"Stubborn [Bolt] Stymies Space Station Space[walkers]"
Sigh... So close, yet so far away.
Unfortunately, there'll be no FTFY coming from here -- move along.
What was the name of that CIA chick the Old Regime outted? That's why whistleblowers are supposed to be protected by law, which is what Manning should have been.
The Summary links to a (somewhat useful) fluff review by the Medical Daily Web Site (and will hit the visitor with 37 cookies). Fwiw, readers at Slashdot may prefer bypassing it by going the Cell's Current Biology Web Site where they'll be able to find the Authors' Original Summary or perhaps the Full Text instead.
War on dissent and alternative information sources.
The war on drugs, as well as all other wars, only profit the profiteers. The wars are a lost cause. The first casualties in any conflict are truth and innocence.
“The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself.” Google will be no an exception.
My girlfriend is a Hacker and looks like Angelina Jolie. (Finding a girlfriend for her would be... well, it might be an interesting idea, to say the least.)
"To put those numbers into perspective, 500 TW is more than one thousand times the power that the entire United States uses at any instant in time." Except for the instant when the lasers were on, of course.
A more interesting perspective: What would it be if the power output was somehow converted to Units of Popcorn Popped?
See corporations are people without gender. They want to be able to marry each other. Then they can file a joint tax return and have children by being able to legally adopt them to have them work for less than minimum wage as indentured servants.
The thing that xTrashcat is missing is the contrary point of view: Dear Slashdot, Where I work, I'm the only one with a decade of experience under my belt. My coworkers constantly advocate using the newest, hippest tech without any concern for how well it's been proven to work. [...] How do I get my coworkers to realize that if we step back from the bleeding edge, we'll end up getting cut a lot less often?
For completeness, xTrashcat's missing contrary point of view (in the interesting alternative story) is also missing the equally biased contrary question; perhaps something such as: Young Pups vs Established Technology?
I for one consider living matter needing to fuel its existence by eating other living matter as its fuel to be a dead end in the evolutionary process. Is this the only way it can develop in what appears to be an eternally infinite Universe? I'd like to think they're other ways.
However, if so, Earth to an outsider (if their is such a thing capable of being in that position) surely would seem to be operating like a ball of acid--completely covered with a bunch of psychotics consuming each other--something to be avoided at all cost.
Of course not, it programs the child to think that it is ok to give up freedoms if authorities say so.
And it exposes adults, strangers to their child, to experience a position of misused power; perhaps some were closet psychos pining for the old days, savoring the idea of threatening her with a spanking if she refused to give the authorities the information,
Also, having an employee of the police department present is usually a deceitful "sales tactic" to work around the legality of telling a child she'll be put in jail--which is subtler than having someone in the background looking at her quietly while holding a hammer, hand in hand. Was he there to witness an arrestable offense if she refused?
"I've been looking for some good reading material, and have been delving into the realms of some great, but nearly forgotten authors —... "
I remember having fond memories for two novels by Blish; read decades ago (making it difficult to assess on how well they'll hold up with present perceptions): "Jack of Eagles" and "A Case of Conscience".
IIRC, Eagles did a speculative mix, combining quantum mechanics with parapsychology; Conscience dealt with Humanity's Religious institutions confronted with instinctively moral Aliens--without the need to use any Religion.
If the days would become shorter, that means we'd be able to drop the %400 rule somewhere between now and Y30K, but since a day is actually slightly longer than what our current algorithm accounts for, the two might just cancel eachother out to let the algorithm last well beyond 30K. I'm too lazy to try and do the math to verify.
The length of a day does create the number of days in a year. However, the total amount of days in the year will never be equal to exactly one year--there will always be a partial day at the end of one year, regardless of each day's length. The reason is geometrical due to the planet orbiting the star--it's not a rotational speed issue.
Imagine the planet stopped in its orbit, but rotating; the point on the Earth directly pointing at the Sun returns to its original position, making it be one day.
