I'm not saying that it does have magical properties, but as the comet proves, the black hole is still eating matter. Its just a matter of time (say a few hundred million years or soemthing) until its mass increases to a point that maybe the closest star starts to get slowly pulled in.
I will admit though that the fact that the force of gravity drops off rather quickly over distance makes if likely that it would take ALOT of mass to make the black hole expand to swallow the whole galazy.
actually the black hole will continue to grow as it swallows more matter. That is to say that the event horizon will continue to expand. This is the result of the increase in gravity as it becomes denser and denser. In effect it swallows some matter, expands, thus making it stronger and able to swallow more matter, and so on. In theory as long as there is matter flowing into the black hole then it could continue expanding to swallow the whole galaxy in time.
Steven Hawking explains this concept pretty well in his Brief History of Time
The problem with Hijacking a wireless signal might also be that it is broadcast. In a classical wired system a Hijacker can place himself easily in the middle of a line between points A and B. Thus stopping physical traffic to intercept it if they want. In the wireless case, while much easier to intercept the signal (as its being broadcast to anyone who want to listen) sending out a signal in place of the one that is already out there could be tough. You would need to somehow stop people from recieving the broadcast information so you could send something in its place. This is not to say however that you still couldn't broadcast original content somehow and send it to wireless devices, but hijacking something mid signal would likely be very tough. This is however a purely logical analysis, I don't know the all that many specifics on the actual reception of wireless signals. Someone with more knowledge might be able to help clear this up.
Wow, blue LEDs, I remember one of my EE professors telling me those things were tough to come by. Then again, he could have just not known what he was talking about, I've had some professors like that. If it is the case though, it would mean these could be really cheap if not for the blue.
A note along those same lines, the university I has an online history of the servers and technology they've used over the years. It turns out that the chip that was the processor in the email system 20 years ago, is now running my calculator.
You'd be surprised the kinds of uses for old 486 and even 386 processors. I read some stuff a year or so back that NASA uses 10 year old processors in alot of its stuff, because it saves money and there just isn't need for more powerful chips. I'll post a link if I find the article.
Would you like to play a game of chess?;)
or perhaps some global thermonuclear war.
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Actually I velieve that Code Red III is the varient that CNN reported is showing up in Southeast Asia (Korea I believe). From the report on Headline news it is faster and creates a "bigger backdoor" than Code Red II. Then again until it starts to hit someplace in the US or Europe I don't think it will be really confirmed.
This may be a result of the economy more than your age. In the mid nineties when I was in HS, I had tons of offers from companies needing tech support help and web design help. I think its just fewer jobs, is forcing companies to use things like degrees to narrow the talent pool.
I don't believe that anywhere in the article it describes 15year olds as being "stupid". In fact the whole point is that he is saying these kids on the net tend to be more intelligent in alot of cases than their elders, but at the same time they lack certain knowledge that only comes from the real world, and then only with time and experience. Its not their fault, simply the reality of growing up.
Thats not neccesarily true. The high end machines often have extremely cutting edge technology, which even if nobody is buying it, still will cost more to break even than the cheaper model. Often times the very top of the line machines push the envelope causing costs to increase by several factors while only squeazing out a few points of performance increase. An analogy, would be how there is a ten fold increase in cost for every 1% more reliable a space vehicle is between 95% and 100%. I'm assuming the increase from a 1.33 GHz chip to a 1.4 GHz isn't that extreme, but there is probably some greater than linear increase in cost.
I believe there are othere issues here besides this going to trial. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but he has been sitting in a jail for 2 weeks now without even getting a bail hearing.
This from the same people that kept Kevin Mitnick in jail for 3 years without a trial. I'm no Mitnick supporter, but that is a gross violation of the constitution in any situation, and the longer Sklyarov sits in jail the worse a violation this is.
Compaq's testdrive is a free service offered to developers who want to test their code on different systems. It is composed of like 2 dozen OS/hardware configurations including Linux, several flavors of Unix, and NT. Users can get an account, FTP over their code and try it out. It was originally created for porting test, but also makes a good place to just develop for different evironments.
This is definately one of the coolest pieces of technology I've seen in a while. Supposedly Compaq is having a hell of a time keeping these things in stock. After seeing this though, I thikn I'm gonna try getting my hands on one.
Hopefully this will have the effect of making Networks realize how annoying their placement of commercials can be. Perhaps now we'll stop getting those commercials right at the best part of a movie.
Just a thought, wouldn't this post make/. liable in the same manner that 2600 was for having links to sights containing the DeCSS code;) Kinda makes you think where all this might end.
I personally love coding in Perl for that exact reason, that there are tons of ways to do everything. It also makes for entertaining conversation with friends to see how different people solved the same or similar problems in different ways.
I might just be biased on this from the heavy amount of web developement I do, but I'm anxiously awaiting the new version. I just hope it won't require 100% rewrite of my old scripts.
