What are you talking about? The guy bought books for his Kindle. He *bought* them. Say what you will about, "No, this is licensing," but check Amazon's website and there's a button that says, "Buy now with 1-click". *Buy*.
Yes, he *bought* the licenses. What is it with you slashdotters? You actually expect to receive tangible goods in exchange for your hard earned dollars? That just doesn't make any sense.
On a related note, many of you are unaware that I am the owner of all paper money, and I've just granted all of you the license to use it. The next person to demand an actual good will have their money license revoked and will have to return all cash to me. Thank you.
You have a very interesting point. However, he's petitioning the Utah state government, which he is not a constituent of. Does the 1st apply to just your local/state/national government, or to every local/state government?
Back during the "Vietnam Era" (it was undeclared so I STILL won't call it a war) there was a guy who wrote "P*ss on LBJ" on the outside of letters he sent. After a while he noticed that Secret Service agents were following him around. He confronted one and, upon finding out he was Secret Service asked him why he was being followed. Answer: "If enough people p*ssed on LBJ it would kill him."
[Citation Needed]
I could see the Secret Service investigating someone who makes somewhat outrageous comments about the president. However, a background check and quick interview are the most that would happen. Unless the person in question has some other mental/emotional issues, there's no way the Secret Service is going to waste their time with it.
I love it when people scream "sue" without knowing the facts.
However, the GP never said the word sue. He instead suggested talking to a lawyer. This seems to be the most prudent course of action. The law is a VERY complicated topic, and your explanation here doesn't begin to get into all the nuances of contract law. And, since neither you nor I nor the GP understands these nuances, speaking to a lawyer is the next logical step.
You must be new here. And, by "here" I mean, the internet. Cuz people bitching and whining is the same everywhere. Except some places they post pictures of ambulances and call you a crybaby.
One observation during the less than 170 years when this could be detected gives this, roughly speaking, 10-1 odds against being an only one-in-1700 year event.
What makes you think this could only be detected in the last 170 years? Yes, we didn't have large networks of copper wire strung across the country until that point. But even the summary talks of some much easier to observe products of this event, such as auroras being visible at the equator.
What is unbelievable is that Americans criticize fundamentalism in Muslim countries but they do not see the bigotry in their own culture. So much for pretending to have the moral high ground.
Please don't use the term "Americans". It refers to many of us that do realize the complete hypocrisy and idiocy of major portions of the population. And, yes, we hate it as much as you do.
So in the future, when referring to these people, please use "Rednecks" or "Hillbilly Yokels" or "Inbred Fucktards".
OK, educate me: what is the difference between "fundamentalist" and "protestant." I was under the impression that protestants were "protesting" the changes that the Catholic Church had made, and were therefore returning to the "fundamentals" of Christianity or something wacky like that.
This being one of the reasons why protestants refuse to accept evolution: the Catholic Church does accept it. AFAIK, only protestants refuse to accept evolution as truth.
Ok, we're veering a bit off topic here, but I'll try and clarify this quickly.
There's 2 main branches of Christianity (and a few other small ones) Orthodox and Catholic. From the Catholic branch, the Protestants broke off for a variety of reasons. If you boil it all down, it's basically that Protestants wanted to focus the religion more on the Bible than the collection of Catholic Dogma. (Anglicans are in-between, being part Protestant part Catholic)
Within Protestantism there are many different branches, all with slightly different interpretations of the bible and different meanings of it. They also have very different liberal/conservative viewpoints buried inside those interpretations.
"Fundamentalism" was a movement within Protestant religions started in the early 20th Century, mainly among Presbyterians and Baptists. It was started in response to perceived threats to Christianity and advocated a strict adherence to the "Five Fundamentals". They are:
1) The Bible is directly created with the aid of the Holy Spirit and is without error and free of contradiction.
2) Mary was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus.
3) Jesus's death was for atonement of our sins.
4) The Resurrection
5) Jesus's miracles were a historical reality.
However, many (most?) protestants don't believe in these, especially number 1.
Keep in mind that the odds of a neutrino actually interacting with the detectors is orders of magnitude lower than 1 in N where N is the number of observations (trillions, I think).
So, the more detectors, the worse your odds of detecting it are? I think something strange is going on.
I agree that Hawking might have jumped to his conclusion rather abruptly. However, it is valid.
