Another huge problem is also the fact that you can go offline and suddenly you are gone.
Why don't they use a web of trust then? Allow all my friends to host a copy of my information, as long as there's no total discontinuity from one time frame to the next you'd always be up to date (and really, have you ever logged into Facebook and found not a single friend online?). You could even encrypt the more sensitive data, where accepting someone's friend request sent them the decryption key. Might get a little unwieldy once the data archives get big enough, but if you did the big initial transfers in the background it seems like it could work.
When you have to "opt in" in order to get a service you need
Need? I won't argue that this isn't sometimes the case, the idea that you must hand over this information for basic services like your ISP or other utilities is very concerning. But this is Facebook we're talking about here. No one needs Facebook. You might want it, and it might make it easier to stay in touch with your friends and family, but you don't need it. It's up to you to weigh your personal information against the service they provide; to reiterate, you are paying for their services with your personal information.
I have to wonder where the first line of the article came from. If it's from the author, nothing to see here, but if it's a near direct quote from the source it sounds more like a shoutout to Dr. Strangelove, which could indicate that they are still terrified of it but are embracing it because they don't feel they have any choice in the matter.
The problem with breaking it down is going to be that any efficient process to do so is going to de-oxygenate the water. In fact, most of the oil is would be naturally broken down by bacteria in relatively short order (leaving behind some of the heavier byproducts unfortunately) but the dead spot it creates can take a very long time to recover.
Because "Astronaut sneaks uncatalogued equipment back from mission and makes a metric ass ton of money off it" is a bad precedent to let sit uncontested.
This doesn't happen unless someone high up in the heirarchy is insisting that this is the correct way to do it. If it was as easy as someone stepping up and making changes someone would have done so by now. At best, you've got managers who are oblivious to how much time and money it is costing them. At worst, you have some decades out of data lead engineer who is actively resisting change. Either way this is going to be resisted heavily by someone in the chain. Even if you take your suggestions to the right person and win out you're going to be in the cross hairs of someone who has held considerable power in the organization for making them look like a fool. And you can bet that if anything, anything goes wrong with the transition you will be thrown under the bus if said person is given the opportunity.
As an earlier poster said: Run. Run fast, and run hard. I know you just started at a new job, but I've cleaned up after the messes that places like this produce, working there is going to be a black mark on your resume for anyone familiar with the companies work.
Huh? Like every Bundle there's one or two games (Trine and Frozen Synapse in this case) that were successfully sold at $30+ dollars before their release. Then there's a few... I'm reluctant to say lower quality because they are often quite enjoyable, lets say less mainstream games that are, so far as I'm concerned, a free bonus. I got the #3 bundle for Crayon Physics and VVVVVV and ended up playing Hammerfight for hours. I won't be surprised if the same happens here.
It's like someone who got blasted with a couple Sieverts worth of radiation all at once. They're sick for a while, then everything seems to get better for a while, but everyone knows it won't be long until their hemorrhaging out every orifice and on the way to being dead. Seriously though, when did the exposure occur? What, if anything, was the event that signaled HP's eventual demise as the company we know today? I think most of us agree that it's going to happen, I'm just curious what the point of no return was.
Ok, so there's a tangible goal, that doesn't mean there's a realistic plan to acheive it. Standing outside their office and saying "Stop abusing the colossal amounts of power you've amassed" isn't exactly what I'd call a winning strategy.
If the so called 1% really do have the power to call in the government guns on a large scale then violent, bloody revolution may be the only way to make things any better. Personally, I don't think they have that kind of power, if for no other reason than it would be hard to find a group of American soldiers willing to fire indiscriminately on American citizens.
You use non-writable media. Burned DVD-R is generally the preferred method. Yes, you can get a virus onto a system using a DVD, but you cannot get data off from it which is where the real fear lies.
This is, in and of itself, concerning to me. Where I work you will be reprimanded for plugging writable media into a classified computer (and that's assuming you can dig all the epoxy out of the port in the first place), the idea that it's standard practice doesn't bode well for their security quite frankly.
Unless someone really screwed the pooch, the results are never getting back to the virus writers. These computers are classified, that means no connection to the net, no writable media drives, many places even epoxy the USB ports so at least it's obvious if someone tries to use it. Specific steps are taken when moving data off them to prevent any data except what was requested is removed. At least, that is how it is in the private world working on classified material. Cases like Manning being able to get a dump of the entire international cable DB would indicate that the government holds itself to a much lower standard than it holds contractors.
Who said there isn't anti-virus software on these computers? If keeping a Windows machine sterile was as easy as installing and keeping update AV software the world would be a slightly better, or at least less stressful, place.
