Why does the area of academic research matter? Including it in the headline implies there's some causation when there is very likely none at all. Should be more like "academic research/educator sexual misconduct etc etc". Giving his profession, gender, nationality, all possibly (if remotely) relevant; if he was an electrician would we care if he was freelance or worked for a national company? If he was a doctor would it matter if he was a neurosurgeon or an obstetrician?. If there is some causation, maybe explain a little? If not, irrelevant at best, inflammatory at worst.
The 'negligable mass of the third body' applies in almost all situations. An exception (as I recall from astrophysics&cosmology) is when two objects share L4/L5 points of each other while both orbiting a much larger mass (as in two small planets orbiting a star, the first is in the second's L4 and the second is in the first's L5).
I'm getting quite fed up of this myth. Solid state electronics are _momentarily_ disrupted by strong EMP, volatile and some non-volatile memory is wiped, so yes in a mission-critical situation they're not always suitable but capacitors and resistors and transistors all work just fine after the EMP has passed (seconds at most).
I witnessed an experiment a few years ago where a strong but highly-localised EMP was directed onto a running consumer PC (windows 95 era). The computer predictably shut down, the CRT monitor had resetted to factory settings but otherwise worked just fine. The PC wouldn't boot because the BIOS had beed completely erased along with HDD firmware and the like, but we transplanted the CPU into a fresh machine and it worked just fine. Anything that doesn't rely on firmware or settings or OS stored on solid state (or magnetic) memory will likely function perfectly after (if not during) an EMP. As a simple example, an EMP would wipe all your gameboy/atari 2600 cartridges but the console hardware would still be working.
I'm not trying to downplay the continued-yet-widely-unknown usefulness of vacuum tubes, its just this misconception about EMPs really annoys me sometimes.
As someone who 100%'ed JC2 (well, 99.95%, which was the best you could do because of a bug) I beg to differ. The sky and terrain on JC2 looked amazing and indeed rival modern games including GTA5, but the extra detail and variety and sheer amount of stuff going on in each and every scene in GTA 5 make it a massively prettier game, even if each individual element is not much more detailed then any other recent large open world game. The reflections and water in GTA5 are way ahead of JC2. Never mind that GTA5 is far more GPU usage efficient, yes the PC version of JC2 on max setting might look better than the PS3 version of GTA5 but that's hardly a fair comparison. Infact the GTA5 PC version has extensive GFX tweakability even for a PC game, and to run it om even above-average settings requires a top tier card and more VRAM than I care to speculate.
In terms of world size, have you heard of Oblivion? JC2 is nothing, yes the world map may be physically huge but its so empty and unvaried compared to (admittedly newer) other games. In terms of explorability and variety I'd say Far Cry 4 packed in way more stuff to explore and discover and more variety than JC2 in a much smaller map.
I am not a programmer, I do not work in the IT business, but I find this kind of stuff incredibly fascinating, its a major reason I still come here. So much so that I remember very clearly a particular article from a few months ago about auto-generating dungeons. Where can I find more?
This helps, what, carriers and trunk lines? (Not that it's a bad thing)
Yes, exactly that, of which there are many you personally depend on to post your condescendingly uneducated contributions to/. And many more free of your tripe
You're all defending the spying operations targeted at the leaders of foreign allies, but nobody really cares about that. Merkel knew full well she was being spied on simply because she was also spying, I see no problem here. We're all outraged about the spying targeted at the working public for relatively minor (compared to international relations) crimes, especially by the citizens' own government. Yes there's a 'slippery slope' arguement, but we can't realistically stop all spying, so lets focus on the particular type of spying that we really care about stopping. The NSA spying on Angela Merkel's professional dealings isn't that.
So the duration is 12 days longer than the average, so what? 20-30 days is usual across all the industries and sectors (private and public) that I have worked in.
The far more interesting story is the 80% increase in the average in just 5 years. I suspect some form of selection bias (people with long interview processes might be reluctant to fill out a survey afterwards but this effect decreased over time as their sample size increased, or something) but it would be interesting to see their raw data anyway.
Why is this news? I know slashdot includes technology news but is every minor update to console hardware worth a story here? Really? Especially since you can buy a 4TB HDD quite cheaply now.
Yep. I cannot have my account under my real name because I sometimes work with children and young offenders who know my name, it would be quite annoying if they could all find me easily on facebook, even though I have all the privacy settings (good one!) turned up to max. If facebook turns round and says I can't use that pseudonym anymore I'll just delete everything and move to google+ or something. I suspect a lot of people would do the same.
