God, I hate you millennial hipster idiots eith your change is always good philosophy. A beautiful, natural formation eroding away IS heartbreaking. It has nothing to do with not being able to accept change. Frickin' retard.
WTF are you talking about -- every answer I've seen tells users who have chosen to use iCloud how to make requests to re-login go away and every answer says some variation of "just login to iCloud again." Which is completely useless for people who do not want every damn thing on their Mac syncing data up into a cloud service.
I'm talking about I don't get any notifications about iCloud, nor do I use it. Enjoy it since for some reason, it is impossible to be rid of.
I think it's obvious..... Regulators need to change their tactics, such as by posting a reward for citizens providing evidence of violation of regulations.
Then they can increase the penalties, since they know Uber is taking actions to prevent the government itself from auditing.
As well, a "mystery customer" approach. So some folks can get their side hustle going. This company defines sleazy.
The Old Man of the Mountain was the most popular natural landmark in NH, by far, although the nearby flume gorge and basin are more spectacular.
You could imagine that it was Abe Lincoln or someone like that, whose visage God had carved out of the edge of the rocky cliff. A sad day when it collapsed.
The wife and I took a hike up Franconia notch (errgh, that sounds kinda dirty) and what a stunning place! walking in the 20 feet or so notch between sheer cliffs, and with all the tumbled rocks, it looked like some Tolkien novel setting.
Then there's Mount Washington, Cannon Mountain, Castle in the Clouds and a lot of other great things. I'm starting to sound like a travelogue here.
ScentCone just has the typical Right-wing problem, not being funny.
It's probably due to being a black Jewish cowboy.
Yeah, what's with that crap? Why can't right wingers be funny? I love to laugh, and I'd be a lot further to the right if being enraged wasn't a core competency and mandated skill.
Every time I open Mail on my Mac it pops up a complaint because I haven't enabled iCloud syncing. If you don't think Apple does shit just like this it's only because you have already accepted Apple's version.
Mebbe do a little research? You can get rid of that.
I downgraded my win7 to 10 just before the cutoff date for free upgrade, so I had the option of 7 or 10 later on. After trying out 10 for a while, I just decided that it was a joke, and that it was becoming more of a joke as time went on, and started dual-booting to linux mint cinnamon. ~6 months later and I don't ever boot into my windows partition even to play games. If you want a windows 7 replacement, Linux Mint Cinnamon is your best bet.
Cinnamon is great, My wife loves it after refusing to use W8 after a month. Works well with touch screens too. I've been using Ubuntu Mate recently, since I can run it on my regular computers as well as a RP3 I've been playing with. On either one, the regular user can get used to it in minutes.
For the OP - many of these Linux Distros use "Live CD's" or Thumb drives, so you can boot off them to see if you like the interface. As well, have a internet connection going on the computer you install on.
Note 3 - Some distro's like Ubuntu Mate offer the option to do the latest updates while installing.
How is this heartbreaking?
Maybe they are heartbroken that fewer tourists will visit them?
Natural formations change all the time. The planet does not stand still.
I visited New Hampshire shortly after their iconic "Old Man of the Mountain' geological feature collapsed. Most people were pretty upset.
The reasons? No doubt it was something that had "always been there" during these folks lifetime. If you look at how upset some Slashdotters are about change, it might start to make some sense.
Reading TFA, these "time crystals" are hardly the everlasting clocks of the summary. They are defects in crystals that flip spins at a different frequency than the exciting energy would normally flip. Some consider them loopholes in the definition.
Regardless, it's pretty interesting. I don't think I'll put in my order fr the eternal clock oscillator just yet though.
Not everyone who buys Zig Zag wraps is rolling a blunt either (only about 99.99% are.) What's your point?
Oh Gawd, they are going to crucify you since you messed up between joints and blunts. But your point is still valid.
If you use Tor, you are immediately interesting. If you have something new, it better use invisible packets, or it is only a matter of time before you are found out. The internet is an inherently insecure place. Perhaps some day people will understand that.
Yes, the $0.02 profit on a $0.20 resistor that one nerd bought a couple times a year was going to keep them afloat.
Meh. A lot of us nerds spent a lot of money there. But especially after they shifted to focus on cell phones, they kinda didn't figure that all the cool people who bought them weren't going to come in next week and buy another one.I and a lot of others were there every week. I spent thousands at RS every year, and even tried to preferentially support them. But now it's Mouser for parts, and I have to keep a little more stuff in stock.
And sort of fortunately, there is a for real old school electronic parts store about 75 miles away if I'm in a pinch. Kinda far, but with you are up against the wall....
