The movie "Trucks" - the BAD version of "Maximum Overdrive".
Can't believe they made this story into a movie, much less TWO movies.
FYI, Books != Movies (except maybe for Harry Potter, which probably explains why I couldn't stand the books)
I did mean the short story, because I have not watched either movie. Its a classic King short story: spine-shivering, imagination-firing and not necessarily ending well for the protagonists.
Electric powered toys will be a huge winner if you can have half decent capacity and a high discharge. Common racing style quad copters will happily draw 130amp and could easily draw more. The limiting factor is definitely the batteries. You draw 100amp from a 1300mah battery and the batteries don't last long.....
Current battery tech for quadcopters gives you batteries that are large and heavy for any given capacity. That is the only way to be able to draw the current.
Yep. Approximately 47 seconds, to be precise. 36 seconds at 130A.
That can't be the steady-state draw, or those quadcoptors would barely be able to take off...and what the heck gauge wiring are these things using, if they're seeing that even as a peak? I sure hope it's #2 or better, or battery capacity could be the least of your worries...
Explosive? Not necessarily. It is a capacitor, not a battery. So no energy-rich chemicals. Short a capacitor, and it may deliver enough energy to melt whatever you short it with. Or melt the wiring. No need for the cap itself to explode though.
Really? That was one of the primary amusements in our freshman labs, listening for the first 'pop' of a capacitor wired backwards, and they certainly weren't packed with C4...
But if you plant the seed from a Granny Smith you won't get a Granny Smith apple tree so why would I expect to get iPhone 6 Pluses if I plant an iPhone 6 Plus./s
I spent most of my early driving years without any sort of mobile phone and not coincidentally 100% of us were not killed by people playing with their phones.
People playing with their radios, their heaters, their makeup and their dicks were a different story.
It's not just the newer models. There are a lot of older Trump voters forwarding around the same garbage. I'd love to see some sort of "that's bullshit" flagging, but no one would ever trust it from a single source. You'd need at least several competing sites. Maybe facebook could just add those flags w links to external sites about the "fact". Then there's at least a slim chance of impartial flagging?
Maybe all FB has to do is implement a general knowledge trivia question that a person has to answer before they're allowed to 'like' or re-post an article containing a link to an external source? Same for 'dislikes' (idk, does FB have that now? I heard they had added more than just 'like', but not being a user...).
I have a feeling that even a relatively simple mathematical or vocabulary question would stymie the people who tend to produce the most 'like' and re-posting spam on FB...of course they could always google the answer, but at least it's an extra step.
Not knowing him personally and only seeing him never being able to complete a fucking sentence I'd be even more gravely concerned that the hard work hasn't even started yet and all of the fun stuff like making up bullshit and retracting it for no good reason is over. Dump is the next president of the united states. NOW WHAT?!?!?!
Proudly brought to you by the self same people who voted in W...not once, but twice. Saddened I am, but surprised I am not.
I tell you, though, I hope we do start building a nice thick wall...right along the 49th parallel. Y'all made your bed, now you go lie in it.
The CBC wants to make sure someone isn't reselling their freely available content (either through purchasing an app or through in-app ad revenue) without a license.
It's CBC content, they can set of terms for using it... without knowing what the app developer was trying to do, it's hard for me to fault CBC.
If I put a poster up on the community bulletin board, do I also get to say who gets to read it and under what conditions? It may be my content, but even if someone sticks tacky little ads all around my beautiful, pristine, artistic poster so as to monetize the shit out of it, I'm pretty sure I don't have any recourse other than taking it down. Then nobody gets the benefit of worshiping my sublime poster-making skills...and therein lies the real tragedy.
Boggles the mind that a company would rather play a game of legal whack-a-mole than actually pursue a solution to the root issue (which is "unauthorized" access to their content).
Depends on who has the bigger department: Legal or Technical Development.
Solar panels don't care if there's a coolant leak, or that a turbine has failed, or that coal isn't available.
Funny, you know all the disadvantages and caveats of solar, but seem completely clueless on the problems of coal.
Ah, but you see, even without the boilers or any supporting equipment, that coal will still burn. Those dark, beautiful nuggets will continue to oxidize at a rapid enough pace to induce a useful exothermic reaction, whether or not there is anything nearby to actually make use of it.
What that means is that the total MWs of installed capacity for renewables is higher than the that of coal. That doesn't mean that renewables will generate more MWhs than coal however, because coal tends to have a higher capacity factor than renewables.
Not to mention that it's physically impossible to have optimal sun conditions over every solar panel in the world simultaneously.
Coal don't care about the time of day, it burns as sweetly at midnight as it does at noon...in any time zone.
