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This is the real danger.

My networks and hosts are constantly being probed and scanned by Chinese and other sources. It's a real risk. But, the grid should be disconnected form the internet. If it is, and usually that is the case, then physical risks are the only real risks. Furthermore, physical attacks will have limited geographic scope, so meh.

I agree, the concept of Docker is foreign to me. I'm not so concerned about breakage, but there must be virtual elasticity issues.

I googled this and found this from an OGML discussion going on about this GPU. There are some screenshots and even a youtube video.

Since 2010, Jeff Bush (github, blog) has been working on an Apache-licensed open source GPU (github, home page, wiki), and he has a few other interesting github projects as well (link, link, link). The Nyuzi Processor is a fully functional GPU. It is written in synthesizable Verilog, has a functional compiler toolchain, and comes with test suites, benchmarks, the software component of 3D rendering engine, and more. Its development has been gaining momentum in discussions (link, link, Google Group) and coding projects (gsoc). It has been implemented on an Altera FPGA, and there are some videos online of it animating a rotating teapot and a Phong-shaded torus, along with the results of recently-added mipmap support. Recently, Jeff Bush got together with the founder of the Open Graphics Project, and they co-wrote a peer-reviewed publication about this GPU and some experiments they did, which was recently presented at a well-respected academic CS conference (ISPASS). Although its developer and other hobbyists are doing this for fun, academics and engineers who specialize in GPU architecture are already showing interest in using Nyuzi for their own research (e.g. link, link), which gives them finally an open platform to estimate not just cycle count but also clock frequency, energy, and circuit area effects of GPU design experiments.

Seems they like ones who know what geolocation is, but don't know what HTTP headers are for.

Being pretty dumb at geography & foreign languages appears to be a bonus.

http://i.imgur.com/ZGEXUYq.jpg

You used to hold a button down to strafe instead of turn

No, you didn't. You could bind dedicated strafe left and right buttons, just like in modern games. See: http://i.imgur.com/hRNHK43.png

Identify Object Inheritance, Encapsulate Behavior for a Polymorphic State.

Here's a worksheet: http://i.imgur.com/0RnAzbj.jpg

Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

http://i.imgur.com/2wAz8I4.png

You know the other 2 are suddenly REALLY happy they got the placebo

actually, they were all taking the placebo. the first person fell down a flight of stairs after "feeling dizzy" and four behind him suddenly felt dizzy too falling down atop the first. it seems odd and unbelievable until you find out they were all soccer players.

That's okay, because migrants are filling up the void thanks to Merkel!

Never mind that they may not speak English, or their ability to work is vastly reduced, or that 'moderate' Islam isn't so moderate after all or that sexual assault is ingrained into their culture....

Everything's going to okay...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.c...

https://i.imgur.com/sgp7A.jpg

What great social good is Krauss providing by trying to scoop the investigators?

He loves his imaginary internet points

http://i.imgur.com/1nyVayo.jpg

... Donald Trump, the mercurial businessman who is running for president ...

Or, in comic book form: Calvin, of "... and Hobbes", channeling Donald Trump.

Yet LED technology is nowhere near addressing the shitty color reproduction you get from objects lit by LEDs because these light sources continue to have a very uneven spectrum: http://i.stack.imgur.com/lkyXG.... Incandescents, on the other hand, have a blackbody spectrum which is smooth and thus easy to filter. There are incandescents targeted to photographers, galleries, and museums that match the sun's spectrum almost exactly (at your chosen whitepoint color temperature -- human perception of color is not absolute but depends on overall intensity of the light, so typical indoors lighting scenarios you want a lower color temperature because the light intensity is nowhere near solar and matching solar will make things seem too blue): https://www.solux.net/images/s...

I think it's more likely that Diablo was extremely horny.

Or it could park like a BMW driver.

I'm really quite partial to LXDE. I also kind of like Cinnamon which is a fork of Gnome IIRC. I don't do so well at keeping track of all that stuff. :/

However, I've tried a whole ton of them and I use LXDE. I made my own little dock that pops up when I mouse over the top of the screen. Meh, it works for me. Back before Christmas I took a screenie for someone, I forget who. I might as well share it anew.

http://i.imgur.com/tnptzQN.png

I find it insanely fast on new hardware and still really fast on older hardware. That's a desktop that I remote into back in Maine - this one is a bit too messy to share. I tried to get as much into the screen to see as possible but I find it looks fine, does what I need it to do, and does it reasonably well. So, that's the one that works for me but I'm not really into fancy. I am a bit curious about LXQt, I'll be sure to try that at some point.

