This is starting to get weird. I havn't heard of any criminal investigation at all. But this is a completely obvious, open and shut case, with millions of dollars in damage. I think we have to start looking at which government and law enforcement agencies are complicit in this, and what their motives are for complicity.
If they're catering to the modders, then this is just not good enough unless it has blue LED's inside. Or any other colour. Selectable colours by jumper would be good. Or better yet, have the colour fluctuate when reading from the drive.
If I was in charge, I would make the colour smoothly change across the RGB spectrum, the colour depending on where on the HD the last read was. Red being the beginning of the hard drive, and blue being at the end. That way you could see with a glance from roughly where on the HD your data is being read from.
That would be way cool. Kudos to these guys for a good start.
I don't think they plug the products that much. Honestly, if you invented a new tech product on Slashdot, would you feel good about letting the unwashed hordes of Slashdot review your product? I don't think there's a single marketer who would think Slashdot was a great place to get product reviews.
So really, they post these articles to give people the real scoop? They post these articles as filler space? Personally, I like seeing these kind of articles just so I can see all the different ways people can complain about something. The user responses here will always be better than a "showcase" review site that doesn't allow criticism.
More often than not, it's not the article that's so important, it's the discussion that follows after. News for nerds and stuff that matters doesn't always happen in the writeup, or even in the linked URL.
One issue with asteroids, is that they are prohibitively far away at the moment, where the moon is not.
Also, why not do both? On the moon it's possible to build an absurdly long railgun, and continuously fire high velocity supplies to just about anywhere in the solar system, and it would be easier because it's not exactly a microgravity environment like an asteroid would be.
I think the moon would be a great staging point in the solar system. Asteroids have their place too. I hope we end up living on every rock there is.
"What are the crew supposed to do on the moon, anyway? Dig?"
Exactly! And it's a wonderful idea! An underground city on the moon is probably the best way to go, as that will be about the only way to avoid micrometeorites and cosmic rays altogether. Since lunar gravity is about 1/10th what we are used to, that will mean that mining and digging out these tunnels will be 10x easier. In theory, the rooms can be 10x larger using the same materials. We could have vast cavernous, pressurized cities built with relative ease.
If this kind of stuff doesn't excite you, I think you're too old and jaded to understand why we even need to be in space anymore.
Maybe you slept through grade school biology, or maybe you dropped out. Food chains are CONNECTED, and every time a species is eliminated, it causes repercussions all over the place. So yea, whales are definately part of our natural resources because they're connected some way with everything else that lives in the sea.
Really? So hitting an unmanned truck sitting in the Nevada desert is the same as hitting a single residential house in a crowded neighborhood? And I'm sure there are some aircraft that don't use that kind of lock-on technology, such as gunships, helicopters, etc. How are they going to train without shooting at houses in crowded neighborhoods?
I think the analogy was great! I just wish I hadn't used up all my mod points....
There is no cultural relativism even needed here. Greed is greed is greed, regardless of the culture or race. All we have here is greedy dishonest people trying to rip off other greedy dishonest people. Intelligence isn't an issue here. The only thing that makes it work is the arrogant pride that comes with greed.
I speak from experience, because my boss was trapped in this scheme. He would routinely rack up $10,000 phone bills to Nigeria. He would send large amounts of cash, and then spend the rest of the month screaming on the phone to some 419'er about his shipment of money. All the while he was boasting how he was going to beat them at their own game... He wasn't a good guy, he was greedy. He bankrupted his company on a yearly basis and hurt a lot of decent people working for him. I think this was actually his business model. If he wasn't doing this, he was blowing his employees paycheques at the casino.
It's not your average person who falls for this 419 scheme, no matter what people say. It doesn't take a naive or stupid person to fall for this, it takes a greedy person who's too arrogant to ignore even their own misgivings. This guy had several degrees. He kept sending cheques!!! He was too full of himself to admit he could be wrong.
I am glad I got out of there relatively intact. I came away with a very good education on human nature, and how utterly illogical even the most intelligent people can be. I'm sure in his own world, everything made perfect sense...
Getting something for free, and then using it for their own purposes cannot be stopped or regulated.
However, if Linus personally went to China and trained a crack team of chinese coders on how to implement the great Firewall, I wouldn't be too hurt if I saw the OSS masses dragging his corpse through the streets.