To hydro, or not to hydro--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler on the earth to suffer The slings and varied emissions of outrageous power generation Or to take arms against a sea of microbes And by opposing end them.
Mind you, I believe they still do have to be certified and/or licensed before they can claim the title, but it's still a grandfathered term that is outside the normalized definition of 'engineer'.
I am assuming English isn't your first language. I didn't understand a god damn thing you said.
Then you need to work on your own comprehension skills. GP was perfectly understandable in spite of being a bit light in punctuation, using some awkward phrasing, and sporting two minor spelling errors. I've seen *much* worse from so-called 'native' English speakers.
By gaining ownership of LinkedIn's unique dataset of over 450 million professionals in more than 200 countries, Microsoft will be able to deny competitors access to that data, and in doing so obtain an unfair competitive advantage
That 'data' is the career info and personal details on millions of hopeful job seekers, and they'll use it for what, exactly? "Oh, looks like Johnson just got a raise, time to start throwing ads for luxury vehicles at him!" Or "Smith is on mat leave, start spamming her with childhood educational assistance program ads!"
I did sign up for an account once about a decade ago...and deleted it after about a week. The sheer volume of bullshit that I got spammed with was unbelievable. It took quite some time to stem the flow again (pretty much had to pretend I died for a couple of years...). For a service advertised as 'for professionals', they sure act anything but.
Why not put these closer to the sources of pollution? Like the smokestacks and exhaust ports from all those factories. Wouldn't that be more efficient?
But what affluent person wants to live next to that? No, better put them in the optimum locations to boost real estate values, and give the growing middle-class something to aspire to (There's a clean-air tower in your neighborhood, hmm? Well our tower is practically in our back yard!). Peasants get the factory-side views, with complimentary side of black lung, as always.
Ohhhh please do, I would actually help. Let's trial run this, let's say any company that has the home based in the US you can't use the website... Start now get off/.
...exactly where are the/. servers physically located, does anyone know? Are they in the states somewhere, or in a tax-friendly european company?
This plan may not turn out how you expect it to, either way...
I don't mentally parse a sentence each time -- it quickly becomes a mnemonic requiring no mental effort to recall. By contrast, typing 24 characters in a row without making a mistake while they're obscured is tricky.
Let's say your sentence is "A generation which ignores history has no past and no future" (Thanks, Robert Heinlein!). Your password becomes Agwihhnpanf. Probably you'll add or substitute a special character in there somewhere. It won't take more than five uses before you remember the letters. Then another 20 or so and it'll be muscle memory.
Of course, YMMV. But this has been my experience. Even more so when trying to use a mobile device.
Okay, thanks for explaining! My M does V, since I haven't had a problem typing in longer passwords (3 to 5 words, 2 to 7 letters each), yet have a heck of a time typing in (and primarily remembering, but I guess the base sentence would help with that) shorter mixed-case visibly nonsensical passwords. I use the muscle memory I have developed typing real words elsewhere to...type real words while obscured. Yes, sometimes I get ahead of myself and flub up once (but rarely twice), and I always like when there's the 'quick peek' option that offers a look at what you've typed in unobscured for checking before hitting enter (KeePass mobile client does this, some web logins too).
Just goes to show, we're all wired different! And sweet Heinlein reference!:-D
I have never been able to accurately type four common words without spaces and with the letters obscured. For that reason, I've always used Ross Anderson's suggested method of taking a phrase that means something to me and using the first letter of each word in the phrase. Sure 8 to 10 characters are less secure than 24, but it's a damn sight easier to type.
I'm sorry...why is this? If you don't lose track of where you are when mentally parsing a sentence and only typing in the first letter of each word, why would you lose track when typing the words themselves? I'm sorry, it seems to me that the first-letter thing would be much easier to get lost in while typing.
And why no spaces? Spaces count as 'special' characters and increase entropy...of course, some logins don't allow them, while at the same time requiring other special characters...so in those cases replace them with hashtags or ampersands or something similar.
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The movie "Trucks" - the BAD version of "Maximum Overdrive".
Can't believe they made this story into a movie, much less TWO movies.
FYI, Books != Movies (except maybe for Harry Potter, which probably explains why I couldn't stand the books)
I did mean the short story, because I have not watched either movie. Its a classic King short story: spine-shivering, imagination-firing and not necessarily ending well for the protagonists.
Reading is fun! You should try it some day! ;-D
I, for one, welcome our new self-driving truck overlords.
Does this remind anyone else of that old Stephen King short story Trucks?
Better get your gas-pumpin'-hand warmed up...
Electric powered toys will be a huge winner if you can have half decent capacity and a high discharge. Common racing style quad copters will happily draw 130amp and could easily draw more. The limiting factor is definitely the batteries. You draw 100amp from a 1300mah battery and the batteries don't last long.....