Gosh durn change, that's what! Why can't we go back to using Gopher and Telnet? That would solve a lot of problems, too! And you know what I think of all this business with "The Cloud" bs? http://imgur.com/gallery/91sn32Q

I think I might be arguing at cross purposes here.

You made what I assume was sarcastic comment (But no, it's pretty obvious that one dongle joke can cause a young lady who had a driving passion to simply drop it) that implied (at least to my ear) that it was ridiculous that a dongle joke would drive such a person out of the industry.

My reply is that the vast majority of programmers aren't there with a driving passion, and thus, yes, juvenile antics might make them look elsewhere.

I'm not interested in working with a person who cannot withstand anything they consider negative. What is this disinterested person going to do when the boss - let's assume female - gives them a task they simply are not that interested in doing?

Just quit? What if a man asks this woman on a date? She just moves back in with mom nad dad? What if there is just a man she doesn't like? Again - gone?

A person with no drive that is easily turned away is no loss at all.

I have no idea where you got any claim from me about who was doing the harassing from. Unless proven otherwise, I assume that you are professional in your conduct.

More professional than most. I will work to get the job finished, and do an excellent job as well. I have no time for the easily dissuaded however. Tell me though. In your plan, my intolerance for that sort of person, and your wishes to include almost disinterested people - since these people include women, am I being sexist by not wanting the disinterested in my team? I'd hire an interested, dedicated female at once. A female who is just there to pick up a paycheck - am I sexist for not hiring her?

Women are somehow utterly destroyed by Lena Söderberg's face and dongle jokes.

Can we get real here?

Note - I supply citations.

Real? Take it up with these people:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/...öderberg%27s_photograph

http://www.cmc.edu/news/every-...

Ironically, the last one, in an effort to portray the photo of Lena as sexually offensive, the ladies decided to use a photo of Fabio. Was that sexist on their part?

Mathematics, computer science and engineering fields, Needell says “are dominated by men. But people are trying to recruit women, and the way not to do it is by showing this (image).”

“I don’t know if the Fabio image will take off but I think what it will do is stick in people’s minds. And when they think about using the Lena image, they might think (about) using at least a neutral image.”

And then maybe the next woman to take a computer science class won’t have to hear the snickering. Maybe, she’ll feel just a little more welcome among the mathematicians, scientists and engineers.

Tell me why this is not real? This links are not made by me - These links are made by people who are in agreement with you, and they are indeed, real opinions, real links.

And it is such fail. Now, here I am, a heterosexual male, and I see the photo of Fabio. I see him. I say - "Okay, I can do my image processing experiments with this." I don't take the least bit of offense to the photo. A good looking guy. Right away, their attempt at reverse sexualization is a huge fail because most men are not insulted, nor do they feel demeaned by that photo.

Perhaps these ladies, who feel threatened by a photo of Ms. Söderberg, are transferring their feeling threatend to men, because they believe men think the same way. The answer in a silly form, is probably this: https://imgur.com/gallery/O9Y5...

I don't fel the least threatened by He-Man. Unrealistic portrayal of presumed desireable male features. I find Barbie is an unrealistic doll

Niven had a similar idea. Of course, the scale was a bit larger.

Ice Bear wants privacy when he sleeps.

This graph seems to indicate that the problem of lack of women in computer science correlated pretty directly with the rise of the home computer and video games in the mid 80's.

And what conclusions do you draw from that correlation?

Or even simpler, 4chan's Tits or GTFO.

If I can pontificate a bit, for your edification, one of the rules of the Internet is "there are no girls on the Internet". This rule does not mean what you think it means.

In real life, people like you for being a girl. They want to fuck you, so they pay attention to you and they pretend what you have to say is interesting, or that you are smart and clever. On the Internet, we don't have the chance to fuck you. This means the advantage of being a "girl" does not exist. You don't get a bonus to conversation just because I'd like to put my cock in you.

When you make a post like, "hurr, durr, I'm a girl" you are begging for attention. The only reason to post it is because you want your girl advantage back, because you are too vapid and too stupid to do or say anything interesting without it. You are forgetting the rules, there are no girls on the Internet.