It isn't going to happen overnight. By the time they have any kind of respectable LTE coverage there will be a half dozen phones that blow the Prime out of the water. Which is both sad and exciting.
Ditto on my home Windows 7 machine, it gets rebooted exactly as often as there are critical security updates which isn't as often as people seem to think, usually not more than once a month. My XP machine at work has been up for... wow... 69 days, 9 hours apparently thanks to my IT department not pushing out updates like they should.
So they unofficially announced some results now. They are claiming their closed cycle system produced a 5 K increase in temperature of water flowing at 0.6 m^3 / hour for 4 hours. Assuming that's accurate, and I remember how to do some basic physics problems, I get a value of 50 MJ ( that's 4.18 j/(g K) * 2400 kg * 5K) produced in that time span.
Again, assuming these numbers are accurate, I'd say that's probably enough to convince me that this isn't just residual heat. So that leaves something interesting taking place or outright fraud. Worth noting that that's about a kg of gasoline worth of energy, so it wouldn't be impossible by any means to hide an energy source inside the device. It's also worth noting that it's significantly below their advertised power rates. 50 MJ over 4 hours is only 3.5 kW, compared to the stated power rate of 27 kW.
no experiment has yet to show that photons have no mass.
That's because it's a very hard thing to show. What they have shown experimentally is that the mass has to be smaller than 10^-18 eV/c, which is 1.782662 x 10^-54 kg, which is 1 / 10^-24th the mass of an electron which is by far the lightest particle predicted.
And I'd be interested to hear how E=mc^2, a central component of special relativity, causes it to conflict with general relativity. Do tell!
Basically the sun revolves around the earth - what ever we think now is correct no matter what anyone else says.
We used to think the earth was flat, and we were wrong. Then we thought the earth was a sphere and we were wrong (it's actually an oblate spheroid). But if you think believing the earth is a sphere is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then you're wronger than the both of them. (paraphrased from Asimov). We know Newtonian physics is wrong, relativity significantly improves on the accuracy of Newtons predictions. That doesn't mean I drop an apple and expect it not to fall because Newton was wrong. Similarly, we know that relativity is wrong (the predictions break down in several extreme situations), but that doesn't mean that I expect E=mc^2 to be wrong tomorrow or time dilation to be proven wrong or any of the other well known relativistic effects. They have been shown empirically to be correct to fractions of fractions of a percentage point, that evidence doesn't just go 'poof' when a more refined theory comes along.
E = mc^2 refers to rest energy, it is the amount of energy you get if you convert an unmoving mass directly into energy. Photons, having no mass, have no rest energy by definition. 0 * c * c = 0. E / 0 is undefined, not infinite. Literally the only line of your reply without a significant error is the first one. E=mc^2 has nothing to do with the assertion that massless particles must travel at c, that comes from other parts of special relativity.
D'oh, you're correct of course. I suspect we still mine enough of it to get our civilization to the point where mining an asteroid would be feasible though. So I make the argument that most of my points are still valid.
A) Copper is relatively rare and expensive. Not precious metal rare obviously, but rare enough that criminals find it worthwhile to take up plumbing in abandoned houses to make some cash. B) Nickel is extremely common and cheap. And even if we somehow used up all the nickel deposits on Earth, which would probably take centuries, it also makes up the bulk of many asteroid. A single large asteroid contains more Nickel that the world mines in a decade today. C) Nickels (the coin) aren't made from nickel anymore because nickel is a skin allergen for some people and because iron is cheaper yet. D) The idea that an energy technology isn't worth implementing unless it will last as long or longer than the sun is patently ridiculous.
The flaw in your plan is assuming that these people care about bringing people to God. They don't. They just want the police to throw them in prison, or the family to throw a punch, or someone to send them some religious hate mail so that they can sue. Sadly, because of Poe's Law I can't tell if they actually believe what they are saying or not, either way their actions are being directed by greed much more so than anything else.
Temperature of the steam leaving the apparatus is irrelevant, what matters is the amount of heat being lost. They don't provide anywhere near enough information to evaluate their claims which is obviously a big red flag in and of itself. I imagine with a well insulated pressure vessel, some smart regulator design, and a block of metal to act as a heat sink, it should be pretty easy to create a device that will continue to produce steam at 35 minutes; not very much steam mind you, but enough to produce the graphs that they are so very proud of. The fact that the talk about temperature rather than energy is a big red flag IMO, it's all well and good that you're making steam at 120 C, but that tells me nothing about how much energy is being released.
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Another huge problem is also the fact that you can go offline and suddenly you are gone.
