I'm sure everyone in the US can sleep easy at night, knowing that Homeland Security is keeping a vigilant eye over torrents and other similar threats to the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.
I personally would prefer we just stop using grammar. If the intention is clear then does it really matter?
But often the intention is not clear.
If you are trying to achieve a higher level of communication (way higher than "want eat") then being precise and accurate is important, because it then allows you to more easily talk about very diverse topics with less confusion and greater efficiency.
Slashdot used to at least be a site where people could talk about a very wide range of things, not just "beowulf cluster" jokes.
If spelling (including capitalization) and grammar is ignored, it just makes it harder to talk about uncommon stuff. People would have to assume the common case, even if a rare or fringe case was intended.
If you can only "bark once for yes, and bark twice for no", don't be surprised when people assume you aren't very smart, or a waste of time when discussing more complex topics.
You have to fill in the water characteristics yourself though. I used 0.001, 0.010 and 0.100 metres per sec. plate at 4 C, fluid at 60 C
So say at 10cm per second you get 1200 watts transfer, at 0.1cm per sec you get 120 watts transfer. Seems significant enough to me, assuming the calculator works for that range, and I put in the right values:).
Maybe so, but to justify an expensive fridge's price tag by slapping on a calendar+digital frame+recipe book shows a disappointing lack of imagination.
If I were a billionaire geek, I wouldn't spend extra $$$ just so my fridge gets a stupid calendar.
I'd add better materials and functionally _related_ features.
Each of my fridges (hey why not have more than one right?) would have aerogel insulation, better door seals, and shelves+walls made of better and tougher material.
And add a bunch of air jets, thermal cameras to the fridge interior, and a computer. So if you put something warm in the fridge, the fridge can target it and cool it down to the desired temperature ASAP.
Also a special rapid chiller section to cool things down really fast without freezing. Put in an item then the self cleaning and sanitizing walls will inflate/move to contact the item(s) to be chilled, then quick chilling proceeds by having a very rapidly circulating liquid at "just above freezing temp" flowing in the flexible walls (think "wind chill" but faster and only to just above freezing). You could have a combined rapid chilling and rinsing section/mode for water proof items- stick a can in, close the door and rapidly flowing cold purified water will be used to quickly chill the can.
Similar for the oven(s). Aerogel insulated, very well controlled jets of air - in terms of speed, direction and temperature, to ensure that heating is quick, even, and to the right temperature. After all say you want to heat something up to X degrees C but no more than that, and want to do it quick. A conventional oven wouldn't be able to do it that easily.
I'd also have a few food grade thermal immersion circulators[1] for sous-vide and similar style cooking for temperature ranges boiling and below.
And "will it blend" class blenders;).
Heck if you were insanely rich and kitchen obsessed, why not have an oven with a built-in MRI so that the oven's computer can guess what you've put in, how to cook it, and during the cooking figure out how cooked different parts are:).
a LOT more courses done in the university than me. on paper they should've been better choices in every regard, but they have nothing to show. no programs they can say "i did this"
Well if you were looking for an artist, who would you pick: a) someone who has an art degree, done lots of art courses in the uni, but has not much of a portfolio, the last work done was a university course project half a year ago. b) someone who has done stuff in the past 3 months (even if not work related), semi-consciously without prompting doodles cool stuff on the piece of paper left on the interview table. The "art" is practically overflowing out;).
Yeah maybe they should allow people to replace the logos.
Then people who are offended by nazi swastikas can either replace what they see manually, or join a group where you would see different logos for players who use nazi swastikas as their logos.
An HR department that appreciates bullshit (and doesn't appreciate honesty) will gradually lead to a company full of bullshit (if it's not already such a place).
If you wouldn't want to work in such a company, it's to mutual benefit to find out early - whether they reject you or you turn them down.
Same for those companies who don't hire you just because they see some facebook photos of you.
