Especially when you consider that the original Netscape Navigator wasn't released until the end of 1994. Christ even Mosaic didn't exist until early '93. And while I had lynx before that that wasn't at all accessible to joe public
I have sooooo sooo soooo sooo sooo soo many photos it will take months to upload them all to google. I use a combination of pixfer to sort them in good old fashioned file structures and then picasa to browse, export, mildly touch up etc. Going to be a massive pain in the ass if it disappears.
I think that was a case of bad maths on the AC's part. 4000 movies leeched then available restitution should be 160,000 + the costs of enforcing it through the courts.
Zero chance of going to the high court. The high court would refuse to hear the case as DBC won the case. You can't appeal to the high court a requirement to act in good faith.
Just a correction. They never lodged the $600k bond in the first place. They tried to negotiate multiple different letters and approaches with Justice Perram first. They also wanted to claim damages based on whether the person had shared / downloaded works by people unrelated to DBC and they wanted to claim damages based on the downloader having obtained an international distribution license.
In the end Justice Perram cracked the shits and said ffs stop with the pissing around and either comply with my requirements or fuck off. You have until COB Feb 12th to come up with something not stupid in your letter.
I think StormReaver above is probably on to something with his comment though as email can be made to be secure and if it is encrypted there is no realistic chance of it being broken.
I think there probably was something like one of these NSA orders we hear about.
I thought it was just too much work for too little return.
Copied straight from Wikipedia for those like me who didn't know.
Jones was widely respected by journalists and people inside the Linux community. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote, "Jones has made her reputation as a top legal IT reporter from her work detailing the defects with SCO's case against IBM and Linux. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that her work has contributed enormously to everyone's coverage of SCO's cases." [23]
Despite the high regard of Jones' peer journalists and the Linux community (or possibly in part because of it), a number of prominent attacks against Groklaw and Jones occurred. These attacks were documented and addressed in detail, on Groklaw and other web sites and also in court as part of the SCO litigation.
During the first week of May 2005, Maureen O'Gara, writing in Linux World, wrote an exposé claiming to unmask Jones. Two weeks before O'Gara's publication, McBride said that SCO was investigating Jones' identity.[22] The article included alleged, but unverified, personal information about Jones,[24] including a photo of Jones' supposed house and purported addresses and telephone numbers for Jones and her mother.[25] After a flood of complaints to the publisher, lobbying of the site's advertisers, and claims of a denial-of-service attack launched against the Sys-Con domain,[26][27] Linux Business News' publisher Sys-Con issued a public apology,[28] and said they dropped O'Gara and her LinuxGram column. Despite this assertion, O'Gara remained with Sys-Con; as of 2009, she is the Virtualization News Desk editor at Sys-Con Media, who describe her as "[o]ne of the most respected technology reporters in the business" and has her work published in multiple magazines owned by Sys-Con Media.[29]
SCO executives Darl McBride and Blake Stowell also denigrated Jones, and claimed that she worked for IBM.[30] Jones denied this allegation,[31] as did IBM in a court filing.[32] During an SCO conference call on April 13, 2005, McBride said, "The reality is the web site is full of misinformation, including the people who are actually running it" when talking about Groklaw, adding also "What I would say is that it is not what it is purported to be". Later developments in the court cases showed that McBride's statements to the press regarding the SCO litigation had limited credibility; very few such statements were ever substantiated and most were shown to be false. For example, McBride claimed that SCO owned the copyrights to UNIX, and SCO filed suit to try to enforce these claims.[33] The outcome went against McBride's claims. The jury found that SCO had not purchased these copyrights.[34][35] SCO appealed this ruling and lost.[36] McBride also made a claim to the press that there was a "mountain of code" misappropriated to create Linux.[37] When SCO finally presented their evidence of infringement, which centered on nine lines of error name and number similarities in the file errno.h, Judge Wells famously said "Is this all you've got?"[38] Professor Randall Davis of MIT later made a convincing demonstration that there were no elements of UNIX which might be copyright protectable present in the Linux source code.[39]
Yes. No energy of any kind was extracted from their experiment. There was no intention to extract any energy.
However I don't really get why you are looking at energy efficiency. This experiment was to see if they could contain the plasma, that is all. If you poured water into a cup to test if the cup could hold water would you be looking for energy efficiency? This is essentially what they did, they made a cup to hold plasma.
That seems extreme. Here you aren't allowed to exceed 500ft without permission in anywhere that counts as controlled airspace. Which essentially is everywhere anyone lives or fly over heavily populated public spots. So you can fly in a park for example but not if it's full of people.
