Yeah...it's just a theory.:) The theory is more that charge isn't 'reversed'...it's that charge is a function of the direction in time a particle is moving...
I don't pretend to understand it, but I think any way we can reduce the number of particles is a good idea...whether or not this is a valid way remains to be seen.:)
I dunno...if the results were something like immortality, or the ability to change the past, that might bring 'infinite' rewards, it might make sense to use Pascal's wager as an example of why we should fund things like that that have very low chances of success...but antigravity isn't an 'infinite' reward.:)
Actually, this gryoscope thing is a con, or just ignorance. What is happening is that a *vibrating* object, like all gyroscopes are, gets its weight measured incorrectly. It doesn't weigh 'less', it just pushes down and springs up real fast...and most scales move up faster then they move down. You can get the same trick from a set of those clacking fake teeth.
It is also possible to 'feel' a gyroscope pull up, but you have to actually push a side of it down. It can't pull up against the pull of gravity, because gravity works on the whole thing at once...and, a gyroscope acts normal, at a macroscopic level...it's only when you start trying to do things to certain parts of it, or turn it, that it acts weird. Otherwise, it acts just like a rock.
Note this is not what this article is talking about...they aren't weighing the gryoscope, they're weighing something suspended above the gyroscope.
I think he's refering to the theory that antiparticles are simply normal particles going backwards in time. Which kinda explains why light acts the way it does, considering it's its own antiparticle.
Anyway, if you believe that theory, you have the fun picture of a vacuum being full of particles that travel in a circular path in time, with each 'annilation' or 'creation' really just being a collision that reverses their direction in time.
But that's not what they're doing...they aren't saying a gyroscope can by used to reduce the weight of something that's attached to it...they are claiming a superconducting gyrospoce can be used to reduce gravity over where it's located.
I don't think the article said this, I've just been reading up on it.
Anyway, while it may be a hoax, or just opimistic people, it isn't what's described in 8.8. The gryoscope stays the same weight...in fact, some people think it's getting heavier, while anything it's blocking the gravity well of is getting lighter.
And I don't see where everyone's getting this 'violates laws of physics'. Relativity says acceration and gravity are the same thing, basically, so all we have to do is give something negative acceration.:)
Actually...it isn't a crime, sorry to burst your bubble. Assuming you had rightaway to run the wires, you could legally do it. Now...your place of business might have something to say about it (they probably have something about using company resources for non-company use)...but they couldn't call the police on you.
Now, no one is arguing, in this case, that they used school resources for non-school use...because a) They used it exactly like other students had, and b) That's not against the rules, anyway.
Also, in their case, they had paid a specific fee to have access to the various on-campus networks, called the 'technology fee', which you more then likely didn't do with your fridge. They just hadn't been allowed by the school to pay for a connection in their room, even though they had legal access to any general purpose jack on campus.
I hate to call someone a moron...but No, moron. The school won't give them a wired room, and won't wire their room.
It's like me buying phone service, but the phone company refusing to let me purchase an 'internal services' contract where they do the wiring for me, and making me use the jack at the gray box outside my house. I then wire the house myself, and get arrested.
You know, I'm getting sick of reading all the stupid comments on this article. This will probably wreck my karma and get modded as framebait, but I'm sick of people NOT READING THE ARTICLES.
Um...yes, if someone manages to make something which lets people buy MacOS and run it on Intel (With is probably impossible without copywritten ROM, but let's pretend.), then, yes, Apple should just shut up.
I think you missed the point. Katz is not saying that it's morally right (Well, okay, he seems to be implying that, but it's not actually important, and is why he needs an editor.), but that people do it, and laws aren't going to make them stop. Most people a) Won't get punished for it, or even caught doing it, b) Don't see anything wrong with it, because ethically, it is a gray area, it's not a natural right, it's created one, and c) Figure if it is wrong, it's harming people (The RIAA) who have arguably done more to harm the recording industry then to help it, in the name of profits, control, and outright greed.
Note I am not saying it's ethical, and it's certainly not legal...
It's a bit like speeding, except that pretend instead of going fast, it was illegal to drive with exactly three people in your car. Two and four are okay, but not three. With current speeding laws, people can at least see why, but with the No Three rule, no one understands...oh, and to make the analogy complete, no one ever gets a ticket for this crime, except people selling three seater cars. Now...how many people would follow this law? Not many. It's the same with MP3s. You can argue it's unethical to 'steal' like that, but that doesn't really accomplish much, does it?
And, yes, I put steal in quotes for a reason. You can certainly argue it's unethical, but calling it theft is stupid and confusing. There are millenniums of philisophical debate on theft, and all of them, AFAIK, are based on depriving someone of their property. Changing it at this late date does nothing except force people to put footnotes explaining what those people meant by theft on thousands of documents.