Fact is most people won't sue. They worry about who is going to hire them in the future, or what their family will eat, and where they would live, while they are busy suing.
That's why you need payouts big enough so that a few people like him would go for it, and so that companies don't just think they can always get away with it (heck I think Seagate can still put this in as "cost of doing business").
Plus it's not really such a big payout, only about 24 songs worth;).
It's the "unreasonable people" who do much of changing the world, whether for the better or worse. Work on encouraging good change and discouraging bad change.
I'm just saying that I think it is a shame that when I remote wipe a phone, that I am also wiping out the user's data. This is an undesirable behavior
Not always. Some people also would want their personal data wiped if a phone is stolen or lost.
Would be nice if the phone can get remotely locked, so that only those who enter the correct pin can use the phone (e.g. even factory resets won't let the thief bypass it). But that sort of thing is hard to do.
Don't they have that "second team" stuff in the US too? I find it hard to believe that they don't.
The groping and other stuff is mainly to "shake things up a bit" - so you don't need dangerous scans, just scans which increase the risk of getting caught doing something illegal (smuggling drugs, weapons etc).
As for Malaysia's security, Anson Wong managed to illegally get 90+ snakes on a plane (yes you read that right, snakes on a plane), he only got caught in transit for the second flight when his bag burst on the conveyor belt.
the BS B.S. requirements are just to thin the applicant pool a little.
Careful though, if the job requirements are too bullshit what you are doing is excluding the people who don't bullshit (and actually bother to read the job requirements)
Sorry, but every certificate authority is manually distributed at some point, the verizon's of this planet included, they just have the convenience that browser manufacturers do that for them.
And there's the big difference.
The most automatic way to do what the main requester wants is to set up that certificate authority and roll out your browsers automatically after adding that certificate authority it's root to that browser.
No, the way to do what the main requester wants is to get a free cert whose CA is recognized by most popular browsers. You can get some from: http://www.startssl.com/ Their "product" comparison: http://www.startssl.com/?app=40
You might be able to get free certs from elsewhere.
Apparently some sites sell rapidssl wildcard certs for cheap. I can't remember which ones. Can't find them via Rapidssl's own website for some reason;).
You have to understand the truth of the matter. Most people dealing with https don't really care that much about security. All they want is not to have those scary browser warnings.
If they really cared about security they would realize that most popular browsers by default do not warn you if a site's CA has changed, or a server cert has changed rather prematurely (I use certificate patrol for that). And that as long as this remains true, all the talk about https security is just talk.
So people should just solve the submitters problem, and implying he's incompetent or even calling him incompetent. Because how many of you are relying on https to keep stuff safe and have CA certs in your browser from CA's you do not trust?
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Good to see the US Gov has its priorities right.
I'm sure everyone in the US can sleep easy at night, knowing that Homeland Security is keeping a vigilant eye over torrents and other similar threats to the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.
You might not be close enough to the shore to see the water.
;).
I suppose if you see people running past you away from the shore, it's not a good idea to run to the shore to see if the water is receding
I wish something like this applied to patent trolls.
I personally would prefer we just stop using grammar. If the intention is clear then does it really matter?
But often the intention is not clear.
If you are trying to achieve a higher level of communication (way higher than "want eat") then being precise and accurate is important, because it then allows you to more easily talk about very diverse topics with less confusion and greater efficiency.
Slashdot used to at least be a site where people could talk about a very wide range of things, not just "beowulf cluster" jokes.
If spelling (including capitalization) and grammar is ignored, it just makes it harder to talk about uncommon stuff. People would have to assume the common case, even if a rare or fringe case was intended.
If you can only "bark once for yes, and bark twice for no", don't be surprised when people assume you aren't very smart, or a waste of time when discussing more complex topics.
More people copying the articles could actually increase Righthaven's revenue :).
Righthaven makes more money if:
1) More people copied LVRJ articles
2) Righthaven successfully sues them (e.g. judge allows them to win).
The page in your link shows CEO salaries, not organization profits.
that you'd spend several years developing and have no support for when the MRI pulls the fillings out of your wifes head.
Depending on the details, that might actually save a hypothetical geek billionaire some money even after deducting the 10 million ;).
Hey he was talking about spending money :). It'll still be faster, and you don't have to use 100x the water - just recirculate it.
This calculator seems to give a heat transfer change of about 10x every time you speed/slow the fluid by 100x
http://www.efunda.com/formulae/heat_transfer/convection_forced/calc_lamflow_isothermalplate.cfm#calc
You have to fill in the water characteristics yourself though. I used 0.001, 0.010 and 0.100 metres per sec. plate at 4 C, fluid at 60 C
So say at 10cm per second you get 1200 watts transfer, at 0.1cm per sec you get 120 watts transfer. Seems significant enough to me, assuming the calculator works for that range, and I put in the right values :).
The problem is people are too dense.
That's why you need regulators who work for the benefit of those dense people. Not for the people who exploit them.
Not to mention the population density difference...
Really? The US people get swindled because the average US person is denser than the average Japanese person?
But with all the supersize fries and soda the average US person should be less dense...
I wonder what this baby could dismantle:
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2004/06/24/512617.html
Wonder how he's doing 6 years later...
Maybe so, but to justify an expensive fridge's price tag by slapping on a calendar+digital frame+recipe book shows a disappointing lack of imagination.
If I were a billionaire geek, I wouldn't spend extra $$$ just so my fridge gets a stupid calendar.
I'd add better materials and functionally _related_ features.
Each of my fridges (hey why not have more than one right?) would have aerogel insulation, better door seals, and shelves+walls made of better and tougher material.
And add a bunch of air jets, thermal cameras to the fridge interior, and a computer. So if you put something warm in the fridge, the fridge can target it and cool it down to the desired temperature ASAP.
Also a special rapid chiller section to cool things down really fast without freezing. Put in an item then the self cleaning and sanitizing walls will inflate/move to contact the item(s) to be chilled, then quick chilling proceeds by having a very rapidly circulating liquid at "just above freezing temp" flowing in the flexible walls (think "wind chill" but faster and only to just above freezing). You could have a combined rapid chilling and rinsing section/mode for water proof items- stick a can in, close the door and rapidly flowing cold purified water will be used to quickly chill the can.
Similar for the oven(s). Aerogel insulated, very well controlled jets of air - in terms of speed, direction and temperature, to ensure that heating is quick, even, and to the right temperature. After all say you want to heat something up to X degrees C but no more than that, and want to do it quick. A conventional oven wouldn't be able to do it that easily.
I'd also have a few food grade thermal immersion circulators[1] for sous-vide and similar style cooking for temperature ranges boiling and below.
And "will it blend" class blenders ;).
Heck if you were insanely rich and kitchen obsessed, why not have an oven with a built-in MRI so that the oven's computer can guess what you've put in, how to cook it, and during the cooking figure out how cooked different parts are :).
[1] something like this: http://sousvideaustralia.com/products/polyscience-immersion-circulators/ ;) ) if you a billionaire geek who wants an expensive high tech kitchen :).
But better of course (the water flow rate appears rather slow
a LOT more courses done in the university than me. on paper they should've been better choices in every regard, but they have nothing to show. no programs they can say "i did this"
Well if you were looking for an artist, who would you pick: ;).
a) someone who has an art degree, done lots of art courses in the uni, but has not much of a portfolio, the last work done was a university course project half a year ago.
b) someone who has done stuff in the past 3 months (even if not work related), semi-consciously without prompting doodles cool stuff on the piece of paper left on the interview table. The "art" is practically overflowing out
Yeah maybe they should allow people to replace the logos.
Then people who are offended by nazi swastikas can either replace what they see manually, or join a group where you would see different logos for players who use nazi swastikas as their logos.
