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EPIC FAIL for those participating in a S. Trek better than S. Wars debate.

Especially on the Internet.

Especially on Slashdot.org.

Those who have failed, please take a toaster upstairs to your mother's portion of the house, bypass the GFI protection on the circuit, measure out a correct length of electrical wiring - and take a bath.

Instructions can be found via http://www.tinyurl.com/slashdoters .

Please proceed immediately, least you somehow fall into the genetic gene pool and continue this.

(same goes for mac vs pc holy warriors as well)

Just to let you know, a short message like this can have a LOT of meaning for spies and such that are using things like "one time pads". Also keep in mind, there was just recently a bunch of spies found in the USA that were russian. I am sure that there is still more lurking around. All of the recent activity on UVB-76 would be easy to assume that this is sort of a communications hub for the covert spies in other countries. I have listened to UVB-76 a lot recently and have recorded some strange stuff on it including data transmissions and morse code. I uploaded the sound files to a torrent that can be found here at http://tinyurl.com/uvb76 Take a listen if you'd like. I'm listening to UVB-76 at this moment and there are strange things coming through and I can find the right band to gather what is going on.

We all accept the benefits and liabilities from the freedoms we enjoy. Having the right to face your accuser in court can lead to retaliation. Freedom to assemble means we tolerate union meetings and neo-Nazzi rallies. Being safe from unwarranted search and seizure means you have the expectation of privacy inside your home but also masks a host of dangerous activities. How many who make the argument that we should some how have an implied or explicit right to "public privacy" throw their personal privacy away on Facebook, blogs or forums like this? Take a look at the images on these two pages and tell me how many you are willing to delete from existence in order to not upset someone? http://tinyurl.com/2u3xvt7 http://tinyurl.com/37rhjfe

We all accept the benefits and liabilities from the freedoms we enjoy. Having the right to face your accuser in court can lead to retaliation. Freedom to assemble means we tolerate union meetings and neo-Nazzi rallies. Being safe from unwarranted search and seizure means you have the expectation of privacy inside your home but also masks a host of dangerous activities. How many who make the argument that we should some how have an implied or explicit right to "public privacy" throw their personal privacy away on Facebook, blogs or forums like this? Take a look at the images on these two pages and tell me how many you are willing to delete from existence in order to not upset someone? http://tinyurl.com/2u3xvt7 http://tinyurl.com/37rhjfe

Did 'Star Wars' become a toy story? Producer Gary Kurtz looks back.

http://tinyurl.com/35ltv3u

http://tinyurl.com/38hxetj

(or the flaps, ailerons, engines, and missiles)

Yes, but you have to think in Russian

http://tinyurl.com/247mdwa

Sort of:
http://tinyurl.com/c5gnb3

> did problem 2a on the board one afternoon(s). After 3 hours of derivation, we called it quits.

What was problem 2a? I'm just curious on what Wolfram Alpha would do with it: http://www.wolframalpha.com/

e.g.: http://preview.tinyurl.com/36gppwf

(click on "show steps").

Now we know the real story behind honey production being down (or so it seems in stores) http://tinyurl.com/23hmznl ...its probably not good to get a genetic alteration overload via ...honey intake... just leave it to the bees, corporate and crops... to genetically alter us all.

I am not against child rape or anything like that

I don't think that's what you meant to say.

No?

The Dr. begs to differ.

Like this?

http://tinyurl.com/24fxz3w

Certainly not the first Pixar/Lego crossover: http://tinyurl.com/25k99l8 (As seen in the Pixar lobby)

Yikes, start packing for doomsday for the soothsayers are out and about using The Force to intensify propaganda after their self inflicted Climate Gate revelations of their Alarmist Scientist Core Cult members improprieties. Pack light though, it's going to be a scorcher, allegedly. Hawaii at the North Pole. I really am beginning to wonder if all these alarmist scientists are just rapture christians firing things up for the coming end times? Nostradamus still beats any climate scientist with soothsaying doomsday predictions. Hands down, and he's been dead a long time. Now how can that be? Let's explore the science that prevents predictions of complex systems.

It's not possible to predict the future with crummy or even excellent computer models. Do you really think that a chaotic system such as the weather is going to follow your computer model? Nature followers her own rules and it's the height of arrogance to think that we can model what is going to happen a 100 years from now. Besides Wolfram proved mathematically that simple systems (which weather and climate systems are) generate their own internal randomness that is impossible to predict, you must watch them unfold on the universal computer known as the objective reality of Nature where we actually exist. Wolfram shows in A New Kind of Science that these systems are highly complex, as complex as any complex system, and that in order to know what they will do next you have to observe them unfold in real time. No two ways around it.