CASA is looking into the regulations around drones, but have actually been loosening them, in particular for low altitude commercial stuff like taking a video for a realestate site. That said I expect they will require licensing for exceeding 500ft and have talked about requiring transponders on drones that exceed that height.
See the title. But there seems to be a lot of news about drones and lots of actions by the government. Are there really that many drones kicking around that they are this much of an issue?
I mean lots of people own drones here in Aus but I rarely actually see many flying around.
I know that some people will have a different opinion on various articles. I just posed my thoughts, which are based around my belief that it isn't a particular issue with the sciences and education but actually a massively wider problem that infects pretty much every sector and industry. This makes it more a generalist issue than a nerd one.
As for calling it an ad-hom against ScienceHabit, look at their posting history. They have never ever commented on a story, they have only ever posted submissions from sciencemag.org, no where else. I would have no objection to you posting exactly the same story because you are a part of slashdots community even if it wouldn't be my first choice of front page story.
If slashdot wants to accept submissions from sites then fine, but I don't think it should be masquerading as a member of the site when it blatantly isn't.
As for your question. It depends on the direction slashdot goes in. If the stories are generally submitted by a bot then yes I would want to be able to filter them. But then it starts being a bit like google news. If however the posts are selected by the community then I wouldn't want to filter.
Pretty much agree with you. I grew up with a similar old man, except it was on motorcycles. Do you have any idea how hard it is to ride a motorcycle fitted with a road front tyre and a knobby rear tyre on wet grass? Taught me a lot about how to recover losing the front end though. Something that has saved me a couple of times in the wet and having hit diesel.
Nope no reason it isn't possible. You were towing a broken vehicle, so I assume your speed was low and you weren't "yank hard on a lever or push as hard as you can down on a pedal to engage a mechanical emergency brake" like I was responding to.
You're not going to lock wheels if you use a hand brake with control and when you have thought about it. If however you are going to say you were going 55mph and the safari's handbrake managed to overcome the engine on the S15 that for some reason was in runaway mode I might be saying something different.
Nope, very easy in fact. Shredded paper is one of the best roof insulations you can get and it is treated with boric acid to make it fire retardant. Here is a link to someone hitting Cool or Cosy (a brand name version of shredded paper insulation) with a blow torch.
Off topic I know but I wanted to say I appreciate the changes that have happened to slashdot as well. I look at the front page and there is only 1 story I would remove (The Anthropology sexual abuse one) and the rest are ones that I was actually interested to read about. I compare that to a fortnight ago and the difference is massive.
So thank you Whiplash.
And if you are interested these are the reasons why I would remove the Anthropology story * Click bait headline - There is no way a single incident would "Rock" an entire global sector or industry. * It isn't related to science, technology or anything that I would call Nerd worthy. You could change the word Anthropology for anything and the story doesn't change. It is a people story. * Read the comments. There isn't anything to really discuss. Either you think the guy was a fuckwit or you think someone over reacted. There is no grey zones to discuss. No expert that could come in and give me a nugget of information that I didn't know. * Sciencehabit is a posting bot. He / She / It isn't part of this community. I suspect there is a multi-poster somewhere with their credentials loaded into it and the only thing they are doing is trying to drive traffic to sciencemag.org having posted the same stuff to every site they could.
Hill hold is essential in slippery situations or where any roll backwards is a problem. Yes you can time the move from braking to acceleration really closely but the car will always move a little without a handbrake or a hill hold.
I don't understand. The plasma has to reach 100M K for there to be any energy output at all. The whole project is a massive energy sink at this stage. There is absolutely no efficiency to measure, or at least none that matters. The idea is you get the plasma to that temp and THEN you trigger fusion inside the plasma. Right up until that point there is no energy coming out of the plasma at all (other than the heat you wish it wasn't dumping).
Think about this as cranking over an engine without having any fuel in the system. They are spinning the engine at half the required RPM with an external power source to see if the engine is going to come flying apart. Next step will be to test it for longer, then to test it at full speed and then finally to pour the petrol in get it running under its own power.
Also it makes sense that if you are going fully electronic to get it out of the way. It doesn't make sense to keep it in easy reach if you don't use it regularly.
This wasn't to change gear, this was to change drive modes. As I said I could be remembering it wrong but I'm sure it had park in the middle, press it down once and it went into neutral, press down again and it went into drive. Then you had to push up up up to get to reverse and I'm sure the level returned to the starting point every time.
