It shows that he understands it well enough to make the device and that he can improvise from plans. Let's not forget the prizes he's won are mostly science fair prizes. Many such fairs REQUIRE you to reproduce somebody else's research instead of doing completly origional work (to minimize risk and maximize the ability of a mediocre judge to know if the project is real) Should he win a Nobel? Hell no. Should he be granted an honory degree? Hell no. Should he get prizes in undergraduate level science fairs? Yes.
I think not. Hoax would be an intentional deception on the part of the creator of the device, not the press not having the foggiest idea what they are talking about and the/. story submitter going for shock value.
Basicly for this to be a hoax the device must turn out not to work in they its creator claimed.
Heck, I'd be growing diamonds in my back yard if I could afford to buy the super huge vintage world war 2 press at an industrial site down the road from me... but they'd just be an inefficient curiosity too.
That is exactly why this kid DOES deserve a prize. He managed to make the device without a $10,000 research/developement grant. No he didn't create anything revolutanary, but he did accomplish an extraordinary acheivement. I'll drink to him tonight. (not that I really need an excuse)
I accept your bet, and all of slashdot is witness. I say "soon" would mean within six months, but I'll give you the benifit of the doubt and we'll say a year. That sound fair, if this not proven to be a hoax by that time, or if it is proven beyond a reasonable doubt NOT to be a hoax before that time I will email you an address to send the check, or you can pay via paypal. Likewise, if this turns out to be a hoax, email me (email address is listed correctly above, but make sure your SMTP server has the same domain name as what follows your @ or is a subdomain thereof) and I'll send you the money in your prefered (reasonable) fasion.
Um, I think the article said (in english no less) that the reactor produced less radiation than the passenger on a commercial aircraft is exposed to. So yes, he "knows what he's doing..."
As far as the cost, it said how much it cost(although I don't recall if it said how much he needed/got). As for walking up and buying, I'm sure he had the university's seal on the request?
Ok, if the entire slashdot crowd bought an album from Ima Indy Musicmaker it still wouldn't be a splash in the bucket compared to the amount of money the RIAA is making off of N'Sync, or Britney Spears. Frankly, the music corportations wouldn't even notice most likly. (Or they would offer said independent artst a contract with a 2bil advance just to get his service for life, so make sure you choose an intelligent artist with a backbone)
sending one song (the supposed 'hit') to every radiostation you can think of (multiple times under different names if need arises)
90% of radio stations won't play the song without permission from music coorprations. The music corps force them into this in order to keep their damnable monopoly.
asking for that artist at play-by-demand radio/tv-shows
Um, I'm sure he'd love to, but do you own the telivision channel, or does TimeWarner or an affiliate?
post about that artist on every messageboard you can find
That will get you responces from people like me who are terminaly pessimistic, and little more.
let your non-/. savvy friends subconsiously listen to this song all the time
You might get them intrested, untill they go to BigCDStoreInTheMall and can't find the song. Then they'll forget about when some new prefab superstar hits the scene.
Do commercial aircraft still have analogue components (barametric altimeter or something) so that in a total loss of electricity you can still do slightly better than an emergency landing? Or are such jets so big that old scool flight apparatus just won't cut it?
If you can't tell I know almost nothing about what I'm asking, if I havn't identified myself as uneducated in these matters inderictly, let me go ahead and do it verbose.
I want to see how Jum Businessman makes that call through a faraday cage. Jim Businessman's laptop might still work, but cell-phones and such probably won't...
I agree, because "Moron SCO" is redundant. What's more, it says the same thing twice!
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The note was bigger than the post... Sad, very, very sad.
That's like saying that because George W. Bush benifited so much from his own political FUD campain after 9/11 he must be behind the attacks on the World Trade Center. While either is possible, it really needs more evidence to make such an assertion. Microsoft might just be jumping at an opertunity.
