I've always wondered how these work to generate electricity from heat flow...
I assume a tiny amount of flowing heat is absorbed and converted into electricity? If not, then where does the energy come from?
What happens when you sandwich these cells? Wouldn't you get electricity from each cell, until the heat is completely absorbed?
And if that is the case, then wouldn't a sufficently well designed array of these allow you to reabsorb nearly all waste heat and recycle it back into electricity to be re-used in a closed system? Assuming a closed system completely surrounded by these cells and stacked thick enough to absorb nearly all heat?
Since this is probably impossible, where is the error?
Uh... Don't you remember that once you've achieved a position of "corporate executive" and made the proper br.. er donations to the right political representatives, that you qualify for a "get out of jail free" card?
Flip a coin 100 times - all heads... what is the chance of flipping it again and getting 101 heads in a row ???
I understand it now, but for some reason it took me a long time to really understand this concept...
Now I know:
The odds of getting 101 heads in a row is equal to the odds of getting 100 heads in a row followed by a tails.
As far as strategy, there are some valid strategies (see the Piggy Bankin' comment), but they'll probably get you thrown out of the casino if it's obvious what you're doing.
This seems a little problematic, since the actual costs are in maintaining a signal strong enough to overcome a minimum signal-noise ratio for the data to remain intact.
So as storage capacity (distance) increases, it would seem that cost would increase, because the power needed to keep that signal alive would need to increase...
I hate following up to myself, but I just wanted to add..
I just called the phone number posted on the Underscore Hosting website and got roughly "Thank you for calling Underscore Hosting. [...] please leave a message. Thank you."
Underscore Hosting looks a lot more professional of a website than many of the other web sites that I've seen advertising web hosting back in the days that I was looking for one.
Sure there are clues in their Terms of Service:
USH, its employees, agents, officers, directors, agents, successors and assigns (collectively "USH Control Matrix") is not affiliated with [...]
but you have to do a lot of reading to find that =)
This web-game hacking puzzle situation brings up an interesting catch-22. How do we know when we've left the realm of the movie's fictional collection of websites, back into the real world, where it is technically illegal to try to hack into the websites?
For example, I gave them an email address in their "MetaGamex Beta Test" signup, which really sent a short email to the address I gave it, telling me thanks for signing up, blah blah blah. I thought, maybe this is a way to get more clues, so I looked in the email headers and found the following:
I thought, ok, let's do a google search for "Octeth Email Manager", and came across a website, which after a minute of looking around was apparent to be a real software product in the real non-fictional world that we, slashdot readers exist in.
So, my question is, if (reading from a recent/. article) hacking computers is going to get us 20 years in jail, and ignorance of the law is no excuse, what are we expected to do when games which enjoy seamless integration with our reality require that we practice "hacking" actions to participate in the game, and we have no clear border between where the game ends and reality begins?
If you go to the company directory (a link at the bottom), you can lookup email addresses, which I presume would probably be good clues as to what to use for a userid.
Also the Underscore web hosting site has a very simple looking login, done in javascript, but was cleverly obscured by using a simple CRC check and a redirect to a page named after the password =)
Metacortex has recently launched a website to promote their products and services, while announcing their involvment with some rather large projects. If the name of this company doesn't sound entirely familiar, maybe you will remember the name of one of their former employees, Thomas Anderson.
If anyone remembers the web-based game/puzzle for the movie A.I., this looks like it may be something similar for Matrix: Revolutions.
The article says this is not connected to the India meteor. How can this not be related? There were way too many interesting meteor events last weekend.
This is very interesting...
- September 27 - A meteor hits Eastern India, catching some homes on fire and injuring at least three people. This kind of thing doesn't happen very often.
- September 28 - A post to rec.arts.sf.fandom reported a "rather impressive meteor" with "lots of bits breaking off".
- (the week before) October 1 - Astronomy Picture of the Day showed a spectacular photo of a meteor, reported to be taken "last week" (assumedly relative to the day the picture was posted, which could have been the same Sep 27-28 weekend).
- And now we hear about a fairly large meteor which missed us on the same weekend!
These were probably all fragments of the same meteor. I'd like to hear more information on how they know for sure that these are not related...
If you do see an accident and fail to stop and render aid, you've broken a law.
What law is this? Surely I'm morally obligated to help, but I don't think I'm legally obligated to risk my own ass to save someone else's, if I had nothing to do with the danger he put himself into?