This is what some US companies are doing NOW. Imagine if some of those companies helped the USSR the same way 20 years ago?
I happen to have the same problem. Windows wireless settings will NOT let me connect at my local cybercafe. I'm fairly knowlegable with wireless, and no amount of tweaking or fiddling could give me an IP. It would connect, but no packets would come back from the router. However, it seems to work just fine when I enable the software that comes with my wireless NIC. My home wireless works either way, so I don't think it's me.
The cashier said that about 1 in 10 people have the exact same problem, and nobody has yet been able to solve it, including their tech guy who comes in once a week.
So according to me at least, this is News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters. All you with wet blankets, buzz off!
I suppose "clean" could refer to a few things. When something launches through our atmosphere, naturally the environmental impact must be considered. In deep space, radioactive material would not be considered a pollutant, but might prevent the crew quarters to be located remotely near the engine. Even on dead planets, having radioactive dust lying around could be a negative thing, as it could get tracked in, and might interfere with some instruments.
Orbitally speaking, "clean" refers to orbital hazards. Considering the speeds involved, even a paint fleck can kill an astronaut. Clean orbital spacecraft will become more and more important as the traffic increases.
Quote from you: "Catalysts increase the rate of reaction, but they don't increase the amount of energy released. I would be very, every surprised if increasing the rate of combustion in a modern internal combustion engine in turn increased the efficiency of that engine."
Because the gasoline/oxygen mixture stays in the cylinder for only a limited amount of time before being ejected into the exhaust system, the rate of reaction is a very important factor. You are right, adding small amounts of hydrogen won't increase the total amount of energy released. However, when igniting in an engine, gasoline only has a fraction of a second to push the cylinder and do work. Any gasoline that hasn't gotten around to burning in time will still release energy, but it won't be in a usable form. Hydrogen just helps the explosion to be more instantaneous.
There are lots of technologies that try to increase the rate of reaction. Just look at the large variety of aftermarket spark plugs and fuel additives that try to address this problem. This is the problem that the acetone promoting crowd tries to adress too.
I find that adding the quotes for the websearch helps a lot in google, as it actually searches for the phrase, not the words separately. Here are some links I found in a brief search:
I also find google searches on "hydrogen enriched gasoline" were quite fruitful. The general consensus on all websites I visited so far is that hydrogen enrichment of the fuel offers a measurable improvement in fuel efficiency. It's a neat subject I am finding.
I hope that helps you in realizing that this isn't a crackpot theory, but rather, a practical application of a long known effect.
Maybe your high school never taught you what a catalyst is. Don't worry, lots of high schools suck, it's not your fault.
A catalyst a small amount of some compound or element, that either allows a reaction to occur, or improves an existing chemical reaction. Usually very little is needed to make a very big improvement in the reaction.
So, someone made a device that generates a SMALL amount of hydrogen onboard the car, and it increases the MPG of the vehicle. So really, it won't be a big drain on the alternator, because of the small amounts of electrolysis involved.
And if you're wondering if it's true that H increases combustion efficiency, just type "adding hydrogen to fuel" into Google, and you will see that this is old news. New news is building a device that efficiently and conveniently cracks water and injects the hydrogen into the fuel mixture. New device that takes advantage of long-understood efficiency.
There's your good science article. Use google to verify any of these facts.
And if you're really into good science, please recant your misconceptions.
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1800 called. I think you missed the invention of the fax and photocopier.
With Iraq as a glass parking lot, who could prove Bush wrong? With this law passing, it looks like GWB is learning from his mistakes, and Iran and North Korea have much to fear.
That was funny, but it also points out something all too true. Computers in cars are at best useless unless they provide something to help you to drive. I can see this system being good for the passenger, but what about the killer app for the DRIVER? I mean so far the best this thing can do is keep the kids in the back seat quiet, and a few other things that can often distract as much as they assist.
I think about the only killer app in a car would be something voice activated, and provide roughly the same services as a computer abord one of those Star Trek shuttles. I mean, how hard would it be in this day and age to make something that could respond verbally to "Computer: Where is the nearest grocery store?"
Until it gets to the point where a computer can actually help me drive effectively, I do NOT want one in my car.
That geeks on Slashdot are against network admins defending their network and infrastructure. Infrastructure also includes personnel and management.
