Yeah the gravity of a few hundre mile diameter black hole would do nothing detectable to us.
First off most theories have black holes much smaller than a hundred miles in diameter. Secondly the gravity it would create would bend light very noticably as it moved towards the sun (or more likely the sun moved towards it.) Thirdly the gravity of a black hole in our solar system would destroy the stability of the system. We would have long since stopped orbiting the sun if we were meeting paths with a black hole.
I don't know if he was talking about the flares or the fact that they aimed directly at earth for the first two because in context he says it is like a staring down the barrel of a great big gun pointed at the earth.
It may not be the best but it is a tool we have right now. Science theory is only as good as the tools to observe with. Science changes constantly because the tools evolve, theories adapt with the added precision to the observations we have. So I don't understand the inverted commas which seem to be showing overt sarcasm. Maybe your sarcasm hints at the arogance in the scientific field that exists, this sense of knowing how things work and being sure about. I think the best scientist though have always been the ones who understand the potential and the limitations of the observations that give them the data they have. Science will always be a quest for more precise measurement, and more accurate data. So yes it is a good measure until a better one is found if a better one can be found.:p
In a way yes. Though the humour could be killed if the poster actually calculated the time for the flare to reach the heliopause and the p/cm3 at that distance.
The C64 was the only computer I could make hardware for. I remember taking apart a joystick and realise how the switches worked with the wires and then creating other input devices with cheap parts from Radia Shack. I also remember building a light pen from plans from an old Compute or Commodore magazine. I also had the assembler cartridge for it and for it and learned machine code. Which was another great thing about the C-64 Programmer's Reference Manual was the quikc assembly guide. To the point where you could actually peek and poke in code with an assembler if you wanted to.
I still have two working C-64's and a C-128 plus two hard drives and one of the colour monitors. Oh yes and a 300 baud modem. I remeber an old disk, I will have to look for it that you connected to a service and it had a chat like program on it. I remember talking to people California, I was in PA at the time and waiting 4 minutes for the text to echo. But I can not remember that service provider. I know it was early 80's maybe 82 ish. Hmmm I am sure I have that disk. Does anyone else remember connecting to BBS services with the C-64, or GeOS.
But mainly my love of the machine was the Zork games.
But how does it determine if it gets slashdotted or not. Not all articles are popular and get the brunt of the users here. So there is no big or clever idea or motive going on, just people post infomation, others find it interesting. The only out is not to post interesting information. Or to deny slashdot refers but that is another story.
Note in the quote of the license by nice SCO people it says
If LICENSEE fails to fulfill one or more of its obligations under this Agreement, AT&T-IS (AT&T Information Systems) may, upon its election and in addition to any other rememdies that it may have, at any time terminate all the rights granted by it hereunder by not less than two(2) months' written notice to LICENSEE specifying any such breach, unless within the period of such notice all breaches specified therein shall have been remedied; upon such termination LICENSEE shall immediately discontinue use of and return or destroy all copies of SOFTWARE PRODUCTS subject to this Agreement.
I think there is an argument on the phrase in bold I added. SGI says they have remedied the breaches SCO says it is not enough.
Why do you think businesses like paper shredders? Why do groups go dumpster diving? Never throw out paper that has information on you that you do not want to get out. Plus tearing up the form would have felt good at the time. It is not legal because the form needed a signature. The company should have the form stored you might be able to request it as evidence in a suit but you need to talk to lawyer.
I think importantly people need to look at what happened here and realise, do not trust the law to protect you, in most cases the law needs to be broken before it can be used, and the deterents in this case are small compared to the profit. So protect yourselve with the best practices that you can. Don't throw out paper information unless you have torn it up, burnt it or shredded or are safe with it being found at the tip, dump, skip, bin, etc.
Like philosophy is to be littled, changing perspective on things within thought is a good way to change or strengthen your understanding of them. This can move us forward, not by accepting it is a machine but to look at it as a single machine, and to see those interdependencies, to understand the macro-scale of a process that we tended to focus on the micro-scale of. It doesn't make it right or wrong but it does help us as society look at this thing (electricity production and distribution) And then we can look at the questions that have come out of the recent problems with the system.
Is the argument right or wrong, I would tend to say that it is to macro focussed but should be held in balance with our traditional thinking on the grid's nature.
Is philosophy a negative - never, you don't always need hard science to understand and shape your environment for the positive. You just need to increase your understanding of the subject and philosophy is an excellent tool for that.
Ok so what happened in New York and the East Coast was that an example of the redundancies working, failing or was it designed to go out like that so the rest of the nation was ok????? Or did I miss the sarcasm tags in your comment.
and hit reload or refresh as many times as possible in the browser of choice and to see if the slashdot effect would happen on a 1x1 gif. I don't think it could happen but who knows is it worth doing????
