Not to nitpick; but where in the prequel trilogy did Anakin have the spare time to take a Padawan?
I'm pretty sure that at the beginning of the 3rd movie, Anakin is already a Jedi (though not a master), although it's pretty clear that he is still partnered with Obi-Wan.
There are over 100 books in the star wars extended universe spanning a huge timeline... Ok, I'm assuming at least a few slashdotters have read a fair number of these. Does anyone know if there's any mention of Anakin ever taking a Padewan?
And if you have both available, it becomes a little ambiguous. However, this excerpt from the rsync man page indicates it uses ssh as default (unless the system is old):
Once installed, you can use rsync to any machine that you can access via a remote shell (as well as some that you can access using the rsync daemon-mode protocol). For remote transfers, a modern rsync uses ssh for its communications, but it may have been configured to use a dif- ferent remote shell by default, such as rsh or remsh.
You can also specify any remote shell you like, either by using the -e command line option, or by setting the RSYNC_RSH environment variable.
If it became part of the browser, 3 things would happen: Idiots would scream and cry about being forced to use it, it would integrate better making it more effective, and vulnerabilities like the one referenced here would be a non-issue for a much larger percentage of the user base.
I agree. Although the first point could be mitigated by allowing the user to disable noscript. Or do you mean "idiots" in the sense that they would be unable to figure this out?
I would get a plain MacBook. They're small, have a really durable casing, good battery life, dvd burner (unlike the macbook air), built-in camera and microphone so you can post videos (if you're into video blogging), or call home via skype.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, except that you can't trademark a typo. The only way I could see trademark infringement would be if they somehow copied logo or style (like this) from the target site.
I know it's a scum practice, but does anyone know why on earth it's illegal? If someone did that and tried to mimic the "real" page in order to get customer info (like a phishing scam), I can see why that should be illegal. But if the typo page just has a bunch of ads, what's wrong with that?
Bush has spent more on science than any other President in the history of the United States
Hmm, well I don't believe that for a second, especially if one adjusts for inflation, total budget size, etc. But I'm willing to entertain that claim if you can provide some concrete references.
Wow! thanks for posting that gem, I had no idea she had said that. Now keep in mind she said she'll campaign for Hillary if McCain gets the Republican nomination. If he does, and if she keeps her word, I think that's sufficient criteria to mark the beginning of the apocalypse.
I had the wonderful opportunity to see a talk by one of the experts of (and I think original proposer of) dark matter.
That's not likely, or if it is true, it's not very relevant. Fritz Zwicky first proposed dark matter (in it's current incarnation) back in the 1930s. However, no one else in the field started to consider this idea until the 1970s (Zwicky died in '74) when other independent bits of evidence started to come in that hinted at dark matter. At that time, people in the field were particularly mindful that the problem could be resolved by either dark matter or by modifying our theories. But as time went on, more and more independent pieces of evidence came in which addressed the same issue. Now, the problem is that if you want to account for each of these observations by modifying our dynamica/gravitational theories, you have to do a different modification in each instance. On the other hand, ALL of these observations are resolved by introducing dark matter. The door was virtually shut on modified theories with the analysis of the Bullet Cluster, which simply cannot be explained by modified gravitational theories. And actually, dark matter is not so esoteric; there are many current theories in particle physics that [independently] predict the existence of a particle that would meet the characteristics that we observe and would also be naturally produced in large quantities during the big bang.
IAAP, although not in this field (and actually I don't know anything about "phantom matter"). The idea of imaginary physical quantities isn't actually as forbidden as you might think. The best example I can think of are tachyons. Non-physicists invariably hear about these particles in sci-fi (I seem to recall multiple references to them in star trek), but actually a number of current theories predict their existence. They are particles that travel faster than the speed of light, which means that their rest mass is imaginary. You need not worry, however, because they never travel slower than the speed of light. One example, supersymmetery, predicts a number of particles whose mass^2 is positive at high energies (read: very soon after the big bang), but goes negative at lower energies; hence their rest mass is imaginary and are tachyons.
Less esoterically, in the realm of electronics, the electrical impedance of capacitors and inductors is imaginary. However, one could argue that this is just a mathematical trick to aid computations.
I might also note (and probably other commenters have too) that Lawrence Krauss, who's mentioned in the summary, is the author of the famous The Physics of Star Trek, which is a great read.
Oh my GOD... I didn't watch the second video until after reading your comment. This is hilarious coming from a native speaker.
"With this special feature, User can press any part of the touch pad... Just like the mouse, no matter THERE your finger tip touches any part of the touch pad, you just gentle touch, and it can execute input function."
It's strange that the language in the first video is fine. You get the impression that the narrator tried to be nice and speak correctly for the first video, got in an argument with the script writers over lunch, and then said "Fuck it" for the second one.
I always wondered what they use to measure the mass of elementary particles (not atoms). Can anyone explain?
