Just last night I was browsing the Foresight Exchange, one of the oldest trading floors for betting fake money on real world events. They've nothing related to Google right now, but you can speculate on claims from the year of the first human Mars landing to the likelihood of fangs and tails becoming fashionable body modifications by 2010.
Or when boxing beceomes an all-robot sport, you can have a human stand in for a malfunctioning unit and nobody's the wiser. That's from the Twilight Zone episode "Steel," that seems to be the basis for the recent Simpsons episode "I, D'oh-bot" in which Homer, frustrated with his failure to build a winning machine for Robot Rumble, disguises himself as a robot to compete. The more Twilight Zone I watch, the more Simpsons episodes I find the seeds of.
"Your founders gave you the second amendment for a reason. Use it or lose it."
Yeah, and i bet you'll back us up in our revolution. Just like GHW Bush backed up the Shiites after he told them he'd support them if they overthrew Saddam. Oh wait, he didn't, and now their bodies are the ones turning up in mass graves all over Iraq.
And would you believe the hokey firewall the republicans have been trying to sell since Regan? It might do a little filtering, but it doesn't come close to implementing a default deny rule for incoming ICBM traffic!
Also, banks are giving low returns specifically BECAUSE the interest rates for borrowing are really low. That's a bank's traditional income source (except in Muslim countries, where Shari'a prohibits lending at interest - there banks can only invest in your business & share the profits/losses), so when interest rates on borrowed funds are low they give you less and find ways to take more.
Btw, PAISley is also an operational specification language invented in '82 at Bell Labs.
This is maybe the 10th time I've seen you post a mirror, and the 10th time that the page didn't need one. The original servers have invariably served up the article faster than your demonmoo. If you are not in fact a perl script written by a karma whore, you're wasting precious minutes of your life. Get outdoors and get some kicks while the climate's mild and energy's cheap!
A few years ago, CompUSA's circular mistakenly advertised the super-deluxe, voice recognizing, dictionary-and-thesaurus-included version of the World Book encyclopedia for $30 when they intended to sell the cheapo version at that price. Now, these encyclopedias had also been stickered with manufacturer's rebates worth $50 (deluxe) and $20 (stripped down). So whaddayaknow, I ended up ahead ahead a fancy encyclopedia that reads me the articles if I tell it to, and twenty bucks (less sales tax) to boot! A year later that CompUSA went out of business. That shop always seemed like they didn't know what they were doing in computers
"the article links to another, which says the satellites can only detect temperature on land, but not over snow covered land."
Simple explanation: the satellites measure ground temperature by measuring the amount of infared radiation emitted. Since the satellites can't see through the snow in the wavelengths they use to measure heat, they can't measure the temperature of the ground underneath. There's plenty of evidence that indicates that land under snow is warming as well, such as this article from MIT's Technology review on Alaska's permafrost melting.
Guess what? Alaska is melting. Its permafrost is not so permanent lately, and that's wreaking havoc with (among other things) the roads and buildings there. This is serious economic impact due to global warming. The longer we wait to do something, the worse the economic impact will be in ten or twenty years.
I'd rather spend $3 billion now, probably creating a lot of jobs in new energy industries and saving billions in energy costs over the next decades, than lose trillions in 20 years when our coasts flood. I plan to live for at least 50 more years and would love to see public policy focus on a future past November. But then, I'm not an apocalyptic evangelical like G.W. "History? We'll all be dead" Bush.
I bet cattle would fart less if we didn't force-feed quite so much them before we killed 'em. And the methane they spew is only a tiny part of the pollution they cause. Ammonia gas, phosphorous, and lotsa microbes and pathogens stream out of every feedlot in enormous quantities.
"For every 10 pounds of nutrients consumed, 8 to 9 pounds are excreted in the feces and urine."
Straight from the USDA. Does this strike you as wasteful? Did you know the US could feed 800,000,000 people on the grain that's fed to livestock? Let the cows eat grass and save the grain for the starving! Or sell it and take $80 billion off the trade deficit!
Fucking decadent carnivores, messing up the place...