Current battery tech for quadcopters gives you batteries that are large and heavy for any given capacity. That is the only way to be able to draw the current.
Yep. Approximately 47 seconds, to be precise. 36 seconds at 130A.
That can't be the steady-state draw, or those quadcoptors would barely be able to take off...and what the heck gauge wiring are these things using, if they're seeing that even as a peak? I sure hope it's #2 or better, or battery capacity could be the least of your worries...
Explosive? Not necessarily. It is a capacitor, not a battery. So no energy-rich chemicals. Short a capacitor, and it may deliver enough energy to melt whatever you short it with. Or melt the wiring. No need for the cap itself to explode though.
Really? That was one of the primary amusements in our freshman labs, listening for the first 'pop' of a capacitor wired backwards, and they certainly weren't packed with C4...
But if you plant the seed from a Granny Smith you won't get a Granny Smith apple tree so why would I expect to get iPhone 6 Pluses if I plant an iPhone 6 Plus. /s
Maybe you'll get Blackberries?
No.. you misunderstand. He's going to get them to plant a TREE. When it grows, it will be a "big plant"!
If I cut up my apple and bury it, I do get tree(s)...care to try a little experiment with your iPhone 6 Plus? >:-)
I spent most of my early driving years without any sort of mobile phone and not coincidentally 100% of us were not killed by people playing with their phones.
People playing with their radios, their heaters, their makeup and their dicks were a different story.
For every new regulation, they need to get rid of two.
Is that a new regulation?
"...the volume of VPN and Tor traffic on campus has mysteriously increased."
It's a virtual whack-a-mole game, when will the MAFIAA finally realize this?
It's not just the newer models. There are a lot of older Trump voters forwarding around the same garbage. I'd love to see some sort of "that's bullshit" flagging, but no one would ever trust it from a single source. You'd need at least several competing sites. Maybe facebook could just add those flags w links to external sites about the "fact". Then there's at least a slim chance of impartial flagging?
Maybe all FB has to do is implement a general knowledge trivia question that a person has to answer before they're allowed to 'like' or re-post an article containing a link to an external source? Same for 'dislikes' (idk, does FB have that now? I heard they had added more than just 'like', but not being a user...).
I have a feeling that even a relatively simple mathematical or vocabulary question would stymie the people who tend to produce the most 'like' and re-posting spam on FB...of course they could always google the answer, but at least it's an extra step.
Not knowing him personally and only seeing him never being able to complete a fucking sentence I'd be even more gravely concerned that the hard work hasn't even started yet and all of the fun stuff like making up bullshit and retracting it for no good reason is over. Dump is the next president of the united states. NOW WHAT?!?!?!
Proudly brought to you by the self same people who voted in W...not once, but twice. Saddened I am, but surprised I am not.
I tell you, though, I hope we do start building a nice thick wall...right along the 49th parallel. Y'all made your bed, now you go lie in it.
The CBC wants to make sure someone isn't reselling their freely available content (either through purchasing an app or through in-app ad revenue) without a license.
It's CBC content, they can set of terms for using it... without knowing what the app developer was trying to do, it's hard for me to fault CBC.
If I put a poster up on the community bulletin board, do I also get to say who gets to read it and under what conditions? It may be my content, but even if someone sticks tacky little ads all around my beautiful, pristine, artistic poster so as to monetize the shit out of it, I'm pretty sure I don't have any recourse other than taking it down. Then nobody gets the benefit of worshiping my sublime poster-making skills...and therein lies the real tragedy.
Hey CBC: suck it up, buttercup.
Boggles the mind that a company would rather play a game of legal whack-a-mole than actually pursue a solution to the root issue (which is "unauthorized" access to their content).
Depends on who has the bigger department: Legal or Technical Development.
Guess which one outweighs the other at CBC...
probably no one here knows how many cups are in a gallon without looking it up
What is the "here" you're referring to? A school for the retarded?
2 Cups = 1 Pint
2 Pints = 1 Quart
4 Quarts = 1 Gallon
Bonus Tip: 1 Pint weighs 1 Pound since 1 (fluid) Ounce of water weighs 1 Ounce.
I'm sorry, would you mind clarifying that? Was that the imperial or US gallon? Or perhaps the lesser-known US dry gallon?
Solar panels don't care if there's a coolant leak, or that a turbine has failed, or that coal isn't available.
Funny, you know all the disadvantages and caveats of solar, but seem completely clueless on the problems of coal.
Ah, but you see, even without the boilers or any supporting equipment, that coal will still burn. Those dark, beautiful nuggets will continue to oxidize at a rapid enough pace to induce a useful exothermic reaction, whether or not there is anything nearby to actually make use of it.