Now imagine again the same scenario, this time moving in orbit around the Sun; after completing exactly one rotational day as previously mentioned, it has moved in orbit just a little further--now it needs to play catchup by rotating just a little further (it's about a minute) to make the Sun appear to be at its original position so that it'll appear to us to be one day.
The only time when the number of days does equal exactly one year, is when the rotational day and the orbital year are the same--the planet Mercury and the Earth's Moon being a couple of examples. So, if I understood your explanation, then the math is unnecessary.:)
The real reason to go all digital for money is because it makes it much easier for the government to control what you can and cannot buy. It also makes it easier for the government to control who can and cannot go into business.
It may not be the original intention, but the reasons can shift over time--if the potential for abuse is ignored. The temptation for monstrous abuse creating an unforgiving living hell could occur when considering a completely cashless ubiquitous system being combined with an effective and relative inexpensive analysis software developed by a company such as Palantir. The appropriate organizations, when it's fully developed and implemented (doing a decent job presently, if the articles are to be believed) should be able to successfully know--and control--just about anything, on anyone, anywhere.
This might work nicely for those with access to a UNIX/Linux machine...
For the past 12 years, without using any software (except for what's in my mind--whatever that might be) I've been using two algorithms to mentally generate a unique password for each site that requires logging into an account--now at several hundred and counting, memorization isn't a problem, since the two rules are based on the domain name and how I decided to elaborately positions itself to an American/English keyboard--the passwords easily replaceable, if updating is required. The reason for two instead of just one has to do with the additional security requirements some organisations want to control in how my password is constructed.
Although both rules are general enough to account for any variation and complicated enough in its variety of characters with a decent length to be secure in the classical sense (a random looking long mix of letters, caps, numbers and symbols--improbably hard to remember), there are a few very rare exceptions. For instance, my cell phone account demands, as unbelievable as it may seem, the password's length to be eight, with only letters and digits. When this situation occurs and a couple of slight variations with other clueless Companies, they end up getting that third slacker-catchall algorithm.
So what happens if a site not used in ages has changed their domain and no longer says or knows the original name; or the keyboard is formatted differently? Those 3 forgetful times (out of the 5 times the name changed during the last decade) were simply reset with the email address I always use; the keyboard in another format hasn't happened, but my memory about the character's positions are extremely good--resetting may be option, if I do forget. It's not perfect. Although no one is presently interested in my passwords--there might be a day, for one example, when I discover some new disruptive paradigm shifting technology. When that day happens, the interested parties will, with little effort I might add, be able to hammer it out of me.
>> Now, I wonder who is watching all those camera's that are located at each intersection in the lower mainland...
I'm beginning to feel at least half (as I randomly select an idealized stat to support my reply) are inactive, broken or possibly fake--the hopefuls relying on the intimidating powers of a decoy. During the past several years, although not one to intentionally risk testing this assumption, I've had a few unintentional close calls (one assuredly wrong) without any response.
Something I'm inclined not to believe: that this was luck on my part; instead, wondering if anyone else has thought the same, possibly from experience; or, that someone in the know can confirm there is a lack of followup with some of the intersection cameras here in the lower mainland.
(The speculation is based on one of my jobs requiring an average of 25k miles per year for several different years during the past decade with my own vehicle--a full sized 4 door sedan--not a rental or company car.)
it used to be a meme to say "I'm too good for tv"... look at people watching tv and see how zombie-like they become. have you noticed that? do you ever watch people as they watch tv? thought processes are suspended and you're told exactly what to think and feel....
Original Bumper Sticker: "The more you watch TV, the less you know." Updated B.S.: "The more you Tweet **, the less you know."
Obligatory Post Replying to Updated B.S.: "The more you Slashdot, the less you know."
** (Choose One or More of: Tehweet/FaceBook/MySpace/Surf/etc.)
Perhaps: "The more you TwoDotOh, the less you know." is better. Better yet I prefer: "The more you SocNet, the less you know."; which, of course, if true, means my IQ has just dropped a couple of points by making this post.
Apparently not; from Einstein himself explaining why this is so: "If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German, the Swiss will say I'm a Swiss Citizen and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will exclaim that I am Swiss, the Swiss will say I'm a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew."