Wolfram also shows that Natural systems are more like cellular automata than linear equations. Any climate scientists that fail to consider these and other facts is simply deluding himself and conning others with his belief stricken delusion that their climate models can be predictive.

At each decision point with a climate model all paths must be taken rather than just one. This leads to a combinatorial explosion of possible futures that are still an infinitesimal subset of all the actually possible futures that Nature could do. Oh, and many members of that infinitesimal subset are not actually possible in Nature since Nature doesn't follow the binary decisions of a climate scientists computer program. It's possible that this infinitesimal subset of simulated posisble futures generated by climate computer models actually contains zero elements that are actually possible in the objective reality of Nature.

Oh, and it's an extraordinary claim that computer climate models can accurately predict the future. It's up to the authors of these alleged climate models to provide hard evidence, extraordinary evidence, that their computer models in fact can predict anything accurately at all.

There's about 130 years of climate temperature data. Input the first 100 into any of the climate models and have them predict the next thirty years up to the present. If any of these climate models even come close to producing the same temperature patterns as recorded in the manipulated observed data then they might have a leg to stand on. Having talked with climate modelers directly they refuse to perform this test to validate their alleged climate models. It's no wonder why, you try to accurately predict the future of the weather and the climate 30 years out. Good luck with that.

As for the rest of it, the bad statistical correlation between CO2 and Temperature is just that, a bad statistical correlation. The Natural Null Hypothesis correlates much better ( http://tinyurl.com/NaturalNullHypothesis-pdf ), and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) correlates even slightly better.

So while there is a slight upward warming trend with a 60 year sin wave oscillation in the temperature records from 130 years ago to the present coming out of the The Little Ice Age there hasn't been any change due to the small increase in atmospheric CO2 levels since WWII ~65 years ago. The Natural Null Hypothesis shows no deviation due to CO2 as would have been expected if CO2 impacts

You might check out the top two results on this google search for 'nyt login'

http://tinyurl.com/38ynuf2

Thanks for the link. Interesting stuff. I also found an excellent picture of a scale model

Ignorance isn't bliss in this case. This is a an issue that is going to eventually become a monster and many people don't really understand it. I've been watching some posts here and want to stop the misinformation. If you seriously want to understand what's going on in the Unmanned Systems space and get a no bullshit download, start with reading these three blog posts. "Size does matter" http://tinyurl.com/29ddu6p "Information Infrastructure" http://tinyurl.com/255ugv9 "Put it on a tether" http://tinyurl.com/2fedjtw

Ignorance isn't bliss in this case. This is a an issue that is going to eventually become a monster and many people don't really understand it. I've been watching some posts here and want to stop the misinformation. If you seriously want to understand what's going on in the Unmanned Systems space and get a no bullshit download, start with reading these three blog posts. "Size does matter" http://tinyurl.com/29ddu6p "Information Infrastructure" http://tinyurl.com/255ugv9 "Put it on a tether" http://tinyurl.com/2fedjtw

Ignorance isn't bliss in this case. This is a an issue that is going to eventually become a monster and many people don't really understand it. I've been watching some posts here and want to stop the misinformation. If you seriously want to understand what's going on in the Unmanned Systems space and get a no bullshit download, start with reading these three blog posts. "Size does matter" http://tinyurl.com/29ddu6p "Information Infrastructure" http://tinyurl.com/255ugv9 "Put it on a tether" http://tinyurl.com/2fedjtw

My bad, it is only 44.8%
http://tinyurl.com/39mgjwt

Wrong. Please pay attention to the wording that I highlighted: normal driving. See the highlighting? You're comparing *peak efficiency* to *normal driving*. Check out the graph on the page that you linked. See how much efficiency varies? Beyond that, there's energy thrown away by braking and energy lost to idling. This (very roughly) halves the efficiency in non-hybrids from the peak.

The density of petrol varies around 750kg/m3 diesel around 820kg/m3.
So yes, there is a difference, but it is around 10%

If you had cited Wikipedia, you would have said that they're 18% different, giving a figure of 720kg/m^3 for gasoline and 850kg/m^3 for diesel. But the reality is that neither are right. There is no single density for gasoline or diesel because there is no single fuel called "gasoline" or "diesel". There are all different kinds of blends. They average about 15% difference.

And where the hell the 15% efficiency difference came from ?
I'm quoting your post, using your numbers.