And Ashcroft wants to track all your guns via RFID!
"If Bush is re-elected, Attorney General John Ashcroft fully expects radio tracking tags to be mandated for all guns under a sweeping antiterror bill, reveals Bob Woodward in his new book, 'Plan of Attack.' The bill would require anyone selling a gun to enter its RFID number and the purchaser's name and address into a national database. The Attorney General is quoted as saying the system would enable the government to trace the path of any weapons that might be used in terrorist attacks. 'This technology, with expanded power to prosecute those who aid terror-related organizations, will dry up the pool of traitors who arm terrorists,' Ashcroft told Woodward earlier this year." --FOX NEWS 4/19/2004
Are the Republicans that much better at upholding our rights these days? My love of freedom has been my main reason for being a Republican, but with this administration grabbing rights from the congress and intruding on our privacy, and now they want to track our guns with these chips that you can read from a ways away, the demmies look less nasty by the minute. I'm starting to feel like Kerry's got the same views as Bush on most issues, but Kerry would like to play by the rules of the constitution. If this thing passes, it's only a matter of time before both cops and criminals carry RFID readers and it won't matter if you live in a concealed-carry state!
We've actually seen this before - it's true that guided reflectors are the way to go for solar power generation, but you don't want to aim them at a water column if you need electricity after dark. Instead, use the light to head up molten salt, which can hold lots of thermal energy for a fair amount of time, then pipe the salt past water pipes to make the steam to run your turbines. Yes, it seems more indirect but you can keep to power flowing up to 100% of the time without relying on batteries. Keeping the energy in thermal form and transferring it from one medium to another is more efficient than converting it from thermal to kinetic to electrical to chemical (when you store it in a battery), then back to electrical. Here's the extensive (though a couple years old) Boeing Solar Power Tower page, and here's an update on applications of the tech from people planning the nuke dump in New Mexico.
A simpler kind of solar tower is a chimney made of lightweight drawing air through a sprawling greenhouse. The floor of the greenhouse absorbs heat all day and reradiates it at night to drive turbines continuously. Australia may soon have a gargantuan solar chimney built for them by a company called Enviromission.
...visual spoofing worries me. I'll be sure to look at SSL certificates from now on.
In visual spoofing, the fraudster's created a fake statusbar with a lock icon on it. Assuming you're using IE (because an IE statusbar would look awfully fishy at the bottom of a mozilla window), they could just link the lock icon to a popup window that mimics what you'd see in IE when clicking on the lock at a valid SSL site. Monoculture makes things ver-r-r-y convenient for the baddies!
Whew - after reading that link, I'm once again glad I fidget constantly. On the other hand, I worry that the increased energy burn might shorten lifespan, since the best age-extension techniques in animals involve calorie restriction. I need this body to last till we can upload minds!
NIST tells us not to use anything solvent-based, and Sharpies are solvent-based markers. In fact, the Sharpie Materials Safety Data Sheet (pdf) tells us they contain 3 different solvents - a propanol, a butanol, and an alcohol. One Eric Teel of Jefferson public radio (in Oregon) wrote the manufacturer of Sharpies and they said there could be problems.
Damn, and I've got hundreds of CD-Rs written on with Sharpies. I hope they last till I get around to buying a DVD burner and transferring the data.
No, that kid is going to bring the game over to his friend's house in the case with the cd key sticker on it, and punch in the same cd key on his friend's computer. This will work on both computers unless the game phones home, which is exactly what the post you replied to suggests, and which you misunderstand.
Since you asked... a 40 of Steel Reserve, thank you very much. The 12-pack-in-a-bottle! Incredibly cost-effective, and tastes better than St. Ides.
It IS about money - but not being economical!
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It's cheaper for Diebold to make a machine without a receipt printer than to make one with a receipt printer.
Worse - Diebold knows they can milk the contract for all it's worth by submitting shitty products to lock election commissions into an enless redesign / patch / upgrade / support addiction.