If some union dweeb was DDOS'ing a Telus server, would the admin have the right to ban (CENSOR) certain IP addresses or ranges? Damn straight he would.
If some union dweeb was using the Web to threaten and harass network staff, the admin has the right to ban (CENSOR) that traffic. Damn straight, and rightly so.
I'm all for the union to stick it to Telus, as I think Telus management are dicks, and in general, Telus staff have gotten the short end of the stick. However heavy handed and illegal tactics by unions are nothing new, and self defence is rightly justifiable when the few union hotheads get out of line.
If the Union apologised for any illegal stuff on it's site, and promised to keep that stuff of the net from now on, then I think Telus should allow access again. But not before that.
As to you Slashdot-robots who are screaming how Telus is wrong for censoring, open your mind and tell me how you would react if it was YOUR network staff who's safety was being threatened. Hell, half of you were glad when that spammer was murdered, imagine if someone actually THREATENED your staff.
Safety trumps freedom of speech. As in... The union's freedom of speech ends when they start threatening people who cross the picket line. Self defence makes it ok.
If I was a manager, and I saw my picture and personal information on a union blog, along with the pictures of some people who had crossed the picket line, along with threats and intimidation on that website, I would do whatever it takes to take that site down, even if it breaks some regulations.
The union decided to start threatening people, and singling them out with their home addresses and telephone numbers, and threats. This is BAD, much worse than anything Telus has done!
So even if Telus did break the law, there ain't a jury in Canada that would convict them.
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This is starting to get weird. I havn't heard of any criminal investigation at all. But this is a completely obvious, open and shut case, with millions of dollars in damage. I think we have to start looking at which government and law enforcement agencies are complicit in this, and what their motives are for complicity.
Bork!
That's funny!
I think that if someone were to defragment a drive, all the colours would blend into white.
If they're catering to the modders, then this is just not good enough unless it has blue LED's inside. Or any other colour. Selectable colours by jumper would be good. Or better yet, have the colour fluctuate when reading from the drive.
If I was in charge, I would make the colour smoothly change across the RGB spectrum, the colour depending on where on the HD the last read was. Red being the beginning of the hard drive, and blue being at the end. That way you could see with a glance from roughly where on the HD your data is being read from.
That would be way cool. Kudos to these guys for a good start.
Bork!
My girlfriend doesn't use any of those.
I don't think they plug the products that much. Honestly, if you invented a new tech product on Slashdot, would you feel good about letting the unwashed hordes of Slashdot review your product? I don't think there's a single marketer who would think Slashdot was a great place to get product reviews.
So really, they post these articles to give people the real scoop? They post these articles as filler space? Personally, I like seeing these kind of articles just so I can see all the different ways people can complain about something. The user responses here will always be better than a "showcase" review site that doesn't allow criticism.
More often than not, it's not the article that's so important, it's the discussion that follows after. News for nerds and stuff that matters doesn't always happen in the writeup, or even in the linked URL.
"The people who work for Microsoft aren't evil monsters -- they're engineers and designers doing their best to do their job."
I thought MS was run by marketers? Aren't these the evil monsters everyone speaks of?
Bork!
Thanks for the correction, 1/6th it is.
One issue with asteroids, is that they are prohibitively far away at the moment, where the moon is not.
Also, why not do both? On the moon it's possible to build an absurdly long railgun, and continuously fire high velocity supplies to just about anywhere in the solar system, and it would be easier because it's not exactly a microgravity environment like an asteroid would be.
I think the moon would be a great staging point in the solar system. Asteroids have their place too. I hope we end up living on every rock there is.
Bork!
"What are the crew supposed to do on the moon, anyway? Dig?"
Exactly! And it's a wonderful idea! An underground city on the moon is probably the best way to go, as that will be about the only way to avoid micrometeorites and cosmic rays altogether. Since lunar gravity is about 1/10th what we are used to, that will mean that mining and digging out these tunnels will be 10x easier. In theory, the rooms can be 10x larger using the same materials. We could have vast cavernous, pressurized cities built with relative ease.
If this kind of stuff doesn't excite you, I think you're too old and jaded to understand why we even need to be in space anymore.
Bork!
Maybe you slept through grade school biology, or maybe you dropped out. Food chains are CONNECTED, and every time a species is eliminated, it causes repercussions all over the place. So yea, whales are definately part of our natural resources because they're connected some way with everything else that lives in the sea.
