First of all, why do you need to preserve SO much information? Simply put: "This place is poison. Invisible poison will kill you, slowly. You will not feel it, but your hair will fall out, your teeth will bleed, food will not nourish you, and you will sicken and die. Your babies will be deformed, if you have any at all. For your own safety, leave now and do not return. There is nothing of value here." Repeat it in every language currently known. Make it readable by the unaided eye.
Second, make it truly inaccessible. You're really just digging a hole? Sink it into an undersea tectonic subduction zone. By the time any of the material resurfaces, many millions of years later, it will have decayed into stable isotopes.
Third, redundancy. You're trying too hard. Platinum and sapphire? Why not solid gold? As others have said, the material is too valuable. Just make plates out of basalt, or basalt fiber, and strew them by the thousands everywhere.
According to Email Marketing Reports, Yahoo! Mail has somewhere between 275 million and 310 million users.
Therefore, if you have one Yahoo! Mail account, the odds of your password being in the leaked list are about 0.15%, or about one in 666.
There is some information that the email addresses and passwords are not for Yahoo! Mail but for Yahoo! Voice, which is supported by a look at the list. It includes a lot of non-yahoo domains, including many for gmail and hotmail. This seems to support that conclusion, although those could be what Yahoo! calls the "primary email address," which is an address an account creator must provide for authorization, and to which account notices, warnings, etc. are sent.
You know, considering how the target countries of these of these "attaches" are going to be screwed both coming and going, they should be renamed 'DP Attaches.'
(Of course, officially, 'DP' stands for 'Digital Property.')
However, I vehemently disagree with the individual mandate.
Interesting. Because the individual mandate was originally a Republican concept, invented as an alternative to First Lady Hillary Clinton's proposal for universal coverage back in the 1990's. The idea was to provide a market-based alternative to single-payer medical care. Hypothetically, it's not a bad idea, especially if there are minimum standards for coverage and a non-profit, government supported "last chance" option in the market.
Who knows, it could have set a precedent as a new way to provide health care for all in industrialized countries, but burdened as it is now with exceptions and limitations to insure maximum profits for certain industries, along with all the ideology-driven politics and misinformation campaigns, it's doomed.
C. elegans is also a hermaphrodite. It seems to me that space can be pretty lonely, so much so that there's more than a little concern about their psychological. Perhaps we should go ahead and genetically engineer some spacer humans to have both sexual organs? Spineless hermaphrodites, kinda like Lisa Loopner's dad.
Of course, my evidence consists of multiple repeated viewings of Tom and Jerry, Sylvester and Tweety, and Pinky and the Brain, but according to my research, it's exposure to Mince and Rats that creates suicidal tendencies in Cats.
No one who has tried to grok the vastness of the universe and the mysteries of the infinitesimal will see any conflict in being both spiritual and scientific...
The conflict comes only when someone else tries to tell him or her what to believe, based principally on blind faith in some dusty tome and messianic prophecies, and in practice used historically to pacify the masses and enrich a select few.
I dunno... it's the parts of the model that either doesn't describe what they find when they further examine the Higgs field/boson, or the parts of the model that are invalidated that will be the most interesting.
I'm still waiting for the kind of 'crisis' in physics that happened at the end of the 19th century with the demonstration of particle/wave duality... some equally inscrutable conundrum... that will lead to an entirely new model and the corresponding wealth of research opportunities. We're nearly as stuck in the mud now as we were then, when some physicists were of the opinion that we'd discovered everything there was to discover, except for that one little black body radiation problem that we can safely ignore.
Hopefully the discovery of the Higgs boson, or a consequence of it, will be a game changer like Young's double-slit experiment.
You don't need to violate the conservation of momentum. You just need to increase the speed of the particle by the same proportion you decrease the mass.
Great, so translate this to a macroscopic scale, if you apply your Higgs de-interaction ray to a real object, consisting of a bunch of particles, it will heat up in proportion to its decrease in mass.
While it is common to find unpolished (or more accurately, unfinished) games, there are a few that are up to par with commercial games, or nearly so.
