Agree 100%, I have been on both sides of this and talented programmers don't even have to be told anything, they usually know before you do. When I was "managing" a group I mostly just coded a piece here and there when I had time and spent the rest of the time dealing with paperwork, which I hate. Programming is an art form and those who are really good at it are worth anything to keep and are the easiest to get along with because they absolutely live and breathe the skill. Everybody has their skill set and you have to let them fit their own skills together to make the best whole effort.IMHO
There is a remnant of a naturally occurring reactor that operated in southern Africa 2 billion years ago so I suppose it is possible, however many other odd things are also possible. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap021016.html
The fact that the temperature curve is high is just a side effect of the huge rocket they launched at us at almost the speed of light. But they are 63 light years away and so I'm not scared of no stinking aliens, oh wait, if they are at near light and the image is 63 years old, they could be here any minute. Instead, I want to welcome.... On a serious note the correlation of three points of data is hardly enough to form any real conclusions, but it does allow the possibility boundaries to include the possibility that the gases are associated with life. I would think that enough carbon dioxide to register at 63LY must be massive.
That seems like it opens up a completely new view of the universe from the past if I understand correctly. They can diff images in all directions and identify unknown supernova events in the past?
This link is from 2001 http://www.utexas.edu/news/2001/05/17/nr_comet/
I just finished biochemistry and I am confused by the carbon-2 reference myself. I assume they are not talking about c 12 or C 13 isotopes, but I cannot tell what they are talking about, even after two articles with the same naming convention. Yes I agree 6 Protons and 6 Neutrons that weigh 2 AMUs would definitely be of alien origin. I assume they are saying it is a two carbon chain or three carbon chain. 1 2 3 4 Methyl Ethyl Propyl Butyl.
That is interesting, as I posted the link to wiki and it says so right there. I should have noticed that inconsistency in my post. Thanks. Apparently I am not perfect, and spell cheek didn't help me with content.
You are right on that. My sister was doing laser cellular reconstructive surgery ( Transoral Laser Microsurgery ) 12 years ago with a Neodymium Yttrium Arsenic Garnet ( Nd YAG ) 100 watt continuous laser. Here is a link to that laser created in 1964. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nd-YAG_laser. I would have RTFA, but it was slashdotted already. I still think if a shark did it, that would be news.
As memory gets cheaper and I can store more locally, what I really need to know is whether it is unique or new to me. I can read Frits P0st a million times and never get tired of it. There was a very good article on slashdot the other day and it got over 2000 comments, some of which were very insightful and useful. I need a way to know for myself what is new to me. I would be nice if the browser interacted more with Google to help me with that. I just looked, and RTFM is indexed 4.5 million times which of course includes xkcd#293, and that is really all I need to know.
IANAC ( I am not a clairvoyant. ) My nephew works in protein folding and a friend of mine works in the area of nanotech and biotech mix. I work with all these technologies , cloning, and many open source tools. The transition from a model that has held for 100 years is hardly earth shattering. A step beyond the manufacturing model is what I think is in process.
My friend and I took a lab together recently and we were able to take a device that was generated by nanotech and clone it into an organism which acts under the 2 ^N law and when you combine the ability to manufacture at this rate with a real molecular computer, it doubles every hour. The first time we did this it definitely surprised me at the ease at which it was done.
I don't think that this specific technology is the only key to knowledge of how things interact in real time at the molecular level. There are several other technologies that I have experimented with in the microscope lab that could be combined to achieve a similar effect.
The idea of parallelism will put a kink in Moore's law too, IMHO. I personally like DNA memory over the graphene concept. Recent discoveries in that area seem to be more possible. I think that each new thing provides a glimpse from a new perspective and that it is the combination of those many views that will place the molecular world into focus.
I worked with monoclonal antibody methods recently and it also provided a glimpse into the world of molecular shape recognition. Automated cell sorting adds another level of understanding. I think that biotech is truly in its infancy now and it seems reasonable that one day soon it will be possible to have a seed that grows to be a computer. Life does this all the time.
Gene sequencing has gone from impossible to $300 and a week delay now, but that changes so fast that I have no clue what it is now, but I did see that someone was harking a gene chip that -might- sequence 4B base pairs in a matter of minutes. I think there is even a $10M x-prize for that.
This is very exciting to see the possibility that some of the mechanisms of protein folding and DNA protein interaction might be discovered with this technology. It might be invaluable in determining how a prion causes its damage.The rate at which this technology is changing seems to beat Moore's law. I see that graphene for memory has hit 10nm now and may become 3D, which will make a very large factorial change to the scale of memory.
