Nowadays I barely have to read a source article to establish the likelihood that the latest "discovery" supporting a liberal issue is crap. Primus, the link is not to a scientific paper, secundus, there is no mention or hint that the "researcher" has eliminated self selection among the players of video games. Logic suggests that persons who had fewer issues with violence (perhaps because of their environment) would be attracted to violent games. Maybe this researcher should use his "U Beaut" test to compare "moral development" between different cultures in the USA? Or between the Arapesh and the Mugdugumor?
You are wrong, there is plenty of sunlight energy to harvest...
Sunlight provides 1 KW/M^2. The USA uses about 4 trillion KWH per annum (see CIA's world factbook), which is about 10,000 KWH per person per year, or 30 KWH/day/person. Assume 20% efficiency, and 5 hours of sunlight each day, then 30 M^2 of solar collectors needed per person. Hmm the average house is about 2-3 times that, and has 2-3 people.
Or look at it another way, a square mile is about 250,000 square meters, and would produce 100,000 KWH in a four hour day, or 40 million KWH in a year. So an area 100 miles square somewhere in NM or AZ could produce all the power currently used by the USA. You could buy a sheep station that size in Australia for $10 million.
The system of citations & referees is so crappy that a count of publications and citations is so corrupted that it is fairly irrelevant. It is the eruption of the techno entrepeneurs that measures & indicates the savvy and value of a nation.
Good for the Italian electorate! Just because a bunch of weaseley liberals accuse him of all sorts of things does not mean he is guilty of anything except offending liberals. It's nice to see that ordinary Italians have enough sense to distinguish liberal lies.
I totally challenge " and clearly IP laws help innovation". Consider UBUNTU, APACHE. And copyright breaches don't seem to alter the quality of music and movies published (although those last 2 are open to argument I guess). Artists and Inventors will do what they do 'cos that's what they do.
So maybe performance artists will have to go back to performing live to make a living. And just give recordings away free as promotion material.
In technology an innovation that is great will be copied. But because of the difficulties of properly copying complex things, that is easier said than done. Buyers would probably get better results buying from the innovator, who will always have the latest ideas included, so long as he wasn't charging exhorbitantly (Like apples).
I am not advocating immediate, wholesale abandonment of the status quo. I would like to see the time that a patent "lives" shortened. Once upon a time, the first ten years of a patent life were used to tool up for production. Today production cycle is much shorter, and the market much larger, so lots of money can still be made, even if patent life were to be decimated every year till it's down to about 6 months.
The holdup in making this film had something to do with the Australian actors union (MEAA) bosses wanting more money and Peter Jackson telling them to go F*** themselves. My suggestion is that would be actors (and perhaps Peter) go to Bollywood where hopefully greedy union bosses have no say. I also prefer no 3D and would preferentially attend a non-3D show.
The installed cost of something engineered is a rough approximation of the energy consumed in the making & installation. (You might think that labor does not have a carbon cost, but think about it.)
So let me turn that around. Why should I pay for your power?
I can buy a 5KVA petrol Genny for about $450. So for $450,000 + fuel I could make 5MW. A course, bigger gennys would be cheaper, and more fuel efficient.
Lets face it, the future is direct conversion and efficient mass energy storage systems. Everything else is wanking.
Your three points about the dangers of direct government:
1. The senate in Australia has 12 senators from each state. Six are elected every three years. Each senator is elected for a six year term. We have a system of preference voting where each voter in the state (say NSW) votes for each candidate in order of preference. Once a candidate has made his quota (1/7th + 1 of the votes cast) then his preferences are distributed proportionally according to his elector's instructions. If a candidate does not reach a quota, then his full votes are allocated according to the voter's preferences.
My bank manages a secure connection for me from home. I am convinced that a similar technology could be used to poll people who are on the electoral roll for the constituency where they are registered.