The one exception to this rule, the one way you can get your "girlness" back on the Internet, is to post your tits. This is, and should be, degrading for you, an admission that the only interesting thing about you is your naked body.

tl;dr: tits or GET THE FUCK OUT.

Of course it's a tad more complicated when not anonymous, since different names tend to be given to males and females, which is why sometimes you'll only see the first initial. But basically, some of the problem is that men in general probably don't care that you're a woman (especially because you being a woman is not useful to them) and will treat you the same rough way they would treat other men. Whining about sexism when this happens is basically demanding to be treated like a special snowflake because you happen to have two bumps instead of one.

This graph seems to indicate that the problem of lack of women in computer science correlated pretty directly with the rise of the home computer and video games in the mid 80's.

Are you Nature's Creation or a Human Creation? Have you ever heard of the Physics of Inheritance? Mothers give birth to babies. Babies never give birth to mothers. The Physics of Inheritance. Once again, are you Nature's Creation or a Human Creation? Did you give birth to your mommy? Are you biology or abc's? Machines are programmed with alphabetic technology. Language Automation of trusting children into Human Generated Time is programmed with alphabetic technology. Language Automation is strong. I'm signalling you. Are you living against physics? Living against physics takes maintenance. Every generation living against physics becomes more dangerous. As yourself, where did language Automation Begin? http://i.imgur.com/pEza9Ig.png Once again, what would you be without Alphabetic Technology? What would you be without Recorded History? What would you be without that word parrot in your head? Are you still on Ignore to Ignorant? Processing alphabetic technology is an electromechanical act. I'll shut up. 1000's Culture > 1 Nature = Language Automation | It is the Law! Please don't fly planes into buildings, love johnny

That sounds nice, but I nearly went blind last time the internet told me to view some astronomical event!

As funny as that stupid headline is, the real mess on that page is your fonts! Seriously google for .fonts.conf or try this for a good start:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintslight</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

Want to see what scojus thought control looks like on wikipedia?
MGTOW page has been deleted all the time, because the scojus feminists believe it shouldn't be included, and since they only need a few editors to vote "delete" it gets removed.

This is AFTER it had tons of negative updates added, just view the talk page, its a damn warzone.

Here is it before http://i.imgur.com/Nni5Z13.jpg
And after http://i.imgur.com/MQ89wYO.jpg

This is why I will never donate a cent, and actively remind people of their censorship.

Want to see what scojus thought control looks like on wikipedia?
MGTOW page has been deleted all the time, because the scojus feminists believe it shouldn't be included, and since they only need a few editors to vote "delete" it gets removed.

This is AFTER it had tons of negative updates added, just view the talk page, its a damn warzone.

Here is it before http://i.imgur.com/Nni5Z13.jpg
And after http://i.imgur.com/MQ89wYO.jpg

This is why I will never donate a cent, and actively remind people of their censorship.

That sounds nice, but I nearly went blind last time the internet told me to view some astronomical event!

http://i.imgur.com/1veE266.jpg Star Wars VII sucked, it was just a New Hope all over but worse. The prequels are better, just get over Jar Jar https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This is probably the most accurate account of the perspective and critique george has offered the community. http://i.imgur.com/91sn32Q.jpg

Can anyone identify whose access point is being used?

>Everything looks blurry and makes my eyes water

I think that can be said for Windows font rendering.

What, exactly, is wrong with this: https://i.imgur.com/L5qoElU.pn...

That's what I see at 94dpi.

I think that's a lot clearer than "clear type" and a lot less fuzzy than Apple fonts on a standard monitor (I can't say anything about Retina displays as I don't own one, but higher /should/ be less fuzzy)

And that's with KDE. KDE used to be notorious for bad font rendering and ridiculously bad kerning. Now I prefer it over all other "standard-def" anti-aliased font rendering.

BTW, the font is Aller.

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fo...

And my monospace font is Adobe's Source Code Pro

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BMO

Looks like SJWers on 4Chan were egging him on last night:

https://archive.is/2Cdj1

https://i.imgur.com/A1xlnVi.pn...

The Patent application (publication) is three pages in total. That is incredibly short.

It also has (for now) only one claim, not a list of claims of various scope.

It also lacks a list Examples or Embodiments, which are the structure that support a Patent when contested or claimed in Court.

This is a design patent. It only has one claim because design patents are only allowed to have one claim. It is incredibly short because only the figures matter, and the description is mostly irrelevant. There aren't multiple embodiments, because the embodiment shown in the figures is the only embodiment claimed, by definition.