You always can have some information on the mass from the kinematics of a particular interaction. The mass of charged particles is usually measured by a mass spectrometer. But one way of measuring the mass of photons (chargless for sure) is to observe how they travel through a vacuum. The theory says that they are massless for one. But if they did have some small mass, they would travel slightly slower than c, and a beam of photons would not maintain its coherence over long distances. Here is a summary on the latest experimental upper limit on the photon mass, which uses a different method, with a torsion balance.
I'm really tempted by this too, but... I'm uncertain about the functionality. Is it intended that EVERYTHING I have on my Mac will work with KDE, including all the Mac system tools? Mac admin is pretty heavy on the gui and light on the command line (well, at least compared to linux). I'm not really interested in this if I'd have to reinstall half the stuff I've got...
but I can recall someone arguing that gravity has the estrange property of been instantaneous.
Actually, it's the opposite. Prior to GR, Newton's theory of gravitation predicted that gravitational effects travel instantaneously. After Einstein developed the theory of Special Relativity which, among other things, forbids energy/information from traveling faster than the speed of light, he spent the next ~10 years developing a theory of gravity which was consistent with this (in physics-speak, we say that such a theory is "Lorentz-invariant").
In a vacuum, gravitational waves and photons travel at exactly the speed of light. This can change if the waves encounter obstacles (i.e. how light refracts in a lense, or water, etc.) like dust or other material in its path.
This is another failiure in the long history of trying to detect gravity waves.
"Failure" isn't really the correct word. An experiment such as this has a certain sensitivity, meaning that they would detect gravitational waves greater than such-and-such magnitude, in a certain frequency range, etc. In scientific lingo, what you call "failure", we call a null result. Of course, it seems like I'm just renaming it with a fancier, nicer-sounding name. But really it's more than that. From a scientific standpoint, a null result such as this is just as significant and interesting as a positive detection. It's basically a process of elimination; as the summary pointed out, there are various models describing how some astrophysical phenomena should emit gravitation radiation. Some of these models allow for waves that WOULD be detected by the latest LIGO study. So their absence can eliminate (or at least constrain) many of those models.
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Well what about all the Ashley Simpsons out there who rely on their recording so they can lip sync on stage!? Who's standing up for THEM?? ;-)
Not to nitpick; but where in the prequel trilogy did Anakin have the spare time to take a Padawan?
I'm pretty sure that at the beginning of the 3rd movie, Anakin is already a Jedi (though not a master), although it's pretty clear that he is still partnered with Obi-Wan.
There are over 100 books in the star wars extended universe spanning a huge timeline... Ok, I'm assuming at least a few slashdotters have read a fair number of these. Does anyone know if there's any mention of Anakin ever taking a Padewan?
So it's agreed then. We'll drop ssh and use telnet from now on.
If it became part of the browser, 3 things would happen: Idiots would scream and cry about being forced to use it, it would integrate better making it more effective, and vulnerabilities like the one referenced here would be a non-issue for a much larger percentage of the user base.
I agree. Although the first point could be mitigated by allowing the user to disable noscript. Or do you mean "idiots" in the sense that they would be unable to figure this out?
Let's see how many references to The Matrix we get in the comments...
I would get a plain MacBook. They're small, have a really durable casing, good battery life, dvd burner (unlike the macbook air), built-in camera and microphone so you can post videos (if you're into video blogging), or call home via skype.
Maybe the dolphins are getting back at us for all of those tuna nets.
"So long and thanks for all the fish, but screw you and your damned tuna nets!"
If anything I'm not buying a lottery ticket today, the planets have aligned and its not in our favor.
And before this, lottery tickets were a safe investment??
"The lottery is just a tax for people who can't do math."
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, except that you can't trademark a typo. The only way I could see trademark infringement would be if they somehow copied logo or style (like this) from the target site.
The practice, known as typosquatting, is illegal.
I know it's a scum practice, but does anyone know why on earth it's illegal? If someone did that and tried to mimic the "real" page in order to get customer info (like a phishing scam), I can see why that should be illegal. But if the typo page just has a bunch of ads, what's wrong with that?
Bush has spent more on science than any other President in the history of the United States
Hmm, well I don't believe that for a second, especially if one adjusts for inflation, total budget size, etc. But I'm willing to entertain that claim if you can provide some concrete references.
Wow! thanks for posting that gem, I had no idea she had said that. Now keep in mind she said she'll campaign for Hillary if McCain gets the Republican nomination. If he does, and if she keeps her word, I think that's sufficient criteria to mark the beginning of the apocalypse.
I had the wonderful opportunity to see a talk by one of the experts of (and I think original proposer of) dark matter.