2. I would assume that most of the time the voters would not bother to vote. In that eventuality the representative could vote however he desired. However there should be some sort of statistical formula that would determine when the representative should follow the constituent's vote. For instance if 80% of the voters in an electorate voted and 63% demanded a particular outcome (80%x63%=50.4%), then that is an absolute. But if only 5% of the electorate voted, then even though they voted 100% for a particular outcome, the representative should have discretion. Or if 50% of people voted and 70% of those who voted required a particular outcome, then that would be very persuasive.
Just think about it. If you were a Senator in NSW and the "direct government" senator was known to be voting for a particular piece of legislation because 70% of the NSW voters had been sufficiently concerned to lodge an online vote, and of those, 80% were in favour of the legislation, would you feel sufficiently convinced of your own position to vote against the wishes of what is your own electorate? I am assuming that the voting results are made public in a process that preserves individual privacy.
3. Corruption exists in our present political process. Some people apparently vote multiple times, although that might be somebody with false documentation. And who is so naive as to think that the media (journalists and Rupert) do not influence the electoral process?
We teach children responsibility by giving them responsibility. We should not prevent people from voting on their own governance because they might make a wrong decision.
What we need is somebody to design and create a secure open source website that can collect genuine votes whilst protecting privacy and publish them online.
Come to think of it, such a website might prove to be very persuasive if enough people voted, even if nobody was bound to follow the results.
It is extremely convenient to use google documents to store current work online. Access is available from anywhere. I believe a 4096 RSA key is totally unnecessary for protection because the password is for entry to the online vault, not to decrypt a downloadable document. Presumably an online vault would object to even a dictionary attack. Most online vaults (e.g. mail accounts) close up for a time after three failed attempts.
If the account is compromised, it is almost certainly because the owner was not careful about the security of their password. Or maybe the owner chose a password like their birthdate, or used the same password as for the website dodgyfellows.com
there are two possible reasons why a 10 year payback period might be too short. 1) Solar cells cost energy to produce. We would like to get at least as much energy back as we put in. 2) Solar cells cost money to produce. When the total life energy (KWH) produced is divided into the total cost, we arrive at the cost per KWH. We would like that cost to be lower than the local power utility supply cost.
In the UK (let us suppose) they feed the CCTV into combined facial/bodily/movement recognition software. On recognition, they match each body on CCTV to the UK database of everybody and where they are. That database has crosslinks to the latest census, so family, religious and cultural cross links are made. The CCTV also observes who each person talks to, and creates lists of "known associates" and then identifies each person a "suspect risk" number.
You get the picture. No more terrorists, except maybe Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat.
Now put that same software into spy drones. Takes longer to build up the database, but those images can be kept for decades.
Except maybe there are not many governments that I trust with that much power. Perhaps the answer is totally open government. No more secrets at all. Not even for MI5, or CIA.
"you certainly would lack discipline if you used your car to travel 200 feet" To me, walking is a matter of inclination and timeliness, not (self) discipline.
"The observation that patience and self-discipline are virtues is not a rejection of technology." The way you seem to define patience and self discipline make me believe that for you they require a rejection of technology. To most of us, the various technologies merely provide short cuts to desired outcomes.
"What this boils down to is that many people are lazy and immature." or else self righteous?
Was it Newton or Einstein who said words to the effect "..because I stood on the shoulders of giants".
Slashdot Mirror
Here in Australia the rule on who gives way is a race, "Who was in the intersection first?" Whoever was first in the intersection has right of way.
Yes, but you could set up a subroutine and know who was spying on you.
I vote for WOW also. Just so your girl is warned about interacting above action moves.
yes. violation. so few notice. puts me off slashdot.
Nowadays I barely have to read a source article to establish the likelihood that the latest "discovery" supporting a liberal issue is crap. Primus, the link is not to a scientific paper, secundus, there is no mention or hint that the "researcher" has eliminated self selection among the players of video games. Logic suggests that persons who had fewer issues with violence (perhaps because of their environment) would be attracted to violent games. Maybe this researcher should use his "U Beaut" test to compare "moral development" between different cultures in the USA? Or between the Arapesh and the Mugdugumor?
