Think of it from a the perspective of the imps making the viruses (and no, it's not 'virii'). Pretend you're a spineless asshole that wants to cause as much damage as possible. Do you use widespread tools to make a Windows virus with relative ease and hit the biggest user base, or do you spend much more time finding vulerabilities in better OS's and hit a much smaller user base?
99 times out of 100 it's the former scenario that plays out. Doesn't mean you needn't run anti-virus software on OS X, for example, but you can have much more confidence that nothing will get past it. Running XP doesn't scare me, it's the number of viruses that Avast catches that scares me.
The same thing has happened in the movies. Often historical events were only used as distorted background. And movies are as games made for entertainment purposes. So what counts is entertainment value not historical accuracy.
Shocking. Tell me again where accuracy is actually appreciated, outside of a profession or academics? Politics? Media? Religion?
I say let Obama run the economy into the ground, we gotta focus on this video game historical accuracy issue.
Amazing that Slashdot still can't master the technology of the "spellcheck", which I had in WordStar in 1987.
More amazing still is that spelling errors are still news. Where exactly is that quoted from? My 'find text' function (also been around since the 80's) says it's not in TFA nor the summary, and your post has no other parent post...?
Funnier still is that Firefox's spellcheck dictionary does not have the word "spellcheck".
I agree, and I recall my Asus motherboards from the 90's had 3Com ethernet controllers, so perhaps the list of defendants is just 3Com's former clients.
And speaking of missed targets, why is Apple singled out above the other brands, "Acer, ASUS, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett Packard, Sony, and Toshiba", whom each probably sold more ethernet-equipped products? Apple isn't that sexy. I was drawn to this thread curious over why Apple would be singled out, but clearly they weren't.
Perhaps its providence that we're faced with sustainable energy productions and conservation here on Earth. Our efforts might reveal a means of space propulsion using energy captured during flight. Otherwise, a portable power source capable of inter-stellar travel could be a hot piece of technology to the other civilization. If such a probe were to "darken our doorstep", it could easily start a war, or worse, i.e. Voyager episode Friendship One.
Or they'll just plug into an external cell antenna.
Exactly. And the only antennae that should be available for that purpose should be incorporated into a hands-free system. Studies have shown that hands-free calling while driving actually doesn't lower accident statistics significantly compared to hand-held calling, but it'll stop drivers from texting, which is the worst offender.
Cel use in cars won't stop any more than eating in cars will, and any efforts to prevent it will probably just introduce a new set of distractions.
"Since a dirty bomb is unlikely to cause many deaths, many do not consider this to be a weapon of mass destruction.[3] Its purpose would presumably be to create psychological, not physical, harm through ignorance, mass panic, and terror. For this reason dirty bombs are sometimes called "weapons of mass disruption". Additionally, containment and decontamination of thousands of victims, as well as decontamination of the affected area might require considerable time and expense, rendering areas partly unusable and causing economic damage."
Now re-read my last post: "Replay Oklahoma City with a few of those batteries among the diesel and fertilizer" and actually think about it. People don't know any more about dirty bombs than they did then. 9/11 didn't do shit.
So why exactly is the American public kept in the dark of how futile a dirty bomb really is? The post before mine mentioned that "Joe Public hears the word "nuclear" and shits a brick." In the cold war, people couldn't build bomb shelters fast enough, now the exact same threat exists in people's minds, and nobody's doing anything about it.
I agree the threat is fake, but the lack of reaction is very real.
Who said he spent anything? I've been through Las Vegas about 8 times, partied my ass off, never spent a cent, and that's just from being a musician/promoter for one tour. Never had such luck with New York, but I bet Steve's a little more plugged in that I am.
When you see this long-haired boy with the WikiReader sitting on an open page of a book, can you not see the caption, "OK, which one of these is complete bullshit?"
Ah, my bad. The site has been updated since I last read the full text. It used to read 90% efficiency with no further elaboration. Guess I got caught up by the funky design.
Oh and using cheap land to generate electricity for high value land also seems like a no-brainer (seriously, would you build local generation in lower Manhattan?)
You're halfway towards dreaming up what's called a SuperGrid, but instead of putting a bunch of 18-wheeler H-bombs on the highway the hydrogen is cooled to liquid form and piped around the superconductive power conduits to cool them. The -2F operating temperate does make that much more feasible, especially since for a solar farm power reserves will be required to cool the conduit before electricity flow resumes in the morning. At that temperature you don't need so exotic a coolant either, maybe the outer casing can be some sort of Peltier sleeve.
And solar panels are not very efficient. The amount of solar energy that strikes the roof of a typical single-dwelling house has ample energy for typical needs. Sure we need solar farms for densely populated areas, but more importantly we need more efficient and affordable small scale solar energy harvesters. The technology already exists, just hasn't been brought to market yet.