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says that the error in your measurement of the momentum times the error in your measurement of the position must be greater than or equal to Planck's constant divided by two. The important thing to keep in mind (and what Heisenberg didn't realize when he first proposed it) is that it's not just your error in measurement, it's the very nature of the universe to not be a well-defined particle.
So, if you looked at a pure vacuum, you would know it's momentum is EXACTLY zero, so your error in position would have to be infinite. This makes no sense, so a pure vacuum is impossible.
I'm in a spot were I'm at least 20 miles from any TV broadcast so nothing really comes in well - lots of the blocking, no sound and many times the "no signal" floating box. Oh, my microwave disrupts the TV signal.
20 miles and you don't get a signal? You either have no concept of distance or you don't actually have an antenna.
Comcast and other cable/internet providers generally have a monopoly on critical services that I can't avoid.
I think you may need to turn down the rhetoric a little bit. Cable TV/High-Speed Internet is not really a "critical service". We would all survive just fine without them.
Also, as a non-physicist, it can be fun to pit theorists and experimentalists against each other in battles to the death and watch what happens.
Wow, you just don't get it. There's no need to actually pit them against each other, I can provide mathematical proof that the experimentalists will win 84.3% of the time.
Not quite that far. The galaxy is about 50,000 ly across, and the earth is a bit more than halfway from the center. So, we're only around 25,000 ly away from this beast.
The radius of the Milky Way is 50,000 light years, but in total it's 100,000 light years across.
But, you're right, the Sun is about 26,000 light years from the center, not the 40-50 I stated earlier.
Slashdot Mirror
What are you talking about? The guy bought books for his Kindle. He *bought* them. Say what you will about, "No, this is licensing," but check Amazon's website and there's a button that says, "Buy now with 1-click". *Buy*.
Yes, he *bought* the licenses. What is it with you slashdotters? You actually expect to receive tangible goods in exchange for your hard earned dollars? That just doesn't make any sense.
On a related note, many of you are unaware that I am the owner of all paper money, and I've just granted all of you the license to use it. The next person to demand an actual good will have their money license revoked and will have to return all cash to me. Thank you.
You have a very interesting point. However, he's petitioning the Utah state government, which he is not a constituent of. Does the 1st apply to just your local/state/national government, or to every local/state government?
Any lawyers around to clarify?
Back during the "Vietnam Era" (it was undeclared so I STILL won't call it a war) there was a guy who wrote "P*ss on LBJ" on the outside of letters he sent. After a while he noticed that Secret Service agents were following him around. He confronted one and, upon finding out he was Secret Service asked him why he was being followed. Answer: "If enough people p*ssed on LBJ it would kill him."
[Citation Needed]
I could see the Secret Service investigating someone who makes somewhat outrageous comments about the president. However, a background check and quick interview are the most that would happen. Unless the person in question has some other mental/emotional issues, there's no way the Secret Service is going to waste their time with it.
Is it just me, or does this "national ID number" sounds just like a social security number?
I love it when people scream "sue" without knowing the facts.
However, the GP never said the word sue. He instead suggested talking to a lawyer. This seems to be the most prudent course of action. The law is a VERY complicated topic, and your explanation here doesn't begin to get into all the nuances of contract law. And, since neither you nor I nor the GP understands these nuances, speaking to a lawyer is the next logical step.
It's like, people here just don't like anything.
You must be new here. And, by "here" I mean, the internet. Cuz people bitching and whining is the same everywhere. Except some places they post pictures of ambulances and call you a crybaby.
- Submit a story which is placed on the front page and centres around a link to your own blog.
Isn't that what all /. stories are?
One observation during the less than 170 years when this could be detected gives this, roughly speaking, 10-1 odds against being an only one-in-1700 year event.
What makes you think this could only be detected in the last 170 years? Yes, we didn't have large networks of copper wire strung across the country until that point. But even the summary talks of some much easier to observe products of this event, such as auroras being visible at the equator.
What is unbelievable is that Americans criticize fundamentalism in Muslim countries but they do not see the bigotry in their own culture.
So much for pretending to have the moral high ground.
Please don't use the term "Americans". It refers to many of us that do realize the complete hypocrisy and idiocy of major portions of the population. And, yes, we hate it as much as you do.
So in the future, when referring to these people, please use "Rednecks" or "Hillbilly Yokels" or "Inbred Fucktards".
OK, educate me: what is the difference between "fundamentalist" and "protestant." I was under the impression that protestants were "protesting" the changes that the Catholic Church had made, and were therefore returning to the "fundamentals" of Christianity or something wacky like that.