Why don't they use a web of trust then? Allow all my friends to host a copy of my information, as long as there's no total discontinuity from one time frame to the next you'd always be up to date (and really, have you ever logged into Facebook and found not a single friend online?). You could even encrypt the more sensitive data, where accepting someone's friend request sent them the decryption key. Might get a little unwieldy once the data archives get big enough, but if you did the big initial transfers in the background it seems like it could work.
When you have to "opt in" in order to get a service you need
Need? I won't argue that this isn't sometimes the case, the idea that you must hand over this information for basic services like your ISP or other utilities is very concerning. But this is Facebook we're talking about here. No one needs Facebook. You might want it, and it might make it easier to stay in touch with your friends and family, but you don't need it. It's up to you to weigh your personal information against the service they provide; to reiterate, you are paying for their services with your personal information.
I have to wonder where the first line of the article came from. If it's from the author, nothing to see here, but if it's a near direct quote from the source it sounds more like a shoutout to Dr. Strangelove, which could indicate that they are still terrified of it but are embracing it because they don't feel they have any choice in the matter.
The problem with breaking it down is going to be that any efficient process to do so is going to de-oxygenate the water. In fact, most of the oil is would be naturally broken down by bacteria in relatively short order (leaving behind some of the heavier byproducts unfortunately) but the dead spot it creates can take a very long time to recover.
Because "Astronaut sneaks uncatalogued equipment back from mission and makes a metric ass ton of money off it" is a bad precedent to let sit uncontested.
This doesn't happen unless someone high up in the heirarchy is insisting that this is the correct way to do it. If it was as easy as someone stepping up and making changes someone would have done so by now. At best, you've got managers who are oblivious to how much time and money it is costing them. At worst, you have some decades out of data lead engineer who is actively resisting change. Either way this is going to be resisted heavily by someone in the chain. Even if you take your suggestions to the right person and win out you're going to be in the cross hairs of someone who has held considerable power in the organization for making them look like a fool. And you can bet that if anything, anything goes wrong with the transition you will be thrown under the bus if said person is given the opportunity.
As an earlier poster said: Run. Run fast, and run hard. I know you just started at a new job, but I've cleaned up after the messes that places like this produce, working there is going to be a black mark on your resume for anyone familiar with the companies work.
What's the military use case for a manned orbiter? Not trying to be snarky, I just really can't think of one.
All games drop in price eventually, why do PS3 and 360 games sell for $60 when everyone knows they'll be available for $30 this time next year?
Huh? Like every Bundle there's one or two games (Trine and Frozen Synapse in this case) that were successfully sold at $30+ dollars before their release. Then there's a few... I'm reluctant to say lower quality because they are often quite enjoyable, lets say less mainstream games that are, so far as I'm concerned, a free bonus. I got the #3 bundle for Crayon Physics and VVVVVV and ended up playing Hammerfight for hours. I won't be surprised if the same happens here.
It's like someone who got blasted with a couple Sieverts worth of radiation all at once. They're sick for a while, then everything seems to get better for a while, but everyone knows it won't be long until their hemorrhaging out every orifice and on the way to being dead. Seriously though, when did the exposure occur? What, if anything, was the event that signaled HP's eventual demise as the company we know today? I think most of us agree that it's going to happen, I'm just curious what the point of no return was.
Ok, so there's a tangible goal, that doesn't mean there's a realistic plan to acheive it. Standing outside their office and saying "Stop abusing the colossal amounts of power you've amassed" isn't exactly what I'd call a winning strategy.
If the so called 1% really do have the power to call in the government guns on a large scale then violent, bloody revolution may be the only way to make things any better. Personally, I don't think they have that kind of power, if for no other reason than it would be hard to find a group of American soldiers willing to fire indiscriminately on American citizens.
You use non-writable media. Burned DVD-R is generally the preferred method. Yes, you can get a virus onto a system using a DVD, but you cannot get data off from it which is where the real fear lies.
detachable hard drives
This is, in and of itself, concerning to me. Where I work you will be reprimanded for plugging writable media into a classified computer (and that's assuming you can dig all the epoxy out of the port in the first place), the idea that it's standard practice doesn't bode well for their security quite frankly.
Unless someone really screwed the pooch, the results are never getting back to the virus writers. These computers are classified, that means no connection to the net, no writable media drives, many places even epoxy the USB ports so at least it's obvious if someone tries to use it. Specific steps are taken when moving data off them to prevent any data except what was requested is removed. At least, that is how it is in the private world working on classified material. Cases like Manning being able to get a dump of the entire international cable DB would indicate that the government holds itself to a much lower standard than it holds contractors.