One key component is the The Green Steam Engine, which is compact, scalable, virtually maintenance-frree, and can operate at 85% efficiency. Figure a collection mirror transfers heat energy to the water with 99% efficiency, the 85% efficient engine turns an 85% efficient alternator to generate electricity. 0.99 x 0.85 x 0.85 = 0.715 or 71.5% efficiency. That's WAY better than solar panels, which are currently around 11%.
Lets assume 71.5% is overly optimistic for a mass-produced generator. With 60% efficiency a 6' diameter collector dish and 2.5hp steam engine can generate 1500W. Add a tracking system so it's always pointed at the sun and you've got the typical power-frugal home covered. Add another one for each plug-in car and air conditioner, probably two for heaters since it'll be cold when you need them. They're small enough to mount on your roof, on a post, on a tree, on a garage, etc.
And screw hydrogen as a mass-market energy source. It's much more efficient and safer to get electricity to cars than to use electricity to produce volatile hydrogen gas then take it to cars. Admit it, people like hydrogen for the same reason they like salsa - the name sounds cool.
Rather than resort to Star Trek ideas for transporting energy vast distances, let's use proven ways to harvest energy closer to where it is to be used.
I've personally seen a car accident where the fuel tank was breached and the passengers narrowly escaped before the truck was engulfed in fire. Take that to a nuclear level and it's not just paranoia.
Nor is the likelihood of the batteries being used for dirty bombs. Replay Oklahoma City with a few of those batteries among the diesel and fertilizer. I don't pretend to know what the contamination radius or half-life would be, but I'm guessing most of the metropolitan area would be unlivable for the next 150 years minimum. How long do those batteries last again?
Meanwhile, you can't take a tube of toothpaste on a commercial airplane in most countries. Forget it, it'll never ever happen.
"A revised Copyright Law that prohibits users from downloading such peer-to-peer file sharing software will come into force in January."
I'm curious how they define the type(s) of software that are illegal. I don't need my door kicked in by federal marshalls executing an extradition order because an FTP client I downloaded happened to come from a Japanese server...
But Toyota's invention is only an improvement upon the other invention. Toyota can patent the improvement, but they and all licensees must also obtain a license for the original patent. Just because you add a redial function to a phone doesn't mean you then can patent the phone.
However, if Toyota was in fact awarded the patent for the complete Synergy Drive, then the patent office screwed up and Toyota's off the hook until their patent is successfully challenged. Then there would be a grace period, meanwhile they design another hybrid drivetrain.
I suppose it depends on how you define "server board". Room for tons of ECC RAM and two CPUs is server or serious-workstation class
Definitely open to interpretation. You've described my audio workstation there. ECC and two socket 940 dual-core Opterons was the only way to run ProTools on a quad-core box back in late 2005. The motherboard is a server/workstation/gaming hybrid, Asus K8N-DL. Hard to believe it's still pounding out albums after four years, only significant downtime was a PSU failure.
However I can't imagine one of the most successful and server-dependent companies in the world having anything but the very best. The one guy above would have us think it runs on a room of clustered eMacs or something.
Increasing the level of difficulty of each facet of a test evenly so the test remains standardized is a very difficult task. They'll have to find the right kind of professors for the job, who probably won't want to do it.
I recommend the profs be compelled to write 500-word essays and those that write the best ones don't have to do work on the tests.
Eolas is not the bad guy here, they're just doing what is legally possible. You can't condemn a company for following the law, just because it seems wrong.
Morality is not defined by law.
But corporations are. The whole point of corporations is that both shareholders and executive are insulated from certain liabilities that enable them to do things a private person legally could not. Add competition from other corporations, and they are invariably compelled to take advantage of this insulation and act immorally.
I freaked out my philosophy prof in my junior year when I compared corporations to God. In short my conclusion was that corporations are law-based conceptual entities devoid of body or morality, and God is a morality-based conceptual entity devoid of body or law. We, as civilized humans, are bound by morality, law, and our corporeal nature. So if we free ourselves of both law and morality and live in total anarchy, we attain God-like freedom over ourselves and the physical world.
I vote we start with the patent office.
Disclaimer: I do not endorse anarchy, it's just a liberating subject to meditate upon.
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22 fires out of how many millions of flights
That's still significantly lower than the number of casualties from bomb components that ressembled water bottles, which is why they're banned.
Fixed that for you.
I own a pair of Bose noise-canceling headphones that I enjoy, so maybe that tech would be enhanced by these crystals.
LMAO... just mod me troll... just do it before I post ad nauseam how fucking idiodic that is...
Companies are already making too much money abusing our lack of privacy. Why stop now?
Playboy sales would skyrocket.