Battle for Wesnoth especially. Also UFO: Alien Invasion, Freeciv... and I want to list Nethack and roguelikes, but that niche is intentionally unpolished.
This was essentially my concern when SmartConnect metering was announced for my neighborhood in So Cal Edison's area.
I submitted an Ask Slashdot about it at the time (Feb 2010), wondering if I should be concerned about the potential for SCE to charge me more for power consumption during peak hours, or about SCE's ability to remotely disconnect my power. I was hoping that people who already had the meters would relate their experiences.
It was met with a big collective yawn.
Perhaps I should have instead expressed concern that the meters would have turned my children into flesh eating zombies and given my cat diabeetus...
I was thinking of Earth also when I first saw this. Brin's core idea is that when everyone wears video recording devices -always on, always online- then no one will be able to get away with anything. Especially those kids on your lawn.
I am also reminded of Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End, wherein absolutely everyone is heavily networked, and the interface is contact lenses that do very much what Google Glass aims to do with its HUD. The idea here is that people will hack their HUD to overlay detail and even hide or replace real parts of the scene to immerse themselves in a world of their choosing: Film Noir world, Jesus world, Porn world, Simpsons world, Salvador Dali world, whatever your heart desires. And tomorrow it can be different than today, because you can download overlay packs like you can download skins for Firefox. The best part is that these will grant you membership to a consensus community made up of people all using the same HUD overlay, and you can all see the same imaginary things.
That is the disruptive idea here. If you can create an interface that wearers can use to create a community, one that they can bring with them everywhere and anywhere, and interact in person, in the flesh... and give them the freedom to create what they want. It's difficult to predict the specifics, but it's certainly a revolutionary idea. It really would represent the final Synthesis of personal computing and networking with society.
DARPA doesn't do anything little, or incremental, or obvious. In the jargon it's gotta be "DARPA Hard."
The obvious, incremental technology would be to build satellites so that they could be refueled on orbit by something like this Pheonix spacecraft.
But no! That's too easy. It's gotta be a McGuyver. Anything else is aiming too low.
Something useful will come of this program, it typically does. And, as usual, it may not be what they expected nor will it necessarily be immediately practical.
Agreed. The "final frontier" is unlike anything else we've ever faced, and the analogies to anything that we have already faced quickly break down.
The nearest analog of such a mission is to the kind of terrestrial expeditions that early Antarctic explorers made. Pain, suffering and unpleasantness were multiple and continuous, many horrors were faced and not a few forgotten, and the only thing that kept the survivors going was sheer stubbornness and obsession.
And it still doesn't hold a candle to what we will face when we try to colonize the Solar System.
And you know what? Despite all that, people will try.
This is an excellent question, and is going to be one of the biggest hurdles to maintaining *any* extraterrestrial colony, whether it's in a gravity well or not.
I'd reframe the question as this: what is the crossover point (in terms of weight and fuel expenditure) at which it becomes more efficient for the colony to carry the means to produce its own food rather than simply carry consumable supplies? There will be a lot of factors to include in this tradeoff study including of course mission duration, number of colonists, and available resources (water, O2, soil, etc) at the destination but also a lot of nonlinear and fixed-cost considerations such as the economy of scale, the number of different kinds of "seeds" and "mothers" (not just stock for germination, but starter cultures for soil biome, compost, and any fermented/cultured products like tofu or beer).
And this trade may need to be performed separately for different kinds of dietary and medical staples. For instance, foods like tea or coffee may never be able to be grown on Mars but will be a valuable resource for the colony.
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Wish I had mod points for you today. (+1, Informative)
First of all, why do you need to preserve SO much information? Simply put: "This place is poison. Invisible poison will kill you, slowly. You will not feel it, but your hair will fall out, your teeth will bleed, food will not nourish you, and you will sicken and die. Your babies will be deformed, if you have any at all. For your own safety, leave now and do not return. There is nothing of value here." Repeat it in every language currently known. Make it readable by the unaided eye.
Second, make it truly inaccessible. You're really just digging a hole? Sink it into an undersea tectonic subduction zone. By the time any of the material resurfaces, many millions of years later, it will have decayed into stable isotopes.
