So where does the Oxygen come from that the H2 reacts with? A reactor core is a less then habitable space, nothing would be lost if you made its atmosphere inhabitable too by removing O2. In a controlled environment it is not that hard to avoid exposure to water or oxygen, and a fast breeder is very much a controlled environment.
Pure and utter nonsense! There is a very wide range between going bankrupt and making recordbreaking profits. A business only has to break even to stay in business (for the long term). Profits are good for growth and attracting investors, but you could also see them as bad forecasting skills: You have done best when you have spent and received as much as you had anticipated. If you end up with more money then planned then your could have invested more in growth etc...
OK, so you have kids. Fine, good on you. But why does that make you put all reason overboard? For the rest of your argument, you mainly adhere to scientific results as being authoritative. But when if comes to (OMG think of the) children, your uncertainty is worth more? The world is not a sterile place, and kids get exposed to all kinds of antigens on a daily basis, so their immune systems will counter those different threads on a daily basis. Why would a vaccination cocktail be any different? You are correct that not all is known about vaccinating young kids and the effects that has, but neither do we know everthing about adult immune responses. Your fear is just fear of the unknown and is a very bad adviser. Even if the subject is your dear kids.
Your reasoning is pretty sound and I agree that conscription is bad. But somehow you assume that the military as a whole is good and that is not the case. You would not want to be a grunt in the mafia either, because the high risks of being involved in an organisation that main and kills to achieve its goals. Would you want to work for a company that worked their sweatshop workers to death and was proud of that capability? So conscription might be a bad idea, doing away with it will never make the army/navy/airforce positively good. Your stupid pride needs some ethical readjustment, murderer.
11 november 1918 was when the armistice was signed in compiegne, that is before WWII, there were no nazis yet (no capitals for them please). So your babbling about what if the nazis were not reigned in is a important about pondering what if the Roman empire had not collapsed. The answer is pretty simple: if we have had a different past, we would have had a different future (and past). But we don't so please STFU.
TFA handles about radio's in four bands ranging from 900MHz to 6GHz. There is not a lot of background radiation in those bands, so any increase will be a telltale sign of such a radio in the vicinity. A mobile uses frequency hopping too, but you can even hear it ring on nearby radios etc. Lower emitted power just means that the detection range gets smaller, but the precision gets higher. Imagine for instance a radiation detector (some kind of wideband receiver==cheap radio) that is wired to a bomb inside a room in a concrete building. The concrete makes that the radio's have to emit more power, the enclosed room concentrates the shockwave so you need less explosives to kill/wound those imperial soldiers. Spreading those 'cheap' radios over the whole battlefield will give the imperial enemy some handy material to make a rough moving radio detector: clear the area of most dropped radios and put a detection coil around the captured radio antenna. Since it always tries to network, it will start to chatter once an imperial trooper comes in range.
I wonder how many degrees of separation there are between this new firm and Microsoft? MS has employed some wonderfull machinations in the past to further fuel tSCOg legal battle, and now when the battle is finally lost, up comes another firm offering some golden parachutes to the management? Somehow I remain unconvinced that those responsible will be punished. The nuclear option seems pretty good to me, but I don't think the US would appreciate a 30 mile crater where Redmond used to be.
Consulting and support DO NOT SCALE. The max revenue a company can make consulting is $hourly_rate * $consultants * billable_hours, similar with support contracts. Compare that to selling a software license that has near zero incremental cost.
Consulting and support do scale very well: do more work and you get paid more. As a coder it is perfectly OK to be paid for writing code (and tests, documentation etc.) It is the selling a license at zero incremental cost that is the odd one out. Remarkably, every case where one such a business model can develop, government has made special rules that make it possible. There are numerous companies that flourish while writing free software, so maybe you naive idea how a software business works needs some adjustment. It is not the code as such, but the code together with support, customisation and ongoing development that is valuable to other businesses.
Having to learn new words and meanings is not quicker at all. At least part of the use of jargon is to be able to discriminate those in the group from those outside of it.
Your proposed solution might work because it makes sure the high profits go the venue/artist, not the scalpers, but it only works if you can design such a system that can keep out/identify the scalpers. These technical hurdles is what caused the problem in the first place: if Ticketwhatever made a system with all security features working as intended, then there would be much less of a problem. The same technical hurdles would need to be taken for your proposed auction system. But the reason scalpers can make a living is because they can manipulate the market. By buying up all tickets, they create an artificial scarecity which enables them to ask what the mark will bear. Selling at a lower than facevalue price is just the cost of obtaining market dominance. Undercover agents with a licence to kill scalpers would be a good solution, but just realising that intervening in a free market is contrary to the US' capitalist ideals, would be an even better solution. Then the only problem is for the venues that don't get all the profits.