That's not likely, or if it is true, it's not very relevant. Fritz Zwicky first proposed dark matter (in it's current incarnation) back in the 1930s. However, no one else in the field started to consider this idea until the 1970s (Zwicky died in '74) when other independent bits of evidence started to come in that hinted at dark matter. At that time, people in the field were particularly mindful that the problem could be resolved by either dark matter or by modifying our theories. But as time went on, more and more independent pieces of evidence came in which addressed the same issue. Now, the problem is that if you want to account for each of these observations by modifying our dynamica/gravitational theories, you have to do a different modification in each instance. On the other hand, ALL of these observations are resolved by introducing dark matter. The door was virtually shut on modified theories with the analysis of the Bullet Cluster, which simply cannot be explained by modified gravitational theories. And actually, dark matter is not so esoteric; there are many current theories in particle physics that [independently] predict the existence of a particle that would meet the characteristics that we observe and would also be naturally produced in large quantities during the big bang.
IAAP, although not in this field (and actually I don't know anything about "phantom matter"). The idea of imaginary physical quantities isn't actually as forbidden as you might think. The best example I can think of are tachyons. Non-physicists invariably hear about these particles in sci-fi (I seem to recall multiple references to them in star trek), but actually a number of current theories predict their existence. They are particles that travel faster than the speed of light, which means that their rest mass is imaginary. You need not worry, however, because they never travel slower than the speed of light. One example, supersymmetery, predicts a number of particles whose mass^2 is positive at high energies (read: very soon after the big bang), but goes negative at lower energies; hence their rest mass is imaginary and are tachyons.
Less esoterically, in the realm of electronics, the electrical impedance of capacitors and inductors is imaginary. However, one could argue that this is just a mathematical trick to aid computations.
I might also note (and probably other commenters have too) that Lawrence Krauss, who's mentioned in the summary, is the author of the famous The Physics of Star Trek, which is a great read.
someone with mod points mod this guy up
Oh my GOD... I didn't watch the second video until after reading your comment. This is hilarious coming from a native speaker.
"With this special feature, User can press any part of the touch pad... Just like the mouse, no matter THERE your finger tip touches any part of the touch pad, you just gentle touch, and it can execute input function."
It's strange that the language in the first video is fine. You get the impression that the narrator tried to be nice and speak correctly for the first video, got in an argument with the script writers over lunch, and then said "Fuck it" for the second one.
This flashlight had better make a sound like "bwwOOOWWWWMMMmmmm" when you turn it on.
Give it to your neighbor's son and say,
"Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it."
"Why wouldn't my uncle allow it?"
"Because you can burn your arm off with this."
"COOL!"
I always wondered what they use to measure the mass of elementary particles (not atoms). Can anyone explain?
You always can have some information on the mass from the kinematics of a particular interaction. The mass of charged particles is usually measured by a mass spectrometer. But one way of measuring the mass of photons (chargless for sure) is to observe how they travel through a vacuum. The theory says that they are massless for one. But if they did have some small mass, they would travel slightly slower than c, and a beam of photons would not maintain its coherence over long distances. Here is a summary on the latest experimental upper limit on the photon mass, which uses a different method, with a torsion balance.
I'm really tempted by this too, but... I'm uncertain about the functionality. Is it intended that EVERYTHING I have on my Mac will work with KDE, including all the Mac system tools? Mac admin is pretty heavy on the gui and light on the command line (well, at least compared to linux). I'm not really interested in this if I'd have to reinstall half the stuff I've got...
but I can recall someone arguing that gravity has the estrange property of been instantaneous.
Actually, it's the opposite. Prior to GR, Newton's theory of gravitation predicted that gravitational effects travel instantaneously. After Einstein developed the theory of Special Relativity which, among other things, forbids energy/information from traveling faster than the speed of light, he spent the next ~10 years developing a theory of gravity which was consistent with this (in physics-speak, we say that such a theory is "Lorentz-invariant").
In a vacuum, gravitational waves and photons travel at exactly the speed of light. This can change if the waves encounter obstacles (i.e. how light refracts in a lense, or water, etc.) like dust or other material in its path.
This is another failiure in the long history of trying to detect gravity waves.
"Failure" isn't really the correct word. An experiment such as this has a certain sensitivity, meaning that they would detect gravitational waves greater than such-and-such magnitude, in a certain frequency range, etc. In scientific lingo, what you call "failure", we call a null result. Of course, it seems like I'm just renaming it with a fancier, nicer-sounding name. But really it's more than that. From a scientific standpoint, a null result such as this is just as significant and interesting as a positive detection. It's basically a process of elimination; as the summary pointed out, there are various models describing how some astrophysical phenomena should emit gravitation radiation. Some of these models allow for waves that WOULD be detected by the latest LIGO study. So their absence can eliminate (or at least constrain) many of those models.
You sound an awful lot like Dilbert.
who && gawk && uname && talk && date && wine && touch && unzip && strip && touch && finger && mount && fsck && more && yes; yes; more; yes; umount && make clean && sleep
... mount && fsck && more && yes; yes; more; yes; cat /dev/random; umount && make clean && hash && sleep
You missed the climax and the relax: