Wrong. Higher frequency stays at the surface. Getting a shock from a tesla-coil at millions of volts and hundreds of thousands of cycles per second results in skin pain but not nerve damage.
I've had quite a few jolts from 240 volt mains from one hand to the other. Explain why I'm not dead.
Shocks affect different people differently. Some people can handle this. Some can't. It is enough to grab you and not let you go. That usually means your hand has to be grasping live metal for you to "not let go"
Like the darwin awards, low voltage (below 2400) shocks are only fatal if they get you for long enough to damage the heart. A quick jolt here and there does very little.
Yes you can. Go pick up ten car batteries, connect each + to the next battery's - and then when you have them all except the last one hold the two wires in opposite hands and see what happens. (120VDC shock was the cause of death detective)
Exactly. The entire article is sensationalism spouted by people who don't know jack about electricity. Its worthless like the rest of slashdot now. Bye.
and stop global warming." Stover worries that shifting responsibility for solutions to climate change from governments to individuals creates an 'every-man-for-himself'
Your unfounded opinions built upon a foundation of conjecture and alarmist kiltflipping has been rejected, and placed upon the waste pile where all other internet puffery goes.
Who the fuck wrote that shit anyway?
who the fuck thinks it should be news?
who the fuck posted this shit on slashdot?
why haven't we cut off all 20 of their fingers yet?
Getting enough GPU power to drive all those pixels might be expensive, difficult (SLI/crossfire) and problematic with drivers not playing nice, but its at least possible. Ramming all the data for those pixels down a wire that hooks up to the display is the trick we all want to see.
This would have been great back when google was inventing the relational search engine. But now that the corporation has thrown in its hat with the regulating bodies of the real world, I can only predict that google will become the ultimate censor, finally cementing Orwell's Minsitry of Truth in the virtual world.
In addition to evidence of more tactical nukes being used in combat elsewhere and much later in history than WW2, there were also more than a thousand tests of nuclear bombs, some done underwater and leaving their highly radioactive byproducts in the sea. If we only take our information from video games, we can see that nuclear detonations cause global warming. (Sid Meyer's Civilization 2). If we examine it with careful thought and actual science, we can see that the nuclear bomb releases heat and greenhouse gases orders of magnitude higher than most anything else on the planet, excepting perhaps volcanoes, the other elephant in the room with regards to global warming. So. Before we start talking about goals and fantasies where we reverse global warming and recycle every plastic bag that comes with our shiny new computer components, let's think about whether those two degrees are because of nuclear testing and detonations.
It's just more evidence that they're using slashdot to try and change the truth. 1984 is happening. The ministry of truth is real, and we call it the internet.
We would all have to buy our energy from Mako power plants that would suck dry the life force of the planet and illicit Cloud and his giant sword to come kick some ass and save us all.
GPU is nVidia 320m
I have several dozen screenshots of the problem. Yes, saving the screen to PDF or PNG actually shows the scrambled graphics as is. It only happens after severe overheats and is easily corrected with a simple restart of the affected app (game) a full system reboot is not required.
Yes I suppose the arrestee has a point in playing pranks in order to call attention to the drastic over-response that has become the brunt of jokes and pranks like this. A lot of other comments here have pointed out that this can become highly dangerous due to the overzealousness of these gun-toting maniacs. A sticky situation indeed. Some people want to use prank calls to point out how ridiculous this situation is, while the rest of us want them to stop because its making bullets fly. Something's gotta give, and its probably going to be pictures of american kids shot to death by SWAT members responding to a prank call.
This is contradictory to the reduced IQ requirement. One man tried suing the police force for declining his application on the grounds that his IQ was too high. The supreme court upheld the force's decision. I believe that was a slashdot story around a year ago if anyone can post a link.
You all seem to have confused the fact that we live in a capitalistic society. The media is yelling and shouting in our faces the idea that religion is an enemy of science. The only enemy science has today is capitalism. And capitalism has had religion as its enemy for centuries. Eg Jesus kicking the crap out of the money changers for cornering the markets for half-sheckles at the temple. The Jewish Torah, The Christian Bible, and the Muslim Qur'an all at one point made interest on a loan a sin. The Torah was first to change, and the Bible soon sought to catch up to their competitors.
Capitalism is an enemy of Science because the capitalists treat science like a commodity. They figure they can "buy some science..." that makes my company look good. Convinces people that having a long shower is causing global warming. Tells folks that switching off lights will contribute to power conservation but ignores the amount of power used by their vacuums, hair dryers, and electric ranges. Proliferates lies about their diet in such a way that everyone becomes sick and has to visit the hospital all the time, take very expensive drugs with extensive side effects, and pay thousands of dollars in health insurance. And it's working! But real science doesn't work like that. Real science can't be swayed by interpreting the numbers wrong and spin-doctoring the results. Real science depends upon an informed public, just like democracy. It depends on people being able to scrutinize the opinions of scientists and capitalists alike, and deciding for themselves whether the science they are reading about through the sensationalist media is valid or not.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend! Therefore science and religion are friends! The media frenzy proclaiming the opposite is obviously engaged in divide and conquer tactics. Ignore them.
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Wrong. Higher frequency stays at the surface. Getting a shock from a tesla-coil at millions of volts and hundreds of thousands of cycles per second results in skin pain but not nerve damage.
