The whole point of keeping him in double-secret naked isolation was to persuade Manning to confess or testify that he and Assange colluded in advance to retrieve and transfer Classified information. That's what they really want from him, and they still don't have it.
This confession is what they need in order to pin charges on Assange.
Problem is, Manning went to Assange only after mainstream press showed no interest in the stuff he took from SIPRNET, etc.
Oh, and also, you'd never live to see the completion of the object because time dilation caused by the mass of the singularity would cause all motion near the event horizon to slow to a virtual stop, as seen by an observer at a reasonably safe distance.
Of course, you can always go visit it yourself to check on the progress... we won't wait for you, though.
It would be ripped to shreds by tidal and frame dragging forces, heated to millions of degrees by frictional heating, emit some very lively photons, and the resulting plasma would become part of the accretion disc.
And this is assuming you could even get it in place without the same result befalling the construction crew, their equipment, and raw materials.
Imagine a sphere more than 2 million miles across - eight times the distance from Earth to the Moon - spinning so fast that its surface is traveling at nearly the speed of light. Such an object exists: the supermassive black hole at the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 1365.
If it were a rigid body,
Rotation Rate omega = Tangential Speed nu / 2pi * Radius r = 186 280 mi/s / 6.2832 * 2e6 mi = 0.014824 cyc/sec = 0.88942 cyc/min
Roughly one revolution per minute. Not an amazing rotation rate for objects of scales we're used to, but for something 2 million miles across it's pretty impressive.
Now, an event horizon is anything but a rigid body, so I could be waaaaay oversimplifying. But the article says "imagine a sphere..."
Anyone care to extend the math to apply to something other than the theoretical physicist's favorite imaginary object?
I encourage you to read the EFF's page, but the CAS page is the kind of stock-photo-laden polished turd that you'd expect from a group funded by the **AA and tasked with accusing people of piracy and stealing in order to prop up an industry unable to cope with modern information technology.
I also encourage you to send a few bucks the EFF's way, in hopes that they can declaw this, or better yet, defeat it entirely. See my sig.
The logic here is 1) that Pluto was Vulcan's Uncle, and 2) Vulcan kept a subterranean smithy beneath Mt. Aetna, which could be construed as the underworld... loosely.
But their success is contingent upon them being able to defend their claims of ownership, and they really haven't addressed how they are going to do that, yet. Be interesting see what their defense is.
I suggest the option of de-orbiting chunks of the object onto the headquarters of those who threaten their claim would be part of their defense.
I played around the same time, and even got back into it a bit later (around 2000).
The number one thing I learned from MtG is that the more complex a rules system, the more likely there will be a degenerate set of min/max conditions in the rules, and then the game becomes a meta-game of finding these and exploiting them to maximize gain.... many times these conditions are outside spirit of the game, and those who exploit them look down upon those players who still try to embrace the spirit of the game.
This holds in most of the games I've played,(Car Wars, MtG, Starcraft, WoW, AD&D, etc), and is almost universal in business and government (see banking and the US federal legislature, especially).
What, changing a few lines of dialogue to make the transition from book to screen easier? That's gutting?
Adding some scenes that tell the backstory of the Oakenshields? That's gutting?
Bringing in some canon characters to make the story a better prequel to LOTR, entirely consistent with the canon of the milieu? That's gutting?
The only element that was out of place was having Azog gallavant all over the place chasing Thorin, but still, the basic conflict is entirely consistent with canon.
None of it is "gutting."
And if you've read all the various versions of Tolkien's tales like Turin and Beren&Luthien published in books like Lost Tales I and II, then you know that Tolkien himself "gutted" his stories far more than Jackson & Co. did.
If you really know works, then you will recognize how much respect the writers paid the source material, and would stop bitching that it's not a stenographic word-for-word translation from novel to screenplay.
Disagree. I enjoyed it. My 8-year-old son enjoyed every minute of it. In fact he leaned over to me during the escape from the goblins scene and said "Dad, I'm loving this!"