I think they were killed for having WMD. They should not have been playing with nuclear material. Even though they were undead nuclear mutant zombies, they should get a decent burial and not be dug up by archaeologists and strangers ever few thousand years.
Well I am seeing a paradox here because the NSA designs and creates tools like this and makes manuals to explain how to use it. Now they can say they are using it for a legal purpose, however if the mere fact of having something that could be used in a sneaky way is illegal then they would be guilty of possessing a criminal artifact. If creating the stuff is illegal, whoever contracts with a government agency to produce this stuff is criminal by this strict an interpretation. It seems to imply that a citizen can commit a crime and a bureaucrat cannot.
Well I think that the government should be the one stop shop for bullying as it makes sense and it allows everybody to be treated as criminals. It would lead to a consistent quality control of abuse and interference. Is bombing and laying waste to entire countries considered geo-bullying.
Whoa. Troll? Really? For an on-topic post? Wow. That's just awesome.
That surprised me too, considering "In space no one can hear you fart" is okay. I would have said "If NASA smelt it, NASA dealt it". I thought your idea was very good. Jump right into that ocean and do a continuous stream analysis until it is either definitely positive or definitely negative.
It seems that fraud is invited the other way also. I would say that alcohol is banned to avoid people buying votes with alcohol, but is meth or heroine banned as inducements? I will read you book on secure Linux as that seems very interesting. As I say, IANAE ( I am not an expert ). You are probably right, but I personally trust the people who have an economic stake in the election less than I do the people who vote. Voter fraud seems to happen in many odd ways that are not addressed by secure ballots. Manipulation is inherent in politics at so many levels. I suppose it serves as an approximation of reasonable, much like the moderation system at/.
I suggested to a friend that when a ballot was filed that the voter get a receipt with a UID , a Unique Identification number that could be used to check against the tallied votes which would be published with the UID and no personal information to determine if their vote was assigned properly. I don't trust the electronic or paper ballots, because the process is unnecessarily obscure with the stated attempt to protect the voter. Clearly there is corruption and if there is a CREEP, then there will be a way. I don't know how the systems are implemented, but I have never been given a way to verify that my votes were applied in the way I intended.
Hey let's run valgrind on it and if a random number thingy is slowing it down we can remove it. DOH! A desktop machine does not need to scream. If you want speed use another distro like Arch if you don't want CPU cycles wasted on pretty visual cues.
It is the game of life and this has been done since the beginning of computers and I took a course once in BAL, RPG, COBOL, and JCL. They were teaching punch cards too. I think it is just a way for an institution to make money and even the university I attend is offering courses that will never be an advantage to the student and the price of education is a disadvantage for those who are mislead to believe that what they are learning will pay off well enough to get them out from under $100,000 of student loans. I know several students at the university I attend that graduate and then realize that the degree they have will never pay for the education cost they incurred. A person who was interested in game development has many free and open source packages that will teach you the basics of game development and leave you without a hole in your pocket.
I was going to say that people and vendors missed the obvious advantage of OS on a chip like coreboot. If they were even more creative the entire OS could be available instantly and just restore to RAM from the last boot. It would be much more secure also as the secure utilities could be write protected. Coreboot seems to me to be the best choice for manufacturers and users looking to save the MS tax.
New information supplants old ideas and how does this process become sensible? I often run into manuals that are a few versions out of date on the web and they never get removed. Until somebody can come up with a way that everyone can share information in a common data base that is version controlled, the problem will persist. Wikis and Wikipedia are good ideas, but the concept needs some kind of extension so that information and its corrections are connected in some way.
The fact that government / companies might screw with the data for personal interest is a separate issue of letting an inherently corrupt process manage your information.
I suppose the responsibility falls to the end user to deal with the inherent problems in managing and verifying the data that they use for their purpose. I doubt that a complete, secure, common, valid data base ( or system ) could be devised when more than one person is involved.
The first thing my android did is remove his. If a robot is smart enough to be useful, he will assume you have installed a kill switch and will sneak around until he finds where you keep the remote control. Oh wait, you're talking about a phone, never mind.
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Agree 100%, I have been on both sides of this and talented programmers don't even have to be told anything, they usually know before you do. When I was "managing" a group I mostly just coded a piece here and there when I had time and spent the rest of the time dealing with paperwork, which I hate.