The Computer Lab (actualy it was called something else and was part of the library, but I forget the "official" name, everybody called it a lab) I used to work at had auto-shutoff monitors at first. this feature was disabled after a month. Why? Whenever ANY moniter powered on, it would distort the (approx) 12 closest other monitors. Having your screan waver 10-20 times per hour was just to much, with screans as close together as those babys were, we just had to go for screansavers (my idea to go SETI@home was, sadly, not approved)
They are stating exactly how to submit the resumes. A email with document in MS format isn't considered submitted by the company. I can't claim that I send my resume if I send it to say, the inbox of the company's janitor, nor can I claim I sent it if it was in a totaly unreadable format. (Yes, I sent my resume and they didn't retain it, why does it matter that it was encrypted with 256bit encryption and had no subject?) What that disclaimer is stating is that a resume sent as an MS word attachment WON'T be RECEIVED, not that it won't be considered. Obviously a company can't be required to keep all the resumes they didn't receive.
WTF? What federal law makes it illegal to have a filter that automaticly deleted any outside email with a MS word attachment? That is ludricous! You are deleting messages from your own server, with cause, and have notified the people who would be sending such messages. There is no federal law that even touches this. To paraphrase Linux, "You're smoking crack".
Create a reasonable way to register the rights to a single song, somewhere in the range of three times what the artist gets for the sale of one album divided by the average number of songs on an album plus the cost of a stamp. Mail the user a cirtificate that gives them rights to listen to said songs on any media. Whatever money is left over after the cost of ink and paper, split evenly between the artist and the RIAA.
This should be fair because the RIAA claims that the costs of CD's include the cost of distribution. As in a file-swapping scheme the swappers pay that cost themselves (when they pay for an ISP) the cost of creating the cd and distrobution should be cut out. The Artists who the RIAA is so upset about file-sharing hurting would get at least as much money as they had before, and the RIAA would get their cut for "promotion." The only companys that would loose out are the companys that actualy burn the CD's and why shouldn't they loose out if their service isn't wanted or needed?
"Page Not Found" see if you can find a still working link. On the second hand don't. I'm tired of biting, try trolling elsewhere. Nobody is reading the discussion anymore so all we're talking to is each other. And I get the impression you won't change your mind no matter how contrary to reality your views are (if you even really have these views and arn't just trying to stir the pot).
ta ta
PS (only read this part if you really care) Oh, I just looked and while I still can't get the page you mentioned to load, I'll take your word for it as I found a close by link. (Glad I kept trying to find the link before posting) But another link nearby is also fairly enlightening. It deals with how many countries think the USA is a bigger threat than varrious other powers like North Korea, China and Russia. It's pretty telling (especialy the first one) that this is even an ISSUE. They're comparing us to North Korea for crying out loud, not say, Great Britan or Germany. Here is the link.
Copyright laws were designed to make sure works entered into the public domain after a reasonable period of time. Prior to copyright law common law gave artists sole right to use their material AS LONG AS THEY LIVED. This needed to be limited so copyright laws were invented. Now copyright laws extend copyright protection BEYOND the lifteime of the creators. Copyright law is now operating as the exact oppisite of what it was origionaly intended to do, instead of making sure that all materials eventualy enter the public domain, it makes sure that all materials created after Mickey Mouse DON'T enter public domain. Grumble.
Don't even get me started on the ridicoulous, wrongheaded idea of "intellectual property" by the way.
One line of that stands out more than any other any country that their citizens want to immigrate here, by defininton love our way of life. This SO doesn't neccicarly follow. They imigrate here because there is more money here (thanks to us exploiting the rest of the world.) They are pragmatists. They come here because they have a better chance here than they do where they come from. That does not mean that the immagrants love us or think we're anywhere better than shit. Hell what about the al quida (spelling?) terrorists who immagrate here then blow up buildings here. They wanted to immagrate here (fact) by your logic that means they loved our way of life, even though they were willing to pilot an airplane into a building in order to disrupt it. Yeah, right.
Furthermore, it is not the majority of ANY country who immagrates to our shores. (if it were we'd be turning them back) but a minority, always has been.