Better yet - we need to make a browser plugin that downloads a torrent of the images & other media on a set of web pages, uses BT to download them to a temp dir & loads them in the browser as they complete. It should keep uploading till it's got at least a 1/1 ratio, or longer if it is the only seed. The server would have a mod that automaticalls torrents up everything below a certain dir and serves the torrent when BT-aware browsers request the index, while serving html and images as usual to normal browsers as long as bandwidth holds out.
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Just last night I was browsing the Foresight Exchange, one of the oldest trading floors for betting fake money on real world events. They've nothing related to Google right now, but you can speculate on claims from the year of the first human Mars landing to the likelihood of fangs and tails becoming fashionable body modifications by 2010.
Or when boxing beceomes an all-robot sport, you can have a human stand in for a malfunctioning unit and nobody's the wiser. That's from the Twilight Zone episode "Steel," that seems to be the basis for the recent Simpsons episode "I, D'oh-bot" in which Homer, frustrated with his failure to build a winning machine for Robot Rumble, disguises himself as a robot to compete. The more Twilight Zone I watch, the more Simpsons episodes I find the seeds of.
Wonton destruction? That sounds dangerous to dumplings. I think you meant wAnton, scout.
Yeah, and i bet you'll back us up in our revolution. Just like GHW Bush backed up the Shiites after he told them he'd support them if they overthrew Saddam. Oh wait, he didn't, and now their bodies are the ones turning up in mass graves all over Iraq.
You forgot Saturn - their fleet (Cassini) depends on mobile nuclear fission!
And would you believe the hokey firewall the republicans have been trying to sell since Regan? It might do a little filtering, but it doesn't come close to implementing a default deny rule for incoming ICBM traffic!
I think you meant paltry or measly, not paisley.
Also, banks are giving low returns specifically BECAUSE the interest rates for borrowing are really low. That's a bank's traditional income source (except in Muslim countries, where Shari'a prohibits lending at interest - there banks can only invest in your business & share the profits/losses), so when interest rates on borrowed funds are low they give you less and find ways to take more.
Btw, PAISley is also an operational specification language invented in '82 at Bell Labs.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mb sahome.mspx
"I'm Feeling Lucky", even.
This is maybe the 10th time I've seen you post a mirror, and the 10th time that the page didn't need one. The original servers have invariably served up the article faster than your demonmoo. If you are not in fact a perl script written by a karma whore, you're wasting precious minutes of your life. Get outdoors and get some kicks while the climate's mild and energy's cheap!
A few years ago, CompUSA's circular mistakenly advertised the super-deluxe, voice recognizing, dictionary-and-thesaurus-included version of the World Book encyclopedia for $30 when they intended to sell the cheapo version at that price. Now, these encyclopedias had also been stickered with manufacturer's rebates worth $50 (deluxe) and $20 (stripped down). So whaddayaknow, I ended up ahead ahead a fancy encyclopedia that reads me the articles if I tell it to, and twenty bucks (less sales tax) to boot! A year later that CompUSA went out of business. That shop always seemed like they didn't know what they were doing in computers
Whaaa?????
Sorry, but "Dude, Where's my Ranch" was the Worst. Episode. Ever. Still, the last copule of seasons have had some good points.
Guess what? Alaska is melting. Its permafrost is not so permanent lately, and that's wreaking havoc with (among other things) the roads and buildings there. This is serious economic impact due to global warming. The longer we wait to do something, the worse the economic impact will be in ten or twenty years.
I'd rather spend $3 billion now, probably creating a lot of jobs in new energy industries and saving billions in energy costs over the next decades, than lose trillions in 20 years when our coasts flood. I plan to live for at least 50 more years and would love to see public policy focus on a future past November. But then, I'm not an apocalyptic evangelical like G.W. "History? We'll all be dead" Bush.
I bet cattle would fart less if we didn't force-feed quite so much them before we killed 'em. And the methane they spew is only a tiny part of the pollution they cause. Ammonia gas, phosphorous, and lotsa microbes and pathogens stream out of every feedlot in enormous quantities.
"For every 10 pounds of nutrients consumed, 8 to 9 pounds are excreted in the feces and urine."
Straight from the USDA.
