It is incredibly sad that the substance of the debate here is whether there should be large cars on the road, and on who is ultimately to blame for this tragedy. (The entire discussion can be summarized as follows: somebody threw in a typical Hummer insult, SUV owners became defensive and started saying silly things about research not having a place in the world, everyone comes out looking like insensitive clods)
This won't be the end of solar racing, although it will be a significant setback for the Toronto team. They have lost a friend, a teammate and many, many, many hours of work, spent not only building their car but also convincing people that their cause is worth supporting. The team has a solid history--they placed 11th in the 2003 American Solar Challenge (and won the saftey award), 12th in ASC2001, 14th in WSC2001, and they were the top rookie team in SunRayce 1999 (info from their website).
I imagine that the future will see a serious review of solar car saftey rules, which will result in changes to the specifications for solar cars as well as the conditions under which they should be driven. Even though solar powered cars are not the way of the future, the sport has led to the develompent of new technologies that are nevertheless important (the world's most effiecient electric motors and maximum power point trackers), and it teaches young engineers far more about engineering than they could possibly learn in any other way.
A public show of support (and/. counts as these days) is really what the BlueSky team needs right now. Then, after the incident has been properly observed, a respectful review of the causes and solutions should get underway.
NEXT is just a think-tank: they don't need a huge budget. They will pass the project on to another group to implement it, and go on to thinking of other, nifty projects for NASA to pursue.
If you're so convinced that's what happens, then you should try hydrolyzing salt water and taking a nice, deep sniff of the gas that collects above the positive electrode.
The Palermo scale is a scale that asses the danger posed by an orbiting body compared to that which we constantly face by unknown, "background" bodies. Specifically, the Earth is 10^(palermo value) times as likely to get hit by whatever object we're talking about than by a background object of equal or greater size within the time period before the projected impact. As you can see, palermo values greater than zero mean that we are more likely to get hit by this object than by a background object; values less than 0 indicate that we shouldn't sweat it too much.
So, the palermo value of 0.06 (p is just greater than one) means we are very, very slightly more likely to get hit by NT7 than we are to get hit by another astreroid of equal or greater size before 2019.
I was thinking the same thing. I find it very difficult to believe that they can force the tens of thousands of us (at least) who run our own mail/DNS servers to keep logs for x years, and then turn them over at their request. It's also not that difficult to set up your own mail/DNS server, and I don't think that terrorists/criminals capable of doing anything worth preventing would have too hard of a time with it.
10. Natalie Portman tops worlds ugliest people list.
9. Beowulf clusters aren't so useful after all
8. IIS beats Apache in recent security audits
7. JonKatz reviews _______ in less than 1000 words
6. [Lucent | IBM | Intel] [invents | patents] [single molecule | [carbon | other element] nanotube | really small] [transistor | hard drive | computer] (wait... maybe we have seen that one before...)
5. CowboyNeal read this (marry me)!
4. 133t k1dd13z h4x0r3d/.
3. BeOS returns, outperforms Linux
2. Sometimes, Microsoft is right...
1. Bill Gates buys U.S. Supreme court, clears M$ of all charges.
It has the additional advantage that, if they have a problem with it and decide to bring the issue up with a higher power, they probably won't be able to explain why it's so important for them to be able to download music or images or whatever, and therefore probably won't get anywhere. A few weeks after we started blocking Napster, Gnutella and friends, the school principal sent out an email without consulting us saying that those programs were no longer allowed... most likely because he had no idea before people started complaining of what these programs were even for.
How is finding a cure for cancer a potentially dangerous discovery? That is just one of the thousands of potential outcomes of genetic research--and if researchers don't cooperate, nobody will make any progress.
That's actually not true. If you had read the Chicago Tribune article (which I doubt you did) or the JAMA article (which I really doubt you did), you would have noticed that it gave reasons for _why_ scientists were witholding information. About 60% witheld information to preserve the ability of grad students and junior faculty to publish it, and about 50% witheld info so they could publish it later. While the second reason may be slightly selfish, that's the way science has been for hundreds of years. Furthermore, if nobody gave grad students anything to put in their dissertations, nobody would be getting PhD's anymore, and then we'd fall a few decades behind in research. READ THE ARTICLES!!!