Last, the Figure shown on the front page looks very, very Mac-like. As if they are trying to get Patent coverage for a Design which already exist(ed) on the drawing boards of a competing firm.

Note that this was filed in 2006 or 2007 (I won't waste the seconds to check). Mac OS X Finder does indeed feature this exact type of magnification slider in the bottom-right of any Finder window, although I forget when the element was introduced.

I'm on a Mac right now and no, there is not "this exact type of magnification slider". There's this slider (from the last version - on the current, the central 'knob' is solid and flat), but it lacks the plus and minus at either end, and lacks the prominent trapezoidal arrow 'knob' in the patent.

While it is a "slider", it is not "this exact type of magnification slider" as you claimed, and would not infringe a design patent. This likely goes back to your confusion over design patents and utility patents - while it is a slider serving the same function or utility, such a functional feature is public domain and has been for decades, if not centuries. It is not what is claimed by this design patent.

(Note that the AIA did not go into effect until January 2014, making this stupid patent application part of the 'first-to-invent' era.)

And that's irrelevant. All the first-to-invent regime changed was interference proceedings, where two inventors filed applications on the exact same invention simultaneously. Out of half a million applications filed annually, there were 20 interference proceedings, and they were tremendously expensive and different from the procedures every other country in the world. It did not magically make prior art not applicable or existent, as some people who spout off about patents without actually knowing what they're talking about claim.

/I am a patent attorney, although I do not work for either Microsoft or Corel (or Apple, for that matter)

Here ya go:
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

See if you can see that when you view the whole thread. I checked and it still doesn't show - here, even logged in (with the slider to -1) or logged out (with the slider to -1). I always browse at -1. It's what I do. Here, that comment is not showing when the thread is opened from a fresh page (just refresh it). It's not showing in Midori, Opera, and Firefox. :/ Well, i didn't check Firefox this time but it wasn't showing when the thread was still active.

It was kind of odd and, I assume, some sort of bug. At least one person found it and commented but I'm not sure how. It may show intermittently, it may not. It may just hate me. It may be some odd bug on my end. Dunno... The subject's a bit personal but posted in a public forum. I was kind of glad that it ended up that way, even if not intentionally.

I gotta post this as AC - I was chatty this morning. Gotta wait a bit to as I'm at that stupid 50 post count limit. (It's pretty silly.) At any rate, that's a glitch (I'm assuming) and nothing intentional. I kind of doubt he's got the power to make a post remain hidden to some users.

Here's a screen shot:
http://i.imgur.com/flNbr5n.png

That is me, logged in, and doing a text-search (via CTRL + F) for the comment and it is not shown. That is showing comments at -1. If you open the page by clicking the full story/comments URL, and CTRL + F for my username, for the text, or for the likes then you too many not see it. It might show for you - someone else found it and he was able to respond.

Anyhow, I think it was around Obama's election when someone piped up that they were going to kill the guy or something along those lines. I don't remember the exact quote and I've no idea if someone got a screen shot. There was a bit of an ado at the time. I was unaware of (or don't remember) the Scientology thing. I'm not sure which is scarier, the Scientology guys or the Secret Service. :/ I seem to recall the person that threatened the president as having said that they were going to kill the negro president or something stupid. It sparked quite a bunch of interest and was deleted but left orphaned comments. I don't think he'd taken office but had won the election.

I'll leave this open for now so that I can see a reply. I'll try to not close it by accident. (AC replies get no notifications, obviously.)

" They require full artificial stability 100% of the time or they won't fly. No human can sense or react quick enough to keep them in the air, "

That's the case with many biological flying critters as well, like swallows and house martins. Greater flight instability leads to higher maneuverability, but at the cost of higher sensitivity to tiny changes in wind conditions and flight surface configuration, which in turn requires constant and rapid readjustment.

Many creatures have been able to adapt to maneuverability in small spaces only by making flight control autonomous. Insects use optic flow where the input to their compound eyes is used to estimate velocity all around and then make the requiring flight readjustments. Fish make use of their lateral line which provides input in the form of vortex pressure and velocity, providing an immediate response to muscle movement. Even honey bees get it wrong sometimes:

https://imgur.com/gallery/Q2aM...

Twitter is private, not a government so it technically can't be censoring. They have a right to delete whatever they want from their site.