Going into it, I was afraid some of the embellishments would ruin the movie, but in fact I really admired the way that Jackson embellished the novel in a way that really makes it much more of a prequel to LOTR.
(I'd elaborate but I'd be getting into spoiler territory, and my boss is liable to walk in at any moment...)
Well, I can't find an official number, but we can estimate using data from here and here:
From the first link, which says the max data rate is 250Mbps, and doubling that to account for HFR, we have a 500Mbps data rate. Multiply that by the 169 minute running time and you get
(assuming the limit on precision is the running time at three significant digits).
Divide that by 1024 GB/TB and you have about 34.6 TB. Not impossible to set up, and probably far less expensive than the projector... but that's for the non-IMAX version, which probably explains why I could only find three theaters with the HFR IMAX version near my house in Pasadena CA.
I also expect that some theaters will not operate at the maximum data rate but use some other, more lossy compression. It's probably safe to assume a lot of theaters are showing distributed versions that are about 10 or 20 TB large.
While most lab equipment is too complex to build on your own, one of your first projects should be to build your own DC power supplies, preferably from components scavenged from other equipment. Frequently you can find DC/DC converters and linear regulators in discarded TVs, Microwaves, etc., which really only need repackaging. Fixed supplies at +3.3V, ±5V, ±12V and +24V should be more than adequate. They don't have to look pretty, but they should have a safe, insulated, switched connection to the mains, and the DC supply terminals should be banana or screw terminals, individually switched, with LED on/off indicators. Meters, current, limits, voltage controls, etc., are nice but unnecessary.
Even if you have a nice adjustable bench supply with all the bells and whistles, build a collection of backup supplies, because if there's one rule of EE labs, you never have enough of two things: scope leads and power supplies.
That reminds me of another non-obvious accessory: A live aloe plant.
My high school electronics instructor (back in the daze when they still taught electronics in high schools) used to keep two or three on the windowsill in the electronics shop... for obvious reasons.
Soldering iron burns hurt. But you learn quickly which end never to touch.
- Solder sleeves: These are short lengths of shrink tubing with a band of solder in the middle and a band of epoxy at each end. Stick two (or more) stripped wires in each end, and hold over a heat gun, and voila, you have a sealed, insulated splice in seconds. Much easier than splicing with a soldering iron, solder, then applying heat shrink tubing or -oops- forgetting to slide the shrink tubing over one side of the splice before soldering...
- Silver pens: for drawing traces on a PCB, acetate, or even paper.
- Solder pumps: for evacuating molten solder out of the solder cups on connectors, thru holes in PCBs, etc. Usually spring loaded pistons with a pushbutton trigger on the side, though sometimes they look like baby's booger-sucking squeeze bulbs.
- Citric Acid: Sold as "LemiShine" in the dishwasher aisle of grocery stores, or available in bulk from Amazon, etc. Solutions of citric acid make good, nontoxic solder flux, contact cleaner, adhesive remover and glass cleaner. (Rinse with DI water if used on copper or silver contacts.)
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... they're just credited as 'Alan Smithee.'
LOL I'd gib=ve you a mod pount right now if I had any.
But ten I'm durnk.
Uh, what? What would he have 'testified' about?
"Wikileaks is a website"
The whole point of keeping him in double-secret naked isolation was to persuade Manning to confess or testify that he and Assange colluded in advance to retrieve and transfer Classified information. That's what they really want from him, and they still don't have it.
This confession is what they need in order to pin charges on Assange.
Problem is, Manning went to Assange only after mainstream press showed no interest in the stuff he took from SIPRNET, etc.
Oh, and also, you'd never live to see the completion of the object because time dilation caused by the mass of the singularity would cause all motion near the event horizon to slow to a virtual stop, as seen by an observer at a reasonably safe distance.
Of course, you can always go visit it yourself to check on the progress... we won't wait for you, though.