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I'm not saying that it does have magical properties, but as the comet proves, the black hole is still eating matter. Its just a matter of time (say a few hundred million years or soemthing) until its mass increases to a point that maybe the closest star starts to get slowly pulled in.
I will admit though that the fact that the force of gravity drops off rather quickly over distance makes if likely that it would take ALOT of mass to make the black hole expand to swallow the whole galazy.
actually the black hole will continue to grow as it swallows more matter. That is to say that the event horizon will continue to expand. This is the result of the increase in gravity as it becomes denser and denser. In effect it swallows some matter, expands, thus making it stronger and able to swallow more matter, and so on. In theory as long as there is matter flowing into the black hole then it could continue expanding to swallow the whole galaxy in time.
Steven Hawking explains this concept pretty well in his Brief History of Time
The problem with Hijacking a wireless signal might also be that it is broadcast. In a classical wired system a Hijacker can place himself easily in the middle of a line between points A and B. Thus stopping physical traffic to intercept it if they want. In the wireless case, while much easier to intercept the signal (as its being broadcast to anyone who want to listen) sending out a signal in place of the one that is already out there could be tough. You would need to somehow stop people from recieving the broadcast information so you could send something in its place. This is not to say however that you still couldn't broadcast original content somehow and send it to wireless devices, but hijacking something mid signal would likely be very tough. This is however a purely logical analysis, I don't know the all that many specifics on the actual reception of wireless signals. Someone with more knowledge might be able to help clear this up.
Wow, blue LEDs, I remember one of my EE professors telling me those things were tough to come by. Then again, he could have just not known what he was talking about, I've had some professors like that. If it is the case though, it would mean these could be really cheap if not for the blue.
Z80. I've got a rather beat up TI-85
A note along those same lines, the university I has an online history of the servers and technology they've used over the years. It turns out that the chip that was the processor in the email system 20 years ago, is now running my calculator.
You'd be surprised the kinds of uses for old 486 and even 386 processors. I read some stuff a year or so back that NASA uses 10 year old processors in alot of its stuff, because it saves money and there just isn't need for more powerful chips. I'll post a link if I find the article.
Would you like to play a game of chess? ;)
or perhaps some global thermonuclear war.
Actually I velieve that Code Red III is the varient that CNN reported is showing up in Southeast Asia (Korea I believe). From the report on Headline news it is faster and creates a "bigger backdoor" than Code Red II. Then again until it starts to hit someplace in the US or Europe I don't think it will be really confirmed.
This may be a result of the economy more than your age. In the mid nineties when I was in HS, I had tons of offers from companies needing tech support help and web design help. I think its just fewer jobs, is forcing companies to use things like degrees to narrow the talent pool.
I don't believe that anywhere in the article it describes 15year olds as being "stupid". In fact the whole point is that he is saying these kids on the net tend to be more intelligent in alot of cases than their elders, but at the same time they lack certain knowledge that only comes from the real world, and then only with time and experience. Its not their fault, simply the reality of growing up.
Thats not neccesarily true. The high end machines often have extremely cutting edge technology, which even if nobody is buying it, still will cost more to break even than the cheaper model. Often times the very top of the line machines push the envelope causing costs to increase by several factors while only squeazing out a few points of performance increase. An analogy, would be how there is a ten fold increase in cost for every 1% more reliable a space vehicle is between 95% and 100%. I'm assuming the increase from a 1.33 GHz chip to a 1.4 GHz isn't that extreme, but there is probably some greater than linear increase in cost.
I believe there are othere issues here besides this going to trial. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but he has been sitting in a jail for 2 weeks now without even getting a bail hearing. This from the same people that kept Kevin Mitnick in jail for 3 years without a trial. I'm no Mitnick supporter, but that is a gross violation of the constitution in any situation, and the longer Sklyarov sits in jail the worse a violation this is.
Well looks like its back up. For now anyway ;)
Compaq's testdrive is a free service offered to developers who want to test their code on different systems. It is composed of like 2 dozen OS/hardware configurations including Linux, several flavors of Unix, and NT. Users can get an account, FTP over their code and try it out. It was originally created for porting test, but also makes a good place to just develop for different evironments.
This is definately one of the coolest pieces of technology I've seen in a while. Supposedly Compaq is having a hell of a time keeping these things in stock. After seeing this though, I thikn I'm gonna try getting my hands on one.
Hopefully this will have the effect of making Networks realize how annoying their placement of commercials can be. Perhaps now we'll stop getting those commercials right at the best part of a movie.
Just a thought, wouldn't this post make /. liable in the same manner that 2600 was for having links to sights containing the DeCSS code ;) Kinda makes you think where all this might end.
I personally love coding in Perl for that exact reason, that there are tons of ways to do everything. It also makes for entertaining conversation with friends to see how different people solved the same or similar problems in different ways.
I might just be biased on this from the heavy amount of web developement I do, but I'm anxiously awaiting the new version. I just hope it won't require 100% rewrite of my old scripts.