People have asked about or mentioned to me the idea of breaking water down into Hydrogen and Oxygen to power a car. They say such convincing things as "Y'know the space shuttle is propelled by hydrogen and oxygen". I say "Good Thinking, but Needs Some Follow-through". Much like tearing water apart, that would require more energy than it could provide. You need volatility, unstability, and general chaos to produce good energy. If water was not such a stable molecule, it would make a good fuel (a la gasoline - BOOM) but water is stable, and (aside from being too heavy to tote around) it needs a lot of starting energy to get the reaction going. The idea of placing solar cells on an airship would be pretty dumb, unless the weight of those airships was mostly the cells. Who would want to fly in an airship 1,000 miles high? 'Cause you'd want to push as little air around as possible.
I know that planets are not closed systems. I know that debris often interferes with a planet's atmosphere. But I can't figure out how an ocean's worth of water could leave a planet. It wouldn't evaporate away; it wasn't sucked up and carried away. What explanation is there for a planet drying up? Could a giant asteroid slam into a planet and shake all the water off and into space? It doesn't seem likely that it would be bone-dry after that happened. What about the water vapour that went into the atmosphere? Can that be shaken off too? I'm not arguing that there is still water (or ice) on Mars, I am simply asking for a logical explanation of where the water went.
I'm in a Miami-Dade (florida) school, and I can't get to Slashdot. Maybe because it's a discussion site, or maybe because it encourages non-Microsoft OSes. Either way, I'm forced to use one of the various anonymizers (although the majority of them are blocked). With the help of Google's Browser Buttons, and a little perl script on my server, I've got my alternate address box - which provides uncensored access to the web.
Bess really sucks because it tries to be user friendly. N2H2: Why don't you stop patronizing me and just state it up-front that you censor the web! Why should I not be able to discuss ideas on web-bulliten boards? Why should I not be able to read about medical conditions? Why should I be subjected to censorship when I am a Senior, and over 18 years old?
This sounds like what a Mac User would say. However, I strongly disagree - even at the purely philosophical level, with no argument over OS details. For a web server, UNIX is the ideal OS. It's lean and superbly fitted for its task. For a desktop (some will disagree here), it's also lean and superbly fitted for the task.
I'll be arguing against Windows from here on, cause I know it better than Mac OS...
Why does your webserver need a radial gradient fill of the file ghosts when you drag files to a folder? Why do you even need Drag-and-Drop? Why a GUI? Is this not something that could be better handled by a network'd workstation? The webserver should not be processing anything that does not pertain to the web apps it serves.
Why does your desktop need support for RAID arrays? Why does it need support for webserving? Why can't you use a server for storage and serving?
Why should one kernel provide a GUI system (WITH GRADIENT FILLS) and support for mounting a multi-terabyte disk array. Why should you have to go to the server room (or the server building, city, country) to get good access. I know that you can do a remote desktop via VNC, or PC Anywhere - but that is no help to a person who wants to do al their administration from a Nokia 9000, or even a fly 56k modem.
UNIX is an awesome OS! It can give everyone what they want, as long as they know what they want. NT is an awful OS! It can give everyone what they want, by giving everyone what everyone else wants too.
They imply that the PC buyer will both want a naked PC, and not know enough to realize that the PC has no OS. They say that you're protecting them from technical troubles by not ALLOWING them to buy a naked PC. Well, Mr. G, if I wanted a naked PC, and I told Dell not to put an OS on my PC, then wouldn't you expect me to know that I WANTED a naked pc, and that I would know full well what to do with a "naked PC"??? Why do you protect me from myself??? It's not like I can accidentally trip and buy a naked PC! If I was spending that much money on a computer, I would be sure it had the OS I wanted on it. If I didn't want an os, I would say that. If I said that, I'd know what I said, and what I meant. I would not expect OS support for an OS I didn't purchase from the PC vendor. You Microsofties must really think I'm dumb! Is that it? Are you insulting me? Wow, now I'm really not going to ever use windows!!!
Idea 1:
If someone (US govt, or corporations) got together about $50 million, we could put a bunch of these telescopes in various places on Earth and have the images digitally (they're using CCDs right?) stitched together to make a full panorama of the entire Earth's sky (not only showing the whole sky at once, but showing it in real time)!!!
Idea 2:
In space (orbit), there's no vibrations that could shake the mercury are there? Why not make a Hubble companion with one of these mirrors??? As I understand it, the biggest problem with making the hubble was building its main mirror.
My school's computer policy is almost that good!!! Not only are chat rooms, e-mail, and naughty sites prohibited, but you're not allowed to STAND at the computer, and GET THIS: If more than one person is at a system, the get kicked off. That's it, you can't work on anything with another person!!!
there was a cool project going over at l0pht a while back (is it still active?) aiming toward a multimegabit wireless (microwave) lan around boston. They called it guerilla.net, and were integrating encryption over the links to provide secure remote internet access.