I would think at least 0.9999 C at least.
so we now need an anti creepy to spot stalkers?
You are wrong, there is plenty of sunlight energy to harvest...
Sunlight provides 1 KW/M^2. The USA uses about 4 trillion KWH per annum (see CIA's world factbook), which is about 10,000 KWH per person per year, or 30 KWH/day/person. Assume 20% efficiency, and 5 hours of sunlight each day, then 30 M^2 of solar collectors needed per person. Hmm the average house is about 2-3 times that, and has 2-3 people.
Or look at it another way, a square mile is about 250,000 square meters, and would produce 100,000 KWH in a four hour day, or 40 million KWH in a year. So an area 100 miles square somewhere in NM or AZ could produce all the power currently used by the USA. You could buy a sheep station that size in Australia for $10 million.
The system of citations & referees is so crappy that a count of publications and citations is so corrupted that it is fairly irrelevant. It is the eruption of the techno entrepeneurs that measures & indicates the savvy and value of a nation.
Good for the Italian electorate! Just because a bunch of weaseley liberals accuse him of all sorts of things does not mean he is guilty of anything except offending liberals. It's nice to see that ordinary Italians have enough sense to distinguish liberal lies.
I totally challenge " and clearly IP laws help innovation". Consider UBUNTU, APACHE. And copyright breaches don't seem to alter the quality of music and movies published (although those last 2 are open to argument I guess). Artists and Inventors will do what they do 'cos that's what they do.
So maybe performance artists will have to go back to performing live to make a living. And just give recordings away free as promotion material.
In technology an innovation that is great will be copied. But because of the difficulties of properly copying complex things, that is easier said than done. Buyers would probably get better results buying from the innovator, who will always have the latest ideas included, so long as he wasn't charging exhorbitantly (Like apples).
I am not advocating immediate, wholesale abandonment of the status quo. I would like to see the time that a patent "lives" shortened. Once upon a time, the first ten years of a patent life were used to tool up for production. Today production cycle is much shorter, and the market much larger, so lots of money can still be made, even if patent life were to be decimated every year till it's down to about 6 months.
The holdup in making this film had something to do with the Australian actors union (MEAA) bosses wanting more money and Peter Jackson telling them to go F*** themselves. My suggestion is that would be actors (and perhaps Peter) go to Bollywood where hopefully greedy union bosses have no say. I also prefer no 3D and would preferentially attend a non-3D show.
It's just a spaceships' (probably a Bussard Ramjet's) exhaust.
I disagree. This has greater externalities.
The installed cost of something engineered is a rough approximation of the energy consumed in the making & installation. (You might think that labor does not have a carbon cost, but think about it.)
So let me turn that around. Why should I pay for your power?
I can buy a 5KVA petrol Genny for about $450. So for $450,000 + fuel I could make 5MW. A course, bigger gennys would be cheaper, and more fuel efficient.
Lets face it, the future is direct conversion and efficient mass energy storage systems. Everything else is wanking.
Your three points about the dangers of direct government:
1. The senate in Australia has 12 senators from each state. Six are elected every three years. Each senator is elected for a six year term. We have a system of preference voting where each voter in the state (say NSW) votes for each candidate in order of preference. Once a candidate has made his quota (1/7th + 1 of the votes cast) then his preferences are distributed proportionally according to his elector's instructions. If a candidate does not reach a quota, then his full votes are allocated according to the voter's preferences.
My bank manages a secure connection for me from home. I am convinced that a similar technology could be used to poll people who are on the electoral roll for the constituency where they are registered.
2. I would assume that most of the time the voters would not bother to vote. In that eventuality the representative could vote however he desired. However there should be some sort of statistical formula that would determine when the representative should follow the constituent's vote. For instance if 80% of the voters in an electorate voted and 63% demanded a particular outcome (80%x63%=50.4%), then that is an absolute. But if only 5% of the electorate voted, then even though they voted 100% for a particular outcome, the representative should have discretion. Or if 50% of people voted and 70% of those who voted required a particular outcome, then that would be very persuasive.