A) that is mostly a design problem. On a fullsize boat the rudder is relatively weak. The smaller the boat, the loads on each part go down exponentially (or cube size?). The forces on say the rudder of a 10 ton boat (40') are much bigger than the forces on a 100 kg boat. b) design problem too. Pot all electronics in suitable goo & install automatic bilge pumps. c) Yes, you can get marine forecasts, either codified (but for human consumption) or as fax-like maps. Both would require serious logic to interpret. But OTOH, there are clocks for sale that can display severe weather warnings for a given location, so there must be an easily readable signal out there. Maybe you are even allowed to send a suitable weatherforecast to your own boat? d)size matters. The ocean is big, and danger lurks underneath. But even for cruising yachts it unfeasible to be on the lookout all the time. Once you are out of the shipping lanes, you just take your chances and run. Radar is not an option because it needs to be mounted high and stable to work good (cant do that on a very small boat) and it consumes way too much energy. There is a much simpler solution that does work: AIS radios (if i recalled the acronym right) send their GPS position and heading periodically (& other usefull info like vessel name and size) and can listen for other vessels. With this info you can calculate a course to stay away from all AIS equipped traffic (which is all big ships nowadays). With the small fry you just rely on visible warnings and take your chances. e) It is a small boat, so a white light is all that is required. A strobe would give better visibility but is not in accordance with international rules I believe. Lots of yachts have a strobe anyway. f) You can only take your chances. Once lighting strikes, all electrical stuff is done for. On a manned yacht that is not the biggest problem as you are supposed to be able to navigate with compass and chart, but on a robot it is game over. Lightning strikes on big yachts are not very frequent, even less so on smaller boats.
Yes _I_ did read it and I don't wonder if you did so yourself. It seems I caught a nice rightwing coward that has to satisfy his righteous feelings everytime he encounters something that he thinks does not toe the party line. Anonymity + Audience => gibbering fucktard. There are other countries in the world, you know, where critical thinking is encouraged. Sadly you can't see the good points in that. But you would prefer armed citizens that can't think for themselves, don't you?
Now again: why does the DHS sponsor fundamental research in computer security? Do they think 'the terrorists' will invade the country with VMBRs? Use software based teleportation devices to bypass your 'though' borders?
BTW: I never knew the DHS was planning to attack your country, but I can imagine they would.
Amazing how much money your department of civilian oppression can waste on unrelated research. Yes that is right, if you RTFA, the last paragraph discloses their funding from DHS. Their subject is a noble course, but what does it have to do with the terrorists DHS were supposed to find? Or did they broaden their scope to include romanian hackers looking to make a buck?
Another concern is that this study is presented by those companies that have a stake in spreading positive news about it. And tadaa: the news is positive, VMBR's are nothing to worry about... The angle they missed is differentiating between a good and a bad VM. Strange, since they predicted that most desiable targets would be running inside VM's anyway.
Deer Balloonhead, our research indicates that you come outside not very often and usually not when the sun shines. This means that the sunshine that was meant for you is wasted every day. You are aware that we all need to conserve energy, that is why we are asking you now to turn off your portion of sunlight so as not to waste it.
some fuckheads a decade or two later decided to blow up a few buildings to make a "statement" or some such.
I really hope you know that all terrorists have a political agenda. Even the Oklahoma bomber had some sort of a message (albeit very silly and racist). al-Quaida certainly had/has a political aim, not killing all the infidels as some simple people on your side of the pond try to twist it. As a post here some time a go pointed out, the more horrific the deed, the more people tend to ignore the political message the terrorist tries to put across. They would have been much better served to waterbomb a major city (and spread their leaflets at the same time).
Maybe you should look up first what Godwin's 'Law' actually stated before you try to copulate with it. He stated that no usenet thread can continue for ever without somebody referring to Nazism etc. in it. (sorry too lazy to look up the actual wording). He does not give any judgement about that or those threads his statement proves true in. So it is not Godwin that is forbidding you to talk about your beloved leader. So unless you want to fuck peoples statements that rain is wet too, I suggest you go and develop another fetish for yourself.
PS: where would you put your genitals anyway, is there a hole of some sort in some statements, or is thinking about it while masturbating good enough for you?
I am not strung up, but what irritates me is your tendency to blame your faults on other things/people (Linux distros and Licence servers in this case). You are also evading criticism instead of responding to it. Nice ingredients for a flamewar, don't you think?
