I got an A+ in physics, admittedly in high school, so orbital mechanics were not covered. In any event, I read that the railgun package could be combined with a small rocket, enough to change the orbit to elliptical in the extreme so it would eventually fall into the sun - no? If not, no longer on earth.
I am not "astroturfing". I am fully for nuclear and renewables and against fossil fuels for a multitude of reasons, global warming being supreme. I agree with all the reasons why nuclear has not been used as the dreamers of the 1950's envisioned (nuclear cars and planes). But the railgun idea is not crazy. Unless you think NASA is crazy as well. Link: http://www.csmonitor.com/Scien... (among many).
I thought we in the Slashdot community were more civil. AND I quite doubt you are qualified to judge my mental health from afar. Be that as it may, if the fuel is "perfectly usable" why were they proposing to bury it in Yucca Mountain for 10,000 years??? Yes, I understand that fuel from some more modern reactors can be re-processed up to 95%. But some of this old stuff has been looking for a home for 50 years.
A little internet research proves you are in error viperiodaenz. I had read about it in SF novels (means nothing, but sometimes the ideas are partially true). I also had read about it in scientific research, as rocket travel is expensive, dangerous and non-reusable. Same tech for 50 years. Cannot change chemical reactions. So I found a couple of links that may help. The first explores the real possibility of a electromagnetic railgun shooting small loads several times a day. If the loads were of a standard size, it would greatly speed up space exploration. One could even build a more modern space station. Here is that link: http://physics.stackexchange.c.... The other is about NASA engineers combining a railgun with a scramjet to make it sazfe for human flight. Completely re-usable. Here that link: http://www.popsci.com/technolo.... So, my idea is not as far-fetched as you thought. As to whether the load can be radioactive waste, those hazards would have to be calculated.
It may sound far-fetched, but an electromagnetic rail gun would be feasible. Especially if the waste could be made into smaller units. Just aim it into the sun! No more problem. As a side benefit, the technology learned from this could be used to perhaps shoot material into orbit to build spacecraft out THERE, where the high cost of escaping the gravity well of earth would not be present.
Since you're mentioning Intel....doesn't Intel Fortran and Intel C++ share the same optimizer and the same code generator? I wonder what the *real* performance difference would be between those two. Latest Fortran revisions give you some extra array intrinsic operations, but C++ gives you SIMD intrinsics for tuning in some added boost in critical spots. Sounds like a draw to me.
You very well could be right K.S. I am not a programmer. Wanted to be. Too late to start I think. I was just going by what was in the article. I had hoped others would comment on the the "3 modern condenters" but the bulk of comments are in line with the article: "it just works and it is fast and has HUGE libraries and legacy code." From what I could follow Julie seemed the most interesting, but the bugs not out of it yet.
OP here. This is what the article said. Compilers are the key. They have been around a long time. Another key is that commercial compilers (like Intel for example) further increase the speed, as the manufacturers know how to optomize the code for the specific CPU at hand.
The people with porn Tumblrs don't need to move, they just need an easy way to be found. Why not a retro, Yahoo-style directory? That's how lots of us found things before search engines got so good. Just start tumblrporn.com (lawyers permitting) and list all the blogs Yahoo doesn't want indexed, in categories. Sell ads. Profit!
As a person who actually USED Yahoo's original search engine, I think this is a wonderful idea, the law permitting, as you so wisely stated. And that it could actually be PROFITABLE as well is intriguing.
BTW, you sig is both awesome and sadly totally correct.
According to most AV reviews I have read (including CNET), MSE is dead last in effectiveness. As for Avast, I installed it when AVG 2013 refused to install. Haven't looked back since. I am not understanding "bloats and adverts". There are one or two signature updates a day. I see no "adverts". As for "bloat", I see by Task Manager Avast is using only 7 MB of memory. It has caught several viruses, including some real nasty ones. I really like the "boot scan" part. I had not had an AV program with that. The first time I ran it it found 3 Trojans. I think Avast is a good choice. Above AVG in reliability. I use it in conjunction with Threatfire. Seems to be a good harmony. Just my opinion.
I always love how people simultaneously believe that the NSA is so technically brilliant that it can collect and analyze every message sent by every random person on earth, but also so stupid that they name their secret backdoor key _NSAKEY.
No shit! I am laughing at most of the comments to this. Especially, those that think anything actually attached to the Internet is in any way secure from an agency like the NSA and DHS. ROFLMFAO The only system that's secured is off, in a safe at an undisclosed location. And today, you better hope you didn't tell yourself where that was because they might try to torture it out of you.