Does this strike you as wasteful? Did you know the US could feed 800,000,000 people on the grain that's fed to livestock? Let the cows eat grass and save the grain for the starving! Or sell it and take $80 billion off the trade deficit!
Fucking decadent carnivores, messing up the place...
And Ashcroft wants to track all your guns via RFID!
"If Bush is re-elected, Attorney General John Ashcroft fully expects radio tracking tags to be mandated for all guns under a sweeping antiterror bill, reveals Bob Woodward in his new book, 'Plan of Attack.' The bill would require anyone selling a gun to enter its RFID number and the purchaser's name and address into a national database. The Attorney General is quoted as saying the system would enable the government to trace the path of any weapons that might be used in terrorist attacks. 'This technology, with expanded power to prosecute those who aid terror-related organizations, will dry up the pool of traitors who arm terrorists,' Ashcroft told Woodward earlier this year." --FOX NEWS 4/19/2004
Are the Republicans that much better at upholding our rights these days? My love of freedom has been my main reason for being a Republican, but with this administration grabbing rights from the congress and intruding on our privacy, and now they want to track our guns with these chips that you can read from a ways away, the demmies look less nasty by the minute. I'm starting to feel like Kerry's got the same views as Bush on most issues, but Kerry would like to play by the rules of the constitution. If this thing passes, it's only a matter of time before both cops and criminals carry RFID readers and it won't matter if you live in a concealed-carry state!
Hee-hee - Pass it on!
We've actually seen this before - it's true that guided reflectors are the way to go for solar power generation, but you don't want to aim them at a water column if you need electricity after dark. Instead, use the light to head up molten salt, which can hold lots of thermal energy for a fair amount of time, then pipe the salt past water pipes to make the steam to run your turbines. Yes, it seems more indirect but you can keep to power flowing up to 100% of the time without relying on batteries. Keeping the energy in thermal form and transferring it from one medium to another is more efficient than converting it from thermal to kinetic to electrical to chemical (when you store it in a battery), then back to electrical. Here's the extensive (though a couple years old) Boeing Solar Power Tower page, and here's an update on applications of the tech from people planning the nuke dump in New Mexico.
A simpler kind of solar tower is a chimney made of lightweight drawing air through a sprawling greenhouse. The floor of the greenhouse absorbs heat all day and reradiates it at night to drive turbines continuously. Australia may soon have a gargantuan solar chimney built for them by a company called Enviromission.
funniest /. comment in months!
Whew - after reading that link, I'm once again glad I fidget constantly. On the other hand, I worry that the increased energy burn might shorten lifespan, since the best age-extension techniques in animals involve calorie restriction. I need this body to last till we can upload minds!
Yes, it's called a sense of humor.
The original poster's joke was really lame, but you couldn't pass a Turing test.
NIST tells us not to use anything solvent-based, and Sharpies are solvent-based markers. In fact, the Sharpie Materials Safety Data Sheet (pdf) tells us they contain 3 different solvents - a propanol, a butanol, and an alcohol. One Eric Teel of Jefferson public radio (in Oregon) wrote the manufacturer of Sharpies and they said there could be problems.
Damn, and I've got hundreds of CD-Rs written on with Sharpies. I hope they last till I get around to buying a DVD burner and transferring the data.
No, that kid is going to bring the game over to his friend's house in the case with the cd key sticker on it, and punch in the same cd key on his friend's computer. This will work on both computers unless the game phones home, which is exactly what the post you replied to suggests, and which you misunderstand.
Since you asked... a 40 of Steel Reserve, thank you very much. The 12-pack-in-a-bottle! Incredibly cost-effective, and tastes better than St. Ides.
Better yet - we need to make a browser plugin that downloads a torrent of the images & other media on a set of web pages, uses BT to download them to a temp dir & loads them in the browser as they complete. It should keep uploading till it's got at least a 1/1 ratio, or longer if it is the only seed. The server would have a mod that automaticalls torrents up everything below a certain dir and serves the torrent when BT-aware browsers request the index, while serving html and images as usual to normal browsers as long as bandwidth holds out.