Who said there isn't anti-virus software on these computers? If keeping a Windows machine sterile was as easy as installing and keeping update AV software the world would be a slightly better, or at least less stressful, place.
It isn't going to happen overnight. By the time they have any kind of respectable LTE coverage there will be a half dozen phones that blow the Prime out of the water. Which is both sad and exciting.
Ditto on my home Windows 7 machine, it gets rebooted exactly as often as there are critical security updates which isn't as often as people seem to think, usually not more than once a month. My XP machine at work has been up for... wow... 69 days, 9 hours apparently thanks to my IT department not pushing out updates like they should.
So they unofficially announced some results now. They are claiming their closed cycle system produced a 5 K increase in temperature of water flowing at 0.6 m^3 / hour for 4 hours. Assuming that's accurate, and I remember how to do some basic physics problems, I get a value of 50 MJ ( that's 4.18 j/(g K) * 2400 kg * 5K) produced in that time span.
Again, assuming these numbers are accurate, I'd say that's probably enough to convince me that this isn't just residual heat. So that leaves something interesting taking place or outright fraud. Worth noting that that's about a kg of gasoline worth of energy, so it wouldn't be impossible by any means to hide an energy source inside the device. It's also worth noting that it's significantly below their advertised power rates. 50 MJ over 4 hours is only 3.5 kW, compared to the stated power rate of 27 kW.
no experiment has yet to show that photons have no mass.
That's because it's a very hard thing to show. What they have shown experimentally is that the mass has to be smaller than 10^-18 eV/c, which is 1.782662 x 10^-54 kg, which is 1 / 10^-24th the mass of an electron which is by far the lightest particle predicted.
And I'd be interested to hear how E=mc^2, a central component of special relativity, causes it to conflict with general relativity. Do tell!
Basically the sun revolves around the earth - what ever we think now is correct no matter what anyone else says.
We used to think the earth was flat, and we were wrong. Then we thought the earth was a sphere and we were wrong (it's actually an oblate spheroid). But if you think believing the earth is a sphere is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then you're wronger than the both of them. (paraphrased from Asimov). We know Newtonian physics is wrong, relativity significantly improves on the accuracy of Newtons predictions. That doesn't mean I drop an apple and expect it not to fall because Newton was wrong. Similarly, we know that relativity is wrong (the predictions break down in several extreme situations), but that doesn't mean that I expect E=mc^2 to be wrong tomorrow or time dilation to be proven wrong or any of the other well known relativistic effects. They have been shown empirically to be correct to fractions of fractions of a percentage point, that evidence doesn't just go 'poof' when a more refined theory comes along.
E = mc^2 refers to rest energy, it is the amount of energy you get if you convert an unmoving mass directly into energy. Photons, having no mass, have no rest energy by definition. 0 * c * c = 0. E / 0 is undefined, not infinite. Literally the only line of your reply without a significant error is the first one. E=mc^2 has nothing to do with the assertion that massless particles must travel at c, that comes from other parts of special relativity.
D'oh, you're correct of course. I suspect we still mine enough of it to get our civilization to the point where mining an asteroid would be feasible though. So I make the argument that most of my points are still valid.
A) Copper is relatively rare and expensive. Not precious metal rare obviously, but rare enough that criminals find it worthwhile to take up plumbing in abandoned houses to make some cash.
B) Nickel is extremely common and cheap. And even if we somehow used up all the nickel deposits on Earth, which would probably take centuries, it also makes up the bulk of many asteroid. A single large asteroid contains more Nickel that the world mines in a decade today.
C) Nickels (the coin) aren't made from nickel anymore because nickel is a skin allergen for some people and because iron is cheaper yet.
D) The idea that an energy technology isn't worth implementing unless it will last as long or longer than the sun is patently ridiculous.
The flaw in your plan is assuming that these people care about bringing people to God. They don't. They just want the police to throw them in prison, or the family to throw a punch, or someone to send them some religious hate mail so that they can sue. Sadly, because of Poe's Law I can't tell if they actually believe what they are saying or not, either way their actions are being directed by greed much more so than anything else.
Temperature of the steam leaving the apparatus is irrelevant, what matters is the amount of heat being lost. They don't provide anywhere near enough information to evaluate their claims which is obviously a big red flag in and of itself. I imagine with a well insulated pressure vessel, some smart regulator design, and a block of metal to act as a heat sink, it should be pretty easy to create a device that will continue to produce steam at 35 minutes; not very much steam mind you, but enough to produce the graphs that they are so very proud of. The fact that the talk about temperature rather than energy is a big red flag IMO, it's all well and good that you're making steam at 120 C, but that tells me nothing about how much energy is being released.