Experience. To be less vague, when you've taken enough gasoline and diesel vehicles of the same model and same acceleration and compared their CO2 outputs and their density-adjusted fuel consumptions, you'll arrive at the same number (give or take ~5%).

For all of the below, I will use this and this for the BMW's stats. I will use this for the 2010 Prius's stats.

And yes, drag areas differs. Prius is smaller. It has also better aerodynamics (0.26 vs 0.27)

I guess I have to explain this one as well. Drag area *includes* the drag coefficient (Cd) (what you refer to as "better aerodynamics"). Drag area is the cross sectional area times the drag coefficient.

Drag areas are what matter, but they're rarely released (automakers prefer to release only the Cd, if that) -- although some release them, and other sites compute them. The BMW 320d EfficientDynamics actually has an official drag area -- 0.59m^2. The Prius does not. So we'll compare dimensions (ignoring length, as length is often a *good* thing).

Width: 68.7"(Prius), 71.5" (BMW)
Height: 58.7" (Prius), 55.4" (BMW)
Ground clearance: 5.5" (Prius), 5.1" (BMW)

If we treat them each as a square, minus the ground clearance, that's 3655 square inches for the Prius and 3,596 square inches for the BMW. So, not taking shape into account, but just dimensions, the BMW actually has a slightly lower cross section. It has a slightly higher drag coefficient. Overall, the drag areas should be approximately equal.

it has low RR eco tires

The Prius comes equipped with Yokohama AVID S33D tires. The BMW uses Michelin EnergySaver tires. Now, rolling drag coefficients are even harder to get than drag areas (and, FYI, are a grossly inaccurate measure anyway). But it's worth mentioning that the EnergySavers are the most efficient tire Michelin makes.

it is front wheel drive so there are (few %) less drive-train losses

True, but the effect is small, as you note.

it is almost 200 kg lighter than bmw (more than 10%)

Prius: 3042 lbs
BMW: 3296 lbs

200 pounds, perhaps, but not kg. Also note that part of the weight of the BMW is due to how heavy diesel engines are compared to gasoline, so this is, at least in part, something that should be credited as an advantage of hybrid tech over diesels, rather than a difference in the comparison vehicles themselves. Batteries are famously heavy, but the Prius pack is very small. Note that aero drag is well dominant in highway cycles over rolling.

it has brake energy

They're already being built. Diesels which average 50% in normal driving don't even exist in the lab.

My bad, it is only 44.8%
http://tinyurl.com/39mgjwt

You're pushing a common misconception -- that all fuels are equivalent. Yes, diesel engines are more efficient than gasoline engines, but only by about ~15%. The rest of the efficiency gain is that the fuel is denser -- there's more "oil" in that liter. Hence, the BMW 320d EfficientDynamics gets 109g/100km CO2, while the new Prius gets 89g/100km. Furthermore, not all cars are created equal; weight and drag areas being the big differing parameters.

The density of petrol varies around 750kg/m3 diesel around 820kg/m3.
So yes, there is a difference, but it is around 10%
And where the hell the 15% efficiency difference came from ?
I'm quoting your post, using your numbers.

Non-hybrid gasoline ICEs average about 20% efficiency ... Diesels average about 25%

And yes, drag areas differs. Prius is smaller. It has also better aerodynamics (0.26 vs 0.27), it has low RR eco tires, it is front wheel drive so there are (few %) less drive-train losses, it is almost 200 kg lighter than bmw (more than 10%), it has brake energy regeneration, it can move only on electricity, and it has some kind of waste heat recovery. ALL advantages (except fuel density) are on the side of prius.
So again how the hell is it possible, if hybrids are 5-10% more efficient than diesels (again, your numbers. 25% vs 30-35%)

Another common misconception. 30-35% is *peak* efficiency, not *average*. Gasoline cars idle, they brake, they run in torque/rpm combinations that are far from optimal, etc. They average about 20% in normal driving.

No, peak efficiency of diesel engines are about 35-40%. I can take a picture of university scripts (in book version) if you like. Too bad they are not in english.
And what is the difference ? Diesel cars don't idle, brake or run in different than optimal revs? I think they do. And even more then hybrids.
Not to mention that all modern diesels are fuc*ed by NOx emissions limits.

People who know what they're talking about are welcome. People who rely on assumptions and ignorance aren't.

And you are the one, to tell which is which. Wow this is so arrogant, I don't know what to say.

Because I know a bit about genetic engineering, I should start telling genetic engineers what they can and can't do, right?

