WPI did until somewhat recently. Last I heard the removal process was well under way.It was quite old (circa late 1940's) and only could output something like a kilowatt. Never heard of any local protests or anything -- I had some classes in the same building. The funny part about it was all of the warning signs posted mentioning a warning siren that indicated that you should evacuate... there's a whole bunch of machine shops in that building. More than once I walked into the building and thought to myself, "holy shit, is that the reactor alarm?" only to quickly realize that I was hearing machine tools at work.
Except that he didn't name anyone else. Don't pull hyperbole out of your ass.
From TFA:
Thanks to his indictment, Doyon is one of the few Anonymous members whose real name is now publicly known.
His identity is relevant in that he is notable as the Anonymous member who is actively fleeing to another country to avoid prosecution. The article reveals nothing about his identity that was not already known. To omit his name would be poor journalism, plain and simple.
You should probably at least RTFS. He's been indicted of a crime in the US and has fled to Canada. If you can't figure out from that why his handle and real name are being posted together, there's not much hope for you.
I don't have a link handy, but this was in fact a talking point in a Google presentation. Given that driverless cars can react faster than a human, they can safely leave a shorter distance between cars (obviously still limited by braking performance). The percentage of a highway that is "empty" during busy (but still moving) traffic is actually quite high, I want to say something like 40-60%.
The safety improvements in modern designs are enough that they don't need to be rebuilt every decade. This isn't like computers where you need the latest and greatest all the time. There is no Moore's Law of Reactor safety. This is an issue of the technology having matured since the reactors in question were built.
Part of the problem is that Bethesda as a publisher forces the studios to commit to a release date at the start of a project. It's not necessarily poor QA, the games just end up getting pushed out the door before they're ready.
Bethesda decided that they simply can't have enough game-breaking bugs while working within the limitations of a singleplayer game. The next logical step was to move to an MMO format because they needed more things to be able to break.
Evidence points to a potentially large benefit to be had from exposing politicians to radiation. More studies are necessary, especially with respect to unsafe levels of exposure.
The only source reporting on this is the New York Post. Until someone reputable picks up on it, it's a safe bet that this is nothing more than tabloid drivel.
Typical Slashdot sensationalism to leave that out of the headline. I clicked expecting another Prescott/Pentium D fiasco, but no. It's not even some kind of non-story with no merit, just being misrepresented by the submitter. It was even tagged "false" in Firehose and got posted as-is anyways.
Want to hack law ? Then start by by putting the entire code of law in an SVN-like system. Including proposed laws. With traceability of authors, who voted for them, etc... And an associated wiki for comments. And a complete list of cases that used them. This would be invaluable.
If we're going that route, the author/voting records should link to a database of campaign contributions as well.
So obviously we should make/. a fee-based service.
It's worked out well enough for the Something Awful forums. That didn't even start with the intention of using it as a revenue stream. There was just this one guy that kept banning that would come back through various proxies, etc. and Lowtax said screw it, $10 registration fee. Problem solved.
See this comment for some clarification on the situation. It's not "some" bomb threats, it's over one hundred bomb threats against specific buildings at a university with 28,000 students. They threaten academic buildings during class hours. They send in threats for dorm buildings in the middle of the night so that everyone has to be woken up and evacuated. They even sent a bomb threat to the hospital on campus, causing all of the patients to have to be evacuated. This is absolutely not some kind of convoluted plot to get a server shut down.
Well, if you want to follow the money, it costs the school/state/FBI (not really sure who foots the bill initially, but paying it back will likely be part of the sentence in the end) a few thousand dollars to do a bomb sweep. I sadly don't have a link I can cite, but I heard that sweeping the Cathedral of Learning costs them $30,000 per bomb threat there due to the size of the building. I'm not even sure how to make a conspiracy theory out of that, but I'm sure someone here will find a way.
Someone bosts a gazillion bomb threats, and computers associated with OWS and other protests get seized.
Awfully convenient.
Any guess as to whether the bomb threats can be traced back th Langley or Ft. Meade?
Put down your tinfoil hat. This person has more or less paralyzed a major university campus for an entire semester and the FBI barely has anything to go on. They already subpoenaed/questioned/arrested everyone they can find that's had a major quarrel with the school in recent memory (and one nutjob from the 80s). They're grasping at straws with the remailer services they know were used because they don't have any other leads and finals week is coming up.