So maybe your conclusion should have been that Gentoo is not the right distro for you. Not because it does what you alledge it does(what actually?), but because you are lacking the skills/time/motivation/foresight to learn how to use that particular tool/distro/package/screwdriver before you use it in a critical situation. It does not matter what product, if you refuse to invest time&effort in it to be able to use it in a high-stakes mission, you deserve your own-devised failure. If you need to reinstall any linux distro in the field, it is not the distro's fault. You could have tested your setup before you left, you could have learnt more skills to repair it properly instead of the windos 'solution' of reinstalling. If you need to reinstall, it shows that you did not have a good backup. If questioning your willingness to learn is a high horse, then please let me thank you for trampling you. It was a real pleasure.
[quote](although you have to select a distro that won't try to download itself all over again once a week)[/quote] Showing your lack of skills are you? Some distros might include a desktop program that reminds the user that there are new updates available. If it can't find any repository (or you create a cdrom repository), it can never find any updates so it won't bother you. Just turning off the nagging program works too. Was it too hard to figure that out yourself?
The batteries that are causing troubles now are all Lithium polymer batteries. The electrolyte-fluid in them has been replaced with a polymer that amongst other things made it possible to replace the heavy metal cylinder with aluminium/plastic packaging and make the battery in all kinds of forms. Unfortunately, at the same time the chemistry of the cells was changed such that if a thermal runaway ever happened, the venting gasses would ignite with oxygen and would ignite the cells next to it too. That is exactly what is happening. I am rather supprised that no one yet has mentioned A123 systems. They make/market a new type of lithium-(nano)phosphate cell, that has none of the drawbacks of lithium-polymer batteries. They will not catch fire in a thermal runaway or when pierced, can be much more abused than LiPos and have a much longer lifespan to boot (2000 cycles instead of 500). It's no wonder that these batteries will be in the next generation of hybrid cars, as they weigh half as much as the NiMH batteries used now (LiPo would be too dangerous in a collision) and can generate much more current too. (~10C for NiMH, ~40C for A123). So there is hope one the battery technology front, it's just that the current best option is a bit dangerous.
Please don't use the names of the tools the beast of Redmond uses to stupify the world. This is/. after all, if you have to code on/for windos, then please be humble and shy about it.
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So where does the Oxygen come from that the H2 reacts with? A reactor core is a less then habitable space, nothing would be lost if you made its atmosphere inhabitable too by removing O2. In a controlled environment it is not that hard to avoid exposure to water or oxygen, and a fast breeder is very much a controlled environment.
Pure and utter nonsense! There is a very wide range between going bankrupt and making recordbreaking profits. A business only has to break even to stay in business (for the long term). Profits are good for growth and attracting investors, but you could also see them as bad forecasting skills: You have done best when you have spent and received as much as you had anticipated. If you end up with more money then planned then your could have invested more in growth etc...
OK, so you have kids. Fine, good on you. But why does that make you put all reason overboard? For the rest of your argument, you mainly adhere to scientific results as being authoritative. But when if comes to (OMG think of the) children, your uncertainty is worth more?
The world is not a sterile place, and kids get exposed to all kinds of antigens on a daily basis, so their immune systems will counter those different threads on a daily basis. Why would a vaccination cocktail be any different? You are correct that not all is known about vaccinating young kids and the effects that has, but neither do we know everthing about adult immune responses. Your fear is just fear of the unknown and is a very bad adviser. Even if the subject is your dear kids.
Your reasoning is pretty sound and I agree that conscription is bad. But somehow you assume that the military as a whole is good and that is not the case. You would not want to be a grunt in the mafia either, because the high risks of being involved in an organisation that main and kills to achieve its goals. Would you want to work for a company that worked their sweatshop workers to death and was proud of that capability?
So conscription might be a bad idea, doing away with it will never make the army/navy/airforce positively good. Your stupid pride needs some ethical readjustment, murderer.
For those not yet quite awake: look up, find the same text, think, it's funny!
11 november 1918 was when the armistice was signed in compiegne, that is before WWII, there were no nazis yet (no capitals for them please). So your babbling about what if the nazis were not reigned in is a important about pondering what if the Roman empire had not collapsed. The answer is pretty simple: if we have had a different past, we would have had a different future (and past). But we don't so please STFU.
