Before going off and thinking that a radioactive battery would be bad because of toxic exposure through its mere presense, please read this Wikipedia article about Tritium, which explains
that " The low-energy beta radiation from tritium cannot penetrate human skin, so tritium is only dangerous if inhaled or ingested."
So it might make a good candidate for a household battery.
Its not about logic, its about the phenomenonal result of how democracy works. When the numbers are small, like just 100 people voting, then its a lot easier to have a 100% majority, but when the number of voters is 24 million (in the case of Iraq), then a real 100% majority is just plain impossible, unless you "exclude" people, etc. Which is what people speculate happened (ie, violent intimidation). But from all the congress vote results I remember, there is rarely a 100% majority, especially on something so controversial.
You know, I remember when they had an Election in Iraq right before the U.S. invaded. I think the vote was 100% for Saddam Hussien. The problem with that is that in almost any real democratic process there are always two or more sides
Ok, that is what I've heard a lot of people say as well. I thought I had the same intuitive feeling about "driving smoothly" as well, until I measured it. Maybe you should measure it sometimes. Of course, driving faster has other incalculable impacts such as paying for tickets, higher insurance and accidents.
You know, I'm starting to wonder if some of those gas saving tips like "start and stop slowly" have been backed up with real world testing. I just spent the last three weeks testing the hypothesis that "driving smoothly" (ie, starting up slowly and anticipating stoplights, etc. saves a lot of gas. Here was my test. By the way, I have a 2004 Honda CR-V that gets a rated 24 MPG Highway:
Fill up tank with gas (til the auto stop turns off)
Drive smoothly for the whole tank (tried to never let RPMs go above 2500)
At end of tank, calculate gallons to fill back up and miles traveled
Drive through another tank of gas, but this time very agreessively.
Basically, I floored it when taking off and took the car to the max.
Make same MPG calculation at end of tank.
You know what I found, I got 25 MPG in BOTH cases. In fact, I got slightly better milage when I was agreessive. Granted, this was not completely scientific, but it made me wonder about doing more accurate testing. I expected to see a 5-10 MPG difference. To follow up, I drove the last tank at a normal "in-between pace".
I was talking to someone at work about it and they thought that maybe today's engines are tuned so well and change with different environments that it doesn't make a difference. It only makes a difference if you are stopped a lot like in traffic jams.
Anyone in Central Indiana want to join me for some more scientific testing?
I imagine it would change a bit from machine to machine, but it would be a neat idea to use a password that looked simular to what the keylogger would show for mouse data. So as long as you don't hit enter, you could confuse the phisher by making them think that you never typed a password, but moved the mouse around.
I know I know, this is security by obscurity, but maybe this idea will spark some others that would work even better.
I did read the article and see that he's a volunteer. In my book, that is not an excuse for irresponsibility. Just like volunteering is not an excuse for people in Habitat for Humanity to build a house that is unsafe. Or a volunteer nurse at a hospital to give you an IV with an infected needle. These are all positions of responsibility.
Internet administrators have a shared responsibility to try to maintain a maintainable Internet. And the first person to tell me that I live in an ideological world gets an inbox full of spam and viruses. And a knuckle sandwich.;-)
If you have gotten a job administrating a network for 500 computers, then it is not an uncontrolled network. YOU ARE THE ONE IN CONTROL. If there is currently no policy for restricting usage of the network based on client problems such as ignoring viruses, then I strongly suggest that you write one up now and implement it. Start blocking the MAC addresses of the users that are the abusers. If you just sit back and don't take control, you will soon find that students have little added value of your network and may start to move out, which might leave you without a job.
I'll leave it to other slashdotters who are network admins to flame the hell out of this guy.
Maybe they aren't major label, but the artists on ReasonStation are pretty good and have been releasing the actual Reason music files for their tracks since around 2001. I'm sure there are many other semi-pro sites out there where people are doing this.
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Before going off and thinking that a radioactive battery would be bad because
of toxic exposure through its mere presense, please read this Wikipedia article about Tritium, which explains
that " The low-energy beta radiation from tritium cannot penetrate human skin, so tritium is only dangerous if inhaled or ingested."
So it might make a good candidate for a household battery.
That was just warmer days coming and more people going outside.
Ironically, this might be exactly what will trigger lawsuits against wine.
