When I first read the title of this story, I immediately thought of an old Simpsons episode from 1994, "Homer the Vigilante" where Professor Fink invents a house that runs down the street in order to get away from a burglar.
I wouldn't doubt that the whole system isn't there to catch actual terrorists, but to simply condition the populace into accepting this kind of routine as a the standard quo.
Fo
So what do I do now? None of my online profiles really contain anything 'bad' in them. No bad photos, no defaming former employees, no bad language...
However, many of my online profiles are quite honest about my sexuality. I am gay. Do I need to consider going back into the closet because a future potential employer might be a homophobe?
I logged into the newly functional demonoid using my old account and it works fine.
Now unless they gave away all their users old account data, I doubt it is some kind of honey-pot or such thing.
I'm a homosexual and I've been HIV+ for 11 years now. Lucky for me, I'm one of the small percentage of people with whom the virus seems to have a difficult time spreading. As such, in those 11 years I have yet to take any medication.
Now with that out of the way, I must stress that as a homosexual I am completely and utterly uninterested in converting ANYONE to my lifestyle. Nor have I ever in my 13 years of being 'out' even tried to 'convert' anyone. I would think that you would find this true of most any homosexual that you'd care to talk to.
With that said, I have yet to collect a toaster oven.
Ah, but I saved having to type an entire character in my version! Slashdot editors should be proud!
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And last week they most certainly didn't! The actual article stated the following:
"He used a pocket knife, tape, and items on anyone's grocery list to confirm that interactions involving the weak force do not show perfect mirror symmetry, or parity, as scientists had long assumed."
Couldn't the author of the slashdot post have at leased used the cut and paste features of his computer?
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World-class detective Angus MacGyver of the hit 1980s television show MacGyver could jury-rig almost anything with duct tape and a pocket knife. High-energy physics labs demand as much and more from technicians and engineers, relying on their creativity and intelligence to navigate technical quagmires. And when a problem demands it, they deliver--engineering tiny cameras mounted on bocce balls that snake through 10,000 feet of steel piping; rigging a 13-ton cement block to bash deformed brass into shape; or aiming a high-powered laser around corners to unblock water lines. Unlike MacGyver's fixes--such as the fuse he repaired with a chewing-gum wrapper--some of these devices last.
An improvised grinder An improvised grinder sanded welds along the long, straight sections of 10,000 feet of pipe at Fermilab. The sander within the rotating silver cylinder cleaned each weld.
Photo: Fred Ullrich, Fermilab
Leon Lederman, the Nobel Prize-winning former director of Fermilab, is a legendary lab MacGyver. He used a pocket knife, tape, and items on anyone's grocery list to confirm that interactions involving the weak force do not show perfect mirror symmetry, or parity, as scientists had long assumed. Just as a watch hand always sweeps clockwise, nuclei of atoms eject electrons in a preferred direction as they decay, rather than spraying them randomly. The technical term for this is "parity violation."
Intrigued by the experiments of Madame Chien-Shiung Wu, Lederman called his friend, Richard Garwin, to propose an experiment that would detect parity violation in the decay of the pi meson particle. That evening in January 1957, Lederman and Garwin raced to Columbia's Nevis laboratory and immediately began rearranging a graduate student's experiment into one they could use. "It was 6 p.m. on a Friday, and without explanation, we took the student's experiment apart," Lederman later recalled in an interview. "He started crying, as he should have."
The men knew they were onto something big. "We had an idea and we wanted to make it work as quickly as we could--we didn't look at niceties," Lederman said. And, indeed, niceties were overlooked. A coffee can supported a wooden cutting board, on which rested a Lucite cylinder cut from an orange juice bottle. A can of Coca-Cola propped up a device for counting electron emissions, and Scotch tape held it all together.
"Without the Swiss Army Knife, we would've been hopeless," Lederman said. "That was our primary tool."
Their first attempt, at 2 a.m., showed parity violation the instant before the Lucite cylinder--wrapped with wires to generate the magnetic field--melted.
"We had the effect, but it went away when the instrument broke," Lederman said. "We spent hours and hours fixing and rearranging the experiment. In due course, we got the thing going, we got the effect back, and it was an enormous effect. By six o'clock in the morning, we were able to call people and tell them that the laws of parity violate mirror symmetry," confirming the results of experiments led by Wu at Columbia University the month before.
Another giant figure in physics, founding Fermilab director Robert Wilson, is the hero of a widely circulated tale.
MacGyver-mania MacGyver aired in more than 40 countries between 1985 and 1992, in some cases leaving a lasting imprint on the local language. In South Korea, for instance, call a knife a "Maekgaibeo kal" and people know you mean the Swiss Army-type knife the TV character carried. Malaysians call their pocket knives "Pisau MacGyvers" or just plain "MacGyver knives." In Norway and parts of Finland, duct tape is sometimes called "MacGyver tape."