From a rich person to a bank? How is that redistribution?
If the bank gave it all away, to charity, to its poorer customers, its poorer employees, or even just threw it out the window one day, I'd be all for them taking the money from the rich guy and so would most people I'd wager, stealing or not. In reality it will flow into the pockets of other rich guys, that is not redistribution.
There aren't royals "walking around", there's less than a dozen of them really. They constitute less of our population than prolific serial killers constitute of yours. I know which I'd prefer.
If you want to talk about useless financial burdens on the taxpayer, start with the big fish (miltary industrial complex much?) of which both our nations have plenty. The royal family certainly is not a big fish, especially if you count the significant tourism they bring here from.... oh look at that, it's America, who'd have thought?
Have a look at the recent WRC series of rallying games, still made by codemasters, none of the bullshit introduced in CMR:DiRT, pure rallying. WRC 4 is the latest and its like CMR1/2 all over again for me.
I also like the GRID series of racing games, just the right balance between simulation and arcade, especially the most recent installation, GRID:Autosport.
I think you're conflating two concepts or methods of undermining encryption. One method is variations on a 'back-door' (like a master key in a physical key/lock situation), the other is 'weakening' the encrytion by somehow limiting the passkey length/complexity. I think you're referring to the second method when you say it's a practical impossibility and I agree with you. I also think the point is moot because all the attempts (successful or not) so far have been via the first method, back-doors, and probably will be in the future.
But your original point still stands, weak (and backdoored) encryption is effectively no encryption, no exceptions. This is because "it won't work in practice because the backdoor key will eventually leak due to hacking, rogue employees, etc" as the AC put it in his reply to you.
The dick move is using the exit lane to pass people.
Although the slip roads (on ramps and off ramps for you yanks) are typically much shorter in the UK, people do this all the time, in London especially, and it is indeed a dick move. If one person does it they save a bit of time and it doesn't affect anyone else, but if more people do it they save less time and it slows everyone else down. I and a lot of other drivers just stubbornly refuse to let them merge back in, but there's always going to be someone idiot who will let you in.
The problem will come because people still want to retire at 65 and live to 165; problems will come because people will keep breeding when there is no work and then expect others to pay for their offspring; problems will come because they expect to keep the same inefficiencies in place and will resist commonsense changes (Example closing Post Offices that no longer pay for themselves); problems will come because they expect the government to restrict competition because it means their job (or their company).
Rubbish, in the idealised utopia (practically unlimited energy, sustainable use of limited resources and sufficiently advanced robots to perform every task unsupervised) then nothing has any COST. You can breed until we hit density limits without working, because there is no COST to having children. You can operate a post office that does nothing because if there is no cost there is nothing to pay for, any individual or entity can exist at zero cost.
I believe its technically possible but human nature (i.e. greed) will prevent it from ever happening in practice.
Dear Tesla,
Do we really need another unnecessary buzzword? Does 'gigafactory' mean 10^9 (or even 2^30) individual factories? Is that what you mean by economies of scale? If so then that's pretty cool and you can have your new word.
Or do you just mean a really big factory? Because if so then making up a new word to make it sound cool is just lame, don't do it.
That is all.
Anecdotal evidence/I feel like bragging on the internet.
I eat what I like, (high fat, high carb, all fast food, literally anything goes) and maintain ~80kg (181cm height) with minimal exercise (15 minutes cycling per week and 20 pressups+situps every morning). I'm 25, situation has been pretty stable since 17-18.
More exercise and high-protein/low-carb and I can bulk muscle and lose body-fat pretty quickly.
The point I'm trying to make is I think the variation in an indvidual's metabolism (and/or natural genetic body/shape/size) and amount of exercise play a much larger role in body-shapelifespan than carb/protein/fat proportions (assuming you're recieving all 3 in amounts between zero and insane).
You are exaggerating the difficulty and danger of driving this car at road-legal speeds by quite a large margin.
I have driven a Carrera GT on the road (in the EU, not the USA, but its much the same) and on the track. It has traction control, it has massive amounts of grip even at low speeds without downforce, if you are keeping within the speed limits it would be almost impossible to get near the limit of traction in this car (unless you throw it into a very tight corner way too fast, thats when you need stability control), and therefore very safe. My mother could drive this car around a city without incident, it wouldn't be at all fun like you said, but not automatically dangerous. Infact it might actually be safer because the brakes are exceptionally good, plus the visibility is much better than some other top-end road cars (lamborghini I'm looking at you).