Think of it from a the perspective of the imps making the viruses (and no, it's not 'virii'). Pretend you're a spineless asshole that wants to cause as much damage as possible. Do you use widespread tools to make a Windows virus with relative ease and hit the biggest user base, or do you spend much more time finding vulerabilities in better OS's and hit a much smaller user base?
99 times out of 100 it's the former scenario that plays out. Doesn't mean you needn't run anti-virus software on OS X, for example, but you can have much more confidence that nothing will get past it. Running XP doesn't scare me, it's the number of viruses that Avast catches that scares me.
The same thing has happened in the movies. Often historical events were only used as distorted background. And movies are as games made for entertainment purposes. So what counts is entertainment value not historical accuracy.
Shocking. Tell me again where accuracy is actually appreciated, outside of a profession or academics? Politics? Media? Religion?
I say let Obama run the economy into the ground, we gotta focus on this video game historical accuracy issue.
Ah, it was corrected before I checked for it...
and is weilding them broadly
Amazing that Slashdot still can't master the technology of the "spellcheck", which I had in WordStar in 1987.
More amazing still is that spelling errors are still news. Where exactly is that quoted from? My 'find text' function (also been around since the 80's) says it's not in TFA nor the summary, and your post has no other parent post...?
Funnier still is that Firefox's spellcheck dictionary does not have the word "spellcheck".
I agree, and I recall my Asus motherboards from the 90's had 3Com ethernet controllers, so perhaps the list of defendants is just 3Com's former clients.
And speaking of missed targets, why is Apple singled out above the other brands, "Acer, ASUS, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett Packard, Sony, and Toshiba", whom each probably sold more ethernet-equipped products? Apple isn't that sexy. I was drawn to this thread curious over why Apple would be singled out, but clearly they weren't.
Perhaps its providence that we're faced with sustainable energy productions and conservation here on Earth. Our efforts might reveal a means of space propulsion using energy captured during flight. Otherwise, a portable power source capable of inter-stellar travel could be a hot piece of technology to the other civilization. If such a probe were to "darken our doorstep", it could easily start a war, or worse, i.e. Voyager episode Friendship One.
Or they'll just plug into an external cell antenna.
Exactly. And the only antennae that should be available for that purpose should be incorporated into a hands-free system. Studies have shown that hands-free calling while driving actually doesn't lower accident statistics significantly compared to hand-held calling, but it'll stop drivers from texting, which is the worst offender.
Cel use in cars won't stop any more than eating in cars will, and any efforts to prevent it will probably just introduce a new set of distractions.
go read up on the explosive requirements to make a nuclear bomb
LMAO Who said anything about actually cracking an atom. Wake up dude.
This is a media war.
"Since a dirty bomb is unlikely to cause many deaths, many do not consider this to be a weapon of mass destruction.[3] Its purpose would presumably be to create psychological, not physical, harm through ignorance, mass panic, and terror. For this reason dirty bombs are sometimes called "weapons of mass disruption". Additionally, containment and decontamination of thousands of victims, as well as decontamination of the affected area might require considerable time and expense, rendering areas partly unusable and causing economic damage."
Now re-read my last post: "Replay Oklahoma City with a few of those batteries among the diesel and fertilizer" and actually think about it. People don't know any more about dirty bombs than they did then. 9/11 didn't do shit.
So why exactly is the American public kept in the dark of how futile a dirty bomb really is? The post before mine mentioned that "Joe Public hears the word "nuclear" and shits a brick." In the cold war, people couldn't build bomb shelters fast enough, now the exact same threat exists in people's minds, and nobody's doing anything about it.
I agree the threat is fake, but the lack of reaction is very real.
Who said he spent anything? I've been through Las Vegas about 8 times, partied my ass off, never spent a cent, and that's just from being a musician/promoter for one tour. Never had such luck with New York, but I bet Steve's a little more plugged in that I am.
Intelligence is merely the rate at which knowledge is absorbed and applied. Imagination is the fuel by which knowledge is generated and processed.
When you see this long-haired boy with the WikiReader sitting on an open page of a book, can you not see the caption, "OK, which one of these is complete bullshit?"
Ah, my bad. The site has been updated since I last read the full text. It used to read 90% efficiency with no further elaboration. Guess I got caught up by the funky design.
Oh and using cheap land to generate electricity for high value land also seems like a no-brainer (seriously, would you build local generation in lower Manhattan?)
Yes, as many of these, from this same thread, as possible. Starts at the second paragraph.
You're halfway towards dreaming up what's called a SuperGrid, but instead of putting a bunch of 18-wheeler H-bombs on the highway the hydrogen is cooled to liquid form and piped around the superconductive power conduits to cool them. The -2F operating temperate does make that much more feasible, especially since for a solar farm power reserves will be required to cool the conduit before electricity flow resumes in the morning. At that temperature you don't need so exotic a coolant either, maybe the outer casing can be some sort of Peltier sleeve.