It would be ripped to shreds by tidal and frame dragging forces, heated to millions of degrees by frictional heating, emit some very lively photons, and the resulting plasma would become part of the accretion disc.
And this is assuming you could even get it in place without the same result befalling the construction crew, their equipment, and raw materials.
FTA:
Imagine a sphere more than 2 million miles across - eight times the distance from Earth to the Moon - spinning so fast that its surface is traveling at nearly the speed of light. Such an object exists: the supermassive black hole at the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 1365.
If it were a rigid body,
Rotation Rate omega = Tangential Speed nu / 2pi * Radius r = 186 280 mi/s / 6.2832 * 2e6 mi = 0.014824 cyc/sec = 0.88942 cyc/min
Roughly one revolution per minute. Not an amazing rotation rate for objects of scales we're used to, but for something 2 million miles across it's pretty impressive.
Now, an event horizon is anything but a rigid body, so I could be waaaaay oversimplifying. But the article says "imagine a sphere..."
Anyone care to extend the math to apply to something other than the theoretical physicist's favorite imaginary object?
Here's the EFF's take on the CAS notice up at the Center for Copyright Information, the industry group that's fronting for this abomination.
I encourage you to read the EFF's page, but the CAS page is the kind of stock-photo-laden polished turd that you'd expect from a group funded by the **AA and tasked with accusing people of piracy and stealing in order to prop up an industry unable to cope with modern information technology.
I also encourage you to send a few bucks the EFF's way, in hopes that they can declaw this, or better yet, defeat it entirely. See my sig.
The logic here is 1) that Pluto was Vulcan's Uncle, and 2) Vulcan kept a subterranean smithy beneath Mt. Aetna, which could be construed as the underworld... loosely.
At least we didn't get "Styx."
Laaaaaay-deeeee....
You know, I like the blurry internet better.
There's an easier way to accomplish that than hacking his Wifi.
a sudden influx of 0.27% of that amount would have negligible impact
I think the "sudden influx" of the entire asteroid would create quite a spectacular impact...
But their success is contingent upon them being able to defend their claims of ownership, and they really haven't addressed how they are going to do that, yet. Be interesting see what their defense is.
I suggest the option of de-orbiting chunks of the object onto the headquarters of those who threaten their claim would be part of their defense.
Title fixxored.
I played around the same time, and even got back into it a bit later (around 2000).
The number one thing I learned from MtG is that the more complex a rules system, the more likely there will be a degenerate set of min/max conditions in the rules, and then the game becomes a meta-game of finding these and exploiting them to maximize gain.... many times these conditions are outside spirit of the game, and those who exploit them look down upon those players who still try to embrace the spirit of the game.
This holds in most of the games I've played,(Car Wars, MtG, Starcraft, WoW, AD&D, etc), and is almost universal in business and government (see banking and the US federal legislature, especially).
Only if they're unaligned.
Carbon Unaligned NanoTubes.
My first reading was "barlum"... what?
I squinted over my still full first cuppa and then read "barfum." Huh? Is that like stickum I thought?
Then I expand the article summary and see "barium sulfate" in the first sentence... the brain kicked in to cruising gear about then.
If you need six:
355/113 = 3.1415929
(355/113 – pi = 2.66e-7, not bad for an easily memorized ratio of integers)
You are correct... I used the sec/hr conversion factor in error. Thanks for the correction.
And 600 GB isn't that huge. I have several 2TB hard drives that cost under $150 each...
completely gutted
What, changing a few lines of dialogue to make the transition from book to screen easier? That's gutting?
Adding some scenes that tell the backstory of the Oakenshields? That's gutting?
Bringing in some canon characters to make the story a better prequel to LOTR, entirely consistent with the canon of the milieu? That's gutting?
The only element that was out of place was having Azog gallavant all over the place chasing Thorin, but still, the basic conflict is entirely consistent with canon.
None of it is "gutting."