The danger of a car like this comes when you exceed the speed limits (by a large margin). If I were to do 60 in a 45 limit in a top-end saloon (BMW etc) it wouldn't be too tricky, the car is likely to be front engined and/or 4WD which makes for pretty predictable handling, plus all the driver aids would help you out a lot if things went wrong. Plus all the safety equipment etc which a Carrera GT certainly doesn't have. If this same impact had occurred in a high-end saloon, one or both drivers would probably have survived.
If you're doing 70-90mph in a 45 limit in a Carrera GT, thats a recipe for total disaster and no driver (professional or otherwise) should be stupid enough to try it. Apparently this one was. You can tell from the state of the car he was doing at least 60 (probably more like 80) at point of impact, so he must have been doing 70-90+ when he lost control.
IMHO cars like this should come with many warnings and perhaps a limited speed when on public roads (80-90ish), but the car itself is not dangerous if driven within the legal limit.
Star Conflict is my current staple MMO. Its mulitplayer like League of legends and World of Tanks (made by same people as WoT), gameplay is semi-physically-realistic space-combat (mouse/keyboard only), VERY similar to freelancer, fast-paced, mostly twitch-based (which is a must for me). Its F2P, you can also P2W if you're not very good, but skilled players will do very well without paying at all.
My first MMO was Jumpgate (EU server) and I became a well known player before the EP2 expansion, shortly after which I left with many others. After that I couldn't get into EvE Online at all, I couldn't have any fun unless I had physical control of the ship at least semi-flight-sim style. Played on a few freelancer online servers but the lack of content meant it got old very quickly. I was looking for a good multiplayer space-combat game for a while, and Star Conflict is excellent. However after a few months I'm missing the overall sense of progression and achievement you get from a real MMO. I'm looking forward to Star Citizen and (if it ever materializes) Infinity: Quest for Earth. If anyone has any suggestions along those lines I'd be grateful.
You're missing the whole point of nuclear; you said it yourself
For those new to this, the price of power from fission is almost entirely a function of its capital cost, measured in dollars per watt.
which is exactly correct, and also applies to PV and wind, and always will, because the fuel is essentially free. It did apply to NG and coal and still does to some extent but it won't for very much longer, we are running out of fossils don't you know. Your comparison is false because you're comparing power (or power/cost) to energy (or energy/cost).
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Why does the area of academic research matter? Including it in the headline implies there's some causation when there is very likely none at all. Should be more like "academic research/educator sexual misconduct etc etc". Giving his profession, gender, nationality, all possibly (if remotely) relevant; if he was an electrician would we care if he was freelance or worked for a national company? If he was a doctor would it matter if he was a neurosurgeon or an obstetrician?. If there is some causation, maybe explain a little? If not, irrelevant at best, inflammatory at worst.
This should be their tagline: Facebook, the worst idea you wish you'd thought of first.
I got one of these at age 12, made me the Physicist I am today. https://www.quasarelectronics....
The 'negligable mass of the third body' applies in almost all situations. An exception (as I recall from astrophysics&cosmology) is when two objects share L4/L5 points of each other while both orbiting a much larger mass (as in two small planets orbiting a star, the first is in the second's L4 and the second is in the first's L5).
I'm getting quite fed up of this myth. Solid state electronics are _momentarily_ disrupted by strong EMP, volatile and some non-volatile memory is wiped, so yes in a mission-critical situation they're not always suitable but capacitors and resistors and transistors all work just fine after the EMP has passed (seconds at most). I witnessed an experiment a few years ago where a strong but highly-localised EMP was directed onto a running consumer PC (windows 95 era). The computer predictably shut down, the CRT monitor had resetted to factory settings but otherwise worked just fine. The PC wouldn't boot because the BIOS had beed completely erased along with HDD firmware and the like, but we transplanted the CPU into a fresh machine and it worked just fine. Anything that doesn't rely on firmware or settings or OS stored on solid state (or magnetic) memory will likely function perfectly after (if not during) an EMP. As a simple example, an EMP would wipe all your gameboy/atari 2600 cartridges but the console hardware would still be working. I'm not trying to downplay the continued-yet-widely-unknown usefulness of vacuum tubes, its just this misconception about EMPs really annoys me sometimes.