TFA handles about radio's in four bands ranging from 900MHz to 6GHz. There is not a lot of background radiation in those bands, so any increase will be a telltale sign of such a radio in the vicinity. A mobile uses frequency hopping too, but you can even hear it ring on nearby radios etc. Lower emitted power just means that the detection range gets smaller, but the precision gets higher. Imagine for instance a radiation detector (some kind of wideband receiver==cheap radio) that is wired to a bomb inside a room in a concrete building. The concrete makes that the radio's have to emit more power, the enclosed room concentrates the shockwave so you need less explosives to kill/wound those imperial soldiers.
Spreading those 'cheap' radios over the whole battlefield will give the imperial enemy some handy material to make a rough moving radio detector: clear the area of most dropped radios and put a detection coil around the captured radio antenna. Since it always tries to network, it will start to chatter once an imperial trooper comes in range.
I wonder how many degrees of separation there are between this new firm and Microsoft? MS has employed some wonderfull machinations in the past to further fuel tSCOg legal battle, and now when the battle is finally lost, up comes another firm offering some golden parachutes to the management?
Somehow I remain unconvinced that those responsible will be punished. The nuclear option seems pretty good to me, but I don't think the US would appreciate a 30 mile crater where Redmond used to be.
Consulting and support do scale very well: do more work and you get paid more. As a coder it is perfectly OK to be paid for writing code (and tests, documentation etc.) It is the selling a license at zero incremental cost that is the odd one out. Remarkably, every case where one such a business model can develop, government has made special rules that make it possible.
There are numerous companies that flourish while writing free software, so maybe you naive idea how a software business works needs some adjustment. It is not the code as such, but the code together with support, customisation and ongoing development that is valuable to other businesses.
Having to learn new words and meanings is not quicker at all. At least part of the use of jargon is to be able to discriminate those in the group from those outside of it.
Your proposed solution might work because it makes sure the high profits go the venue/artist, not the scalpers, but it only works if you can design such a system that can keep out/identify the scalpers. These technical hurdles is what caused the problem in the first place: if Ticketwhatever made a system with all security features working as intended, then there would be much less of a problem. The same technical hurdles would need to be taken for your proposed auction system.
But the reason scalpers can make a living is because they can manipulate the market. By buying up all tickets, they create an artificial scarecity which enables them to ask what the mark will bear. Selling at a lower than facevalue price is just the cost of obtaining market dominance.
Undercover agents with a licence to kill scalpers would be a good solution, but just realising that intervening in a free market is contrary to the US' capitalist ideals, would be an even better solution. Then the only problem is for the venues that don't get all the profits.
A) that is mostly a design problem. On a fullsize boat the rudder is relatively weak. The smaller the boat, the loads on each part go down exponentially (or cube size?). The forces on say the rudder of a 10 ton boat (40') are much bigger than the forces on a 100 kg boat.
b) design problem too. Pot all electronics in suitable goo & install automatic bilge pumps.
c) Yes, you can get marine forecasts, either codified (but for human consumption) or as fax-like maps. Both would require serious logic to interpret. But OTOH, there are clocks for sale that can display severe weather warnings for a given location, so there must be an easily readable signal out there. Maybe you are even allowed to send a suitable weatherforecast to your own boat?
d)size matters. The ocean is big, and danger lurks underneath. But even for cruising yachts it unfeasible to be on the lookout all the time. Once you are out of the shipping lanes, you just take your chances and run. Radar is not an option because it needs to be mounted high and stable to work good (cant do that on a very small boat) and it consumes way too much energy. There is a much simpler solution that does work: AIS radios (if i recalled the acronym right) send their GPS position and heading periodically (& other usefull info like vessel name and size) and can listen for other vessels. With this info you can calculate a course to stay away from all AIS equipped traffic (which is all big ships nowadays). With the small fry you just rely on visible warnings and take your chances.
e) It is a small boat, so a white light is all that is required. A strobe would give better visibility but is not in accordance with international rules I believe. Lots of yachts have a strobe anyway.
f) You can only take your chances. Once lighting strikes, all electrical stuff is done for. On a manned yacht that is not the biggest problem as you are supposed to be able to navigate with compass and chart, but on a robot it is game over. Lightning strikes on big yachts are not very frequent, even less so on smaller boats.
Yes _I_ did read it and I don't wonder if you did so yourself.
It seems I caught a nice rightwing coward that has to satisfy his righteous feelings everytime he encounters something that he thinks does not toe the party line. Anonymity + Audience => gibbering fucktard. There are other countries in the world, you know, where critical thinking is encouraged. Sadly you can't see the good points in that. But you would prefer armed citizens that can't think for themselves, don't you?
Now again: why does the DHS sponsor fundamental research in computer security? Do they think 'the terrorists' will invade the country with VMBRs? Use software based teleportation devices to bypass your 'though' borders?
