There is a difference between having a reputation in a town, or even in newspapers, that is heard and repeated, that evolves with time, and having many things about your life written forever that can be search, retrieved, crossed with other data within seconds. Whatever the progress changes you realize throughout your life, this one thing you did 10 years ago you forgot and hope everyone else forgot will remain as the main thing you did in your life.
Knowing everything about everyone is certainly the direction we are taking the medium term ; but the society is not ready to cope with that, yet.
Of course those people are after any occasion to hurt hard a country. But... we are talking about scanners at airports, to prevent the said terrorists to... blow up a plane. Why do terrorists want to hijack a plane - while they have tons of easier solutions to kill hundreds - because
1 A plane IS a weapon, fast, heavy, bloody and that can be piloted up to a target
2 The 9/11 symbol and the general plane-hijack image
This is probably why there is still no scanner in front of malls or subway stations (for long, hopefully).
So
1. CERN finds some hints in where the Higgs is, ie around 125 GeV
2. Tevatron looks at their logs in the range ~125 GeV and says "well it could have been here, indeed"
3. Tevatron announces that they may have discovered the Higgs before, if...
Questions:
1. What if CERN found at 110 GeV - maybe the Tevatron logs would show a similar indication?
2. I thought there was a matter of collider power/energy, and the Tevatron is not powerful for that discovery in the first place, anyway?
I had to create a few simple languages during my developer years. I see the creation of a language like the writing of a novel. There is a direction, a style, a set of consistent syntax and rules. C, C++ or Java are for me good examples of consistent languages, lisp and Perl also.
And unlike the examples given in TFA, I don't think PHP represents a language created by a unique person - being too inconsistent on many respects.
No. The terrorist goal is to blow a plane, not an airport room (they could go to any crowded shop instead). The idea behind my post: while there is currently no perfect weapon detection system, the body scan has an impact anyway as, yes, it helps to discourage some people - not all terrorists are part of a more or less organized al qaida - in being involved in a spectacular action. This is a psychological impact on those weak people who realize their frustration (inferiority complex) may not find as easily a counterbalance solution.
It helps. I'm not saying this is perfect. And yes, it costs me some karma:-)
While the body scan is not perfect, it has a dissuasive role. A terrorist who knows he has a 50% chance to be uncovered and spend most of his/her life in jail may prefer to give up.
Why most of the stories starting with "Did you hear about the study from Microsoft..." usually ends with "Not so fast" or "Don't believe the hype"?
Not a flamebait. Just an observation.
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Actually I wonder if people who buy a tablet and cannot focus on the reading of a book were the people who bought and read paper books before tablets ever existed. By purchasing a tablet and all its technological luxury some people forget that it doesn't do everything, like avoiding the concentration and all the brain work that has to get involved when someone wants to read a book. There is still no direct transfer from a computer network to a human neural network.
Maybe they try to break their own 2011 hacking record? Frankly, considering the numerous and obvious methods used in 2011 (like SQL injection) I would not be surprised to learn (maybe from the inside) that their IT organization is an unimaginable mess.
...it doesn't take long for people to reinvent the wheel all the time.
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I don't agree,/. changed since a couple of years. Bashing Microsoft or its products generally flags a Troll or a -1 anyway. The top post related to.NET here is being "Troll". Well,/. didn't change actually. More people read it, from more communities, including MS and the like./. being (I think) fair in terms of moderators, the "new" people from those communities flag the bashers all the time. Even the Microsoft logo changed recently, the new one being more neutral.
Don't be too harsh about PHP. It's a rough language that allows almost anybody to write rough programs that eventually give rough results. A democratic language...
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A language named after a main TLD sounds, indeed, a bit iffy. Maybe the nostalgia of the late.COM?
Frankly, why don't they seize the opportunity of PHP6 to rewrite~redesign that language, focus on lib functions names consistency and introducing true indexed arrays, and nested functions (currently nested functions behave the same as top level funcs, ridiculous), for starters.
Not sure about that. The Solar eclipse effect is only (totally) visible from a rather small area on Earth. But the solar storm could be absorbed for a good part by the Moon itself. The storm is not (only) made of light, as it takes much more than 8 minutes to reach us.
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There is a difference between having a reputation in a town, or even in newspapers, that is heard and repeated, that evolves with time, and having many things about your life written forever that can be search, retrieved, crossed with other data within seconds. Whatever the progress changes you realize throughout your life, this one thing you did 10 years ago you forgot and hope everyone else forgot will remain as the main thing you did in your life.