I've had quite a few jolts from 240 volt mains from one hand to the other. Explain why I'm not dead.
Shocks affect different people differently. Some people can handle this. Some can't. It is enough to grab you and not let you go. That usually means your hand has to be grasping live metal for you to "not let go" Like the darwin awards, low voltage (below 2400) shocks are only fatal if they get you for long enough to damage the heart. A quick jolt here and there does very little.
It shares a lot more in common with that than DC.
Yes you can. Go pick up ten car batteries, connect each + to the next battery's - and then when you have them all except the last one hold the two wires in opposite hands and see what happens. (120VDC shock was the cause of death detective)
Lightning is static discharge. Doesn't qualify for either.
Exactly. The entire article is sensationalism spouted by people who don't know jack about electricity. Its worthless like the rest of slashdot now. Bye.
It was Apple.
Chinese workers are still cheaper than to develop & implement a packaging robot? I find it hard to believe, but that's probably the case.
Especially when they'll shortly be better and faster at provisioning said robots.
Maybe one that doesn't automatically steal all of your AES128 keys?
and stop global warming." Stover worries that shifting responsibility for solutions to climate change from governments to individuals creates an 'every-man-for-himself'
Your unfounded opinions built upon a foundation of conjecture and alarmist kiltflipping has been rejected, and placed upon the waste pile where all other internet puffery goes.
Let the war begin!
Getting enough GPU power to drive all those pixels might be expensive, difficult (SLI/crossfire) and problematic with drivers not playing nice, but its at least possible. Ramming all the data for those pixels down a wire that hooks up to the display is the trick we all want to see.
This would have been great back when google was inventing the relational search engine. But now that the corporation has thrown in its hat with the regulating bodies of the real world, I can only predict that google will become the ultimate censor, finally cementing Orwell's Minsitry of Truth in the virtual world.
Something has actually gotten the sheeple interested in science!
In addition to evidence of more tactical nukes being used in combat elsewhere and much later in history than WW2, there were also more than a thousand tests of nuclear bombs, some done underwater and leaving their highly radioactive byproducts in the sea. If we only take our information from video games, we can see that nuclear detonations cause global warming. (Sid Meyer's Civilization 2). If we examine it with careful thought and actual science, we can see that the nuclear bomb releases heat and greenhouse gases orders of magnitude higher than most anything else on the planet, excepting perhaps volcanoes, the other elephant in the room with regards to global warming. So. Before we start talking about goals and fantasies where we reverse global warming and recycle every plastic bag that comes with our shiny new computer components, let's think about whether those two degrees are because of nuclear testing and detonations.
It's just more evidence that they're using slashdot to try and change the truth. 1984 is happening. The ministry of truth is real, and we call it the internet.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
We would all have to buy our energy from Mako power plants that would suck dry the life force of the planet and illicit Cloud and his giant sword to come kick some ass and save us all.
About whether something is an authentic copy. If I can print my own what do I need you, your authentic copies, watermarks, or your prices for?
GPU is nVidia 320m I have several dozen screenshots of the problem. Yes, saving the screen to PDF or PNG actually shows the scrambled graphics as is. It only happens after severe overheats and is easily corrected with a simple restart of the affected app (game) a full system reboot is not required.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Yes I suppose the arrestee has a point in playing pranks in order to call attention to the drastic over-response that has become the brunt of jokes and pranks like this. A lot of other comments here have pointed out that this can become highly dangerous due to the overzealousness of these gun-toting maniacs. A sticky situation indeed. Some people want to use prank calls to point out how ridiculous this situation is, while the rest of us want them to stop because its making bullets fly. Something's gotta give, and its probably going to be pictures of american kids shot to death by SWAT members responding to a prank call.
This is contradictory to the reduced IQ requirement. One man tried suing the police force for declining his application on the grounds that his IQ was too high. The supreme court upheld the force's decision. I believe that was a slashdot story around a year ago if anyone can post a link.
Get that shit off slashdot.
You all seem to have confused the fact that we live in a capitalistic society. The media is yelling and shouting in our faces the idea that religion is an enemy of science. The only enemy science has today is capitalism. And capitalism has had religion as its enemy for centuries. Eg Jesus kicking the crap out of the money changers for cornering the markets for half-sheckles at the temple. The Jewish Torah, The Christian Bible, and the Muslim Qur'an all at one point made interest on a loan a sin. The Torah was first to change, and the Bible soon sought to catch up to their competitors.
Capitalism is an enemy of Science because the capitalists treat science like a commodity. They figure they can "buy some science..." that makes my company look good. Convinces people that having a long shower is causing global warming. Tells folks that switching off lights will contribute to power conservation but ignores the amount of power used by their vacuums, hair dryers, and electric ranges. Proliferates lies about their diet in such a way that everyone becomes sick and has to visit the hospital all the time, take very expensive drugs with extensive side effects, and pay thousands of dollars in health insurance. And it's working! But real science doesn't work like that. Real science can't be swayed by interpreting the numbers wrong and spin-doctoring the results. Real science depends upon an informed public, just like democracy. It depends on people being able to scrutinize the opinions of scientists and capitalists alike, and deciding for themselves whether the science they are reading about through the sensationalist media is valid or not.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend! Therefore science and religion are friends! The media frenzy proclaiming the opposite is obviously engaged in divide and conquer tactics. Ignore them.