Again, what the hell are you talking about ? Where am I telling anyone what to do ? There is quite a difference between telling someone what to do and writing down an opinion.
And do I understand it right, that you are TESLA chief engineer ?

Got a university around you? Heck, a lot of the papers on the topic are free. For example, the DOE/PNL's work.

Yeah. But no chance finding any new english papers.

btw are you from US ? I have tiny little feeling that you may be talking about bit different diesels than me.

The Chinese population has nearly doubled since the One Child Policy started.

uhh, [citation needed]? i'm not debating the merits of the policy, but that's a bogus claim.

Population 1979: 965005000
Population 2008: 1324655000

Source: World Bank, http://tinyurl.com/23b8tdx

I uninstalled the app immediately and left them with a one-star rating plus a link to explain the background. Also, I uninstalled them as malicious. Feel free to link http://tinyurl.com/3a93ed8 in your one-star ratings.

Get SoundHound instead. It's better anyway. Now that I have SoundHound, I am actually glad that Shazam made me look for alternatives.

Again:
http://tinyurl.com/3a93ed8
http://www.soundhound.com/

PS: It would be evil to install them just to uninstall them with one-star ratings. I could not condone that.

I uninstalled the app immediately and left them with a one-star rating plus a link to explain the background. Also, I uninstalled them as malicious. Feel free to link http://tinyurl.com/3a93ed8 in your one-star ratings.

Get SoundHound instead. It's better anyway. Now that I have SoundHound, I am actually glad that Shazam made me look for alternatives.

Again:
http://tinyurl.com/3a93ed8
http://www.soundhound.com/

PS: It would be evil to install them just to uninstall them with one-star ratings. I could not condone that.

Basic relational database design is about logic and structure. When compared with other areas of computing, I would argue that the the original materials worked out by Codd and Date have not changed nearly as dramatically. There are certainly exceptional sub-areas where there have been major changes (e.g. the introduction of the object model and development of XML and RDF, to name but two prominent examples), but if I were you, I would suggest doing two things:

1. Do some research into existing relational database platforms (e.g. SQL Server, Oracle, PostGRES), figure out which model will ultimately work best for you, and get a book on that implementation of SQL and RDMS. Every intro to databases book has a chapter on relational database design. That will get you started. You can also skip the platform selection process if you are already stuck with a database.

2. Read this: Date on Database: Writings 2000-2006 by C. J. Date

Codd (now deceased) and Date are still the authorities, IMHO, and this latter book will give you a good overview of major conceptual issues in relational database design.

I tried to Google "another country of residence," but it only came back with this...

Here we go.

Are you viewing on an i "Phone" 4? Apple advise you avoid holding it like this guy.

I'm at work so I'm not going to try a tinyurl link... Let me guess... goatse guy?

It's Steve Jobs, also get Greasemonkey to un-tinyurl URL's.

people who still have landlines with no caller ID

It would be like opening unfiltered email without reading the subject lines.
Or clicking on a link in a /. post.

Are you viewing on an i "Phone" 4? Apple advise you avoid holding it like this guy.

I'm at work so I'm not going to try a tinyurl link... Let me guess... goatse guy?

Are you viewing on an i "Phone" 4? Apple advise you avoid holding it like this guy.

Growth of HDD capacity is definitely slowing. By now, I'd expect 4-5TB drives out and 2-3TB in the average machine that you find at Wally World. However, another issue is the speed of I/O. USB 2 is still the standard for external drives, 10 years later. eSATA, iSCSI [1], or FCoE should be what machines use these days for external drives.

[1]: iSCSI is more efficient than FCoE, assuming jumbo frames are enabled -- http://tinyurl.com/yjm72hk. Of course, this doesn't factor in other stuff, but it would be nice if more machines had 2-3 10Gbps Ethernet NICs for iSCSI. Ethernet interfaces are inexpensive, so having more than one on a machine wouldn't break the bank.

