If this passes in any form near the current one, I'm moving to Europe. In fact, I might as well start looking for european scholarships now and a job over there, there is no point in living here. Fuck the US.
"Nuclar power was once thought to be the greatest thing ever. It would be safe reliable and the cure all for everything. Just look at chernolye (however it's spelled). I just don't think trying to make a black hole is a good idea. I know the odd's are astronical that it destroy the world.
But then again what are the odd's two jumbo jets would run into the WTC."
You have said it well. Probability doesn't work with humans, their behavior isn't based on simple statistics, it's based on desires. There have been, and will be many people who want to destroy the world. So behavior must be judged on how enticing the worse use of something would be to the lowest possible human, not just the chance that something will go wrong on it's own.
To be quite frank, Slashdots rating system sucks. My above comment, which actually had something to do with the topic, has a lower rank than a random comment about porn. What the fuck is wrong with this fucking rating system?
If this is true, and it bears fruit, it has stopped the worst pandemic of our time.
On a similarly related note, although I certainly don't believe the researchers have the right patent the vaccine to make a whole bunch of money, each one should be awarded millions, even perhaps billions for all the lives they have saved.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
Even more HUH???
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Also, let's consider what this does. It says "Hey, you can download this game, but somehow you are going to have to make it possible for us to track your usage of it!". Spyware anyone?
This is bad, it is along the same lines as the Office XP license that had be constantly updated for the software to still work. Let the software be free. Or just pirate.
Is there an industry wide standard? Perhaps there should be, so you could just boot of a CD, and instead of installing LILO or SILO or some other loader, the OS just adds itself to some standardized table of OS and finds some disk space. Therefore it doesn't have to disrupt any other OS's to get installed and pointed to by the user at boot time.
There is a general misconception in society about many topics in science. Releasing conclusions to early (leading to frequent retractions) adds quite a bit to this problem. People tend to trust science less because it seems like its constantly changing in fundamental ways that disprove all older ideas, which is partially true, but in fact is an essential part of the scientific process.
I'd like to shout out to all the punks from revolution cafe in herndon virginia, fuck yeah! get that fucking power line ultra fast bandwidth working to the burroughs of chantilly next bitches! fucking shouting out to ciscon, relik, zealot, unocide, and fucking CRICKETNES IN MANASSASS bitch! calling in from fucking UVA! FUCK DUDE!, FUCKING GO NUTS WITH THIS SHIT! FUCK YEAH BITCH! BEER AT THE SHIT MAN! COOK IT FUCKFACE YEAH BITCH!
As far as I know, car anti-freeze is bad for the environment if you let it drain out. One possible application of these chemicals could be anti-freeze that would be bio-degradable (or does this already exist?).
Another point is that oft used areas of the brain expand their reach. For instance, the area of the brain that controls the left hand of stringed instrument musicians expands and crowds out other areas that control other motor functions. It could be that the areas of logic (probably in the temporal lobe) that are used in chess playing also try and expand, but that the neural connections in nearby tissue is also strongly reinforced, so tissue must be taken over in farther away parts of the brain. I don't kow how this tissue would be coordinated with the original logic area, but the mode of communication between different parts of the brain is poorly understood anyways. One idea would be long axons or dendrites (dendrite might now be the right word, psychology was a while ago).
Thanks,
Travis
travis_hadley@hotmail.com
Can somebody please read and care about the Science page? I mean, the basis of all the other shit we talk about on/. is science, we might as well give it some attention. The first and probably only post.
Can life arise out of constuitent particles when are the requirements for life are there? Shouldn't we answer this on Earth first before we send an expensive probe to crash into Europa?
E = Wmoonsgravity = Uwater = Kwheel
OK, this is the process, the moon applies a force (it's gravity) over a distance (the linear distance that the water is moved in the tide). This distance has a component relative to earth that is parallel to a line to the center of the earth, therefore giving the water potential energy relative to the earth. The moon does this for the water WHETHER OR NOT WE USE THE WATERS POTENTIAL ENERGY IN THE NEXT STEP. In the next step, as the water is pulled back to sea, and a component of position loses distance relative to the center of the earth, that energy can be converted to the kinetic energy of say a wheel which works in a generator to make electricity. But at this point the conversion from potential to kinetic energy concerns only the water and the wheel, kinetic energy of the wheel has been generated due to the waters potential energy relative to the earth. The moon loses no energy due to the wave-wheel interaction.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
The force of gravity at orbit is not negligible if you are trying to move against it. Sure, Fg = Gm1m2/r^2 makes Fg pretty small at a big r, but r at orbit is not so big that trying to move away from a planet when you are just above it's atmosphere is easy. You would definetly need a bit of fuel other than air to manuver and change orbit.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
Slashdot Mirror
yep, it sucked.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
ethics? who needs ethics, when you can make gadgets to sell?
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
If this passes in any form near the current one, I'm moving to Europe. In fact, I might as well start looking for european scholarships now and a job over there, there is no point in living here. Fuck the US.
Thanks fuckfaces, I hope you fucking die,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
If Slashdotters had any decency, we wouldn't post on anything trivial and tasteless for about a week.
"Nuclar power was once thought to be the greatest thing ever. It would be safe reliable and the cure all for everything. Just look at chernolye (however it's spelled). I just don't think trying to make a black hole is a good idea. I know the odd's are astronical that it destroy the world.