While we're at it, TFA is pretty vague on the facts. Riseup calls the seizure "an attack against us", when the seized server was owned and operated by ECN. At the same time, the top of the page says "Riseup had a server seized by the US Federal Authorities". Either these groups are more closely related than their press release makes clear, or they're being deliberately misleading. It also doesn't help their credibility that they clearly state that the FBI had a warrant (which, being a warrant, is signed by a judge), and then they turn around and call it an "extra-judicial punishment". It's unfortunate that they've been inconvenienced by the situation, but they're acting like the server is gone forever. Playing the victim when 28,000 people are having their (already paid for) education compromised and the FBI didn't break any rules is not a good way to garner sympathy.
I think there IS a consumer gap as far as sharing files bigger than an email attachment without torrent or the like. XKCD summed it up nicely but it seems like nobody has figured out how to do it without going to jail. I am just not quite sure what cloud storage can do (that docs and gmail doesn't, that is legal) without some stupid hardware artificially making it a necessity (e.g. iPad and Kindle Fire omitting storage options)
Dropbox actually solved this quite nicely. When you register an account, there's a "Public" folder (you can share other folders as well, only Public is shared by default). You can send anyone a download link to any file in the Public folder. I recently had to send a ~200MB RAR archive to several different people in another city. I copied it into my Dropbox/Public folder on my hard drive, waited for it to finish uploading, and right clicked on it in Explorer and there was a "Copy public link" button -- you can get the same URL by logging into your account on the Dropbox website. I sent my colleagues the URL and that was that, no hassle at all.
I can't speak for Spideroak, SkyDrive, etc. as I have not tried them. A cursory look at Spideroak indicates that it has a similar feature, but with much tighter access control capabilities. As far as I can tell the only security to Dropbox public sharing is that you need the download URL, which can obviously get passed around. The public URL for the aforementioned 200MB RAR has not changed in the past... almost a month since I uploaded it, so I doubt the URL has any kind of expiration date.
Minor correction: It's 64KB of memory per core. There's also software libraries for interfacing with an external SRAM chip, but you need to use something like two 16-bit ports (or a 16 and an 8 for lower capacity chips) and a few 1-bit ports.
It was not illegal at all. The Republicans were entering sham sessions into the record while most of Congress was home over the recess. They basically walked in, hit the gavel, hit the gavel again, and left. Congress could not have voted on appointments at the time at all.
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...because the only logical conclusion from there is Minecraftduino.
WPI did until somewhat recently. Last I heard the removal process was well under way.It was quite old (circa late 1940's) and only could output something like a kilowatt. Never heard of any local protests or anything -- I had some classes in the same building. The funny part about it was all of the warning signs posted mentioning a warning siren that indicated that you should evacuate... there's a whole bunch of machine shops in that building. More than once I walked into the building and thought to myself, "holy shit, is that the reactor alarm?" only to quickly realize that I was hearing machine tools at work.
Thanks to his indictment, Doyon is one of the few Anonymous members whose real name is now publicly known.
His identity is relevant in that he is notable as the Anonymous member who is actively fleeing to another country to avoid prosecution. The article reveals nothing about his identity that was not already known. To omit his name would be poor journalism, plain and simple.
You should probably at least RTFS. He's been indicted of a crime in the US and has fled to Canada. If you can't figure out from that why his handle and real name are being posted together, there's not much hope for you.
I don't have a link handy, but this was in fact a talking point in a Google presentation. Given that driverless cars can react faster than a human, they can safely leave a shorter distance between cars (obviously still limited by braking performance). The percentage of a highway that is "empty" during busy (but still moving) traffic is actually quite high, I want to say something like 40-60%.
The safety improvements in modern designs are enough that they don't need to be rebuilt every decade. This isn't like computers where you need the latest and greatest all the time. There is no Moore's Law of Reactor safety. This is an issue of the technology having matured since the reactors in question were built.
The question is, who will the Republicans side with? Supporting Are Troops would be an implicit admission that climate change exists! What a quagmire!
Part of the problem is that Bethesda as a publisher forces the studios to commit to a release date at the start of a project. It's not necessarily poor QA, the games just end up getting pushed out the door before they're ready.
Bethesda decided that they simply can't have enough game-breaking bugs while working within the limitations of a singleplayer game. The next logical step was to move to an MMO format because they needed more things to be able to break.
That laser is mounted on the dorsal fin. What part of "sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads" do these people not understand?
Citation needed.
Evidence points to a potentially large benefit to be had from exposing politicians to radiation. More studies are necessary, especially with respect to unsafe levels of exposure.
The only source reporting on this is the New York Post. Until someone reputable picks up on it, it's a safe bet that this is nothing more than tabloid drivel.
James Cameron can't wait to start production on the sequel.
Typical Slashdot sensationalism to leave that out of the headline. I clicked expecting another Prescott/Pentium D fiasco, but no. It's not even some kind of non-story with no merit, just being misrepresented by the submitter. It was even tagged "false" in Firehose and got posted as-is anyways.