Microsoft: "Hey, they have backing now, we should go after them"
Its not about logic, its about the phenomenonal result of how democracy works. When the numbers are small, like just 100 people voting, then its a lot easier to have a 100% majority, but when the number of voters is 24 million (in the case of Iraq), then a real 100% majority is just plain impossible, unless you "exclude" people, etc. Which is what people speculate happened (ie, violent intimidation). But from all the congress vote results I remember, there is rarely a 100% majority, especially on something so controversial.
You know, I remember when they had an Election in Iraq right before the U.S. invaded. I think the vote was 100% for Saddam Hussien. The problem with that is that in almost any real democratic process there are always two or more sides
Ok, that is what I've heard a lot of people say as well. I thought I had the same intuitive feeling about "driving smoothly" as well, until I measured it. Maybe you should measure it sometimes. Of course, driving faster has other incalculable impacts such as paying for tickets, higher insurance and accidents.
Basically, I floored it when taking off and took the car to the max.
You know what I found, I got 25 MPG in BOTH cases. In fact, I got slightly better milage when I was agreessive. Granted, this was not completely scientific, but it made me wonder about doing more accurate testing. I expected to see a 5-10 MPG difference. To follow up, I drove the last tank at a normal "in-between pace".
I was talking to someone at work about it and they thought that maybe today's engines are tuned so well and change with different environments that it doesn't make a difference. It only makes a difference if you are stopped a lot like in traffic jams.
Anyone in Central Indiana want to join me for some more scientific testing?
Actually, I spoke to soon, I didn't think about the possibility that the logging programs/hardware would record mouse and key data seperately.
I imagine it would change a bit from machine to machine, but it would be a neat idea to use a password that looked simular to what the keylogger would show for mouse data. So as long as you don't hit enter, you could confuse the phisher by making them think that you never typed a password, but moved the mouse around.
I know I know, this is security by obscurity, but maybe this idea will spark some others that would work even better.
Actually, it will be hillarious what will happen when grandma puts in a picture of her grandson taking a drink from the hose in the backyard.
Its almost like telling someone to go to whitehouse.com
Actually, in relation to that, what happens when your spamfilter marks such an email as spam. I guess you can say that's a major false positive.
Doesn't traceroute or some dos prompt network util under Windows already contain some BSD code? Why hasn't anyone gone after MS for this?
Microsoft is working with Ford Motor Co towards car that can't crash.
????
I'm speechless, I really am.
I did read the article and see that he's a volunteer. In my book, that is not an excuse for irresponsibility. Just like volunteering is not an excuse for people in Habitat for Humanity to build a house that is unsafe. Or a volunteer nurse at a hospital to give you an IV with an infected needle. These are all positions of responsibility.
;-)
Internet administrators have a shared responsibility to try to maintain a maintainable Internet. And the first person to tell me that I live in an ideological world gets an inbox full of spam and viruses. And a knuckle sandwich.
If you have gotten a job administrating a network for 500 computers, then it is not an uncontrolled network. YOU ARE THE ONE IN CONTROL. If there is currently no policy for restricting usage of the network based on client problems such as ignoring viruses, then I strongly suggest that you write one up now and implement it. Start blocking the MAC addresses of the users that are the abusers. If you just sit back and don't take control, you will soon find that students have little added value of your network and may start to move out, which might leave you without a job.
I'll leave it to other slashdotters who are network admins to flame the hell out of this guy.
to less than 30 watts under load and less than 10 watts for Windows
Ta*dit*boom!
Remember kids, it doesn't take much effort to break Windows, so be careful.
Hahahahaha. You should have been modded up for that one. Hilarious.
ITS A TRAP!
Maybe it has to do with this
I think the whole voice recognition without having to configure it for your voice is pretty slick. I want a Mac.
All numbers in thousands
That makes it $65 billion. With something like 40,000 Microsoft employees, I would say that makes them have more than enough resources.
streaming multimedia is so commonplace today it's hard to believe that it didn't even exist 10 years ago.
Actually, I find it harder to believe that it is now 10 years old. Now I feel old.
Appearently, using HTML for documents is still a major challenge.
It only takes one person or company to implement things wrong, break protocol and then you have a mess. That is the grand challenge.
Maybe they aren't major label, but the artists on ReasonStation are pretty good and have been releasing the actual Reason music files for their tracks since around 2001. I'm sure there are many other semi-pro sites out there where people are doing this.
Resurrection Ecology Gives Life to Old Eggs
;-)
Maybe this will put an end to those viagra emails I keep getting too.