Programming is an art form and those who are really good at it are worth anything to keep and are the easiest to get along with because they absolutely live and breathe the skill. Everybody has their skill set and you have to let them fit their own skills together to make the best whole effort.IMHO
There is a remnant of a naturally occurring reactor that operated in southern Africa 2 billion years ago so I suppose it is possible, however many other odd things are also possible. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap021016.html
The fact that the temperature curve is high is just a side effect of the huge rocket they launched at us at almost the speed of light. But they are 63 light years away and so I'm not scared of no stinking aliens, oh wait, if they are at near light and the image is 63 years old, they could be here any minute. Instead, I want to welcome .... On a serious note the correlation of three points of data is hardly enough to form any real conclusions, but it does allow the possibility boundaries to include the possibility that the gases are associated with life. I would think that enough carbon dioxide to register at 63LY must be massive.
That seems like it opens up a completely new view of the universe from the past if I understand correctly. They can diff images in all directions and identify unknown supernova events in the past?
This link is from 2001
http://www.utexas.edu/news/2001/05/17/nr_comet/
I just finished biochemistry and I am confused by the carbon-2 reference myself. I assume they are not talking about c 12 or C 13 isotopes, but I cannot tell what they are talking about, even after two articles with the same naming convention. Yes I agree 6 Protons and 6 Neutrons that weigh 2 AMUs would definitely be of alien origin. I assume they are saying it is a two carbon chain or three carbon chain. 1 2 3 4 Methyl Ethyl Propyl Butyl.
That is interesting, as I posted the link to wiki and it says so right there. I should have noticed that inconsistency in my post. Thanks. Apparently I am not perfect, and spell cheek didn't help me with content.
You are right on that. My sister was doing laser cellular reconstructive surgery ( Transoral Laser Microsurgery ) 12 years ago with a Neodymium Yttrium Arsenic Garnet ( Nd YAG ) 100 watt continuous laser. Here is a link to that laser created in 1964. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nd-YAG_laser. I would have RTFA, but it was slashdotted already. I still think if a shark did it, that would be news.
As memory gets cheaper and I can store more locally, what I really need to know is whether it is unique or new to me. I can read Frits P0st a million times and never get tired of it. There was a very good article on slashdot the other day and it got over 2000 comments, some of which were very insightful and useful. I need a way to know for myself what is new to me. I would be nice if the browser interacted more with Google to help me with that. I just looked, and RTFM is indexed 4.5 million times which of course includes xkcd#293, and that is really all I need to know.
IANAC ( I am not a clairvoyant. ) My nephew works in protein folding and a friend of mine works in the area of nanotech and biotech mix. I work with all these technologies , cloning, and many open source tools. The transition from a model that has held for 100 years is hardly earth shattering. A step beyond the manufacturing model is what I think is in process.
My friend and I took a lab together recently and we were able to take a device that was generated by nanotech and clone it into an organism which acts under the 2 ^N law and when you combine the ability to manufacture at this rate with a real molecular computer, it doubles every hour. The first time we did this it definitely surprised me at the ease at which it was done.
I don't think that this specific technology is the only key to knowledge of how things interact in real time at the molecular level. There are several other technologies that I have experimented with in the microscope lab that could be combined to achieve a similar effect.
The idea of parallelism will put a kink in Moore's law too, IMHO. I personally like DNA memory over the graphene concept. Recent discoveries in that area seem to be more possible. I think that each new thing provides a glimpse from a new perspective and that it is the combination of those many views that will place the molecular world into focus.
I worked with monoclonal antibody methods recently and it also provided a glimpse into the world of molecular shape recognition. Automated cell sorting adds another level of understanding. I think that biotech is truly in its infancy now and it seems reasonable that one day soon it will be possible to have a seed that grows to be a computer. Life does this all the time.
Gene sequencing has gone from impossible to $300 and a week delay now, but that changes so fast that I have no clue what it is now, but I did see that someone was harking a gene chip that -might- sequence 4B base pairs in a matter of minutes. I think there is even a $10M x-prize for that.
This is very exciting to see the possibility that some of the mechanisms of protein folding and DNA protein interaction might be discovered with this technology. It might be invaluable in determining how a prion causes its damage.The rate at which this technology is changing seems to beat Moore's law. I see that graphene for memory has hit 10nm now and may become 3D, which will make a very large factorial change to the scale of memory.
I think they were killed for having WMD. They should not have been playing with nuclear material. Even though they were undead nuclear mutant zombies, they should get a decent burial and not be dug up by archaeologists and strangers ever few thousand years.