So, 1-2 Tesla peak in a device how large? A meter? Ten meters? A kilometer? (what are we going to pay for, in other words) sitting in the middle of nowhere is going to be enough to deflect off-axis charged particles by how much? Bear in mind that Mr. Sun subtends a pretty substantial arc. One such that an entire planetoid object the size of the moon barely obstructs line of sight in a tiny penumbra, sometimes, at 384K kilometers...
So just how large a region WOULD we have to cover to actually put the entire planet of Mars in its deflection penumbra? Hmmm....
If we're going to this place, why not do the same thing for Mother Earth -- put a large cloud of stuff at the lagrange point, reduce insolation, fight global warming. Price is no object! Fantasies are free! Besides, what could go wrong?
rgb
Well, that escalated quickly! Howbow I just reply to your first questions, because sunlight blocking isn't related nor makes much sense to me.
The physical size of the magnet needed is going to be dependent upon a few factors. Distance away from Mars, and magnetic strength. The earth's magnetosphere is determined by a relatively large planet size, with a very weak magnetic field..67 gauss at most. The 1-2 Tesla magnet at the Lagrange point will have the advantage of being a much stronger magnetic field. As for the final size, I don't have it handy, but I do suspect that the people who have made this study have. Someone else commented on Neodymium versus Electromagnet. Both would need to be the same physical size.
The majority of 'subsidies' given to the oil and natural gas industry are not actually subsidies in any real sense.
I don't look at it the same way some people do. Let me illustrate.
In Pennsylvania, the Republican Governer made certain that there was no state extraction fee for the Gas companies who were fracking here. Pennsylvania was teh only state in the union that didn't have one.
According to his expressed logic, if Pennsylvania had any extraction fee whatsoever, the companies wouldn't drill here. The logic is compelling, since all other states had fees, it didn't stop the companies from drilling there. That probably had something to do with the Gas was here, and you can't extract the gas form where it is without being where it is. But I digress.
So some people would call this not a subsidy. Okay, than what is it. Do the math. Is the company making more money than it otherwise would?
Same with any tax breaks. These "Alternative energy support is fuckin subsidized, but my petrofuel is making it's way all by itself with no help at all ever!" is a lot more about your outlook. If you want petrofuels and coal to be the only source of power until the world falls apart, you'll be pretty pissed about the competition. BTW, the largest "alternative" energy subsidies go to corn ethanol, which few alternative energy people want.
So anyhow, is your solution for other countries who don't share your outlook to move on, giving support until alternatives are on their own, while the USA has a 1970's style collapse when we run low on coal and oil? Then what do we do? Maybe go for some Lebensraum? Which by the way, one does not fight wars with solar or wind power, the lack of portable energy dense petrofuels that they might have conserved, while we thumbed our nose and burned it in our Escalades, might make a problem for say, our fighter planes. Odd how many people who want to fight the world over any reason whatsoever don't take into account that to kill your enemies, you gotta get to them first. I'm not accusing you of that, but many people I know have exactly that outlook. All tactic, no strategic outlook at all. A rather active group in the past century was brought low in no small part because of lack of fuel.
Or do you subscribe to the abiotic oil concept which means we won't ever run low because something something will make more forever? I'm not kidding, there are some who believe this.
1 - 2 Tesla or 10K to 20K Gauss is what they are looking at. It is quite possible that you won't even need a powered magnet, as Neodymium magnets are already in that range https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org].
The energy in a magnetic field goes with with the field strength squared and the volume. There is a big difference in energy for a kilometers wide field and a permanent magnet that has a strong field just near the surface of the material. Unless you want to make your magnetic shield thing out of a permanent magnet almost the exact same size as the extent you require in space (so a neodymium magnet the size of a moon), you're looking at a superconductor with rather high amount of energy stored. For 1 T over something roughly the same volume as Mars, you're looking at ~6*10^25 J (about 10 billion megatons of tnt equivalent, or about how much energy we would get from a century worth of current global electrical energy production).
Get in touch with NASA right way to let them know this is impossible.
Then explain how an electromagnet doesn't have to be the same size as a inherent magnet.
There is plenty of time if our magnetic field fails. First, it will likely weaken, not just switch off. Second, even if it switches off, the atmosphere isn't stripped quickly. It starts thinning, giving you decades to get that magnetic shield in place.
You forgot about the solar wind and cosmic rays having free access. That would happen much more quickly than atmospheric stripping.
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God, I hate you millennial hipster idiots eith your change is always good philosophy. A beautiful, natural formation eroding away IS heartbreaking. It has nothing to do with not being able to accept change. Frickin' retard.
Have I offended you?
Good.
WTF are you talking about -- every answer I've seen tells users who have chosen to use iCloud how to make requests to re-login go away and every answer says some variation of "just login to iCloud again." Which is completely useless for people who do not want every damn thing on their Mac syncing data up into a cloud service.
I'm talking about I don't get any notifications about iCloud, nor do I use it. Enjoy it since for some reason, it is impossible to be rid of.