The tracking of phones should give US readers some ideas of how this will be used.
http://tinyurl.com/y9lh6wq [www.nydailynews.com]
A suspect's cell phone battery is removed to avoid leakage, exposing the International Mobile Equipment Identity number to be noted down.
Also recall how the system seems to work in the UK
"Police arresting people "just for the DNA""
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5AN1FA20091124

I have spoken to two spokespeople for the NZ Ministry of Economic Development (MED), who confirm the essence of the meeting (as reported at http://tinyurl.com/25dr6r4 Not yet printed (as at 10 pm NZ time June 23) is my brief interview with NZICT CEO Brett O'Riley about the meeting. So yes, it definitely happened. MED says there has been no real change; they are only "clarifying" what the Parliamentary Select Committee meant to say all along. I find it very hard to read any such significance into their report (PDF link at http://tinyurl.com/37wyoyg). Steve Bell Computerworld NZ

I have spoken to two spokespeople for the NZ Ministry of Economic Development (MED), who confirm the essence of the meeting (as reported at http://tinyurl.com/25dr6r4 Not yet printed (as at 10 pm NZ time June 23) is my brief interview with NZICT CEO Brett O'Riley about the meeting. So yes, it definitely happened. MED says there has been no real change; they are only "clarifying" what the Parliamentary Select Committee meant to say all along. I find it very hard to read any such significance into their report (PDF link at http://tinyurl.com/37wyoyg). Steve Bell Computerworld NZ

What is SSL?

Here is your answer.

Copypasta this:

http://tinyurl.com/vote4wafflefaust

Except it is fucking *censored*.

Try swyping words like shit, cunt, fuck... Yep, it doesn't work. Swype will not predict "offensive" words.

Aren't these words part of the English language? Aren't they in every single modern English dictionary? Then why can't input them on my phone keyboard? I guess I need to add them to my user dictionary as if they were something special and not part of normal day-to-day communication.

This is totally unacceptable. After Apple censoring apps that are adaptations of classic literature and Steve Jobs "Freedom from porn", now this. What is this nonsense? "Swype: Freedom from swearing"?

This has gone way too far. This isn't even political correctness out of control anymore, we have entered thought control territory. A pen that refuses to write offensive thoughts? Wake the fuck up America. You are asleep at the fucking wheel.

Perhaps you are unaware of ACTA and other efforts on the part of RIAA and the other alphabet soup people. Given time, and no interference, piracy of any sort will become criminal activities. Right now, in most countries, copyright infringement is a civil matter. But, "civil" doesn't necessarily mean the same all over the world.

http://tinyurl.com/2wlzw83

Blue-eyed, eager and athletic with a milky complexion...

I now own your domain.

If you want it back, send me a naked picture of your mother.

Here's a picture I took of his mother last night: http://tinyurl.com/daves-mom

Yeah, I bet you're jealous!

#facebook #zuckerberg #gods #falseprophets #death #eternity #love #sex #heaven #fear #freedom ON ZUCKERBERG: http://tinyurl.com/2wxgaeq

http://tinyurl.com/268rtm6

All the results are the same, except for a couple of news stories, but they could have cheated on those. Seems like a titanic waste to have put all this effort into one search word, for no improvement.

I'm not trying to troll here, it just seems to me that there are many reasons a jurisdiction might set a speed limit to a specific number.

I don't imagine that it is outside the realm of possibility that a jurisdiction might set an artificially low speed limit to:

1. Generate ticket income.

2. Increase gas mileage.

3. Reduce CO2 emissions.

4. Encourage use of public transportation.

I'm not trying to troll here, it just seems to me that there are many reasons a jurisdiction might set a speed limit to a specific number.

I don't imagine that it is outside the realm of possibility that a jurisdiction might set an artificially low speed limit to:

1. Generate ticket income.

2. Increase gas mileage.

3. Reduce CO2 emissions.

4. Encourage use of public transportation.

I'm not trying to troll here, it just seems to me that there are many reasons a jurisdiction might set a speed limit to a specific number.

I don't imagine that it is outside the realm of possibility that a jurisdiction might set an artificially low speed limit to:

1. Generate ticket income.

2. Increase gas mileage.

3. Reduce CO2 emissions.

4. Encourage use of public transportation.

I'm not trying to troll here, it just seems to me that there are many reasons a jurisdiction might set a speed limit to a specific number.

I don't imagine that it is outside the realm of possibility that a jurisdiction might set an artificially low speed limit to:

1. Generate ticket income.

2. Increase gas mileage.

3. Reduce CO2 emissions.

4. Encourage use of public transportation.

Even if this is an action by a business, it will not be the first time, nor the last...

Red Hat sued the Swiss government (2009 IT World):
http://tinyurl.com/o6mv2f

And how many times have M$, Apple, Novell, etc done similar things?

I'm just happy to see a law suit that does not revolve around copyright/patent infringement.

--Stak

http://tinyurl.com/392aktn/index.php?id=f3c136149e5fed2a144ed9700ab98966

http://tinyurl.com/392aktn/index.php?id=f3c136149e5fed2a144ed9700ab98966