Ernie Malamud, a physicist at Fermilab, remembers working with Wilson during his graduate studies at Cornell. The pair wanted to use helium gas, often used to fill balloons, to locate a leak in the glass vacuum chamber; but they discovered the hose from the
Ah yes, but can you sue IBM for patent infringement on an OS that they no longer sell or even support?
If I held a patent for something since 1980 and discovered, in hindsight, that some company infringed on my patent from 1985 to 1990, could I sue them 17 years after the fact?
I somehow doubt it, else we'd have a whole new form of forensic patent trolling.
So... Why did they suddenly decide to go after Apple now when Mozilla has been in, urm, flagrant violation of this supposed patent for much longer than Apple?
Actually, sorry, but I have more of a clue than you do.
E=mc^2
All sound is the product of subatomic particles interacting with each other, on a fundamental basis anyhow. If you want to sample a sound in its entirety, and this is going way too far, you'd have to know everything that happened within the area down to a subatomic level.
Sound is the product of a wave propagating through a medium, gas, liquid, solid, plasma, whatever. Even if it's just one atom that becomes ionized, it creates a sound via its interactions with neighbouring particles, causing them to move ever so slightly. However, it's not one anyone would hear...
Ok... I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to do this... =p
"that does not change the fact that a finite sampling rate cannot perfectly reproduce an analoge signal"
To reproduce any analoge signal in it's entirety, I supoose you'd have to sample every single shred of EM radiation and particle movement/decay within the sound bubble of where the audio originated from. =)
I just took at quick look at our NetTracker database and found that currently 9.5% of our visitors are using Mozilla. This is from a site that about 5 million hits a week. Keep in mind, our clientel is mainly composed of stupid daytraders, so 9.5% is quite good!
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When I first read the title of this story, I immediately thought of an old Simpsons episode from 1994, "Homer the Vigilante" where Professor Fink invents a house that runs down the street in order to get away from a burglar.
Professor Frink's Burglar Alarm
Unfortunately, due to the lovely state of copyright in the U.S., I couldn't find a single video clip. Best I could find was an audio clip. =(
I wouldn't doubt that the whole system isn't there to catch actual terrorists, but to simply condition the populace into accepting this kind of routine as a the standard quo. Fo
So what do I do now? None of my online profiles really contain anything 'bad' in them. No bad photos, no defaming former employees, no bad language...
However, many of my online profiles are quite honest about my sexuality. I am gay. Do I need to consider going back into the closet because a future potential employer might be a homophobe?
I logged into the newly functional demonoid using my old account and it works fine. Now unless they gave away all their users old account data, I doubt it is some kind of honey-pot or such thing.
*shakes head*
There, not their...
You just made me laugh out loud during my C# class. Poor teacher probably thinks I'm chuckling at his ineptitude.
Already he needs to remove his own burning ruin of a server from the list.
I'm a homosexual and I've been HIV+ for 11 years now. Lucky for me, I'm one of the small percentage of people with whom the virus seems to have a difficult time spreading. As such, in those 11 years I have yet to take any medication.
Now with that out of the way, I must stress that as a homosexual I am completely and utterly uninterested in converting ANYONE to my lifestyle. Nor have I ever in my 13 years of being 'out' even tried to 'convert' anyone. I would think that you would find this true of most any homosexual that you'd care to talk to.
With that said, I have yet to collect a toaster oven.
Ahh! So then you only advocate thinking in the right way.
One of the few times I wish I had mod points to spend! I'd have modded this down from the getgo...
Ah, but I saved having to type an entire character in my version! Slashdot editors should be proud!
And last week they most certainly didn't! The actual article stated the following:
"He used a pocket knife, tape, and items on anyone's grocery list to confirm that interactions involving the weak force do not show perfect mirror symmetry, or parity, as scientists had long assumed."Couldn't the author of the slashdot post have at leased used the cut and paste features of his computer?
volume 03 issue 08/09 oct/nov 06
Masters of Improv
Photo: Reidar Hahn, Fermilab
World-class detective Angus MacGyver of the hit 1980s television show MacGyver could jury-rig almost anything with duct tape and a pocket knife. High-energy physics labs demand as much and more from technicians and engineers, relying on their creativity and intelligence to navigate technical quagmires. And when a problem demands it, they deliver--engineering tiny cameras mounted on bocce balls that snake through 10,000 feet of steel piping; rigging a 13-ton cement block to bash deformed brass into shape; or aiming a high-powered laser around corners to unblock water lines. Unlike MacGyver's fixes--such as the fuse he repaired with a chewing-gum wrapper--some of these devices last.
An improvised grinder
An improvised grinder sanded welds along the long, straight sections of 10,000 feet of pipe at Fermilab. The sander within the rotating silver cylinder cleaned each weld.