Just think about it. If you were a Senator in NSW and the "direct government" senator was known to be voting for a particular piece of legislation because 70% of the NSW voters had been sufficiently concerned to lodge an online vote, and of those, 80% were in favour of the legislation, would you feel sufficiently convinced of your own position to vote against the wishes of what is your own electorate? I am assuming that the voting results are made public in a process that preserves individual privacy.
3. Corruption exists in our present political process. Some people apparently vote multiple times, although that might be somebody with false documentation. And who is so naive as to think that the media (journalists and Rupert) do not influence the electoral process?
We teach children responsibility by giving them responsibility. We should not prevent people from voting on their own governance because they might make a wrong decision.
What we need is somebody to design and create a secure open source website that can collect genuine votes whilst protecting privacy and publish them online.
Come to think of it, such a website might prove to be very persuasive if enough people voted, even if nobody was bound to follow the results.
It is extremely convenient to use google documents to store current work online. Access is available from anywhere. I believe a 4096 RSA key is totally unnecessary for protection because the password is for entry to the online vault, not to decrypt a downloadable document. Presumably an online vault would object to even a dictionary attack. Most online vaults (e.g. mail accounts) close up for a time after three failed attempts.
If the account is compromised, it is almost certainly because the owner was not careful about the security of their password. Or maybe the owner chose a password like their birthdate, or used the same password as for the website dodgyfellows.com
there are two possible reasons why a 10 year payback period might be too short.
1) Solar cells cost energy to produce. We would like to get at least as much energy back as we put in.
2) Solar cells cost money to produce. When the total life energy (KWH) produced is divided into the total cost, we arrive at the cost per KWH. We would like that cost to be lower than the local power utility supply cost.
Lets go a bit further...
In the UK (let us suppose) they feed the CCTV into combined facial/bodily/movement recognition software. On recognition, they match each body on CCTV to the UK database of everybody and where they are. That database has crosslinks to the latest census, so family, religious and cultural cross links are made. The CCTV also observes who each person talks to, and creates lists of "known associates" and then identifies each person a "suspect risk" number.
You get the picture. No more terrorists, except maybe Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat.
Now put that same software into spy drones. Takes longer to build up the database, but those images can be kept for decades.
Except maybe there are not many governments that I trust with that much power. Perhaps the answer is totally open government. No more secrets at all. Not even for MI5, or CIA.
Has anybody told SETI yet? This discovery explains why we aren't yet overrun by BEM's.
Google rightfully occupies it's position as the most creative and innovative business in the world.
This is another example of why.
WOW
Walking is by inclination and timely. Discipline is not an issue except maybe to global warming alarmists.
Lazy is a virtue. It's how stuff gets invented.
Immature is a virtue, e.g. "the greatest vessels take the longest to make". (Lao Tzu)
Some slashdot commentators "point out problems".
Other "Slashdot commentators wouldn't know a fact if it bit them."
Oh, and scientists don't "point out problems", they just gather facts in asymmetric fashion to fit their hypotheses. Me, I side with the engineers.
WOW compared to space invaders or pinball or adventure or empire or kings quest etc, no.
And believe it or not, there was a time when the only way to fly a model aeroplane was to build it first.
"you certainly would lack discipline if you used your car to travel 200 feet" To me, walking is a matter of inclination and timeliness, not (self) discipline.
"The observation that patience and self-discipline are virtues is not a rejection of technology." The way you seem to define patience and self discipline make me believe that for you they require a rejection of technology. To most of us, the various technologies merely provide short cuts to desired outcomes.
"What this boils down to is that many people are lazy and immature." or else self righteous?
Was it Newton or Einstein who said words to the effect "..because I stood on the shoulders of giants".