This being one of the reasons why protestants refuse to accept evolution: the Catholic Church does accept it. AFAIK, only protestants refuse to accept evolution as truth.
Ok, we're veering a bit off topic here, but I'll try and clarify this quickly.
There's 2 main branches of Christianity (and a few other small ones) Orthodox and Catholic. From the Catholic branch, the Protestants broke off for a variety of reasons. If you boil it all down, it's basically that Protestants wanted to focus the religion more on the Bible than the collection of Catholic Dogma. (Anglicans are in-between, being part Protestant part Catholic)
Within Protestantism there are many different branches, all with slightly different interpretations of the bible and different meanings of it. They also have very different liberal/conservative viewpoints buried inside those interpretations.
"Fundamentalism" was a movement within Protestant religions started in the early 20th Century, mainly among Presbyterians and Baptists. It was started in response to perceived threats to Christianity and advocated a strict adherence to the "Five Fundamentals". They are:
1) The Bible is directly created with the aid of the Holy Spirit and is without error and free of contradiction.
2) Mary was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus.
3) Jesus's death was for atonement of our sins.
4) The Resurrection
5) Jesus's miracles were a historical reality.
However, many (most?) protestants don't believe in these, especially number 1.
charmed quarks
They are a type of quark named "charm quarks".
They are not a quark that has been bewitched.
and before even Quake was DOOM.
And before DOOM was the hunting sequence in Oregon Trail.
Keep in mind that the odds of a neutrino actually interacting with the detectors is orders of magnitude lower than 1 in N where N is the number of observations (trillions, I think).
So, the more detectors, the worse your odds of detecting it are? I think something strange is going on.
I agree that Hawking might have jumped to his conclusion rather abruptly. However, it is valid.
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says that the error in your measurement of the momentum times the error in your measurement of the position must be greater than or equal to Planck's constant divided by two. The important thing to keep in mind (and what Heisenberg didn't realize when he first proposed it) is that it's not just your error in measurement, it's the very nature of the universe to not be a well-defined particle.
So, if you looked at a pure vacuum, you would know it's momentum is EXACTLY zero, so your error in position would have to be infinite. This makes no sense, so a pure vacuum is impossible.
I'm in a spot were I'm at least 20 miles from any TV broadcast so nothing really comes in well - lots of the blocking, no sound and many times the "no signal" floating box. Oh, my microwave disrupts the TV signal.
20 miles and you don't get a signal? You either have no concept of distance or you don't actually have an antenna.
Comcast and other cable/internet providers generally have a monopoly on critical services that I can't avoid.
I think you may need to turn down the rhetoric a little bit. Cable TV/High-Speed Internet is not really a "critical service". We would all survive just fine without them.
Until some slashdotter finally observed TFA.
So, you're saying it hasn't happened yet?
I believe that wasn't for the Fission bomb, but was a concern for the Hydrogen (Fusion) bomb.
Some scientists were worried the reaction would draw in hydrogen from the atmosphere, grow, and consume the planet.
To be clear, this has nothing to do with child porn. This is a law intended to prevent children from accessing porn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars
Mars does have an atmosphere, it's just very very thin (0.005 atm or 0.6kPa)
It is made up of about 0.13% Oxygen and 10.5 ppb Methane.
I think the Methane has plenty of Oxygen to interact with.
Also, as a non-physicist, it can be fun to pit theorists and experimentalists against each other in battles to the death and watch what happens.
Wow, you just don't get it. There's no need to actually pit them against each other, I can provide mathematical proof that the experimentalists will win 84.3% of the time.
I've seen this system used on forums before.
And, this is basically how (some) video games work. Login with the account username, but everything from you appears as your character's name.
Unless the resistor in the dimmer is in parallel with the light bulb.
P = I*V = V*V/R
With constant voltage, adding a resistor in series drops the power, adding one in parallel increases the power.
the (pardon me) boneheads in Congress
Well, if you think you can do better, I hear there's an opening for sale in Illinois.
Not quite that far. The galaxy is about 50,000 ly across, and the earth is a bit more than halfway from the center. So, we're only around 25,000 ly away from this beast.
The radius of the Milky Way is 50,000 light years, but in total it's 100,000 light years across.
But, you're right, the Sun is about 26,000 light years from the center, not the 40-50 I stated earlier.
http://www.bigsiteofamazingfacts.com/how-big-is-the-milky-way
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way
http://members.fcac.org/~sol/chview/chv5.htm