Well I am seeing a paradox here because the NSA designs and creates tools like this and makes manuals to explain how to use it. Now they can say they are using it for a legal purpose, however if the mere fact of having something that could be used in a sneaky way is illegal then they would be guilty of possessing a criminal artifact. If creating the stuff is illegal, whoever contracts with a government agency to produce this stuff is criminal by this strict an interpretation. It seems to imply that a citizen can commit a crime and a bureaucrat cannot.
The source code is leaked and it is :
Boot:
cli
cmp al,al
Here:
jz Here
I think it is unbreakable myself, but it seems that it doesn't do a whole lot.
Well I think that the government should be the one stop shop for bullying as it makes sense and it allows everybody to be treated as criminals. It would lead to a consistent quality control of abuse and interference. Is bombing and laying waste to entire countries considered geo-bullying.
You got there first with the best pun. I was going to say that if I could commit suicide in 4 seconds instead of 600 is that an improvement?
I think we should clone Mark Twain and ask him what he thinks about all this stuff as he might get a +5 funny all the time on /.
Whoa. Troll? Really? For an on-topic post? Wow. That's just awesome.
That surprised me too, considering "In space no one can hear you fart" is okay. I would have said "If NASA smelt it, NASA dealt it". I thought your idea was very good. Jump right into that ocean and do a continuous stream analysis until it is either definitely positive or definitely negative.
It seems that fraud is invited the other way also. I would say that alcohol is banned to avoid people buying votes with alcohol, but is meth or heroine banned as inducements? I will read you book on secure Linux as that seems very interesting. As I say, IANAE ( I am not an expert ). You are probably right, but I personally trust the people who have an economic stake in the election less than I do the people who vote. Voter fraud seems to happen in many odd ways that are not addressed by secure ballots. Manipulation is inherent in politics at so many levels. I suppose it serves as an approximation of reasonable, much like the moderation system at /.
I suggested to a friend that when a ballot was filed that the voter get a receipt with a UID , a Unique Identification number that could be used to check against the tallied votes which would be published with the UID and no personal information to determine if their vote was assigned properly. I don't trust the electronic or paper ballots, because the process is unnecessarily obscure with the stated attempt to protect the voter. Clearly there is corruption and if there is a CREEP, then there will be a way. I don't know how the systems are implemented, but I have never been given a way to verify that my votes were applied in the way I intended.
Hey let's run valgrind on it and if a random number thingy is slowing it down we can remove it. DOH! A desktop machine does not need to scream. If you want speed use another distro like Arch if you don't want CPU cycles wasted on pretty visual cues.
It is the game of life and this has been done since the beginning of computers and I took a course once in BAL, RPG, COBOL, and JCL. They were teaching punch cards too. I think it is just a way for an institution to make money and even the university I attend is offering courses that will never be an advantage to the student and the price of education is a disadvantage for those who are mislead to believe that what they are learning will pay off well enough to get them out from under $100,000 of student loans. I know several students at the university I attend that graduate and then realize that the degree they have will never pay for the education cost they incurred. A person who was interested in game development has many free and open source packages that will teach you the basics of game development and leave you without a hole in your pocket.
I was going to say that people and vendors missed the obvious advantage of OS on a chip like coreboot. If they were even more creative the entire OS could be available instantly and just restore to RAM from the last boot. It would be much more secure also as the secure utilities could be write protected. Coreboot seems to me to be the best choice for manufacturers and users looking to save the MS tax.
New information supplants old ideas and how does this process become sensible? I often run into manuals that are a few versions out of date on the web and they never get removed. Until somebody can come up with a way that everyone can share information in a common data base that is version controlled, the problem will persist. Wikis and Wikipedia are good ideas, but the concept needs some kind of extension so that information and its corrections are connected in some way.
The fact that government / companies might screw with the data for personal interest is a separate issue of letting an inherently corrupt process manage your information.
I suppose the responsibility falls to the end user to deal with the inherent problems in managing and verifying the data that they use for their purpose. I doubt that a complete, secure, common, valid data base ( or system ) could be devised when more than one person is involved.
The first thing my android did is remove his. If a robot is smart enough to be useful, he will assume you have installed a kill switch and will sneak around until he finds where you keep the remote control.
Oh wait, you're talking about a phone, never mind.
I agree, with the revelation that running a spam network is okay, I could imagine that some interpol guy could say that having an operated terrorism site would sound like a good idea and they could have dozens that put out bad gimp-shopped© images of real events and claim responsibility. They could even post targets of terrorists as terror targets. FUD is free to be used by anybody.