And if you've read all the various versions of Tolkien's tales like Turin and Beren&Luthien published in books like Lost Tales I and II, then you know that Tolkien himself "gutted" his stories far more than Jackson & Co. did.
If you really know works, then you will recognize how much respect the writers paid the source material, and would stop bitching that it's not a stenographic word-for-word translation from novel to screenplay.
just waay too long
Disagree. I enjoyed it. My 8-year-old son enjoyed every minute of it. In fact he leaned over to me during the escape from the goblins scene and said "Dad, I'm loving this!"
Going into it, I was afraid some of the embellishments would ruin the movie, but in fact I really admired the way that Jackson embellished the novel in a way that really makes it much more of a prequel to LOTR.
(I'd elaborate but I'd be getting into spoiler territory, and my boss is liable to walk in at any moment...)
Well, I can't find an official number, but we can estimate using data from here and here:
From the first link, which says the max data rate is 250Mbps, and doubling that to account for HFR, we have a 500Mbps data rate. Multiply that by the 169 minute running time and you get
500e6 bit/sec x 1/8,589,934,592 GB/bit x 169 min x 3600 sec/min = 35,400 GB
(assuming the limit on precision is the running time at three significant digits).
Divide that by 1024 GB/TB and you have about 34.6 TB. Not impossible to set up, and probably far less expensive than the projector... but that's for the non-IMAX version, which probably explains why I could only find three theaters with the HFR IMAX version near my house in Pasadena CA.
I also expect that some theaters will not operate at the maximum data rate but use some other, more lossy compression. It's probably safe to assume a lot of theaters are showing distributed versions that are about 10 or 20 TB large.
From now on, I'll be providing my own patch. When I'll be travelling, I'll be taking a wad of Mighty Putty.
I advise you all to do the same.
I was thinking something very similar: Robotic Refueling Rendezvous (RRR).
Of course, it would have to launch on Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Arr, arr, arr!
A really good powersupply too
While most lab equipment is too complex to build on your own, one of your first projects should be to build your own DC power supplies, preferably from components scavenged from other equipment. Frequently you can find DC/DC converters and linear regulators in discarded TVs, Microwaves, etc., which really only need repackaging. Fixed supplies at +3.3V, ±5V, ±12V and +24V should be more than adequate. They don't have to look pretty, but they should have a safe, insulated, switched connection to the mains, and the DC supply terminals should be banana or screw terminals, individually switched, with LED on/off indicators. Meters, current, limits, voltage controls, etc., are nice but unnecessary.
Even if you have a nice adjustable bench supply with all the bells and whistles, build a collection of backup supplies, because if there's one rule of EE labs, you never have enough of two things: scope leads and power supplies.
a bad thermal burn
That reminds me of another non-obvious accessory: A live aloe plant.
My high school electronics instructor (back in the daze when they still taught electronics in high schools) used to keep two or three on the windowsill in the electronics shop... for obvious reasons.
Soldering iron burns hurt. But you learn quickly which end never to touch.
Other things that may not be obvious:
- Solder sleeves: These are short lengths of shrink tubing with a band of solder in the middle and a band of epoxy at each end. Stick two (or more) stripped wires in each end, and hold over a heat gun, and voila, you have a sealed, insulated splice in seconds. Much easier than splicing with a soldering iron, solder, then applying heat shrink tubing or -oops- forgetting to slide the shrink tubing over one side of the splice before soldering...
- Silver pens: for drawing traces on a PCB, acetate, or even paper.
- Solder pumps: for evacuating molten solder out of the solder cups on connectors, thru holes in PCBs, etc. Usually spring loaded pistons with a pushbutton trigger on the side, though sometimes they look like baby's booger-sucking squeeze bulbs.
- Citric Acid: Sold as "LemiShine" in the dishwasher aisle of grocery stores, or available in bulk from Amazon, etc. Solutions of citric acid make good, nontoxic solder flux, contact cleaner, adhesive remover and glass cleaner. (Rinse with DI water if used on copper or silver contacts.)