HTML-Kit yes I just want a port of that to Linux. No one needs to copy it, they just need to take their source and port it that is a wonderful product.
My ten
Windows
HTML-Kit
OpenOffice.org
Mozilla (I don't seperate out the mail and web yet I should probably will try that next but for now Mozilla)
FileZilla
PuTTY
ActiveState Perl
Win Amp 3
Win Zip
Java SDK
Borland C++ Compiler
Linux
I have yet to find an app that I don't need to do more than update from what is on the distributions I use. A good distro is worth more than listing apps, a good distribution should have enough apps that you can try them out and get to the ones you like.
If only you could get parents to do that we wouldn't being worrying about school budgets, but unfortunately that just can't be bought or educated into the masses. But it is so much the only true method of improving childrens education and life.
But I think the purpose of the laptops were for the students to use them to do work and reports with, like Maine where the student had the laptop for the year and turned it back when it was done so that would not work under those conditions. If it were static desktops for teaching computers on then that format with any os would work fine.
I don't know looking to success in the past and understanding how the individual and culture related and acted with each other is important in improving the systems we have. A thought like this leads to that thought process. And even if Shakespeare drove a vovlo sedan which is irrelevent to the question on how would society have valued his mind. He could refuse to drive and only use Network Rail and the Tube as far as I care but how would that mind be valued, what would it focus on and would the results move society as far forward.
My problem with this is the time limits. When you do things like this you stake out the target. If they were truly interested in the cognitive side that information invovled in staking out the target is more valuable in the actual exploit. But a true stake out of the target would not fall within there time limits.
Slashdot Mirror
And most, to all of our satellites.
But we don't use those for anything important.
Oh well it didn't happen that way so here we are.
Yeah the gravity of a few hundre mile diameter black hole would do nothing detectable to us.
First off most theories have black holes much smaller than a hundred miles in diameter. Secondly the gravity it would create would bend light very noticably as it moved towards the sun (or more likely the sun moved towards it.) Thirdly the gravity of a black hole in our solar system would destroy the stability of the system. We would have long since stopped orbiting the sun if we were meeting paths with a black hole.
I don't know if he was talking about the flares or the fact that they aimed directly at earth for the first two because in context he says it is like a staring down the barrel of a great big gun pointed at the earth.
It may not be the best but it is a tool we have right now. Science theory is only as good as the tools to observe with. Science changes constantly because the tools evolve, theories adapt with the added precision to the observations we have. So I don't understand the inverted commas which seem to be showing overt sarcasm. Maybe your sarcasm hints at the arogance in the scientific field that exists, this sense of knowing how things work and being sure about. I think the best scientist though have always been the ones who understand the potential and the limitations of the observations that give them the data they have. Science will always be a quest for more precise measurement, and more accurate data. So yes it is a good measure until a better one is found if a better one can be found. :p
In a way yes.
Though the humour could be killed if the poster actually calculated the time for the flare to reach the heliopause and the p/cm3 at that distance.
Well yes we have.
too some extent
I mean that is the basic interface it is all tweaking and compacting from there.
The C64 was the only computer I could make hardware for. I remember taking apart a joystick and realise how the switches worked with the wires and then creating other input devices with cheap parts from Radia Shack. I also remember building a light pen from plans from an old Compute or Commodore magazine. I also had the assembler cartridge for it and for it and learned machine code. Which was another great thing about the C-64 Programmer's Reference Manual was the quikc assembly guide. To the point where you could actually peek and poke in code with an assembler if you wanted to.
I still have two working C-64's and a C-128 plus two hard drives and one of the colour monitors. Oh yes and a 300 baud modem. I remeber an old disk, I will have to look for it that you connected to a service and it had a chat like program on it. I remember talking to people California, I was in PA at the time and waiting 4 minutes for the text to echo. But I can not remember that service provider. I know it was early 80's maybe 82 ish. Hmmm I am sure I have that disk. Does anyone else remember connecting to BBS services with the C-64, or GeOS.
But mainly my love of the machine was the Zork games.
Than why are you here?
Sorry I know it is stating the obvious but if you hate it to that level why bother, or is this something you inflict on yourself.
referers (ick doesn't look right stop try again)
.htaccess:--
;
/example.com/ )
... Access denied.
use htaccess and perl to deny slashdot refered hits.
specifically
--SNIP:
PerlHandler ChkSite Apache::Registry
--SNIP--
Next, write the handler itself.It looks like this:
--SNIP: ChkSite.pm
use strict;
use Apache::Constants
sub handler
{
if ( $ENV{HTTP_REFERER} !~
{ return DECLINED; } #ok... go to next handler
#send error page
my $r = shift;
$r->content_type("text/html");
$r->send_http_header;
my $content = qq{
You come from $ENV{HTTP_REFERER}: [slashdot.org]
};
$r->print($content);
DONE;
}
1;
--SNIP--
From Sonam Chauhan
You could even modify that to point slashdot referrer to the google cache.