Usenet servers are known to dislike big posts, so when I want to download an ISO of the real OpenBSD cd, the coolguy who posted it split it up into many (many many many) parts that Pan can reassemble. I don't know how applicable this is to publius, but I think it's relevant. Of course, 650 MB into 100K chunks (using 1000 byte kilobytes) would be 6500 parts. That's a lot by any standard.
Although this is cool (k3wl, whatever) I don't think that 'committed' is the best way to describe this. If you're looking for IBM being committed, check out the recent stuff about running linux on virtual procesors in the OS/390 systems. That's committed.
They should just install carnivore at the cable operator's upstream provider. It's just that simple:). But seriously, they should beef up the wiretapping laws (and penalties) for fone taps.
A while back, on Freshmeat, I saw a project that had no actual code development done yet, but thorough planning and design. I thought it was great that they were bold enough to submit an app to freshmeat when there was no actual app to use.
There's a european magazine, T3 (like the line), that focuses on IMHO, babes, cars, and toys. Apart from all the toys that are availible to them in the UK, they have a section for stuff still stuck in Japan. I think the flow is Japan -> Europe -> USA. It's a bit pricy, but well worth it.
When my coworkers have problems with what they're working on, be it programming in a language I've never heard of, or graphic design (even farther away), I'll ask them to tell me what's going on. More than half of the time, they realize the problem mid-speech. It's amazing how simplifying a problem and describing it in a linear flow (speaking) can help see what's going wrong.
How's this different from a violent newscast, or the violence in X-Men (PG-13)? I'm on a personal boycott of local news media because here (in my town) all of the local news is about the dangers of life (getting hit by a car, car out of control, deadly parts falling off a car, deadliness of a lightning strike), you know, stuff you should know about so you can protect yourself from it. Local news media is no better (nor should it be treated differently from) a violent video game. In my opinion, TV violence is worse, because it is mostly real people getting killed (not the avatar of a computer program). Don't get me wrong, I love video games. I think that as long as a person (whatever age!) knows the difference between fake and real life, they should be able to watch whatever they want. Ratings are good if they are merely used to aide a person in judging FOR HER/HIMSELF, they are a tool of Big Brother when they are used to restrict access (a la movies and indiana video arcades).
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People have asked about or mentioned to me the idea of breaking water down into Hydrogen and Oxygen to power a car. They say such convincing things as "Y'know the space shuttle is propelled by hydrogen and oxygen". I say "Good Thinking, but Needs Some Follow-through". Much like tearing water apart, that would require more energy than it could provide. You need volatility, unstability, and general chaos to produce good energy. If water was not such a stable molecule, it would make a good fuel (a la gasoline - BOOM) but water is stable, and (aside from being too heavy to tote around) it needs a lot of starting energy to get the reaction going. The idea of placing solar cells on an airship would be pretty dumb, unless the weight of those airships was mostly the cells. Who would want to fly in an airship 1,000 miles high? 'Cause you'd want to push as little air around as possible.
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Since you're posting as AC, I'll assume you're joking. Please read my comment again! Or...
WATER DOESN'T EVAPORATE INTO SPACE !!!
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I know that planets are not closed systems. I know that debris often interferes with a planet's atmosphere. But I can't figure out how an ocean's worth of water could leave a planet. It wouldn't evaporate away; it wasn't sucked up and carried away. What explanation is there for a planet drying up? Could a giant asteroid slam into a planet and shake all the water off and into space? It doesn't seem likely that it would be bone-dry after that happened. What about the water vapour that went into the atmosphere? Can that be shaken off too? I'm not arguing that there is still water (or ice) on Mars, I am simply asking for a logical explanation of where the water went.
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Thank you AC! A comment like that coming from a non-AC caould've garnered an actual moderation point.
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I'm in a Miami-Dade (florida) school, and I can't get to Slashdot. Maybe because it's a discussion site, or maybe because it encourages non-Microsoft OSes. Either way, I'm forced to use one of the various anonymizers (although the majority of them are blocked). With the help of Google's Browser Buttons, and a little perl script on my server, I've got my alternate address box - which provides uncensored access to the web.
Bess really sucks because it tries to be user friendly. N2H2: Why don't you stop patronizing me and just state it up-front that you censor the web! Why should I not be able to discuss ideas on web-bulliten boards? Why should I not be able to read about medical conditions? Why should I be subjected to censorship when I am a Senior, and over 18 years old?
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This is not flaimbait, please read it fairly.
This sounds like what a Mac User would say. However, I strongly disagree - even at the purely philosophical level, with no argument over OS details. For a web server, UNIX is the ideal OS. It's lean and superbly fitted for its task. For a desktop (some will disagree here), it's also lean and superbly fitted for the task.
I'll be arguing against Windows from here on, cause I know it better than Mac OS...
Why does your webserver need a radial gradient fill of the file ghosts when you drag files to a folder? Why do you even need Drag-and-Drop? Why a GUI? Is this not something that could be better handled by a network'd workstation? The webserver should not be processing anything that does not pertain to the web apps it serves.
Why does your desktop need support for RAID arrays? Why does it need support for webserving? Why can't you use a server for storage and serving?