And for the love of God, quit saying stupid nonsensical shit like, "The Internet views censorship as damage and routes around it." No, Skippy, it doesn't, not anymore than a Tooth Fairy actually brought you cash for your lost baby molars.
Troll feeding time.
Yes, sorry, it does view it as damage. Can you name one thing that has been censored off the internet? Anything? Just one tiny item?
No, you can't, because any blocking of any infomation immediately causes that information to become accessable in about 10x that number of places.
Apart from the draconian laws, and fog, and video cameras everywhere, did you know that as an American, your Constitutional Rights do NOT APPLY in the UK ????
Wow. I'm competely amazed that laws made in one country don't apply in others...that's mindboggling.
Oh, and as someone from a country that has hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, droughts, live-threatening smog, and various other things...can we really complain about harmless fog?
The exact line is: If it wasn't for us, you'd all be speaking German right now! (Personally, in my mind, speaking German would be one of the least bad parts of living under an evil totalitarian Nazi regime, but maybe other people have different priorities.:)
You see, last night, my dorm had a brown out. My computer, during it, instantly cut of. I was web surfing with Netscape, and compiling something or other, and had a suspended vmware in the background. On restart, all I found in/lost+found was some web pages from the cache. I did a make clean to be sure. I was recovered in about 15 minutes.
I don't know what universe you live n, but I don't even worry about losing data from a power out.
As far as I know, if you murder someone with an otherwise legal tool (a pillow for example), you cannot be charged with possession of a pillow, it's simply not relevant.
Um...you know wrong. You can be charged with possession of a deadly weapon if you assault someone with a pillow. Note that to be charged with assault, AFAIK, means you harmed someone, which is damn hard to do with a pillow. But, if you manage it, you can be charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a deadly weapon. This is a rather stupid example, since it's almost impossible to hurt someone with a pillow.
But, say, you try to smother someone, they could charge you with possesion. They probably won't think of it, though.
When you kill someone with an axe or a 2x4, are you charged with possession of a deadly weapon?
Um...actually, yes, you are. There are 'assault with a deadly weapon' cases involving everything from dirty needles to snakes to darts from a dartboard. I agree tacking on laws making the tools to commit a crime illegal when commiting the crime are silly, but they do apply to every tool. If I breaking into a house using a magic wand that unlocks doors, it would, in fact, be a lockpicking tool, and I would get charges added for possessing it.
To repeat: The act of commiting a crime with a tool causes that tool to then become illegal in a lot of cases. Which is dang silly, but happens in many fields, not just in this one case.
People sending email >15 megs are abusing the protocol anyway. SMTP isn't designed to send messages that large. Lots of servers will have trouble with that, lots of message storage formats will have trouble, email clients will have trouble...it's just a Bad Thing(TM).
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I don't pretend to understand it, but I think any way we can reduce the number of particles is a good idea...whether or not this is a valid way remains to be seen. :)
-David T. C.
I dunno...if the results were something like immortality, or the ability to change the past, that might bring 'infinite' rewards, it might make sense to use Pascal's wager as an example of why we should fund things like that that have very low chances of success...but antigravity isn't an 'infinite' reward. :)
-David T. C.
It is also possible to 'feel' a gyroscope pull up, but you have to actually push a side of it down. It can't pull up against the pull of gravity, because gravity works on the whole thing at once...and, a gyroscope acts normal, at a macroscopic level...it's only when you start trying to do things to certain parts of it, or turn it, that it acts weird. Otherwise, it acts just like a rock.
Note this is not what this article is talking about...they aren't weighing the gryoscope, they're weighing something suspended above the gyroscope.
-David T. C.
He's not saying the gyroscope loses weight...he's saying things above it do. This isn't the old 'vibration gyroscope' con.
-David T. C.
Anyway, if you believe that theory, you have the fun picture of a vacuum being full of particles that travel in a circular path in time, with each 'annilation' or 'creation' really just being a collision that reverses their direction in time.
-David T. C.
I don't think the article said this, I've just been reading up on it.
Anyway, while it may be a hoax, or just opimistic people, it isn't what's described in 8.8. The gryoscope stays the same weight...in fact, some people think it's getting heavier, while anything it's blocking the gravity well of is getting lighter.
And I don't see where everyone's getting this 'violates laws of physics'. Relativity says acceration and gravity are the same thing, basically, so all we have to do is give something negative acceration. :)
-David T. C.
Now, no one is arguing, in this case, that they used school resources for non-school use...because a) They used it exactly like other students had, and b) That's not against the rules, anyway.