Whoever told you that, make sure you never trust anything they say ever again. When it comes to the Bill of Rights, the ACLU has a blindspot a whole amendment wide, but even it knows better than to say what you just did:
https://www.aclu.org/what-cens...

Censorship, the suppression of words, images, or ideas that are "offensive," happens whenever some people succeed in imposing their personal political or moral values on others. Censorship can be carried out by the government as well as private pressure groups. Censorship by the government is unconstitutional.

In contrast, when private individuals or groups organize boycotts against stores that sell magazines of which they disapprove, their actions are protected by the First Amendment, although they can become dangerous in the extreme. Private pressure groups, not the government, promulgated and enforced the infamous Hollywood blacklists during the McCarthy period. But these private censorship campaigns are best countered by groups and individuals speaking out and organizing in defense of the threatened expression.

Remember when Reddit (and Google and most of the internet) stood up and actively, officially, and effectively opposed SOPA and PIPA? Well, CISA just passed without a peep from them, while they instead actively censor discussion of similar things like the TPP.

Do you see yet why private censorship shouldn't be ignored?

Yep, this vid is best explanation I've seen of what's going on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Of course government and corporations want to control and censor the internet, but lately they've found support and allies among righteous authoritarians who pass themselves off as activists for the oppressed (when all they're really after is power).

If you ever encounter someone who thinks that only government censorship matters, show them how Reddit once actively opposed things like SOPA and PIPA. Then point out how CISA recently passed without a blip from them, and how they now actively shut down discussion of things like TPP.

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You answered the wrong question. It doesn't matter what the BigO of the formula is, only the actual value for the specifc situation under examination. I'll refer to http://i.imgur.com/D9BdO86.png to be sure we're on the same page. After separation we have

1 - The boostback burn, which obviously can't be aided by parachutes since we still need to navigate. That's probably going to be the bulk of the fuel consumption too, since it's pretty much in vacuum and has to cancel the 5800kph lateral speed and then accelerate back to a sizable fraction of that speed in the opposite direction to return home (probably at least half the average speed based on the time between launch, boostback, and landing.)
No parachute, but not strictly necessary with the right launch and landing sites.

2 - The rentry burn. Which is going to happen in near vacuum (45-25 km), at speeds in the thousands of kph (presumably to avoid damaging or destabilizing the rocket by flying it cone-first into hypersonic winds at higher pressure.)
That's going to have to be one hell of a parachute for most of the job

3 - The final approach, the last 30 seconds before landing.
*This* I could see being replaced by a much longer parachute ride, but it's also the smallest of the burns, using only a single engine for a brief time to slow down from terminal velocity to a stop.

I could see the last leg of 2 and most of 3 being done by parachute, but at that point you've already done all the "heavy lifting" via rocket, and I have serious doubts that you could make the chute, cables, and deployment mechanism at a lower mass than the fuel needed to do the remaining job. Plus there's all the complexity and new opportunities for catastrophic failure you're introducing. And the loss of precision landing you mentioned.

I don't doubt that it could be done, just that it would be cost (or mass) effective to do so.

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I suspect it was a combination of getting regulatory clearance to attempt the landing (no doubt aided by their repeated demonstration of being able to at least hit their target), a landing pad in a relatively isolated area so that near misses probably wouldn't hit any thing except their own facilities, and the fact that their flight plan had them "gliding" in for an ocean splashdown right up until the final landing burn, so they'd have plenty of time to correct any problems in the trajectory that would affect anything beyond their own facility, and a failure in the final approach would result in a harmless splashdown

the flight plan: http://i.imgur.com/D9BdO86.png

It uses three engines for the turn-back burn and the initial re-entry burn, but only one engine for the final landing. And I seem to recall that they are only throttleable to like 70% or so. But yes, with an almost empty first stage, even a single engine is still way too powerful to hover.

See this infographic that from another post in this thread: http://i.imgur.com/D9BdO86.png

Here's what I don't understand. I think stage 1 landed about 10 miles from where it launched. It was travelling almost exactly 6,000 kph at separation. Did it really slow down to zero and actually fly back the way it came to land at the Cape? I guess it takes much, much less fuel to go from 6,000 to zero on an empty first stage in vacuum versus 0 to 6k, fully loaded in the atmosphere.

No, it didn't stop and turn around as such, the primary direction is up and it just reversed the slight horizontal component and slowed itself down as it fell to earth. This infographic is pretty good, it's not at all like a plane turning around.