I've never been burglarized, threatened or raped and I have a number of guns. I also have a pair of Labrador Retrievers. And a couple of rocks. Oh, and an iPad.
Who (or what) is keeping me safe?
Perhaps your mindset derived from your lifestyle? Peace of mind in having the capability to quickly resort to self defense if the need should arise can in itself create a sense of self confidence that prevents one from appearing to be an easy victim--in turn diffusing a violent incident.
They [wikipedia] put a really low bar to get around their block, just disable javascript reload and keep reading! At least that was my first thought when I viewed it and with konqueror it's an easy menu option to disable javascript for the current window. Now it looks like they disabled editing for every english wikipedia article, and that you can't get around.
An alternative: View (Page) Source; menu or right click menu or hotkey (such as: ctrl + u). Not an easy read, especially if you're one of the rare few on/. unable to understand the purpose of the client-side source code languages--but a workable solution for myself when I unexpectantly needed to use it on that particular day.
One of the remaining options like getting a UI designer to design your UI.
If this is going to be one of the remaining options chosen, insure the designer is one of the few that considers the printed word to be useful to the reader.
...the story where they discovered/detected Dark Matter?
If there is to be a story that resulted in the idea of missing matter, it should be attributed to Louise Volders discovery in the late 1950's and Vera Rubin's additional work in the 1970's about the rotational speed of galaxies being faster than the observed mass of the galaxies--contradicting the acurate results observed when applying the same classical mechanics to the rotational speed of our solar system. Vera Rubin argued convincingly that Fritz Zwicky'sunrelated work in the 1930's (for accurately calculating missing matter in star clusters) was a viable solution.
Slashdot Mirror
"Stubborn [Bolt] Stymies Space Station Space[walkers]" ... So close, yet so far away.
Sigh
Unfortunately, there'll be no FTFY coming from here -- move along.
Finally! An incentive for a real life scenario worthy of a nonfictional evil genius. Three hundred billion dollars -- Muahahahahaa!!
What was the name of that CIA chick the Old Regime outted? That's why whistleblowers are supposed to be protected by law, which is what Manning should have been.
Her name was Valerie Plame.
The Summary links to a (somewhat useful) fluff review by the Medical Daily Web Site (and will hit the visitor with 37 cookies). Fwiw, readers at Slashdot may prefer bypassing it by going the Cell's Current Biology Web Site where they'll be able to find the Authors' Original Summary or perhaps the Full Text instead.
War on dissent and alternative information sources.
The war on drugs, as well as all other wars, only profit the profiteers. The wars are a lost cause. The first casualties in any conflict are truth and innocence.
“The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself.”
Google will be no an exception.
I dated a robot
My girlfriend is a Hacker and looks like Angelina Jolie. (Finding a girlfriend for her would be ... well, it might be an interesting idea, to say the least.)
"To put those numbers into perspective, 500 TW is more than one thousand times the power that the entire United States uses at any instant in time."
Except for the instant when the lasers were on, of course.
A more interesting perspective: What would it be if the power output was somehow converted to Units of Popcorn Popped?
See corporations are people without gender. They want to be able to marry each other.
Then they can file a joint tax return and have children by being able to legally adopt them to have them work for less than minimum wage as indentured servants.
FTFY
The thing that xTrashcat is missing is the contrary point of view:
Dear Slashdot,
Where I work, I'm the only one with a decade of experience under my belt. My coworkers constantly advocate using the newest, hippest tech without any concern for how well it's been proven to work. [...] How do I get my coworkers to realize that if we step back from the bleeding edge, we'll end up getting cut a lot less often?
For completeness, xTrashcat's missing contrary point of view (in the interesting alternative story) is also missing the equally biased contrary question; perhaps something such as: Young Pups vs Established Technology?
...I want Facebook to die.
Where's that damn like button when you need it?
Perhaps it's time for someone to consider "inventing" the KILL button. Imagine the possibilities.