Photo: Fred Ullrich, Fermilab
Leon Lederman, the Nobel Prize-winning former director of Fermilab, is a legendary lab MacGyver. He used a pocket knife, tape, and items on anyone's grocery list to confirm that interactions involving the weak force do not show perfect mirror symmetry, or parity, as scientists had long assumed. Just as a watch hand always sweeps clockwise, nuclei of atoms eject electrons in a preferred direction as they decay, rather than spraying them randomly. The technical term for this is "parity violation."
Intrigued by the experiments of Madame Chien-Shiung Wu, Lederman called his friend, Richard Garwin, to propose an experiment that would detect parity violation in the decay of the pi meson particle. That evening in January 1957, Lederman and Garwin raced to Columbia's Nevis laboratory and immediately began rearranging a graduate student's experiment into one they could use. "It was 6 p.m. on a Friday, and without explanation, we took the student's experiment apart," Lederman later recalled in an interview. "He started crying, as he should have."
The men knew they were onto something big. "We had an idea and we wanted to make it work as quickly as we could--we didn't look at niceties," Lederman said. And, indeed, niceties were overlooked. A coffee can supported a wooden cutting board, on which rested a Lucite cylinder cut from an orange juice bottle. A can of Coca-Cola propped up a device for counting electron emissions, and Scotch tape held it all together.
"Without the Swiss Army Knife, we would've been hopeless," Lederman said. "That was our primary tool."
Their first attempt, at 2 a.m., showed parity violation the instant before the Lucite cylinder--wrapped with wires to generate the magnetic field--melted.
"We had the effect, but it went away when the instrument broke," Lederman said. "We spent hours and hours fixing and rearranging the experiment. In due course, we got the thing going, we got the effect back, and it was an enormous effect. By six o'clock in the morning, we were able to call people and tell them that the laws of parity violate mirror symmetry," confirming the results of experiments led by Wu at Columbia University the month before.
Another giant figure in physics, founding Fermilab director Robert Wilson, is the hero of a widely circulated tale.
MacGyver-mania
MacGyver aired in more than 40 countries between 1985 and 1992, in some cases leaving a lasting imprint on the local language. In South Korea, for instance, call a knife a "Maekgaibeo kal" and people know you mean the Swiss Army-type knife the TV character carried. Malaysians call their pocket knives "Pisau MacGyvers" or just plain "MacGyver knives." In Norway and parts of Finland, duct tape is sometimes called "MacGyver tape."
Ernie Malamud, a physicist at Fermilab, remembers working with Wilson during his graduate studies at Cornell. The pair wanted to use helium gas, often used to fill balloons, to locate a leak in the glass vacuum chamber; but they discovered the hose from the
Woohoo! Made it to wired with this one!
i media/2007/05/crackkdown_protest?slide=6&slideView =2
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/mult
I made the following "work of art" while bored in class this evening. It represents the aformentioned hex number as a 16x8 image.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ironix/480962180/
Ah yes, but can you sue IBM for patent infringement on an OS that they no longer sell or even support?
If I held a patent for something since 1980 and discovered, in hindsight, that some company infringed on my patent from 1985 to 1990, could I sue them 17 years after the fact?
I somehow doubt it, else we'd have a whole new form of forensic patent trolling.
So... Why did they suddenly decide to go after Apple now when Mozilla has been in, urm, flagrant violation of this supposed patent for much longer than Apple?
Being that I live in Vancouver, I registered for the event. I certainly hope they toss me an invite!
1st post?
These
Poems:
Truly
Pedantic
Methodology.
Extremely restrictive process.
It's no coincidence that SG-1 is filmed in Vancouver, Canada. =p
Actually, sorry, but I have more of a clue than you do.
E=mc^2
All sound is the product of subatomic particles interacting with each other, on a fundamental basis anyhow. If you want to sample a sound in its entirety, and this is going way too far, you'd have to know everything that happened within the area down to a subatomic level.
Sound is the product of a wave propagating through a medium, gas, liquid, solid, plasma, whatever. Even if it's just one atom that becomes ionized, it creates a sound via its interactions with neighbouring particles, causing them to move ever so slightly. However, it's not one anyone would hear...
My statement was purely rhetorical in any case...
Ok... I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to do this... =p "that does not change the fact that a finite sampling rate cannot perfectly reproduce an analoge signal" To reproduce any analoge signal in it's entirety, I supoose you'd have to sample every single shred of EM radiation and particle movement/decay within the sound bubble of where the audio originated from. =)
Hahaha! I completely forgot that was in there. I've had this account for ages. =)
I just took at quick look at our NetTracker database and found that currently 9.5% of our visitors are using Mozilla. This is from a site that about 5 million hits a week. Keep in mind, our clientel is mainly composed of stupid daytraders, so 9.5% is quite good!