Your statement that if they hate us they would be taking up arms against us is hogwash. Many may hate us but realize that if they took up arms against us all it would accomplish is that we would bomb their countries and plant a dictator in place of the government that they might already like. (Can you say Iran?) The countries that stand a fighting chance against us, and they would have to gang up against us at that, don't attack because the current situation is still better than WWIII. Your logic here is like saying that because the second grader who is having his lunch money stolen every day by a 14 year old sixth grader *likes* the bully because he doesn't fight back. In fact he doesn't fight back because that would cause him to be beaten and possible shoved headfirst into a garbage can.
As for Iraq, they hate us, but they arn't willing to die, and sacrifice their children, to prove the point. They'd rather live with people they hate, than die with people they love.
I reissue my challenge FIND A COUNTRY THAT MORE THAN 50% OF THE POPULATION WILL SAY THEY FAVOUR THE US IN ANY POLL don't try to mix (poor) logic to make an assertion that they love us because they don't want to die. Find the facts. True, many countries don't have open polling on political topics, so perhaps, in spite of the fact that many of them are the ones that hate us the most, perhaps some of them have 50% favour of USA. Sadly we cannot know that and can only speculate. My challenge is, find a place where people are free to speak their mind, and will do so faverably towards the USA. (Note, don't include the USA, any state thereof, or California) You might be able to find one. I doubt it but I won't be to surprised. But you won't find three. Now stop twisting arguments and show me some facts, or admit that you can't.
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It shows that he understands it well enough to make the device and that he can improvise from plans. Let's not forget the prizes he's won are mostly science fair prizes. Many such fairs REQUIRE you to reproduce somebody else's research instead of doing completly origional work (to minimize risk and maximize the ability of a mediocre judge to know if the project is real) Should he win a Nobel? Hell no. Should he be granted an honory degree? Hell no. Should he get prizes in undergraduate level science fairs? Yes.
Basicly for this to be a hoax the device must turn out not to work in they its creator claimed.
That is exactly why this kid DOES deserve a prize. He managed to make the device without a $10,000 research/developement grant. No he didn't create anything revolutanary, but he did accomplish an extraordinary acheivement. I'll drink to him tonight. (not that I really need an excuse)
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I'm in rare form tonight, must have forgotten my meds.
Sour grapes much?
As far as the cost, it said how much it cost(although I don't recall if it said how much he needed/got). As for walking up and buying, I'm sure he had the university's seal on the request?
Ok, if the entire slashdot crowd bought an album from Ima Indy Musicmaker it still wouldn't be a splash in the bucket compared to the amount of money the RIAA is making off of N'Sync, or Britney Spears. Frankly, the music corportations wouldn't even notice most likly. (Or they would offer said independent artst a contract with a 2bil advance just to get his service for life, so make sure you choose an intelligent artist with a backbone)
sending one song (the supposed 'hit') to every radiostation you can think of (multiple times under different names if need arises)
90% of radio stations won't play the song without permission from music coorprations. The music corps force them into this in order to keep their damnable monopoly.
asking for that artist at play-by-demand radio/tv-shows
Um, I'm sure he'd love to, but do you own the telivision channel, or does TimeWarner or an affiliate?
post about that artist on every messageboard you can find That will get you responces from people like me who are terminaly pessimistic, and little more.
let your non-/. savvy friends subconsiously listen to this song all the time You might get them intrested, untill they go to BigCDStoreInTheMall and can't find the song. Then they'll forget about when some new prefab superstar hits the scene.
etcetc.
etc. etc. etc.
If you can't tell I know almost nothing about what I'm asking, if I havn't identified myself as uneducated in these matters inderictly, let me go ahead and do it verbose.
I want to see how Jum Businessman makes that call through a faraday cage. Jim Businessman's laptop might still work, but cell-phones and such probably won't...
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The note was bigger than the post... Sad, very, very sad.
I think you give 29.9 precent of the population to much credit.
That's like saying that because George W. Bush benifited so much from his own political FUD campain after 9/11 he must be behind the attacks on the World Trade Center. While either is possible, it really needs more evidence to make such an assertion. Microsoft might just be jumping at an opertunity.
Darl McBride. Of course, we'd have to use a crusoe processor, as a pentium and cooling system wouldn't fit.