But then again what are the odd's two jumbo jets would run into the WTC."
You have said it well. Probability doesn't work with humans, their behavior isn't based on simple statistics, it's based on desires. There have been, and will be many people who want to destroy the world. So behavior must be judged on how enticing the worse use of something would be to the lowest possible human, not just the chance that something will go wrong on it's own.
Travis
Who cares? I used care. No it doesn't seem to matter as fucking much, right.
To be quite frank, Slashdots rating system sucks. My above comment, which actually had something to do with the topic, has a lower rank than a random comment about porn. What the fuck is wrong with this fucking rating system?
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
It won't matter what they do, even if they pass the SSSCA, they can't close or filter or store the data from every port.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
If this is true, and it bears fruit, it has stopped the worst pandemic of our time.
On a similarly related note, although I certainly don't believe the researchers have the right patent the vaccine to make a whole bunch of money, each one should be awarded millions, even perhaps billions for all the lives they have saved.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
Also, let's consider what this does. It says "Hey, you can download this game, but somehow you are going to have to make it possible for us to track your usage of it!". Spyware anyone?
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
This is bad, it is along the same lines as the Office XP license that had be constantly updated for the software to still work. Let the software be free. Or just pirate.
Someday I can have a 1E-10000m sculpture of my naked body.
Yeah bitch this is what tilly computer skill is all about. Rock on!!! Hell yeah!
Thanks,
Travis
travis_hadley@hotmail.com
Is there an industry wide standard? Perhaps there should be, so you could just boot of a CD, and instead of installing LILO or SILO or some other loader, the OS just adds itself to some standardized table of OS and finds some disk space. Therefore it doesn't have to disrupt any other OS's to get installed and pointed to by the user at boot time.
Thanks,
Travis
travis_hadley@hotmail.com
There is a general misconception in society about many topics in science. Releasing conclusions to early (leading to frequent retractions) adds quite a bit to this problem. People tend to trust science less because it seems like its constantly changing in fundamental ways that disprove all older ideas, which is partially true, but in fact is an essential part of the scientific process.
Thanks,
Travis
travis_hadley@hotmail.com
I'd like to shout out to all the punks from revolution cafe in herndon virginia, fuck yeah! get that fucking power line ultra fast bandwidth working to the burroughs of chantilly next bitches! fucking shouting out to ciscon, relik, zealot, unocide, and fucking CRICKETNES IN MANASSASS bitch! calling in from fucking UVA! FUCK DUDE!, FUCKING GO NUTS WITH THIS SHIT! FUCK YEAH BITCH! BEER AT THE SHIT MAN! COOK IT FUCKFACE YEAH BITCH!
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
As far as I know, car anti-freeze is bad for the environment if you let it drain out. One possible application of these chemicals could be anti-freeze that would be bio-degradable (or does this already exist?).
Thanks,
Travis
travis_hadley@hotmail.com
Another point is that oft used areas of the brain expand their reach. For instance, the area of the brain that controls the left hand of stringed instrument musicians expands and crowds out other areas that control other motor functions. It could be that the areas of logic (probably in the temporal lobe) that are used in chess playing also try and expand, but that the neural connections in nearby tissue is also strongly reinforced, so tissue must be taken over in farther away parts of the brain. I don't kow how this tissue would be coordinated with the original logic area, but the mode of communication between different parts of the brain is poorly understood anyways. One idea would be long axons or dendrites (dendrite might now be the right word, psychology was a while ago). Thanks, Travis travis_hadley@hotmail.com
Well reasoned sir! Thanks, Travis travis_hadley@hotmail.com
Are you being sarcastic? ;)
Thanks,
Travis
travis_hadley@hotmail.com
Can somebody please read and care about the Science page? I mean, the basis of all the other shit we talk about on /. is science, we might as well give it some attention. The first and probably only post.
Thanks,
Travis
forkspoon@hotmail.com
Can life arise out of constuitent particles when are the requirements for life are there? Shouldn't we answer this on Earth first before we send an expensive probe to crash into Europa?
Thanks,
Travis
travis_hadley@hotmail.com
Just put all the tabulature on Freenet. It's obivous! Thanks, Travis forkspoon@hotmail.com
E = Wmoonsgravity = Uwater = Kwheel OK, this is the process, the moon applies a force (it's gravity) over a distance (the linear distance that the water is moved in the tide). This distance has a component relative to earth that is parallel to a line to the center of the earth, therefore giving the water potential energy relative to the earth. The moon does this for the water WHETHER OR NOT WE USE THE WATERS POTENTIAL ENERGY IN THE NEXT STEP. In the next step, as the water is pulled back to sea, and a component of position loses distance relative to the center of the earth, that energy can be converted to the kinetic energy of say a wheel which works in a generator to make electricity. But at this point the conversion from potential to kinetic energy concerns only the water and the wheel, kinetic energy of the wheel has been generated due to the waters potential energy relative to the earth. The moon loses no energy due to the wave-wheel interaction. Thanks, Travis forkspoon@hotmail.com
The force of gravity at orbit is not negligible if you are trying to move against it. Sure, Fg = Gm1m2/r^2 makes Fg pretty small at a big r, but r at orbit is not so big that trying to move away from a planet when you are just above it's atmosphere is easy. You would definetly need a bit of fuel other than air to manuver and change orbit. Thanks, Travis forkspoon@hotmail.com