I agree totally. I worked for the NSA in their Army military arm (ASA) way back in the 1970s. The Motto on the wall, no lie, was "In God We Trust, All Others We Monitor." One cannot "secure" the internet unless it is taken "offline". Iran is doing just this in wake of their "worm" attacks on the nuclear facilities.
And how do you propose to do that without either 1) running afoul of the 1st amendment's "freedom to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances" bit, or 2) passing an amendment to repeal parts of the 1st?
Not sure I am reading your right. But I don't believe "asking for handouts" that lobbyists to is tantamount to "free speech" for "redress of grievances", as you say. I could be wrong. Did not major in Poli Sci.
I actually feel like KDE and Gnome were the traitors, not me. If Windows 9 is anything like Windows 8 I'm going to have a huge problem.
You know the mantra: one good MS release, the next sucks balls, the next good, ad infinitum. So it goes.... Microsoft messed up trying to copy Apples success, but then went beyond that and tried to make Win 8 a "one size fits all" OS. Business users won't be buying, although, from what I hear it is far safer, runs on less resources, and has some improvements over Windows 7. But the whole tile thing (apps) and no "start menu" with no EASY way to start to desktop has pissed off a GREAT many people. Almost universally panned by review writers and consumers alike.
some people, yours truly included, prefer the lag-free typing that one gets on a decent-powered desktop app. I have always found lag while using online wordprocessors. They keyboard shortcuts that I use/want-to-use are not present, not properly implemented. There are other reasons. I want to use a stable 'decent' alternate solution which lets me work on the desktop with ease. Right now my choices are limited to LibreOffice and AbiWord/Gnumeric.
I prefer desktop/laptop too. Speed of response is important. I have not tried AbiWord/Gnumeric. Linux family? Have tried LibreOffice and while it is decent, do prefer OpenOffice more. Even used it when I had access to MS Office. More intuitive and even had a couple of tricks MS Office did not have. Granted, at extremes it might not be usable, but for most people and small businesses, it works well.
user education should be printed in all caps, bold, underlined, comic sans, etc...
At some point, unless we develop new algorithms that utterly break how current encryption algorithms behave (which I know I know, is a possibility... and of course the NSA has it already)... your weakest point is not going to be the computer. It's going to be the lackey at the front-desk happily letting a "tech" in (physically or electronically)
I would tend to agree. Many of the stories I have read, like the Iranian nuke plants getting infected with Stuxnet, were due to human engineering. Getting to stupid people inside to get access or keywords or geting them to insert an infected thumb drive into the wrong computer. Hard to work against that. People are lazy much of the time.
I had looked into the Chromebook, as it is a good price. But once I saw it was a "cloud machine" with limited memory, I found many better deals elsewhere, including Google's only Nexus (if one can find one - they seem to be continually "sold out"). But I am confused why Google would do this. They already have Google Docs. Guess I am not up on it. This is "cloud only"? The new Pixel is just ridiculous. Sure the screen is good. I don't even LIKE Apple products. But the Airbook still seems to be a better deal at that price point.
I recently did a stint working for the police as a temp at the property and evidence warehouse. As one can understand, it is in no one's interest (besides the perpetrator, of course) for evidence to go missing. Therefore there are rigorous methods of accounting. But as a last step the ENTIRE WAREHOUSE (save the restrooms) are under video surveillance.
That is hardly an indictment of an Orwellian Britain, unless you find it evil that there are CCTV cameras in police stations and outside jewellery stores too.
Here's a free clue: you don't have a right to do what you like in those places. If you want to dress up as a rabbit and wank off to child porn, do it at home.
Not trying to speak to Britain, as I have no right. I know little about it. I understood my responsibilities. Just saying it is possible to have all under surveillance.
I can understand what you mean. I do keep a journal. But only if a significant event happens - not every day and everything that ; happens; no matter how trivial. And the reason? I am 60 and the memory is not doing so good.
A large part of our lives are recorded.
unless you live in the UK where most of your life is recorded.
Agreed on both counts. I recently did a stint working for the police as a temp at the property and evidence warehouse. As one can understand, it is in no one's interest (besides the perpetrator, of course) for evidence to go missing. Therefore there are rigorous methods of accounting. But as a last step the ENTIRE WAREHOUSE (save the restrooms) are under video surveillance.
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Okay, I guess it would not work as I thought.
I got an A+ in physics, admittedly in high school, so orbital mechanics were not covered. In any event, I read that the railgun package could be combined with a small rocket, enough to change the orbit to elliptical in the extreme so it would eventually fall into the sun - no? If not, no longer on earth.