I really enjoyed reading your last paragraph:
There's very little difference between proprietary software and "closed-source" science. Both put profits before progress.
I believe that's the most karma-whorific sentence I've ever read on/. (or anywhere else, for that matter). While we're on the subject though, there were a whole lot of tech IPO's promoting open source projects that were supposed to be "gold mines"... why don't you whine about those?
So, you mean that the next time my app segfaults and dumps core, I can say it was a feature designed to allow it to be restarted...? Cool.
Seriously though, how can you restart a core (obviously not one from a segfault) using gdb?
Apple implemented this feature in early versions of OS 9, but took it out after they realized that some laptops would never "unfreeze" without the user hitting a reset switch buried deep inside the laptop.
The idea was that when you put your computer to sleep, instead of keeping the SDRAM (or whatever the laptop had) powered to preserve the memory contents, it would write it all to a special sector on the hard drive that the firmware knew to read from when starting from sleep. This allowed sleep to be even more low-power than it already is, since a hard drive does not require power to retain data.
Well... the number of cd's it would take (~ 3070) would make one stack 15.7 feet high... without cases of course. that's a lot.
You (ssheth) wouldn't happen to go to Harvard, would you? I know someone with an email similar to yours who goes there or possibly got kicked out recently.
the point was not that there isn't 2 TB out there of data that they could have pirated, it was that there's no way they're going to get 2 TB of storage capacity on a single desktop machine. It takes a big-ass server to get even 1 TB, much less 2.
The only things they could show with the video out would be the player's perspectives. It would be more interesting if they could show it like we would watch football or baseball--from a distant third person, all-seing perspective.
Is it just the professions who share some element of physical danger where this stereotypical bonding occurs...
Are you saying IT isn't a dangerous job? You've obviously never been attacked by an angry user, or sprained your finger on one of those old IBM I-could-kill-you-with-this keyboards.
Correct. It doesn't replace LILO, but sits above it in the booting hierarchy.
I stumbled across it while trying to put NT (not my decision) onto a machine that had previously had Linux and LILO on it. For some reason, NT wouldn't install it's bootloader over LILO, and LILO wouldn't boot to NT, because I couldn't configure it because Linux was no longer on the machine. So I installed XOSL, and everything worked.
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This won't be the end of solar racing, although it will be a significant setback for the Toronto team. They have lost a friend, a teammate and many, many, many hours of work, spent not only building their car but also convincing people that their cause is worth supporting. The team has a solid history--they placed 11th in the 2003 American Solar Challenge (and won the saftey award), 12th in ASC2001, 14th in WSC2001, and they were the top rookie team in SunRayce 1999 (info from their website).
I imagine that the future will see a serious review of solar car saftey rules, which will result in changes to the specifications for solar cars as well as the conditions under which they should be driven. Even though solar powered cars are not the way of the future, the sport has led to the develompent of new technologies that are nevertheless important (the world's most effiecient electric motors and maximum power point trackers), and it teaches young engineers far more about engineering than they could possibly learn in any other way.
A public show of support (and /. counts as these days) is really what the BlueSky team needs right now. Then, after the incident has been properly observed, a respectful review of the causes and solutions should get underway.
Jeff Thompson
Yale Solar Racing
NEXT is just a think-tank: they don't need a huge budget. They will pass the project on to another group to implement it, and go on to thinking of other, nifty projects for NASA to pursue.
If you're so convinced that's what happens, then you should try hydrolyzing salt water and taking a nice, deep sniff of the gas that collects above the positive electrode.
So, the palermo value of 0.06 (p is just greater than one) means we are very, very slightly more likely to get hit by NT7 than we are to get hit by another astreroid of equal or greater size before 2019.