I suspect this is related (at least conceptually, it appears to be a different group): http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/110031-a-bionic-prosthetic-eye-that-speaks-the-language-of-your-brain
Want to hack law ? Then start by by putting the entire code of law in an SVN-like system. Including proposed laws. With traceability of authors, who voted for them, etc... And an associated wiki for comments. And a complete list of cases that used them. This would be invaluable.
If we're going that route, the author/voting records should link to a database of campaign contributions as well.
So obviously we should make /. a fee-based service.
It's worked out well enough for the Something Awful forums. That didn't even start with the intention of using it as a revenue stream. There was just this one guy that kept banning that would come back through various proxies, etc. and Lowtax said screw it, $10 registration fee. Problem solved.
See this comment for some clarification on the situation. It's not "some" bomb threats, it's over one hundred bomb threats against specific buildings at a university with 28,000 students. They threaten academic buildings during class hours. They send in threats for dorm buildings in the middle of the night so that everyone has to be woken up and evacuated. They even sent a bomb threat to the hospital on campus, causing all of the patients to have to be evacuated. This is absolutely not some kind of convoluted plot to get a server shut down.
Well, if you want to follow the money, it costs the school/state/FBI (not really sure who foots the bill initially, but paying it back will likely be part of the sentence in the end) a few thousand dollars to do a bomb sweep. I sadly don't have a link I can cite, but I heard that sweeping the Cathedral of Learning costs them $30,000 per bomb threat there due to the size of the building. I'm not even sure how to make a conspiracy theory out of that, but I'm sure someone here will find a way.
Someone bosts a gazillion bomb threats, and computers associated with OWS and other protests get seized.
Awfully convenient.
Any guess as to whether the bomb threats can be traced back th Langley or Ft. Meade?
Put down your tinfoil hat. This person has more or less paralyzed a major university campus for an entire semester and the FBI barely has anything to go on. They already subpoenaed/questioned/arrested everyone they can find that's had a major quarrel with the school in recent memory (and one nutjob from the 80s). They're grasping at straws with the remailer services they know were used because they don't have any other leads and finals week is coming up.
While we're at it, TFA is pretty vague on the facts. Riseup calls the seizure "an attack against us", when the seized server was owned and operated by ECN. At the same time, the top of the page says "Riseup had a server seized by the US Federal Authorities". Either these groups are more closely related than their press release makes clear, or they're being deliberately misleading. It also doesn't help their credibility that they clearly state that the FBI had a warrant (which, being a warrant, is signed by a judge), and then they turn around and call it an "extra-judicial punishment". It's unfortunate that they've been inconvenienced by the situation, but they're acting like the server is gone forever. Playing the victim when 28,000 people are having their (already paid for) education compromised and the FBI didn't break any rules is not a good way to garner sympathy.
I think there IS a consumer gap as far as sharing files bigger than an email attachment without torrent or the like. XKCD summed it up nicely but it seems like nobody has figured out how to do it without going to jail. I am just not quite sure what cloud storage can do (that docs and gmail doesn't, that is legal) without some stupid hardware artificially making it a necessity (e.g. iPad and Kindle Fire omitting storage options)
Dropbox actually solved this quite nicely. When you register an account, there's a "Public" folder (you can share other folders as well, only Public is shared by default). You can send anyone a download link to any file in the Public folder. I recently had to send a ~200MB RAR archive to several different people in another city. I copied it into my Dropbox/Public folder on my hard drive, waited for it to finish uploading, and right clicked on it in Explorer and there was a "Copy public link" button -- you can get the same URL by logging into your account on the Dropbox website. I sent my colleagues the URL and that was that, no hassle at all.
I can't speak for Spideroak, SkyDrive, etc. as I have not tried them. A cursory look at Spideroak indicates that it has a similar feature, but with much tighter access control capabilities. As far as I can tell the only security to Dropbox public sharing is that you need the download URL, which can obviously get passed around. The public URL for the aforementioned 200MB RAR has not changed in the past... almost a month since I uploaded it, so I doubt the URL has any kind of expiration date.
Minor correction: It's 64KB of memory per core. There's also software libraries for interfacing with an external SRAM chip, but you need to use something like two 16-bit ports (or a 16 and an 8 for lower capacity chips) and a few 1-bit ports.
Yep, thought of XMOS immediately when I saw the title. 16 quad-core CPUs linked together in a 4D hypercube: https://www.xmos.com/products/development-kits/xmp-64
It was not illegal at all. The Republicans were entering sham sessions into the record while most of Congress was home over the recess. They basically walked in, hit the gavel, hit the gavel again, and left. Congress could not have voted on appointments at the time at all.