I am not "astroturfing". I am fully for nuclear and renewables and against fossil fuels for a multitude of reasons, global warming being supreme. I agree with all the reasons why nuclear has not been used as the dreamers of the 1950's envisioned (nuclear cars and planes). But the railgun idea is not crazy. Unless you think NASA is crazy as well. Link: http://www.csmonitor.com/Scien... (among many).
I thought we in the Slashdot community were more civil. AND I quite doubt you are qualified to judge my mental health from afar. Be that as it may, if the fuel is "perfectly usable" why were they proposing to bury it in Yucca Mountain for 10,000 years??? Yes, I understand that fuel from some more modern reactors can be re-processed up to 95%. But some of this old stuff has been looking for a home for 50 years.
A little internet research proves you are in error viperiodaenz. I had read about it in SF novels (means nothing, but sometimes the ideas are partially true). I also had read about it in scientific research, as rocket travel is expensive, dangerous and non-reusable. Same tech for 50 years. Cannot change chemical reactions. So I found a couple of links that may help. The first explores the real possibility of a electromagnetic railgun shooting small loads several times a day. If the loads were of a standard size, it would greatly speed up space exploration. One could even build a more modern space station. Here is that link: http://physics.stackexchange.c.... The other is about NASA engineers combining a railgun with a scramjet to make it sazfe for human flight. Completely re-usable. Here that link: http://www.popsci.com/technolo.... So, my idea is not as far-fetched as you thought. As to whether the load can be radioactive waste, those hazards would have to be calculated.
Where are mod points when you need 'em. Concise and funny.
It may sound far-fetched, but an electromagnetic rail gun would be feasible. Especially if the waste could be made into smaller units. Just aim it into the sun! No more problem. As a side benefit, the technology learned from this could be used to perhaps shoot material into orbit to build spacecraft out THERE, where the high cost of escaping the gravity well of earth would not be present.
I am not a programmer. Wanted to be. Too late to start I think.
Garbage! You can start programming in any age just fine. :)
You are right. I want to learn Javascript. I know there is no typing. But useful for what I want to do: web page creation.
Since you're mentioning Intel....doesn't Intel Fortran and Intel C++ share the same optimizer and the same code generator? I wonder what the *real* performance difference would be between those two. Latest Fortran revisions give you some extra array intrinsic operations, but C++ gives you SIMD intrinsics for tuning in some added boost in critical spots. Sounds like a draw to me.
You very well could be right K.S. I am not a programmer. Wanted to be. Too late to start I think. I was just going by what was in the article. I had hoped others would comment on the the "3 modern condenters" but the bulk of comments are in line with the article: "it just works and it is fast and has HUGE libraries and legacy code." From what I could follow Julie seemed the most interesting, but the bugs not out of it yet.
OP here. Give this man some mod points for FUNNY!
OP here. This is what the article said. Compilers are the key. They have been around a long time. Another key is that commercial compilers (like Intel for example) further increase the speed, as the manufacturers know how to optomize the code for the specific CPU at hand.
I am OP: Sorry I had it down as all caps.
The people with porn Tumblrs don't need to move, they just need an easy way to be found. Why not a retro, Yahoo-style directory? That's how lots of us found things before search engines got so good. Just start tumblrporn.com (lawyers permitting) and list all the blogs Yahoo doesn't want indexed, in categories. Sell ads. Profit!
As a person who actually USED Yahoo's original search engine, I think this is a wonderful idea, the law permitting, as you so wisely stated. And that it could actually be PROFITABLE as well is intriguing. BTW, you sig is both awesome and sadly totally correct.
According to most AV reviews I have read (including CNET), MSE is dead last in effectiveness. As for Avast, I installed it when AVG 2013 refused to install. Haven't looked back since. I am not understanding "bloats and adverts". There are one or two signature updates a day. I see no "adverts". As for "bloat", I see by Task Manager Avast is using only 7 MB of memory. It has caught several viruses, including some real nasty ones. I really like the "boot scan" part. I had not had an AV program with that. The first time I ran it it found 3 Trojans. I think Avast is a good choice. Above AVG in reliability. I use it in conjunction with Threatfire. Seems to be a good harmony. Just my opinion.
I always love how people simultaneously believe that the NSA is so technically brilliant that it can collect and analyze every message sent by every random person on earth, but also so stupid that they name their secret backdoor key _NSAKEY.
No shit! I am laughing at most of the comments to this. Especially, those that think anything actually attached to the Internet is in any way secure from an agency like the NSA and DHS. ROFLMFAO The only system that's secured is off, in a safe at an undisclosed location. And today, you better hope you didn't tell yourself where that was because they might try to torture it out of you.