Why should one kernel provide a GUI system (WITH GRADIENT FILLS) and support for mounting a multi-terabyte disk array. Why should you have to go to the server room (or the server building, city, country) to get good access. I know that you can do a remote desktop via VNC, or PC Anywhere - but that is no help to a person who wants to do al their administration from a Nokia 9000, or even a fly 56k modem.
UNIX is an awesome OS! It can give everyone what they want, as long as they know what they want. NT is an awful OS! It can give everyone what they want, by giving everyone what everyone else wants too.
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They imply that the PC buyer will both want a naked PC, and not know enough to realize that the PC has no OS. They say that you're protecting them from technical troubles by not ALLOWING them to buy a naked PC. Well, Mr. G, if I wanted a naked PC, and I told Dell not to put an OS on my PC, then wouldn't you expect me to know that I WANTED a naked pc, and that I would know full well what to do with a "naked PC"??? Why do you protect me from myself??? It's not like I can accidentally trip and buy a naked PC! If I was spending that much money on a computer, I would be sure it had the OS I wanted on it. If I didn't want an os, I would say that. If I said that, I'd know what I said, and what I meant. I would not expect OS support for an OS I didn't purchase from the PC vendor. You Microsofties must really think I'm dumb! Is that it? Are you insulting me? Wow, now I'm really not going to ever use windows!!!
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SMP means Symmetric MultiProcessing. Which, is where the processors work with the same memory, and are run by the same OS kernel.
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Idea 1:
If someone (US govt, or corporations) got together about $50 million, we could put a bunch of these telescopes in various places on Earth and have the images digitally (they're using CCDs right?) stitched together to make a full panorama of the entire Earth's sky (not only showing the whole sky at once, but showing it in real time)!!!
Idea 2:
In space (orbit), there's no vibrations that could shake the mercury are there? Why not make a Hubble companion with one of these mirrors??? As I understand it, the biggest problem with making the hubble was building its main mirror.
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My school's computer policy is almost that good!!! Not only are chat rooms, e-mail, and naughty sites prohibited, but you're not allowed to STAND at the computer, and GET THIS: If more than one person is at a system, the get kicked off. That's it, you can't work on anything with another person!!!
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there was a cool project going over at l0pht a while back (is it still active?) aiming toward a multimegabit wireless (microwave) lan around boston. They called it guerilla.net, and were integrating encryption over the links to provide secure remote internet access.
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Why can't they just generate an MD5 sum of the first 100k or something???
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Anyone know what it's running to do the routing beyond what's done by `route` and `ipchains` (stuff like BGP)???
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DISCLAIMER: I've never used Publius!
Usenet servers are known to dislike big posts, so when I want to download an ISO of the real OpenBSD cd, the coolguy who posted it split it up into many (many many many) parts that Pan can reassemble. I don't know how applicable this is to publius, but I think it's relevant. Of course, 650 MB into 100K chunks (using 1000 byte kilobytes) would be 6500 parts. That's a lot by any standard.
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Although this is cool (k3wl, whatever) I don't think that 'committed' is the best way to describe this. If you're looking for IBM being committed, check out the recent stuff about running linux on virtual procesors in the OS/390 systems. That's committed.
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Yeah, I was there for the keynote, but there's not much that can help my memory. Thanks for knowing what I meant!
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It's like the rebel guys giving Luke Skywalker the prize. Or something like that.
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They should just install carnivore at the cable operator's upstream provider. It's just that simple :). But seriously, they should beef up the wiretapping laws (and penalties) for fone taps.
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A while back, on Freshmeat, I saw a project that had no actual code development done yet, but thorough planning and design. I thought it was great that they were bold enough to submit an app to freshmeat when there was no actual app to use.
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There's a european magazine, T3 (like the line), that focuses on IMHO, babes, cars, and toys. Apart from all the toys that are availible to them in the UK, they have a section for stuff still stuck in Japan. I think the flow is Japan -> Europe -> USA. It's a bit pricy, but well worth it.
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When my coworkers have problems with what they're working on, be it programming in a language I've never heard of, or graphic design (even farther away), I'll ask them to tell me what's going on. More than half of the time, they realize the problem mid-speech. It's amazing how simplifying a problem and describing it in a linear flow (speaking) can help see what's going wrong.
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This really is "just another outlook security hole."
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How's this different from a violent newscast, or the violence in X-Men (PG-13)? I'm on a personal boycott of local news media because here (in my town) all of the local news is about the dangers of life (getting hit by a car, car out of control, deadly parts falling off a car, deadliness of a lightning strike), you know, stuff you should know about so you can protect yourself from it. Local news media is no better (nor should it be treated differently from) a violent video game. In my opinion, TV violence is worse, because it is mostly real people getting killed (not the avatar of a computer program). Don't get me wrong, I love video games. I think that as long as a person (whatever age!) knows the difference between fake and real life, they should be able to watch whatever they want. Ratings are good if they are merely used to aide a person in judging FOR HER/HIMSELF, they are a tool of Big Brother when they are used to restrict access (a la movies and indiana video arcades).
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Check out the stuff at Secur ity Focus for the IP that they are doing the scanning from.
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