to last longer than 90 days (which they have) there's no point in increasing the chance of a random failure during those 90 days just to extend the possible total lifetime.

To put it another way, if the specification says "90 days" it's better to have "90 days, 99% chance" than "900 days, 75% chance".

Just my $0.02,

Michael

You know lots of people "dying" to make homebrew Linux apps for the Xbox 360?

You need to learn to read more carefully, he didn't say "dying", he said "dyeing".

Obviously nobody would be prepared to die to make homebrew Linux apps for the Xbox 360 but changing a few colors is another matter.

If you're a company that respects its employees, rewards them appropriately and values them, do you think internal threats are going to be such a large issue compared to the faceless megaopolies that most American companies have mutated into?

Sure they are. "disgruntlement" is not the only factor to consider. There's also "how much money would it take to persuade a cleaner to let an attacker into the office", "how much money would it cost to buy access to a relatively junior employee's account", "how dumb are typical users when it comes to routine mass-mailer viruses?" and of course... "How much are your product plans, pricing, R&D, marketing plans, market research data,.. etc, etc, worth to your Chinese competitors?" The latter is my current nightmare, not so much for us here (we use a very reliable internet-level mail filtering service.)

The "faceless megapolies" you describe are a threat to many things, our culture, our way of life, our democratic traditions and so on - no question. But they're not a threat to information security. That's why I don't see there's a conflict between my job title and the EFF bumper sticker on my car and the FSF membership card (business-card live CD, actually) in my wallet.

American units, please