For you.
I think it's obvious..... Regulators need to change their tactics, such as by posting a reward for citizens providing evidence of violation of regulations.
Then they can increase the penalties, since they know Uber is taking actions to prevent the government itself from auditing.
As well, a "mystery customer" approach. So some folks can get their side hustle going. This company defines sleazy.
Geologic feature disappears, Slashdot readers are indifferent. Headphone jack disappears, Slashdot readers lose their mind.
Very well played sir! Well played indeed. This needs modded up.
The Old Man of the Mountain was the most popular natural landmark in NH, by far, although the nearby flume gorge and basin are more spectacular.
You could imagine that it was Abe Lincoln or someone like that, whose visage God had carved out of the edge of the rocky cliff. A sad day when it collapsed.
The wife and I took a hike up Franconia notch (errgh, that sounds kinda dirty) and what a stunning place! walking in the 20 feet or so notch between sheer cliffs, and with all the tumbled rocks, it looked like some Tolkien novel setting.
Then there's Mount Washington, Cannon Mountain, Castle in the Clouds and a lot of other great things. I'm starting to sound like a travelogue here.
ScentCone just has the typical Right-wing problem, not being funny.
It's probably due to being a black Jewish cowboy.
Yeah, what's with that crap? Why can't right wingers be funny? I love to laugh, and I'd be a lot further to the right if being enraged wasn't a core competency and mandated skill.
Every time I open Mail on my Mac it pops up a complaint because I haven't enabled iCloud syncing. If you don't think Apple does shit just like this it's only because you have already accepted Apple's version.
Mebbe do a little research? You can get rid of that.
I downgraded my win7 to 10 just before the cutoff date for free upgrade, so I had the option of 7 or 10 later on. After trying out 10 for a while, I just decided that it was a joke, and that it was becoming more of a joke as time went on, and started dual-booting to linux mint cinnamon. ~6 months later and I don't ever boot into my windows partition even to play games. If you want a windows 7 replacement, Linux Mint Cinnamon is your best bet.
Cinnamon is great, My wife loves it after refusing to use W8 after a month. Works well with touch screens too. I've been using Ubuntu Mate recently, since I can run it on my regular computers as well as a RP3 I've been playing with. On either one, the regular user can get used to it in minutes. For the OP - many of these Linux Distros use "Live CD's" or Thumb drives, so you can boot off them to see if you like the interface. As well, have a internet connection going on the computer you install on.
Note 3 - Some distro's like Ubuntu Mate offer the option to do the latest updates while installing.
Woosh! That's the whole point. STILL blaming Russia for things like losing elections is laughably lame.
Whoosh yourself. I don't care who blames what on who. Because it's just stupid chasing it's tail But if it ain't funny it ain't worth fsck-all.
I dare say we know who is responsible for this, as in all things.
If you want to be trendy and all, fine.
At least be witty about it, Tovarisch.
How is this heartbreaking? Maybe they are heartbroken that fewer tourists will visit them? Natural formations change all the time. The planet does not stand still.
I visited New Hampshire shortly after their iconic "Old Man of the Mountain' geological feature collapsed. Most people were pretty upset.
The reasons? No doubt it was something that had "always been there" during these folks lifetime. If you look at how upset some Slashdotters are about change, it might start to make some sense.
Regardless, it's pretty interesting. I don't think I'll put in my order fr the eternal clock oscillator just yet though.
Why is this on Slashdot? Is it because the 3D render looks pretty?
Because it's technology. Dumbass technology that won't go away, but technology nonetheless. Like 3-D movies.
Not everyone who buys Zig Zag wraps is rolling a blunt either (only about 99.99% are.) What's your point?
Oh Gawd, they are going to crucify you since you messed up between joints and blunts. But your point is still valid.
If you use Tor, you are immediately interesting. If you have something new, it better use invisible packets, or it is only a matter of time before you are found out. The internet is an inherently insecure place. Perhaps some day people will understand that.
This was the Zune of Social Media.
I wonder how many /.ers remember
Pepperidge Farm remembers!
Yes, the $0.02 profit on a $0.20 resistor that one nerd bought a couple times a year was going to keep them afloat.
Meh. A lot of us nerds spent a lot of money there. But especially after they shifted to focus on cell phones, they kinda didn't figure that all the cool people who bought them weren't going to come in next week and buy another one.I and a lot of others were there every week. I spent thousands at RS every year, and even tried to preferentially support them. But now it's Mouser for parts, and I have to keep a little more stuff in stock.
And sort of fortunately, there is a for real old school electronic parts store about 75 miles away if I'm in a pinch. Kinda far, but with you are up against the wall....