BTW: I never knew the DHS was planning to attack your country, but I can imagine they would.
Amazing how much money your department of civilian oppression can waste on unrelated research. Yes that is right, if you RTFA, the last paragraph discloses their funding from DHS. Their subject is a noble course, but what does it have to do with the terrorists DHS were supposed to find? Or did they broaden their scope to include romanian hackers looking to make a buck?
Another concern is that this study is presented by those companies that have a stake in spreading positive news about it. And tadaa: the news is positive, VMBR's are nothing to worry about... The angle they missed is differentiating between a good and a bad VM. Strange, since they predicted that most desiable targets would be running inside VM's anyway.
Deer Balloonhead, our research indicates that you come outside not very often and usually not when the sun shines. This means that the sunshine that was meant for you is wasted every day. You are aware that we all need to conserve energy, that is why we are asking you now to turn off your portion of sunlight so as not to waste it.
I really hope you know that all terrorists have a political agenda. Even the Oklahoma bomber had some sort of a message (albeit very silly and racist). al-Quaida certainly had/has a political aim, not killing all the infidels as some simple people on your side of the pond try to twist it.
As a post here some time a go pointed out, the more horrific the deed, the more people tend to ignore the political message the terrorist tries to put across. They would have been much better served to waterbomb a major city (and spread their leaflets at the same time).
Maybe you should look up first what Godwin's 'Law' actually stated before you try to copulate with it. He stated that no usenet thread can continue for ever without somebody referring to Nazism etc. in it. (sorry too lazy to look up the actual wording). He does not give any judgement about that or those threads his statement proves true in. So it is not Godwin that is forbidding you to talk about your beloved leader.
So unless you want to fuck peoples statements that rain is wet too, I suggest you go and develop another fetish for yourself.
PS: where would you put your genitals anyway, is there a hole of some sort in some statements, or is thinking about it while masturbating good enough for you?
I am not strung up, but what irritates me is your tendency to blame your faults on other things/people (Linux distros and Licence servers in this case). You are also evading criticism instead of responding to it. Nice ingredients for a flamewar, don't you think?
So maybe your conclusion should have been that Gentoo is not the right distro for you. Not because it does what you alledge it does(what actually?), but because you are lacking the skills/time/motivation/foresight to learn how to use that particular tool/distro/package/screwdriver before you use it in a critical situation. It does not matter what product, if you refuse to invest time&effort in it to be able to use it in a high-stakes mission, you deserve your own-devised failure.
If you need to reinstall any linux distro in the field, it is not the distro's fault. You could have tested your setup before you left, you could have learnt more skills to repair it properly instead of the windos 'solution' of reinstalling. If you need to reinstall, it shows that you did not have a good backup.
If questioning your willingness to learn is a high horse, then please let me thank you for trampling you. It was a real pleasure.
before it appeared on /. in a timely (read late) fashion.
[quote](although you have to select a distro that won't try to download itself all over again once a week)[/quote]
Showing your lack of skills are you? Some distros might include a desktop program that reminds the user that there are new updates available. If it can't find any repository (or you create a cdrom repository), it can never find any updates so it won't bother you. Just turning off the nagging program works too. Was it too hard to figure that out yourself?
The batteries that are causing troubles now are all Lithium polymer batteries. The electrolyte-fluid in them has been replaced with a polymer that amongst other things made it possible to replace the heavy metal cylinder with aluminium/plastic packaging and make the battery in all kinds of forms.
Unfortunately, at the same time the chemistry of the cells was changed such that if a thermal runaway ever happened, the venting gasses would ignite with oxygen and would ignite the cells next to it too. That is exactly what is happening.
I am rather supprised that no one yet has mentioned A123 systems. They make/market a new type of lithium-(nano)phosphate cell, that has none of the drawbacks of lithium-polymer batteries. They will not catch fire in a thermal runaway or when pierced, can be much more abused than LiPos and have a much longer lifespan to boot (2000 cycles instead of 500). It's no wonder that these batteries will be in the next generation of hybrid cars, as they weigh half as much as the NiMH batteries used now (LiPo would be too dangerous in a collision) and can generate much more current too. (~10C for NiMH, ~40C for A123).
So there is hope one the battery technology front, it's just that the current best option is a bit dangerous.
count to three while not counting to two and four at the same time?
please excuse my ignorance, but what would 'puteulanus' mean? Something with ladies of the night in it? (~puta*)
Oh , it just blue...
Please don't use the names of the tools the beast of Redmond uses to stupify the world. This is /. after all, if you have to code on/for windos, then please be humble and shy about it.