And the nice thing is you can add domains to it as you find your site getting referenced by different forums and discussions.
But how does it determine if it gets slashdotted or not. Not all articles are popular and get the brunt of the users here. So there is no big or clever idea or motive going on, just people post infomation, others find it interesting. The only out is not to post interesting information. Or to deny slashdot refers but that is another story.
Note in the quote of the license by nice SCO people it says
If LICENSEE fails to fulfill one or more of its obligations under this Agreement, AT&T-IS (AT&T Information Systems) may, upon its election and in addition to any other rememdies that it may have, at any time terminate all the rights granted by it hereunder by not less than two(2) months' written notice to LICENSEE specifying any such breach, unless within the period of such notice all breaches specified therein shall have been remedied; upon such termination LICENSEE shall immediately discontinue use of and return or destroy all copies of SOFTWARE PRODUCTS subject to this Agreement.
I think there is an argument on the phrase in bold I added. SGI says they have remedied the breaches SCO says it is not enough.
Why do you think businesses like paper shredders?
Why do groups go dumpster diving?
Never throw out paper that has information on you that you do not want to get out. Plus tearing up the form would have felt good at the time. It is not legal because the form needed a signature. The company should have the form stored you might be able to request it as evidence in a suit but you need to talk to lawyer.
I think importantly people need to look at what happened here and realise, do not trust the law to protect you, in most cases the law needs to be broken before it can be used, and the deterents in this case are small compared to the profit. So protect yourselve with the best practices that you can. Don't throw out paper information unless you have torn it up, burnt it or shredded or are safe with it being found at the tip, dump, skip, bin, etc.
And in extending the metaphor of the article and adding to your excellent thoughts.
The society as a unit destroys itself by the individuals in that unit. That politic is mirrored in the network created by that society.
Nor any human being or group of human beings.
Those human beans on the other hand, well lets just say you have to watch out for them.
Like philosophy is to be littled, changing perspective on things within thought is a good way to change or strengthen your understanding of them. This can move us forward, not by accepting it is a machine but to look at it as a single machine, and to see those interdependencies, to understand the macro-scale of a process that we tended to focus on the micro-scale of. It doesn't make it right or wrong but it does help us as society look at this thing (electricity production and distribution) And then we can look at the questions that have come out of the recent problems with the system.
Is the argument right or wrong, I would tend to say that it is to macro focussed but should be held in balance with our traditional thinking on the grid's nature.
Is philosophy a negative - never, you don't always need hard science to understand and shape your environment for the positive. You just need to increase your understanding of the subject and philosophy is an excellent tool for that.
Ok so what happened in New York and the East Coast was that an example of the redundancies working, failing or was it designed to go out like that so the rest of the nation was ok????? Or did I miss the sarcasm tags in your comment.
For no reason other than curiosity what would happen if the slashdot users went to this web page
s .g if?dcsuri=/nojavascrip
http://g6589dcs.nyc2.aens.net/DCS000003_6D4Q/nj
and hit reload or refresh as many times as possible in the browser of choice and to see if the slashdot effect would happen on a 1x1 gif. I don't think it could happen but who knows is it worth doing????
My ten
Windows
Linux
I have yet to find an app that I don't need to do more than update from what is on the distributions I use. A good distro is worth more than listing apps, a good distribution should have enough apps that you can try them out and get to the ones you like.
If only you could get parents to do that we wouldn't being worrying about school budgets, but unfortunately that just can't be bought or educated into the masses. But it is so much the only true method of improving childrens education and life.
But I think the purpose of the laptops were for the students to use them to do work and reports with, like Maine where the student had the laptop for the year and turned it back when it was done so that would not work under those conditions. If it were static desktops for teaching computers on then that format with any os would work fine.
The options were Apple or Dell not Linux or Windows.
With minimal sys admin resources I would go with apple les patches and updates and virus protection needed. (Not none just less)
I don't know looking to success in the past and understanding how the individual and culture related and acted with each other is important in improving the systems we have. A thought like this leads to that thought process. And even if Shakespeare drove a vovlo sedan which is irrelevent to the question on how would society have valued his mind. He could refuse to drive and only use Network Rail and the Tube as far as I care but how would that mind be valued, what would it focus on and would the results move society as far forward.
Thank you for the paper.
A good read.
My problem with this is the time limits. When you do things like this you stake out the target. If they were truly interested in the cognitive side that information invovled in staking out the target is more valuable in the actual exploit. But a true stake out of the target would not fall within there time limits.