Also, in their case, they had paid a specific fee to have access to the various on-campus networks, called the 'technology fee', which you more then likely didn't do with your fridge. They just hadn't been allowed by the school to pay for a connection in their room, even though they had legal access to any general purpose jack on campus.
-David T. C.
No, moron. The school won't give them a wired room, and won't wire their room.
It's like me buying phone service, but the phone company refusing to let me purchase an 'internal services' contract where they do the wiring for me, and making me use the jack at the gray box outside my house. I then wire the house myself, and get arrested.
You know, I'm getting sick of reading all the stupid comments on this article. This will probably wreck my karma and get modded as framebait, but I'm sick of people NOT READING THE ARTICLES.
-David T. C.
Um...yes, if someone manages to make something which lets people buy MacOS and run it on Intel (With is probably impossible without copywritten ROM, but let's pretend.), then, yes, Apple should just shut up.
-David T. C.
cpcrack does not all anyone, in any circumstances, to get past the blocks. All it does is allow you to see the URLs that your copy does block.
-David T. C.
Note I am not saying it's ethical, and it's certainly not legal...
It's a bit like speeding, except that pretend instead of going fast, it was illegal to drive with exactly three people in your car. Two and four are okay, but not three. With current speeding laws, people can at least see why, but with the No Three rule, no one understands...oh, and to make the analogy complete, no one ever gets a ticket for this crime, except people selling three seater cars. Now...how many people would follow this law? Not many. It's the same with MP3s. You can argue it's unethical to 'steal' like that, but that doesn't really accomplish much, does it?
And, yes, I put steal in quotes for a reason. You can certainly argue it's unethical, but calling it theft is stupid and confusing. There are millenniums of philisophical debate on theft, and all of them, AFAIK, are based on depriving someone of their property. Changing it at this late date does nothing except force people to put footnotes explaining what those people meant by theft on thousands of documents.
-David T. C.
Am I the only who cracked up laughing when I read this? Hey, pay attention, they did impeach him...sheesh, these kids today. :)
-David T. C.
Troll feeding time.
Yes, sorry, it does view it as damage. Can you name one thing that has been censored off the internet? Anything? Just one tiny item?
No, you can't, because any blocking of any infomation immediately causes that information to become accessable in about 10x that number of places.
-David T. C.
Wow. I'm competely amazed that laws made in one country don't apply in others...that's mindboggling.
Oh, and as someone from a country that has hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, droughts, live-threatening smog, and various other things...can we really complain about harmless fog?
-David T. C.
The exact line is: :)
If it wasn't for us, you'd all be speaking German right now!
(Personally, in my mind, speaking German would be one of the least bad parts of living under an evil totalitarian Nazi regime, but maybe other people have different priorities.
-David T. C.
Or like outlawing gambling. :)
-David T. C.
Because we'd actually like to know if there is life there, before we put some there.
-David T. C.
Even if there is life, it will be blatently different then earth life, and the microbes won't survive anyway.
-David T. C.
You see, last night, my dorm had a brown out. My computer, during it, instantly cut of. I was web surfing with Netscape, and compiling something or other, and had a suspended vmware in the background. On restart, all I found in /lost+found was some web pages from the cache. I did a make clean to be sure. I was recovered in about 15 minutes.
I don't know what universe you live n, but I don't even worry about losing data from a power out.
P.S. Why the hell is my load average so high?
-David T. C.
Um...you know wrong. You can be charged with possession of a deadly weapon if you assault someone with a pillow. Note that to be charged with assault, AFAIK, means you harmed someone, which is damn hard to do with a pillow. But, if you manage it, you can be charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a deadly weapon. This is a rather stupid example, since it's almost impossible to hurt someone with a pillow.
But, say, you try to smother someone, they could charge you with possesion. They probably won't think of it, though.
-David T. C.
Um...actually, yes, you are. There are 'assault with a deadly weapon' cases involving everything from dirty needles to snakes to darts from a dartboard. I agree tacking on laws making the tools to commit a crime illegal when commiting the crime are silly, but they do apply to every tool. If I breaking into a house using a magic wand that unlocks doors, it would, in fact, be a lockpicking tool, and I would get charges added for possessing it.
To repeat: The act of commiting a crime with a tool causes that tool to then become illegal in a lot of cases. Which is dang silly, but happens in many fields, not just in this one case.
-David T. C.
Have you ever seen mp3.com?
-David T. C.
People sending email >15 megs are abusing the protocol anyway. SMTP isn't designed to send messages that large. Lots of servers will have trouble with that, lots of message storage formats will have trouble, email clients will have trouble...it's just a Bad Thing(TM).
-David T. C.
The Dark Ages? I think you need to brush up on dates just a little. :)
-David T. C.
Someone moderate this moron down.
-David T. C.