As someone who 100%'ed JC2 (well, 99.95%, which was the best you could do because of a bug) I beg to differ. The sky and terrain on JC2 looked amazing and indeed rival modern games including GTA5, but the extra detail and variety and sheer amount of stuff going on in each and every scene in GTA 5 make it a massively prettier game, even if each individual element is not much more detailed then any other recent large open world game. The reflections and water in GTA5 are way ahead of JC2. Never mind that GTA5 is far more GPU usage efficient, yes the PC version of JC2 on max setting might look better than the PS3 version of GTA5 but that's hardly a fair comparison. Infact the GTA5 PC version has extensive GFX tweakability even for a PC game, and to run it om even above-average settings requires a top tier card and more VRAM than I care to speculate. In terms of world size, have you heard of Oblivion? JC2 is nothing, yes the world map may be physically huge but its so empty and unvaried compared to (admittedly newer) other games. In terms of explorability and variety I'd say Far Cry 4 packed in way more stuff to explore and discover and more variety than JC2 in a much smaller map.
I am not a programmer, I do not work in the IT business, but I find this kind of stuff incredibly fascinating, its a major reason I still come here. So much so that I remember very clearly a particular article from a few months ago about auto-generating dungeons. Where can I find more?
This helps, what, carriers and trunk lines? (Not that it's a bad thing)
Yes, exactly that, of which there are many you personally depend on to post your condescendingly uneducated contributions to /. And many more free of your tripe
You're all defending the spying operations targeted at the leaders of foreign allies, but nobody really cares about that. Merkel knew full well she was being spied on simply because she was also spying, I see no problem here. We're all outraged about the spying targeted at the working public for relatively minor (compared to international relations) crimes, especially by the citizens' own government. Yes there's a 'slippery slope' arguement, but we can't realistically stop all spying, so lets focus on the particular type of spying that we really care about stopping. The NSA spying on Angela Merkel's professional dealings isn't that.
So the duration is 12 days longer than the average, so what? 20-30 days is usual across all the industries and sectors (private and public) that I have worked in. The far more interesting story is the 80% increase in the average in just 5 years. I suspect some form of selection bias (people with long interview processes might be reluctant to fill out a survey afterwards but this effect decreased over time as their sample size increased, or something) but it would be interesting to see their raw data anyway.
Isn't there an XKCD that covers this?
Congratulations, we have a winner.
Why is this news? I know slashdot includes technology news but is every minor update to console hardware worth a story here? Really? Especially since you can buy a 4TB HDD quite cheaply now.
Yep. I cannot have my account under my real name because I sometimes work with children and young offenders who know my name, it would be quite annoying if they could all find me easily on facebook, even though I have all the privacy settings (good one!) turned up to max. If facebook turns round and says I can't use that pseudonym anymore I'll just delete everything and move to google+ or something. I suspect a lot of people would do the same.
From a rich person to a bank? How is that redistribution? If the bank gave it all away, to charity, to its poorer customers, its poorer employees, or even just threw it out the window one day, I'd be all for them taking the money from the rich guy and so would most people I'd wager, stealing or not. In reality it will flow into the pockets of other rich guys, that is not redistribution.
There aren't royals "walking around", there's less than a dozen of them really. They constitute less of our population than prolific serial killers constitute of yours. I know which I'd prefer. If you want to talk about useless financial burdens on the taxpayer, start with the big fish (miltary industrial complex much?) of which both our nations have plenty. The royal family certainly is not a big fish, especially if you count the significant tourism they bring here from.... oh look at that, it's America, who'd have thought?
Have a look at the recent WRC series of rallying games, still made by codemasters, none of the bullshit introduced in CMR:DiRT, pure rallying. WRC 4 is the latest and its like CMR1/2 all over again for me. I also like the GRID series of racing games, just the right balance between simulation and arcade, especially the most recent installation, GRID:Autosport.
I think you're conflating two concepts or methods of undermining encryption. One method is variations on a 'back-door' (like a master key in a physical key/lock situation), the other is 'weakening' the encrytion by somehow limiting the passkey length/complexity. I think you're referring to the second method when you say it's a practical impossibility and I agree with you. I also think the point is moot because all the attempts (successful or not) so far have been via the first method, back-doors, and probably will be in the future. But your original point still stands, weak (and backdoored) encryption is effectively no encryption, no exceptions. This is because "it won't work in practice because the backdoor key will eventually leak due to hacking, rogue employees, etc" as the AC put it in his reply to you.
The dick move is using the exit lane to pass people.
Although the slip roads (on ramps and off ramps for you yanks) are typically much shorter in the UK, people do this all the time, in London especially, and it is indeed a dick move. If one person does it they save a bit of time and it doesn't affect anyone else, but if more people do it they save less time and it slows everyone else down. I and a lot of other drivers just stubbornly refuse to let them merge back in, but there's always going to be someone idiot who will let you in.