I agree totally. I worked for the NSA in their Army military arm (ASA) way back in the 1970s. The Motto on the wall, no lie, was "In God We Trust, All Others We Monitor." One cannot "secure" the internet unless it is taken "offline". Iran is doing just this in wake of their "worm" attacks on the nuclear facilities.
7) outlaw lobbyists
And how do you propose to do that without either 1) running afoul of the 1st amendment's "freedom to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances" bit, or 2) passing an amendment to repeal parts of the 1st?
Not sure I am reading your right. But I don't believe "asking for handouts" that lobbyists to is tantamount to "free speech" for "redress of grievances", as you say. I could be wrong. Did not major in Poli Sci.
Rule 34?
I actually feel like KDE and Gnome were the traitors, not me. If Windows 9 is anything like Windows 8 I'm going to have a huge problem.
You know the mantra: one good MS release, the next sucks balls, the next good, ad infinitum. So it goes .... Microsoft messed up trying to copy Apples success, but then went beyond that and tried to make Win 8 a "one size fits all" OS. Business users won't be buying, although, from what I hear it is far safer, runs on less resources, and has some improvements over Windows 7. But the whole tile thing (apps) and no "start menu" with no EASY way to start to desktop has pissed off a GREAT many people. Almost universally panned by review writers and consumers alike.
some people, yours truly included, prefer the lag-free typing that one gets on a decent-powered desktop app. I have always found lag while using online wordprocessors. They keyboard shortcuts that I use/want-to-use are not present, not properly implemented. There are other reasons. I want to use a stable 'decent' alternate solution which lets me work on the desktop with ease. Right now my choices are limited to LibreOffice and AbiWord/Gnumeric.
I prefer desktop/laptop too. Speed of response is important. I have not tried AbiWord/Gnumeric. Linux family? Have tried LibreOffice and while it is decent, do prefer OpenOffice more. Even used it when I had access to MS Office. More intuitive and even had a couple of tricks MS Office did not have. Granted, at extremes it might not be usable, but for most people and small businesses, it works well.
user education should be printed in all caps, bold, underlined, comic sans, etc...
At some point, unless we develop new algorithms that utterly break how current encryption algorithms behave (which I know I know, is a possibility... and of course the NSA has it already)... your weakest point is not going to be the computer. It's going to be the lackey at the front-desk happily letting a "tech" in (physically or electronically)
I would tend to agree. Many of the stories I have read, like the Iranian nuke plants getting infected with Stuxnet, were due to human engineering. Getting to stupid people inside to get access or keywords or geting them to insert an infected thumb drive into the wrong computer. Hard to work against that. People are lazy much of the time.
No.
I had looked into the Chromebook, as it is a good price. But once I saw it was a "cloud machine" with limited memory, I found many better deals elsewhere, including Google's only Nexus (if one can find one - they seem to be continually "sold out"). But I am confused why Google would do this. They already have Google Docs. Guess I am not up on it. This is "cloud only"? The new Pixel is just ridiculous. Sure the screen is good. I don't even LIKE Apple products. But the Airbook still seems to be a better deal at that price point.
I recently did a stint working for the police as a temp at the property and evidence warehouse. As one can understand, it is in no one's interest (besides the perpetrator, of course) for evidence to go missing. Therefore there are rigorous methods of accounting. But as a last step the ENTIRE WAREHOUSE (save the restrooms) are under video surveillance.
That is hardly an indictment of an Orwellian Britain, unless you find it evil that there are CCTV cameras in police stations and outside jewellery stores too.
Here's a free clue: you don't have a right to do what you like in those places. If you want to dress up as a rabbit and wank off to child porn, do it at home.
Not trying to speak to Britain, as I have no right. I know little about it. I understood my responsibilities. Just saying it is possible to have all under surveillance.
I can understand what you mean. I do keep a journal. But only if a significant event happens - not every day and everything that ; happens; no matter how trivial. And the reason? I am 60 and the memory is not doing so good.
At some point after you die someone will throw the hard copy in the trash and delete the digital to make room for porn
Rule 34???
A large part of our lives are recorded. unless you live in the UK where most of your life is recorded.
Agreed on both counts. I recently did a stint working for the police as a temp at the property and evidence warehouse. As one can understand, it is in no one's interest (besides the perpetrator, of course) for evidence to go missing. Therefore there are rigorous methods of accounting. But as a last step the ENTIRE WAREHOUSE (save the restrooms) are under video surveillance.