Dork.
What's wrong with the idea of taking care when using active sonar during peace-time training excercises?
Really? So hitting an unmanned truck sitting in the Nevada desert is the same as hitting a single residential house in a crowded neighborhood? And I'm sure there are some aircraft that don't use that kind of lock-on technology, such as gunships, helicopters, etc. How are they going to train without shooting at houses in crowded neighborhoods?
I think the analogy was great! I just wish I hadn't used up all my mod points....
There is no cultural relativism even needed here. Greed is greed is greed, regardless of the culture or race. All we have here is greedy dishonest people trying to rip off other greedy dishonest people. Intelligence isn't an issue here. The only thing that makes it work is the arrogant pride that comes with greed.
I speak from experience, because my boss was trapped in this scheme. He would routinely rack up $10,000 phone bills to Nigeria. He would send large amounts of cash, and then spend the rest of the month screaming on the phone to some 419'er about his shipment of money. All the while he was boasting how he was going to beat them at their own game... He wasn't a good guy, he was greedy. He bankrupted his company on a yearly basis and hurt a lot of decent people working for him. I think this was actually his business model. If he wasn't doing this, he was blowing his employees paycheques at the casino.
It's not your average person who falls for this 419 scheme, no matter what people say. It doesn't take a naive or stupid person to fall for this, it takes a greedy person who's too arrogant to ignore even their own misgivings. This guy had several degrees. He kept sending cheques!!! He was too full of himself to admit he could be wrong.
I am glad I got out of there relatively intact. I came away with a very good education on human nature, and how utterly illogical even the most intelligent people can be. I'm sure in his own world, everything made perfect sense...
Bork!
Getting something for free, and then using it for their own purposes cannot be stopped or regulated.
However, if Linus personally went to China and trained a crack team of chinese coders on how to implement the great Firewall, I wouldn't be too hurt if I saw the OSS masses dragging his corpse through the streets.
This is what some US companies are doing NOW. Imagine if some of those companies helped the USSR the same way 20 years ago?
It's a crime, or at least it should be.
I happen to have the same problem. Windows wireless settings will NOT let me connect at my local cybercafe. I'm fairly knowlegable with wireless, and no amount of tweaking or fiddling could give me an IP. It would connect, but no packets would come back from the router. However, it seems to work just fine when I enable the software that comes with my wireless NIC. My home wireless works either way, so I don't think it's me.
The cashier said that about 1 in 10 people have the exact same problem, and nobody has yet been able to solve it, including their tech guy who comes in once a week.
So according to me at least, this is News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters. All you with wet blankets, buzz off!
Bork!
I suppose "clean" could refer to a few things. When something launches through our atmosphere, naturally the environmental impact must be considered. In deep space, radioactive material would not be considered a pollutant, but might prevent the crew quarters to be located remotely near the engine. Even on dead planets, having radioactive dust lying around could be a negative thing, as it could get tracked in, and might interfere with some instruments.
Orbitally speaking, "clean" refers to orbital hazards. Considering the speeds involved, even a paint fleck can kill an astronaut. Clean orbital spacecraft will become more and more important as the traffic increases.
Quote from you:
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"Catalysts increase the rate of reaction, but they don't increase the amount of energy released. I would be very, every surprised if increasing the rate of combustion in a modern internal combustion engine in turn increased the efficiency of that engine."
Because the gasoline/oxygen mixture stays in the cylinder for only a limited amount of time before being ejected into the exhaust system, the rate of reaction is a very important factor. You are right, adding small amounts of hydrogen won't increase the total amount of energy released. However, when igniting in an engine, gasoline only has a fraction of a second to push the cylinder and do work. Any gasoline that hasn't gotten around to burning in time will still release energy, but it won't be in a usable form. Hydrogen just helps the explosion to be more instantaneous.
There are lots of technologies that try to increase the rate of reaction. Just look at the large variety of aftermarket spark plugs and fuel additives that try to address this problem. This is the problem that the acetone promoting crowd tries to adress too.