Third, redundancy. You're trying too hard. Platinum and sapphire? Why not solid gold? As others have said, the material is too valuable. Just make plates out of basalt, or basalt fiber, and strew them by the thousands everywhere.
Wow. What marketing genius thought up that name? It sounds like a feminine hygiene product.
(Or a perhaps a feminine hygiene service... )
If you take the 1st derivative of sales wrt time, then you get the flat line that you're looking for.
It's a clear sign that the product has fully matured. The vast majority of sales are upgrades and replacements, and first units for young'uns.
Just like with autos.
According to Email Marketing Reports, Yahoo! Mail has somewhere between 275 million and 310 million users.
Therefore, if you have one Yahoo! Mail account, the odds of your password being in the leaked list are about 0.15%, or about one in 666.
There is some information that the email addresses and passwords are not for Yahoo! Mail but for Yahoo! Voice, which is supported by a look at the list. It includes a lot of non-yahoo domains, including many for gmail and hotmail. This seems to support that conclusion, although those could be what Yahoo! calls the "primary email address," which is an address an account creator must provide for authorization, and to which account notices, warnings, etc. are sent.
You know, considering how the target countries of these of these "attaches" are going to be screwed both coming and going, they should be renamed 'DP Attaches.'
(Of course, officially, 'DP' stands for 'Digital Property.')
About 10 years ago I submitted a slashdot book review for the dark satire, KW Jeter's Noir.
When I first read it, I was convinced he intended it more as a satirical caricature than a cautionary tale.
Now I'm not so sure.
Only for certain values of 'liberal' and 'democracy.'
Interesting. Because the individual mandate was originally a Republican concept, invented as an alternative to First Lady Hillary Clinton's proposal for universal coverage back in the 1990's. The idea was to provide a market-based alternative to single-payer medical care. Hypothetically, it's not a bad idea, especially if there are minimum standards for coverage and a non-profit, government supported "last chance" option in the market.
Who knows, it could have set a precedent as a new way to provide health care for all in industrialized countries, but burdened as it is now with exceptions and limitations to insure maximum profits for certain industries, along with all the ideology-driven politics and misinformation campaigns, it's doomed.
You mean "Attractive, Successful African American helicopters," I assume.
Besides, these days it's not helicopters they'll send.
It'll be killer drones.
C. elegans is also a hermaphrodite. It seems to me that space can be pretty lonely, so much so that there's more than a little concern about their psychological. Perhaps we should go ahead and genetically engineer some spacer humans to have both sexual organs? Spineless hermaphrodites, kinda like Lisa Loopner's dad.
Would you want to wrestle with one, then?
Of course, my evidence consists of multiple repeated viewings of Tom and Jerry, Sylvester and Tweety, and Pinky and the Brain, but according to my research, it's exposure to Mince and Rats that creates suicidal tendencies in Cats.
Just saying.
Narf.
No one who has tried to grok the vastness of the universe and the mysteries of the infinitesimal will see any conflict in being both spiritual and scientific...
The conflict comes only when someone else tries to tell him or her what to believe, based principally on blind faith in some dusty tome and messianic prophecies, and in practice used historically to pacify the masses and enrich a select few.
I dunno... it's the parts of the model that either doesn't describe what they find when they further examine the Higgs field/boson, or the parts of the model that are invalidated that will be the most interesting.
I'm still waiting for the kind of 'crisis' in physics that happened at the end of the 19th century with the demonstration of particle/wave duality... some equally inscrutable conundrum... that will lead to an entirely new model and the corresponding wealth of research opportunities. We're nearly as stuck in the mud now as we were then, when some physicists were of the opinion that we'd discovered everything there was to discover, except for that one little black body radiation problem that we can safely ignore.
Hopefully the discovery of the Higgs boson, or a consequence of it, will be a game changer like Young's double-slit experiment.
You don't need to violate the conservation of momentum. You just need to increase the speed of the particle by the same proportion you decrease the mass.
Great, so translate this to a macroscopic scale, if you apply your Higgs de-interaction ray to a real object, consisting of a bunch of particles, it will heat up in proportion to its decrease in mass.
Sounds like a death ray to me.