Burn baby burn...
What that means is that the total MWs of installed capacity for renewables is higher than the that of coal. That doesn't mean that renewables will generate more MWhs than coal however, because coal tends to have a higher capacity factor than renewables.
Not to mention that it's physically impossible to have optimal sun conditions over every solar panel in the world simultaneously.
Coal don't care about the time of day, it burns as sweetly at midnight as it does at noon...in any time zone.
I'm imagining that the "make things better by simplifying" can only go so far
Oh dear, I just had a flashback to this.
One step closer, my friends...one step closer to the dream...
To hydro, or not to hydro--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler on the earth to suffer
The slings and varied emissions of outrageous power generation
Or to take arms against a sea of microbes
And by opposing end them.
Further, what other disciplines allow for the title "engineer" without a state certification/licensing board?
Railroad engineers. Woo wooo!
Mind you, I believe they still do have to be certified and/or licensed before they can claim the title, but it's still a grandfathered term that is outside the normalized definition of 'engineer'.
I am assuming English isn't your first language. I didn't understand a god damn thing you said.
Then you need to work on your own comprehension skills. GP was perfectly understandable in spite of being a bit light in punctuation, using some awkward phrasing, and sporting two minor spelling errors. I've seen *much* worse from so-called 'native' English speakers.
...I'm not on LinkedIn.
By gaining ownership of LinkedIn's unique dataset of over 450 million professionals in more than 200 countries, Microsoft will be able to deny competitors access to that data, and in doing so obtain an unfair competitive advantage
That 'data' is the career info and personal details on millions of hopeful job seekers, and they'll use it for what, exactly? "Oh, looks like Johnson just got a raise, time to start throwing ads for luxury vehicles at him!" Or "Smith is on mat leave, start spamming her with childhood educational assistance program ads!"
I did sign up for an account once about a decade ago...and deleted it after about a week. The sheer volume of bullshit that I got spammed with was unbelievable. It took quite some time to stem the flow again (pretty much had to pretend I died for a couple of years...). For a service advertised as 'for professionals', they sure act anything but.
Why not put these closer to the sources of pollution? Like the smokestacks and exhaust ports from all those factories. Wouldn't that be more efficient?
But what affluent person wants to live next to that? No, better put them in the optimum locations to boost real estate values, and give the growing middle-class something to aspire to (There's a clean-air tower in your neighborhood, hmm? Well our tower is practically in our back yard!). Peasants get the factory-side views, with complimentary side of black lung, as always.
Ohhhh please do, I would actually help. Let's trial run this, let's say any company that has the home based in the US you can't use the website... Start now get off /.
...exactly where are the /. servers physically located, does anyone know? Are they in the states somewhere, or in a tax-friendly european company?
This plan may not turn out how you expect it to, either way...
I don't mentally parse a sentence each time -- it quickly becomes a mnemonic requiring no mental effort to recall. By contrast, typing 24 characters in a row without making a mistake while they're obscured is tricky.
Let's say your sentence is "A generation which ignores history has no past and no future" (Thanks, Robert Heinlein!). Your password becomes Agwihhnpanf. Probably you'll add or substitute a special character in there somewhere. It won't take more than five uses before you remember the letters. Then another 20 or so and it'll be muscle memory.
Of course, YMMV. But this has been my experience. Even more so when trying to use a mobile device.
Okay, thanks for explaining! My M does V, since I haven't had a problem typing in longer passwords (3 to 5 words, 2 to 7 letters each), yet have a heck of a time typing in (and primarily remembering, but I guess the base sentence would help with that) shorter mixed-case visibly nonsensical passwords. I use the muscle memory I have developed typing real words elsewhere to...type real words while obscured. Yes, sometimes I get ahead of myself and flub up once (but rarely twice), and I always like when there's the 'quick peek' option that offers a look at what you've typed in unobscured for checking before hitting enter (KeePass mobile client does this, some web logins too).
Just goes to show, we're all wired different! And sweet Heinlein reference! :-D
I have never been able to accurately type four common words without spaces and with the letters obscured. For that reason, I've always used Ross Anderson's suggested method of taking a phrase that means something to me and using the first letter of each word in the phrase. Sure 8 to 10 characters are less secure than 24, but it's a damn sight easier to type.
I'm sorry...why is this? If you don't lose track of where you are when mentally parsing a sentence and only typing in the first letter of each word, why would you lose track when typing the words themselves? I'm sorry, it seems to me that the first-letter thing would be much easier to get lost in while typing.
And why no spaces? Spaces count as 'special' characters and increase entropy...of course, some logins don't allow them, while at the same time requiring other special characters...so in those cases replace them with hashtags or ampersands or something similar.