Oldest Icons are made in Ancient Asian writings. One day it will be no.1 again. I no lie. They ROR. :)
I for one consider living matter needing to fuel its existence by eating other living matter as its fuel to be a dead end in the evolutionary process. Is this the only way it can develop in what appears to be an eternally infinite Universe? I'd like to think they're other ways.
However, if so, Earth to an outsider (if their is such a thing capable of being in that position) surely would seem to be operating like a ball of acid--completely covered with a bunch of psychotics consuming each other--something to be avoided at all cost.
Beacon Warning: This Sector Off Limits
Of course not, it programs the child to think that it is ok to give up freedoms if authorities say so.
And it exposes adults, strangers to their child, to experience a position of misused power; perhaps some were closet psychos pining for the old days, savoring the idea of threatening her with a spanking if she refused to give the authorities the information,
Also, having an employee of the police department present is usually a deceitful "sales tactic" to work around the legality of telling a child she'll be put in jail--which is subtler than having someone in the background looking at her quietly while holding a hammer, hand in hand. Was he there to witness an arrestable offense if she refused?
"I've been looking for some good reading material, and have been delving into the realms of some great, but nearly forgotten authors — ... "
I remember having fond memories for two novels by Blish; read decades ago (making it difficult to assess on how well they'll hold up with present perceptions): "Jack of Eagles" and "A Case of Conscience".
IIRC, Eagles did a speculative mix, combining quantum mechanics with parapsychology; Conscience dealt with Humanity's Religious institutions confronted with instinctively moral Aliens--without the need to use any Religion.
If the days would become shorter, that means we'd be able to drop the %400 rule somewhere between now and Y30K, but since a day is actually slightly longer than what our current algorithm accounts for, the two might just cancel eachother out to let the algorithm last well beyond 30K. I'm too lazy to try and do the math to verify.
The length of a day does create the number of days in a year. However, the total amount of days in the year will never be equal to exactly one year--there will always be a partial day at the end of one year, regardless of each day's length. The reason is geometrical due to the planet orbiting the star--it's not a rotational speed issue.
Imagine the planet stopped in its orbit, but rotating; the point on the Earth directly pointing at the Sun returns to its original position, making it be one day.
Now imagine again the same scenario, this time moving in orbit around the Sun; after completing exactly one rotational day as previously mentioned, it has moved in orbit just a little further--now it needs to play catchup by rotating just a little further (it's about a minute) to make the Sun appear to be at its original position so that it'll appear to us to be one day.
The only time when the number of days does equal exactly one year, is when the rotational day and the orbital year are the same--the planet Mercury and the Earth's Moon being a couple of examples. So, if I understood your explanation, then the math is unnecessary. :)
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The real reason to go all digital for money is because it makes it much easier for the government to control what you can and cannot buy. It also makes it easier for the government to control who can and cannot go into business.
It may not be the original intention, but the reasons can shift over time--if the potential for abuse is ignored. The temptation for monstrous abuse creating an unforgiving living hell could occur when considering a completely cashless ubiquitous system being combined with an effective and relative inexpensive analysis software developed by a company such as Palantir. The appropriate organizations, when it's fully developed and implemented (doing a decent job presently, if the articles are to be believed) should be able to successfully know--and control--just about anything, on anyone, anywhere.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-random-password-generator/
This might work nicely for those with access to a UNIX/Linux machine...
For the past 12 years, without using any software (except for what's in my mind--whatever that might be) I've been using two algorithms to mentally generate a unique password for each site that requires logging into an account--now at several hundred and counting, memorization isn't a problem, since the two rules are based on the domain name and how I decided to elaborately positions itself to an American/English keyboard--the passwords easily replaceable, if updating is required. The reason for two instead of just one has to do with the additional security requirements some organisations want to control in how my password is constructed.
Although both rules are general enough to account for any variation and complicated enough in its variety of characters with a decent length to be secure in the classical sense (a random looking long mix of letters, caps, numbers and symbols--improbably hard to remember), there are a few very rare exceptions. For instance, my cell phone account demands, as unbelievable as it may seem, the password's length to be eight, with only letters and digits. When this situation occurs and a couple of slight variations with other clueless Companies, they end up getting that third slacker-catchall algorithm.