I was thinking the same thing. I find it very difficult to believe that they can force the tens of thousands of us (at least) who run our own mail/DNS servers to keep logs for x years, and then turn them over at their request. It's also not that difficult to set up your own mail/DNS server, and I don't think that terrorists/criminals capable of doing anything worth preventing would have too hard of a time with it.
9. Beowulf clusters aren't so useful after all
8. IIS beats Apache in recent security audits
7. JonKatz reviews _______ in less than 1000 words
6. [Lucent | IBM | Intel] [invents | patents] [single molecule | [carbon | other element] nanotube | really small] [transistor | hard drive | computer] (wait... maybe we have seen that one before...)
5. CowboyNeal read this (marry me)!
4. 133t k1dd13z h4x0r3d /.
3. BeOS returns, outperforms Linux
2. Sometimes, Microsoft is right...
1. Bill Gates buys U.S. Supreme court, clears M$ of all charges.
It has the additional advantage that, if they have a problem with it and decide to bring the issue up with a higher power, they probably won't be able to explain why it's so important for them to be able to download music or images or whatever, and therefore probably won't get anywhere. A few weeks after we started blocking Napster, Gnutella and friends, the school principal sent out an email without consulting us saying that those programs were no longer allowed... most likely because he had no idea before people started complaining of what these programs were even for.
Would that be a 2-piece or 3-piece suit? Stripes too?
"In the long run, we'll all be dead"
Thats why.
you could also call it a server "farm"...
Imagine how many hits you'd get if you turned your stuffed animal into a webserver... brings new meaning to "server farm"...
How is finding a cure for cancer a potentially dangerous discovery? That is just one of the thousands of potential outcomes of genetic research--and if researchers don't cooperate, nobody will make any progress.
I really enjoyed reading your last paragraph:
There's very little difference between proprietary software and "closed-source" science. Both put profits before progress.
I believe that's the most karma-whorific sentence I've ever read on /. (or anywhere else, for that matter). While we're on the subject though, there were a whole lot of tech IPO's promoting open source projects that were supposed to be "gold mines"... why don't you whine about those?
So, you mean that the next time my app segfaults and dumps core, I can say it was a feature designed to allow it to be restarted...? Cool. Seriously though, how can you restart a core (obviously not one from a segfault) using gdb?
The idea was that when you put your computer to sleep, instead of keeping the SDRAM (or whatever the laptop had) powered to preserve the memory contents, it would write it all to a special sector on the hard drive that the firmware knew to read from when starting from sleep. This allowed sleep to be even more low-power than it already is, since a hard drive does not require power to retain data.
Well... the number of cd's it would take (~ 3070) would make one stack 15.7 feet high... without cases of course. that's a lot. You (ssheth) wouldn't happen to go to Harvard, would you? I know someone with an email similar to yours who goes there or possibly got kicked out recently.
the point was not that there isn't 2 TB out there of data that they could have pirated, it was that there's no way they're going to get 2 TB of storage capacity on a single desktop machine. It takes a big-ass server to get even 1 TB, much less 2.
The only things they could show with the video out would be the player's perspectives. It would be more interesting if they could show it like we would watch football or baseball--from a distant third person, all-seing perspective.
Screw that, I'm going to go buy a copy of half-life...
Umm... why is there a link to the DoI website if they've been forced off line...?
Are you saying IT isn't a dangerous job? You've obviously never been attacked by an angry user, or sprained your finger on one of those old IBM I-could-kill-you-with-this keyboards.
Live dangerously...
I became a UNIX admin by hanging out around a bunch of other UNIX admins until they let me have root. Then I started to get rid of them...
... I don't think I'd want to see most of the people at COMDEX less than fully clothed.
I stumbled across it while trying to put NT (not my decision) onto a machine that had previously had Linux and LILO on it. For some reason, NT wouldn't install it's bootloader over LILO, and LILO wouldn't boot to NT, because I couldn't configure it because Linux was no longer on the machine. So I installed XOSL, and everything worked.
What are these "errors" you speak of? Open source has no errors...