The problem will come because people still want to retire at 65 and live to 165; problems will come because people will keep breeding when there is no work and then expect others to pay for their offspring; problems will come because they expect to keep the same inefficiencies in place and will resist commonsense changes (Example closing Post Offices that no longer pay for themselves); problems will come because they expect the government to restrict competition because it means their job (or their company).
Rubbish, in the idealised utopia (practically unlimited energy, sustainable use of limited resources and sufficiently advanced robots to perform every task unsupervised) then nothing has any COST. You can breed until we hit density limits without working, because there is no COST to having children. You can operate a post office that does nothing because if there is no cost there is nothing to pay for, any individual or entity can exist at zero cost. I believe its technically possible but human nature (i.e. greed) will prevent it from ever happening in practice.
Dear Tesla, Do we really need another unnecessary buzzword? Does 'gigafactory' mean 10^9 (or even 2^30) individual factories? Is that what you mean by economies of scale? If so then that's pretty cool and you can have your new word. Or do you just mean a really big factory? Because if so then making up a new word to make it sound cool is just lame, don't do it. That is all.
Anecdotal evidence/I feel like bragging on the internet. I eat what I like, (high fat, high carb, all fast food, literally anything goes) and maintain ~80kg (181cm height) with minimal exercise (15 minutes cycling per week and 20 pressups+situps every morning). I'm 25, situation has been pretty stable since 17-18. More exercise and high-protein/low-carb and I can bulk muscle and lose body-fat pretty quickly. The point I'm trying to make is I think the variation in an indvidual's metabolism (and/or natural genetic body/shape/size) and amount of exercise play a much larger role in body-shapelifespan than carb/protein/fat proportions (assuming you're recieving all 3 in amounts between zero and insane).
You are exaggerating the difficulty and danger of driving this car at road-legal speeds by quite a large margin. I have driven a Carrera GT on the road (in the EU, not the USA, but its much the same) and on the track. It has traction control, it has massive amounts of grip even at low speeds without downforce, if you are keeping within the speed limits it would be almost impossible to get near the limit of traction in this car (unless you throw it into a very tight corner way too fast, thats when you need stability control), and therefore very safe. My mother could drive this car around a city without incident, it wouldn't be at all fun like you said, but not automatically dangerous. Infact it might actually be safer because the brakes are exceptionally good, plus the visibility is much better than some other top-end road cars (lamborghini I'm looking at you). The danger of a car like this comes when you exceed the speed limits (by a large margin). If I were to do 60 in a 45 limit in a top-end saloon (BMW etc) it wouldn't be too tricky, the car is likely to be front engined and/or 4WD which makes for pretty predictable handling, plus all the driver aids would help you out a lot if things went wrong. Plus all the safety equipment etc which a Carrera GT certainly doesn't have. If this same impact had occurred in a high-end saloon, one or both drivers would probably have survived. If you're doing 70-90mph in a 45 limit in a Carrera GT, thats a recipe for total disaster and no driver (professional or otherwise) should be stupid enough to try it. Apparently this one was. You can tell from the state of the car he was doing at least 60 (probably more like 80) at point of impact, so he must have been doing 70-90+ when he lost control. IMHO cars like this should come with many warnings and perhaps a limited speed when on public roads (80-90ish), but the car itself is not dangerous if driven within the legal limit.
Star Conflict is my current staple MMO. Its mulitplayer like League of legends and World of Tanks (made by same people as WoT), gameplay is semi-physically-realistic space-combat (mouse/keyboard only), VERY similar to freelancer, fast-paced, mostly twitch-based (which is a must for me). Its F2P, you can also P2W if you're not very good, but skilled players will do very well without paying at all. My first MMO was Jumpgate (EU server) and I became a well known player before the EP2 expansion, shortly after which I left with many others. After that I couldn't get into EvE Online at all, I couldn't have any fun unless I had physical control of the ship at least semi-flight-sim style. Played on a few freelancer online servers but the lack of content meant it got old very quickly. I was looking for a good multiplayer space-combat game for a while, and Star Conflict is excellent. However after a few months I'm missing the overall sense of progression and achievement you get from a real MMO. I'm looking forward to Star Citizen and (if it ever materializes) Infinity: Quest for Earth. If anyone has any suggestions along those lines I'd be grateful.
For those new to this, the price of power from fission is almost entirely a function of its capital cost, measured in dollars per watt.
which is exactly correct, and also applies to PV and wind, and always will, because the fuel is essentially free. It did apply to NG and coal and still does to some extent but it won't for very much longer, we are running out of fossils don't you know. Your comparison is false because you're comparing power (or power/cost) to energy (or energy/cost).