So what happens if a site not used in ages has changed their domain and no longer says or knows the original name; or the keyboard is formatted differently? Those 3 forgetful times (out of the 5 times the name changed during the last decade) were simply reset with the email address I always use; the keyboard in another format hasn't happened, but my memory about the character's positions are extremely good--resetting may be option, if I do forget. It's not perfect. Although no one is presently interested in my passwords--there might be a day, for one example, when I discover some new disruptive paradigm shifting technology. When that day happens, the interested parties will, with little effort I might add, be able to hammer it out of me.
In Soviet Russia, code executes you!
In Soviet Russia, doomed programming error has Mars probe you!!
>> Now, I wonder who is watching all those camera's that are located at each intersection in the lower mainland...
I'm beginning to feel at least half (as I randomly select an idealized stat to support my reply) are inactive, broken or possibly fake--the hopefuls relying on the intimidating powers of a decoy. During the past several years, although not one to intentionally risk testing this assumption, I've had a few unintentional close calls (one assuredly wrong) without any response.
Something I'm inclined not to believe: that this was luck on my part; instead, wondering if anyone else has thought the same, possibly from experience; or, that someone in the know can confirm there is a lack of followup with some of the intersection cameras here in the lower mainland.
(The speculation is based on one of my jobs requiring an average of 25k miles per year for several different years during the past decade with my own vehicle--a full sized 4 door sedan--not a rental or company car.)
it used to be a meme to say "I'm too good for tv" ... look at people watching tv and see how zombie-like they become. have you noticed that? do you ever watch people as they watch tv? thought processes are suspended and you're told exactly what to think and feel. ...
Original Bumper Sticker: "The more you watch TV, the less you know."
Updated B.S.: "The more you Tweet **, the less you know."
Obligatory Post Replying to Updated B.S.: "The more you Slashdot, the less you know."
** (Choose One or More of: Tehweet/FaceBook/MySpace/Surf/etc.)
Perhaps: "The more you TwoDotOh, the less you know." is better.
Better yet I prefer: "The more you SocNet, the less you know."; which, of course, if true, means my IQ has just dropped a couple of points by making this post.
Will people ever stop checking your equations?
Apparently not; from Einstein himself explaining why this is so: "If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German, the Swiss will say I'm a Swiss Citizen and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will exclaim that I am Swiss, the Swiss will say I'm a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew."
I've never been burglarized, threatened or raped and I have a number of guns. I also have a pair of Labrador Retrievers. And a couple of rocks. Oh, and an iPad.
Who (or what) is keeping me safe?
Perhaps your mindset derived from your lifestyle? Peace of mind in having the capability to quickly resort to self defense if the need should arise can in itself create a sense of self confidence that prevents one from appearing to be an easy victim--in turn diffusing a violent incident.
They [wikipedia] put a really low bar to get around their block, just disable javascript reload and keep reading! At least that was my first thought when I viewed it and with konqueror it's an easy menu option to disable javascript for the current window. Now it looks like they disabled editing for every english wikipedia article, and that you can't get around.
An alternative: View (Page) Source; menu or right click menu or hotkey (such as: ctrl + u). Not an easy read, especially if you're one of the rare few on /. unable to understand the purpose of the client-side source code languages--but a workable solution for myself when I unexpectantly needed to use it on that particular day.
One of the remaining options like getting a UI designer to design your UI.
If this is going to be one of the remaining options chosen,
insure the designer is one of the few that considers the printed word to be useful to the reader.
...the story where they discovered/detected Dark Matter?
If there is to be a story that resulted in the idea of missing matter, it should be attributed to Louise Volders discovery in the late 1950's and Vera Rubin's additional work in the 1970's about the rotational speed of galaxies being faster than the observed mass of the galaxies--contradicting the acurate results observed when applying the same classical mechanics to the rotational speed of our solar system. Vera Rubin argued convincingly that Fritz Zwicky's unrelated work in the 1930's (for accurately calculating missing matter in star clusters) was a viable solution.