I'm defniitely no expert on particle physics, but couldn't this just be another particle like the neutrino, only much more massive? What arguments would there be against this?
Forget that, I want internet access from nearly anywhere. I wish someone would combine the 24/7 internet connectivity of the T-Mobile HipTop with a Palm-style PDA.
I have to agree with the online games helping to save money. A $15/month subscription fee to save me from being bored and going out to spend $200/week on gadgets and other junk I don't need, is a good investment.
I'll also agree with the idea to keep the television turned off. I quit watching a couple years ago, and the first thing I noticed when I was clear of the stench, was just how bad it had really become.
Probably because they grab a processor off the shelf, pull the heatsink off, send it to you, and toss the processor in the junk bin, and charge you the $3 for the effort.
What we need is a cheap, disposable device which is small enough to be taped to the microphone end of a payphone headset, which will play back a predetermined series of DTMF tones in an infinite loop, such as 1, *, 1, *,...
And unless you're going to put your name on it, it can be easily fraudulently swapped for another ballot.
There needs to be three copies of your vote:
One goes electronically into the database
One is printed on paper and placed into a traditional ballot box.
One is printed on paper and is kept by the voter.
Both paper copies have a record ID number to reference the ballot instance. If any fraud is suspected by the officials, match up the first two. If any fraud is suspected by the individual voter, he can verify his vote online by typing his record ID number into a form, which will return a list of who was voted for.
That big box of gears seems a bit safer than most systems, but it doesn't let you verify your vote. If an electronic voting system is properly implemented (see my thread under this article), you could verify your vote was registered correctly.
While that system sounds better than most, those ballots can be tampered with and you'd never know.
However, if you using an electronic voting machine, which gave you a reciept with a unique ID number on it, and later used that number to verify your vote (for example on a website), you would know for sure that your vote was accurately counted.
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The only non-fantasy MMO I can think of was Motor City Online, but most of you know that game was shut down for lack of interest...
I've always wondered how these work to generate electricity from heat flow...
I assume a tiny amount of flowing heat is absorbed and converted into electricity? If not, then where does the energy come from?
What happens when you sandwich these cells? Wouldn't you get electricity from each cell, until the heat is completely absorbed?
And if that is the case, then wouldn't a sufficently well designed array of these allow you to reabsorb nearly all waste heat and recycle it back into electricity to be re-used in a closed system? Assuming a closed system completely surrounded by these cells and stacked thick enough to absorb nearly all heat?
Since this is probably impossible, where is the error?
Right -- Because the solution to using an overweight protocol is to put a wrapper around it...
Uh... Don't you remember that once you've achieved a position of "corporate executive" and made the proper br.. er donations to the right political representatives, that you qualify for a "get out of jail free" card?
You did play Parker Brother's Monopoly right?
I wonder... does this "enhanced driver" disrupt copying from only the disc it came on, or does it disrupt copying from all CDs?
Flip a coin 100 times - all heads... what is the chance of flipping it again and getting 101 heads in a row ???
I understand it now, but for some reason it took me a long time to really understand this concept...
Now I know:
The odds of getting 101 heads in a row is equal to the odds of getting 100 heads in a row followed by a tails.
As far as strategy, there are some valid strategies (see the Piggy Bankin' comment), but they'll probably get you thrown out of the casino if it's obvious what you're doing.
on an absolutely zero cost medium
This seems a little problematic, since the actual costs are in maintaining a signal strong enough to overcome a minimum signal-noise ratio for the data to remain intact.
So as storage capacity (distance) increases, it would seem that cost would increase, because the power needed to keep that signal alive would need to increase...
Simple:
Commodore 64 with broadband connectivity.
I hate following up to myself, but I just wanted to add..
I just called the phone number posted on the Underscore Hosting website and got roughly "Thank you for calling Underscore Hosting. [...] please leave a message. Thank you."
Very cool, but a little disturbing =)
Underscore Hosting looks a lot more professional of a website than many of the other web sites that I've seen advertising web hosting back in the days that I was looking for one.
Sure there are clues in their Terms of Service: but you have to do a lot of reading to find that =)
This web-game hacking puzzle situation brings up an interesting catch-22. How do we know when we've left the realm of the movie's fictional collection of websites, back into the real world, where it is technically illegal to try to hack into the websites?