So, 1-2 Tesla peak in a device how large? A meter? Ten meters? A kilometer? (what are we going to pay for, in other words) sitting in the middle of nowhere is going to be enough to deflect off-axis charged particles by how much? Bear in mind that Mr. Sun subtends a pretty substantial arc. One such that an entire planetoid object the size of the moon barely obstructs line of sight in a tiny penumbra, sometimes, at 384K kilometers...
So just how large a region WOULD we have to cover to actually put the entire planet of Mars in its deflection penumbra? Hmmm....
If we're going to this place, why not do the same thing for Mother Earth -- put a large cloud of stuff at the lagrange point, reduce insolation, fight global warming. Price is no object! Fantasies are free! Besides, what could go wrong?
rgb
Well, that escalated quickly! Howbow I just reply to your first questions, because sunlight blocking isn't related nor makes much sense to me.
The physical size of the magnet needed is going to be dependent upon a few factors. Distance away from Mars, and magnetic strength. The earth's magnetosphere is determined by a relatively large planet size, with a very weak magnetic field. .67 gauss at most. The 1-2 Tesla magnet at the Lagrange point will have the advantage of being a much stronger magnetic field. As for the final size, I don't have it handy, but I do suspect that the people who have made this study have. Someone else commented on Neodymium versus Electromagnet. Both would need to be the same physical size.
The majority of 'subsidies' given to the oil and natural gas industry are not actually subsidies in any real sense.
I don't look at it the same way some people do. Let me illustrate.
In Pennsylvania, the Republican Governer made certain that there was no state extraction fee for the Gas companies who were fracking here. Pennsylvania was teh only state in the union that didn't have one.
According to his expressed logic, if Pennsylvania had any extraction fee whatsoever, the companies wouldn't drill here. The logic is compelling, since all other states had fees, it didn't stop the companies from drilling there. That probably had something to do with the Gas was here, and you can't extract the gas form where it is without being where it is. But I digress. So some people would call this not a subsidy. Okay, than what is it. Do the math. Is the company making more money than it otherwise would?
Same with any tax breaks. These "Alternative energy support is fuckin subsidized, but my petrofuel is making it's way all by itself with no help at all ever!" is a lot more about your outlook. If you want petrofuels and coal to be the only source of power until the world falls apart, you'll be pretty pissed about the competition. BTW, the largest "alternative" energy subsidies go to corn ethanol, which few alternative energy people want.
So anyhow, is your solution for other countries who don't share your outlook to move on, giving support until alternatives are on their own, while the USA has a 1970's style collapse when we run low on coal and oil? Then what do we do? Maybe go for some Lebensraum? Which by the way, one does not fight wars with solar or wind power, the lack of portable energy dense petrofuels that they might have conserved, while we thumbed our nose and burned it in our Escalades, might make a problem for say, our fighter planes. Odd how many people who want to fight the world over any reason whatsoever don't take into account that to kill your enemies, you gotta get to them first. I'm not accusing you of that, but many people I know have exactly that outlook. All tactic, no strategic outlook at all. A rather active group in the past century was brought low in no small part because of lack of fuel. Or do you subscribe to the abiotic oil concept which means we won't ever run low because something something will make more forever? I'm not kidding, there are some who believe this.
Just stay on the side of the earth not facing the sun.
The ultimate nomads! 8^)
I can't remember the last time I used a standard tool on any car I owned,
Spark plug sockets.
Yup, that one too. Thanks for pointing that out.
1 - 2 Tesla or 10K to 20K Gauss is what they are looking at. It is quite possible that you won't even need a powered magnet, as Neodymium magnets are already in that range https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org].
The energy in a magnetic field goes with with the field strength squared and the volume. There is a big difference in energy for a kilometers wide field and a permanent magnet that has a strong field just near the surface of the material. Unless you want to make your magnetic shield thing out of a permanent magnet almost the exact same size as the extent you require in space (so a neodymium magnet the size of a moon), you're looking at a superconductor with rather high amount of energy stored. For 1 T over something roughly the same volume as Mars, you're looking at ~6*10^25 J (about 10 billion megatons of tnt equivalent, or about how much energy we would get from a century worth of current global electrical energy production).
Get in touch with NASA right way to let them know this is impossible.
Then explain how an electromagnet doesn't have to be the same size as a inherent magnet.
>But without something to keep the atmosphere there it's pointless.
You know how I know you didn't RTFA? Or even the summary?
Its the fun game some slashdotters play. Read the headline, get pissed off, and post how it won't work.
You should strive to be less obsessed with Elon Musk. Might make you happier.
Or less creepy, at least.
There is plenty of time if our magnetic field fails. First, it will likely weaken, not just switch off. Second, even if it switches off, the atmosphere isn't stripped quickly. It starts thinning, giving you decades to get that magnetic shield in place.
You forgot about the solar wind and cosmic rays having free access. That would happen much more quickly than atmospheric stripping.