Knowing everything about everyone is certainly the direction we are taking the medium term ; but the society is not ready to cope with that, yet.
Of course those people are after any occasion to hurt hard a country. But... we are talking about scanners at airports, to prevent the said terrorists to... blow up a plane. Why do terrorists want to hijack a plane - while they have tons of easier solutions to kill hundreds - because
1 A plane IS a weapon, fast, heavy, bloody and that can be piloted up to a target
2 The 9/11 symbol and the general plane-hijack image
This is probably why there is still no scanner in front of malls or subway stations (for long, hopefully).
So ...
1. CERN finds some hints in where the Higgs is, ie around 125 GeV
2. Tevatron looks at their logs in the range ~125 GeV and says "well it could have been here, indeed"
3. Tevatron announces that they may have discovered the Higgs before, if
Questions:
1. What if CERN found at 110 GeV - maybe the Tevatron logs would show a similar indication?
2. I thought there was a matter of collider power/energy, and the Tevatron is not powerful for that discovery in the first place, anyway?
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I had to create a few simple languages during my developer years. I see the creation of a language like the writing of a novel. There is a direction, a style, a set of consistent syntax and rules. C, C++ or Java are for me good examples of consistent languages, lisp and Perl also.
And unlike the examples given in TFA, I don't think PHP represents a language created by a unique person - being too inconsistent on many respects.
No. The terrorist goal is to blow a plane, not an airport room (they could go to any crowded shop instead). The idea behind my post: while there is currently no perfect weapon detection system, the body scan has an impact anyway as, yes, it helps to discourage some people - not all terrorists are part of a more or less organized al qaida - in being involved in a spectacular action. This is a psychological impact on those weak people who realize their frustration (inferiority complex) may not find as easily a counterbalance solution. It helps. I'm not saying this is perfect. And yes, it costs me some karma :-)
While the body scan is not perfect, it has a dissuasive role. A terrorist who knows he has a 50% chance to be uncovered and spend most of his/her life in jail may prefer to give up.
Matt Dillon, desperate after chasing unsuccessfully mary in Something about Mary radically changed jobs and started to study computer science...
Why most of the stories starting with "Did you hear about the study from Microsoft..." usually ends with "Not so fast" or "Don't believe the hype"? Not a flamebait. Just an observation.
Or this one
Maybe it was, when you were a baby... Now, your cleverness is in the way...
Actually I wonder if people who buy a tablet and cannot focus on the reading of a book were the people who bought and read paper books before tablets ever existed. By purchasing a tablet and all its technological luxury some people forget that it doesn't do everything, like avoiding the concentration and all the brain work that has to get involved when someone wants to read a book. There is still no direct transfer from a computer network to a human neural network.
Maybe they try to break their own 2011 hacking record? Frankly, considering the numerous and obvious methods used in 2011 (like SQL injection) I would not be surprised to learn (maybe from the inside) that their IT organization is an unimaginable mess.
...has a Windows phone :-)
it is expected to pass between us and Geostationary orbit
With a bit of luck it will clean out a few dead satellites on the way
needle/haystack vs. haystack/needle
Oh yes, this! I cannot imagine someone writing in C some PHP functions not implementing this mess on purpose. How come...
...it doesn't take long for people to reinvent the wheel all the time.
Not that this opinion will garner much praise on slashdot
I don't agree, /. changed since a couple of years. Bashing Microsoft or its products generally flags a Troll or a -1 anyway. The top post related to .NET here is being "Troll". Well, /. didn't change actually. More people read it, from more communities, including MS and the like. /. being (I think) fair in terms of moderators, the "new" people from those communities flag the bashers all the time. Even the Microsoft logo changed recently, the new one being more neutral.
Don't be too harsh about PHP. It's a rough language that allows almost anybody to write rough programs that eventually give rough results. A democratic language...
A language named after a main TLD sounds, indeed, a bit iffy. Maybe the nostalgia of the late .COM?
Frankly, why don't they seize the opportunity of PHP6 to rewrite~redesign that language, focus on lib functions names consistency and introducing true indexed arrays, and nested functions (currently nested functions behave the same as top level funcs, ridiculous), for starters.
3) Check Fukushima power plant from a distance
What will be the amplitude and frequency at the top of the tower when the expected big earthquake will strike? (Calculators are accepted)
doh! That explains a lot!
36,000+km. Yes, I'm being picky.
Not sure about that. The Solar eclipse effect is only (totally) visible from a rather small area on Earth. But the solar storm could be absorbed for a good part by the Moon itself. The storm is not (only) made of light, as it takes much more than 8 minutes to reach us.