/. article) hacking computers is going to get us 20 years in jail, and ignorance of the law is no excuse, what are we expected to do when games which enjoy seamless integration with our reality require that we practice "hacking" actions to participate in the game, and we have no clear border between where the game ends and reality begins?
For example, I gave them an email address in their "MetaGamex Beta Test" signup, which really sent a short email to the address I gave it, telling me thanks for signing up, blah blah blah. I thought, maybe this is a way to get more clues, so I looked in the email headers and found the following:
X-Mailer: Octeth Email Manager Pro(R) v3.2.1.0 Reloaded
I thought, ok, let's do a google search for "Octeth Email Manager", and came across a website, which after a minute of looking around was apparent to be a real software product in the real non-fictional world that we, slashdot readers exist in.
So, my question is, if (reading from a recent
If you go to the company directory (a link at the bottom), you can lookup email addresses, which I presume would probably be good clues as to what to use for a userid.
Also the Underscore web hosting site has a very simple looking login, done in javascript, but was cleverly obscured by using a simple CRC check and a redirect to a page named after the password =)
2003-10-03 07:28:56 Metacortex Launches Website (articles,movies) (rejected)
Metacortex has recently launched a website to promote their products and services, while announcing their involvment with some rather large projects. If the name of this company doesn't sound entirely familiar, maybe you will remember the name of one of their former employees, Thomas Anderson.
If anyone remembers the web-based game/puzzle for the movie A.I., this looks like it may be something similar for Matrix: Revolutions.
Pictures and details here:t m
http://www.birtwhi.demon.co.uk/Gallery2003SQ222.h
The article says this is not connected to the India meteor. How can this not be related? There were way too many interesting meteor events last weekend.
...
This is very interesting
- September 27 - A meteor hits Eastern India, catching some homes on fire and injuring at least three people. This kind of thing doesn't happen very often.
- September 28 - A post to rec.arts.sf.fandom reported a "rather impressive meteor" with "lots of bits breaking off".
- (the week before) October 1 - Astronomy Picture of the Day showed a spectacular photo of a meteor, reported to be taken "last week" (assumedly relative to the day the picture was posted, which could have been the same Sep 27-28 weekend).
- And now we hear about a fairly large meteor which missed us on the same weekend!
These were probably all fragments of the same meteor. I'd like to hear more information on how they know for sure that these are not related...
If you do see an accident and fail to stop and render aid, you've broken a law.
What law is this? Surely I'm morally obligated to help, but I don't think I'm legally obligated to risk my own ass to save someone else's, if I had nothing to do with the danger he put himself into?
The limiting factor will be inelastic flexion of the cantilever [...]
Perhaps the limits could be expanded if you used a nanopulsed hyperinversion polarity tachyon field to reharmonize the chronometric particles?
I'm defniitely no expert on particle physics, but couldn't this just be another particle like the neutrino, only much more massive? What arguments would there be against this?
Forget that, I want internet access from nearly anywhere. I wish someone would combine the 24/7 internet connectivity of the T-Mobile HipTop with a Palm-style PDA.
I have to agree with the online games helping to save money. A $15/month subscription fee to save me from being bored and going out to spend $200/week on gadgets and other junk I don't need, is a good investment.
I'll also agree with the idea to keep the television turned off. I quit watching a couple years ago, and the first thing I noticed when I was clear of the stench, was just how bad it had really become.
Probably because they grab a processor off the shelf, pull the heatsink off, send it to you, and toss the processor in the junk bin, and charge you the $3 for the effort.
What we need is a cheap, disposable device which is small enough to be taped to the microphone end of a payphone headset, which will play back a predetermined series of DTMF tones in an infinite loop, such as 1, *, 1, *, ...
There needs to be three copies of your vote:
Both paper copies have a record ID number to reference the ballot instance. If any fraud is suspected by the officials, match up the first two. If any fraud is suspected by the individual voter, he can verify his vote online by typing his record ID number into a form, which will return a list of who was voted for.
That big box of gears seems a bit safer than most systems, but it doesn't let you verify your vote. If an electronic voting system is properly implemented (see my thread under this article), you could verify your vote was registered correctly.
While that system sounds better than most, those ballots can be tampered with and you'd never know.
However, if you using an electronic voting machine, which gave you a reciept with a unique ID number on it, and later used that number to verify your vote (for example on a website), you would know for sure that your vote was accurately counted.