And solar panels are not very efficient. The amount of solar energy that strikes the roof of a typical single-dwelling house has ample energy for typical needs. Sure we need solar farms for densely populated areas, but more importantly we need more efficient and affordable small scale solar energy harvesters. The technology already exists, just hasn't been brought to market yet.
One key component is the The Green Steam Engine, which is compact, scalable, virtually maintenance-frree, and can operate at 85% efficiency. Figure a collection mirror transfers heat energy to the water with 99% efficiency, the 85% efficient engine turns an 85% efficient alternator to generate electricity. 0.99 x 0.85 x 0.85 = 0.715 or 71.5% efficiency. That's WAY better than solar panels, which are currently around 11%.
Lets assume 71.5% is overly optimistic for a mass-produced generator. With 60% efficiency a 6' diameter collector dish and 2.5hp steam engine can generate 1500W. Add a tracking system so it's always pointed at the sun and you've got the typical power-frugal home covered. Add another one for each plug-in car and air conditioner, probably two for heaters since it'll be cold when you need them. They're small enough to mount on your roof, on a post, on a tree, on a garage, etc.
And screw hydrogen as a mass-market energy source. It's much more efficient and safer to get electricity to cars than to use electricity to produce volatile hydrogen gas then take it to cars. Admit it, people like hydrogen for the same reason they like salsa - the name sounds cool.
Rather than resort to Star Trek ideas for transporting energy vast distances, let's use proven ways to harvest energy closer to where it is to be used.
I've personally seen a car accident where the fuel tank was breached and the passengers narrowly escaped before the truck was engulfed in fire. Take that to a nuclear level and it's not just paranoia.
Nor is the likelihood of the batteries being used for dirty bombs. Replay Oklahoma City with a few of those batteries among the diesel and fertilizer. I don't pretend to know what the contamination radius or half-life would be, but I'm guessing most of the metropolitan area would be unlivable for the next 150 years minimum. How long do those batteries last again?
Meanwhile, you can't take a tube of toothpaste on a commercial airplane in most countries. Forget it, it'll never ever happen.
"A revised Copyright Law that prohibits users from downloading such peer-to-peer file sharing software will come into force in January."
I'm curious how they define the type(s) of software that are illegal. I don't need my door kicked in by federal marshalls executing an extradition order because an FTP client I downloaded happened to come from a Japanese server...
But Toyota's invention is only an improvement upon the other invention. Toyota can patent the improvement, but they and all licensees must also obtain a license for the original patent. Just because you add a redial function to a phone doesn't mean you then can patent the phone.
However, if Toyota was in fact awarded the patent for the complete Synergy Drive, then the patent office screwed up and Toyota's off the hook until their patent is successfully challenged. Then there would be a grace period, meanwhile they design another hybrid drivetrain.
I suppose it depends on how you define "server board". Room for tons of ECC RAM and two CPUs is server or serious-workstation class
Definitely open to interpretation. You've described my audio workstation there. ECC and two socket 940 dual-core Opterons was the only way to run ProTools on a quad-core box back in late 2005. The motherboard is a server/workstation/gaming hybrid, Asus K8N-DL. Hard to believe it's still pounding out albums after four years, only significant downtime was a PSU failure.
However I can't imagine one of the most successful and server-dependent companies in the world having anything but the very best. The one guy above would have us think it runs on a room of clustered eMacs or something.
Increasing the level of difficulty of each facet of a test evenly so the test remains standardized is a very difficult task. They'll have to find the right kind of professors for the job, who probably won't want to do it.
I recommend the profs be compelled to write 500-word essays and those that write the best ones don't have to do work on the tests.
Eolas is not the bad guy here, they're just doing what is legally possible. You can't condemn a company for following the law, just because it seems wrong.
Morality is not defined by law.
But corporations are. The whole point of corporations is that both shareholders and executive are insulated from certain liabilities that enable them to do things a private person legally could not. Add competition from other corporations, and they are invariably compelled to take advantage of this insulation and act immorally.
I freaked out my philosophy prof in my junior year when I compared corporations to God. In short my conclusion was that corporations are law-based conceptual entities devoid of body or morality, and God is a morality-based conceptual entity devoid of body or law. We, as civilized humans, are bound by morality, law, and our corporeal nature. So if we free ourselves of both law and morality and live in total anarchy, we attain God-like freedom over ourselves and the physical world.
I vote we start with the patent office.
Disclaimer: I do not endorse anarchy, it's just a liberating subject to meditate upon.
What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class?
A bunch of pimply-faced NERDS!!