I find that adding the quotes for the websearch helps a lot in google, as it actually searches for the phrase, not the words separately. Here are some links I found in a brief search:
Here are some experts discussing the topic:
http://icubenetwork.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=159
Here is a link to a Discovery magazine article from 1999, where a different method was attempted, called the "plasmatron". Love the name.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/i
Here is a paper from someone in England on the subject:
http://www.nutech2000.com/webtext/milage/hydrogen
Here is a really informative article. The bibliography he provides is prodigous, so would be useful for you if you wanted to study this in depth:
http://www.wlhs.wlwv.k12.or.us/students/marcusb/h
I also find google searches on "hydrogen enriched gasoline" were quite fruitful. The general consensus on all websites I visited so far is that hydrogen enrichment of the fuel offers a measurable improvement in fuel efficiency. It's a neat subject I am finding.
I hope that helps you in realizing that this isn't a crackpot theory, but rather, a practical application of a long known effect.
Maybe your high school never taught you what a catalyst is. Don't worry, lots of high schools suck, it's not your fault.
A catalyst a small amount of some compound or element, that either allows a reaction to occur, or improves an existing chemical reaction. Usually very little is needed to make a very big improvement in the reaction.
So, someone made a device that generates a SMALL amount of hydrogen onboard the car, and it increases the MPG of the vehicle. So really, it won't be a big drain on the alternator, because of the small amounts of electrolysis involved.
And if you're wondering if it's true that H increases combustion efficiency, just type "adding hydrogen to fuel" into Google, and you will see that this is old news. New news is building a device that efficiently and conveniently cracks water and injects the hydrogen into the fuel mixture. New device that takes advantage of long-understood efficiency.
There's your good science article. Use google to verify any of these facts.
And if you're really into good science, please recant your misconceptions.
1800 called. I think you missed the invention of the fax and photocopier.
With Iraq as a glass parking lot, who could prove Bush wrong? With this law passing, it looks like GWB is learning from his mistakes, and Iran and North Korea have much to fear.
That was funny, but it also points out something all too true. Computers in cars are at best useless unless they provide something to help you to drive. I can see this system being good for the passenger, but what about the killer app for the DRIVER? I mean so far the best this thing can do is keep the kids in the back seat quiet, and a few other things that can often distract as much as they assist.
I think about the only killer app in a car would be something voice activated, and provide roughly the same services as a computer abord one of those Star Trek shuttles. I mean, how hard would it be in this day and age to make something that could respond verbally to "Computer: Where is the nearest grocery store?"
Until it gets to the point where a computer can actually help me drive effectively, I do NOT want one in my car.
Bork!
That geeks on Slashdot are against network admins defending their network and infrastructure. Infrastructure also includes personnel and management.
If some union dweeb was DDOS'ing a Telus server, would the admin have the right to ban (CENSOR) certain IP addresses or ranges? Damn straight he would.
If some union dweeb was using the Web to threaten and harass network staff, the admin has the right to ban (CENSOR) that traffic. Damn straight, and rightly so.
I'm all for the union to stick it to Telus, as I think Telus management are dicks, and in general, Telus staff have gotten the short end of the stick. However heavy handed and illegal tactics by unions are nothing new, and self defence is rightly justifiable when the few union hotheads get out of line.
If the Union apologised for any illegal stuff on it's site, and promised to keep that stuff of the net from now on, then I think Telus should allow access again. But not before that.
As to you Slashdot-robots who are screaming how Telus is wrong for censoring, open your mind and tell me how you would react if it was YOUR network staff who's safety was being threatened. Hell, half of you were glad when that spammer was murdered, imagine if someone actually THREATENED your staff.
Stop, think, and get off your high horses people.
Safety trumps freedom of speech. As in... The union's freedom of speech ends when they start threatening people who cross the picket line. Self defence makes it ok.
If I was a manager, and I saw my picture and personal information on a union blog, along with the pictures of some people who had crossed the picket line, along with threats and intimidation on that website, I would do whatever it takes to take that site down, even if it breaks some regulations.
The union decided to start threatening people, and singling them out with their home addresses and telephone numbers, and threats. This is BAD, much worse than anything Telus has done!
So even if Telus did break the law, there ain't a jury in Canada that would convict them.
And there shouldn't be.
Bork!
I'd mod you up, but you invoked Godwin's Rule.
Wow, that seige mentality has really gotten to you. You do realize that is exactly what the terrorists (And GWB) want.
Let's get this straight... Business is the greater evil, and government is the lesser evil...
:-o
So what happens when business runs the government, like in the USA?