Maybe you should sign up "Mark Zuckerberg" too while you're at it...
Wait, is that you Mark?
An HR department that appreciates bullshit (and doesn't appreciate honesty) will gradually lead to a company full of bullshit (if it's not already such a place).
If you wouldn't want to work in such a company, it's to mutual benefit to find out early - whether they reject you or you turn them down.
Same for those companies who don't hire you just because they see some facebook photos of you.
Fact is most people won't sue. They worry about who is going to hire them in the future, or what their family will eat, and where they would live, while they are busy suing.
;).
That's why you need payouts big enough so that a few people like him would go for it, and so that companies don't just think they can always get away with it (heck I think Seagate can still put this in as "cost of doing business").
Plus it's not really such a big payout, only about 24 songs worth
It's the "unreasonable people" who do much of changing the world, whether for the better or worse. Work on encouraging good change and discouraging bad change.
While I do agree that this really sucks I'm not sure it's worth almost 2 Million dollars
Yeah, not like they uploaded two dozen mp3s right?
This guy (and others) remembers the race too: http://uss-rangerguy.com/AlanThiese.htm
I'm just saying that I think it is a shame that when I remote wipe a phone, that I am also wiping out the user's data. This is an undesirable behavior
Not always. Some people also would want their personal data wiped if a phone is stolen or lost.
Would be nice if the phone can get remotely locked, so that only those who enter the correct pin can use the phone (e.g. even factory resets won't let the thief bypass it). But that sort of thing is hard to do.
Yeah imagine a dozen people chucking bottles containing explosives into that container, then someone detonates them...
Don't they have that "second team" stuff in the US too? I find it hard to believe that they don't.
The groping and other stuff is mainly to "shake things up a bit" - so you don't need dangerous scans, just scans which increase the risk of getting caught doing something illegal (smuggling drugs, weapons etc).
As for Malaysia's security, Anson Wong managed to illegally get 90+ snakes on a plane (yes you read that right, snakes on a plane), he only got caught in transit for the second flight when his bag burst on the conveyor belt.
the BS B.S. requirements are just to thin the applicant pool a little.
Careful though, if the job requirements are too bullshit what you are doing is excluding the people who don't bullshit (and actually bother to read the job requirements)
Oops I meant to type: "and stop implying he's incompetent". Somehow the stop got deleted...
Sorry, but every certificate authority is manually distributed at some point, the verizon's of this planet included, they just have the convenience that browser manufacturers do that for them.
And there's the big difference.
The most automatic way to do what the main requester wants is to set up that certificate authority and roll out your browsers automatically after adding that certificate authority it's root to that browser.
No, the way to do what the main requester wants is to get a free cert whose CA is recognized by most popular browsers. You can get some from: http://www.startssl.com/
Their "product" comparison: http://www.startssl.com/?app=40
You might be able to get free certs from elsewhere.
Apparently some sites sell rapidssl wildcard certs for cheap. I can't remember which ones. Can't find them via Rapidssl's own website for some reason ;).
You have to understand the truth of the matter. Most people dealing with https don't really care that much about security. All they want is not to have those scary browser warnings.
If they really cared about security they would realize that most popular browsers by default do not warn you if a site's CA has changed, or a server cert has changed rather prematurely (I use certificate patrol for that). And that as long as this remains true, all the talk about https security is just talk.
So people should just solve the submitters problem, and implying he's incompetent or even calling him incompetent. Because how many of you are relying on https to keep stuff safe and have CA certs in your browser from CA's you do not trust?
FWIW how many of you really trust Verisign? Stick your hand up if you're that incompetent ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisign#Controversies ). Guess who signs zillions of certs though, and what happens if you don't tell the browser to trust Verisign's certs. Guess who signed a fake Microsoft's cert? http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-04.html
So just accept that those certs are mainly to make people feel safe and make the browser warnings go away.