While it is common to find unpolished (or more accurately, unfinished) games, there are a few that are up to par with commercial games, or nearly so.
Battle for Wesnoth especially. Also UFO: Alien Invasion, Freeciv... and I want to list Nethack and roguelikes, but that niche is intentionally unpolished.
safe for your privacy and bank account, no.
This was essentially my concern when SmartConnect metering was announced for my neighborhood in So Cal Edison's area.
I submitted an Ask Slashdot about it at the time (Feb 2010), wondering if I should be concerned about the potential for SCE to charge me more for power consumption during peak hours, or about SCE's ability to remotely disconnect my power. I was hoping that people who already had the meters would relate their experiences.
It was met with a big collective yawn.
Perhaps I should have instead expressed concern that the meters would have turned my children into flesh eating zombies and given my cat diabeetus...
Leap years = no problem.
Leap seconds = kernel panic.
I fear for teh internets if we try a leap millisecond.
Just don't try to use that interface in a singles bar.
I was thinking of Earth also when I first saw this. Brin's core idea is that when everyone wears video recording devices -always on, always online- then no one will be able to get away with anything. Especially those kids on your lawn.
I am also reminded of Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End, wherein absolutely everyone is heavily networked, and the interface is contact lenses that do very much what Google Glass aims to do with its HUD. The idea here is that people will hack their HUD to overlay detail and even hide or replace real parts of the scene to immerse themselves in a world of their choosing: Film Noir world, Jesus world, Porn world, Simpsons world, Salvador Dali world, whatever your heart desires. And tomorrow it can be different than today, because you can download overlay packs like you can download skins for Firefox. The best part is that these will grant you membership to a consensus community made up of people all using the same HUD overlay, and you can all see the same imaginary things.
That is the disruptive idea here. If you can create an interface that wearers can use to create a community, one that they can bring with them everywhere and anywhere, and interact in person, in the flesh... and give them the freedom to create what they want. It's difficult to predict the specifics, but it's certainly a revolutionary idea. It really would represent the final Synthesis of personal computing and networking with society.
DARPA doesn't do anything little, or incremental, or obvious. In the jargon it's gotta be "DARPA Hard."
The obvious, incremental technology would be to build satellites so that they could be refueled on orbit by something like this Pheonix spacecraft.
But no! That's too easy. It's gotta be a McGuyver. Anything else is aiming too low.
Something useful will come of this program, it typically does. And, as usual, it may not be what they expected nor will it necessarily be immediately practical.
However, that's exactly what DARPA is paying for.
You're quite unfamiliar with how DARPA works, aren't you?
Wait. That's not a question. You obviously are.
Agreed. The "final frontier" is unlike anything else we've ever faced, and the analogies to anything that we have already faced quickly break down.
The nearest analog of such a mission is to the kind of terrestrial expeditions that early Antarctic explorers made. Pain, suffering and unpleasantness were multiple and continuous, many horrors were faced and not a few forgotten, and the only thing that kept the survivors going was sheer stubbornness and obsession.
And it still doesn't hold a candle to what we will face when we try to colonize the Solar System.
And you know what? Despite all that, people will try.
And I will think no less of them for trying.
Replying to undo a mistaken mod.
This is an excellent question, and is going to be one of the biggest hurdles to maintaining *any* extraterrestrial colony, whether it's in a gravity well or not.
I'd reframe the question as this: what is the crossover point (in terms of weight and fuel expenditure) at which it becomes more efficient for the colony to carry the means to produce its own food rather than simply carry consumable supplies? There will be a lot of factors to include in this tradeoff study including of course mission duration, number of colonists, and available resources (water, O2, soil, etc) at the destination but also a lot of nonlinear and fixed-cost considerations such as the economy of scale, the number of different kinds of "seeds" and "mothers" (not just stock for germination, but starter cultures for soil biome, compost, and any fermented/cultured products like tofu or beer).
And this trade may need to be performed separately for different kinds of dietary and medical staples. For instance, foods like tea or coffee may never be able to be grown on Mars but will be a valuable resource for the colony.
The gaseous one is the sloppy one, of course.
The rocky one that keeps its gases internalized is obviously the retentive one.