The Computer Lab (actualy it was called something else and was part of the library, but I forget the "official" name, everybody called it a lab) I used to work at had auto-shutoff monitors at first. this feature was disabled after a month. Why? Whenever ANY moniter powered on, it would distort the (approx) 12 closest other monitors. Having your screan waver 10-20 times per hour was just to much, with screans as close together as those babys were, we just had to go for screansavers (my idea to go SETI@home was, sadly, not approved)
as has been previously noted I typed to fast, my fingers went faster than my brain. For me that must mean I was typing at over 2WPM
Ok so perhaps that last one wasn't that important, but you get the idea.
They are stating exactly how to submit the resumes. A email with document in MS format isn't considered submitted by the company. I can't claim that I send my resume if I send it to say, the inbox of the company's janitor, nor can I claim I sent it if it was in a totaly unreadable format. (Yes, I sent my resume and they didn't retain it, why does it matter that it was encrypted with 256bit encryption and had no subject?) What that disclaimer is stating is that a resume sent as an MS word attachment WON'T be RECEIVED, not that it won't be considered. Obviously a company can't be required to keep all the resumes they didn't receive.
WTF? What federal law makes it illegal to have a filter that automaticly deleted any outside email with a MS word attachment? That is ludricous! You are deleting messages from your own server, with cause, and have notified the people who would be sending such messages. There is no federal law that even touches this. To paraphrase Linux, "You're smoking crack".
This should be fair because the RIAA claims that the costs of CD's include the cost of distribution. As in a file-swapping scheme the swappers pay that cost themselves (when they pay for an ISP) the cost of creating the cd and distrobution should be cut out. The Artists who the RIAA is so upset about file-sharing hurting would get at least as much money as they had before, and the RIAA would get their cut for "promotion." The only companys that would loose out are the companys that actualy burn the CD's and why shouldn't they loose out if their service isn't wanted or needed?
The family probably gave permission.
I'd like to pledge $10.00 if this gets off the ground. Sombody willing to set up a fund?
ta ta
PS (only read this part if you really care) Oh, I just looked and while I still can't get the page you mentioned to load, I'll take your word for it as I found a close by link. (Glad I kept trying to find the link before posting) But another link nearby is also fairly enlightening. It deals with how many countries think the USA is a bigger threat than varrious other powers like North Korea, China and Russia. It's pretty telling (especialy the first one) that this is even an ISSUE. They're comparing us to North Korea for crying out loud, not say, Great Britan or Germany. Here is the link.
Don't even get me started on the ridicoulous, wrongheaded idea of "intellectual property" by the way.
Furthermore, it is not the majority of ANY country who immagrates to our shores. (if it were we'd be turning them back) but a minority, always has been.
Your statement that if they hate us they would be taking up arms against us is hogwash. Many may hate us but realize that if they took up arms against us all it would accomplish is that we would bomb their countries and plant a dictator in place of the government that they might already like. (Can you say Iran?) The countries that stand a fighting chance against us, and they would have to gang up against us at that, don't attack because the current situation is still better than WWIII. Your logic here is like saying that because the second grader who is having his lunch money stolen every day by a 14 year old sixth grader *likes* the bully because he doesn't fight back. In fact he doesn't fight back because that would cause him to be beaten and possible shoved headfirst into a garbage can.
As for Iraq, they hate us, but they arn't willing to die, and sacrifice their children, to prove the point. They'd rather live with people they hate, than die with people they love.
I reissue my challenge FIND A COUNTRY THAT MORE THAN 50% OF THE POPULATION WILL SAY THEY FAVOUR THE US IN ANY POLL don't try to mix (poor) logic to make an assertion that they love us because they don't want to die. Find the facts. True, many countries don't have open polling on political topics, so perhaps, in spite of the fact that many of them are the ones that hate us the most, perhaps some of them have 50% favour of USA. Sadly we cannot know that and can only speculate. My challenge is, find a place where people are free to speak their mind, and will do so faverably towards the USA. (Note, don't include the USA, any state thereof, or California) You might be able to find one. I doubt it but I won't be to surprised. But you won't find three. Now stop twisting arguments and show me some facts, or admit that you can't.