Please don't ever ever ever pull on your hand brake while moving. They aren't emergency brakes they are parking brakes. Firstly they have significantly less braking power than your standard brakes and your standard brakes will almost certainly overwhelm the power production of your engine. Secondly they only operate on the rear wheels, so if your parking brake did have enough power to stop the rear wheels turning your would instantly lose control of the vehicle, the rear end would try to over take the front end and all of a sudden you are spinning.
Finally most modern automatic cars don't have a physical connection to their gear box any more anyway. The lever is like it is through legacy, not because it needs to be.
As for your comment about direct mechanical connection to the brakes we are starting to see Brake-by-wire systems in consumer cars though they aren't that common outside of hybrids. Toyota's LFA is brake by wire.
Ummmm. I have had my brake pads rust and freeze to my rotors and the amount of force to brake that connection is absolutely negligible. Unless your rotors were submerged and then the lake froze there is no way that ice will prevent the car rolling. Not to mention that the pads will be in contact with the rotors anyway when you have stopped and the only difference between hand brake on or off is a small amount of pressure so if they were going to freeze with the hand brake on they would freeze with the hand brake off. Pads are pushed away from the rotor by the movement of the rotor. There is no mechanical system that pulls it away, drum brakes are different of course.
But cars aren't all the same. For example my car doesn't have a hand brake lever, it has a pedal down in the foot well and a release lever under the dash. Now here is something for you to consider..... It's a manual. The first time you have to do a hill start in it, you will have a mild panic.
Panic that is until you learn that if you press the brake pedal hard the brakes stay locked on even with your foot off the brake and auto disengage as you start to move forward.
I could be wrong as it has been a while since I drove one but I'm pretty sure that the ML series Mercedes use sequential presses on the gear shift, but instead of being on the floor it is a lever on the steering wheel. I have seen other autos with the gear selecter on the tree as well but having the positions.
But it is the duration that is news worthy. It is massively longer than anything else that has been achieved. So now you have China who can keep the plasma contained for a long time but not have the temp needed and JET which has the temp but not the duration. Put those two together and hopefully you get the temp and the duration.
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Especially when you consider that the original Netscape Navigator wasn't released until the end of 1994. Christ even Mosaic didn't exist until early '93. And while I had lynx before that that wasn't at all accessible to joe public
I have sooooo sooo soooo sooo sooo soo many photos it will take months to upload them all to google. I use a combination of pixfer to sort them in good old fashioned file structures and then picasa to browse, export, mildly touch up etc. Going to be a massive pain in the ass if it disappears.
I think that was a case of bad maths on the AC's part. 4000 movies leeched then available restitution should be 160,000 + the costs of enforcing it through the courts.
Zero chance of going to the high court. The high court would refuse to hear the case as DBC won the case. You can't appeal to the high court a requirement to act in good faith.
Just a correction. They never lodged the $600k bond in the first place. They tried to negotiate multiple different letters and approaches with Justice Perram first. They also wanted to claim damages based on whether the person had shared / downloaded works by people unrelated to DBC and they wanted to claim damages based on the downloader having obtained an international distribution license.
In the end Justice Perram cracked the shits and said ffs stop with the pissing around and either comply with my requirements or fuck off. You have until COB Feb 12th to come up with something not stupid in your letter.
I think StormReaver above is probably on to something with his comment though as email can be made to be secure and if it is encrypted there is no realistic chance of it being broken.
I think there probably was something like one of these NSA orders we hear about.
Damn it is that what happened? I had no idea.
I thought it was just too much work for too little return.
Copied straight from Wikipedia for those like me who didn't know.
Jones was widely respected by journalists and people inside the Linux community. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote, "Jones has made her reputation as a top legal IT reporter from her work detailing the defects with SCO's case against IBM and Linux. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that her work has contributed enormously to everyone's coverage of SCO's cases." [23]
Despite the high regard of Jones' peer journalists and the Linux community (or possibly in part because of it), a number of prominent attacks against Groklaw and Jones occurred. These attacks were documented and addressed in detail, on Groklaw and other web sites and also in court as part of the SCO litigation.
During the first week of May 2005, Maureen O'Gara, writing in Linux World, wrote an exposé claiming to unmask Jones. Two weeks before O'Gara's publication, McBride said that SCO was investigating Jones' identity.[22] The article included alleged, but unverified, personal information about Jones,[24] including a photo of Jones' supposed house and purported addresses and telephone numbers for Jones and her mother.[25] After a flood of complaints to the publisher, lobbying of the site's advertisers, and claims of a denial-of-service attack launched against the Sys-Con domain,[26][27] Linux Business News' publisher Sys-Con issued a public apology,[28] and said they dropped O'Gara and her LinuxGram column. Despite this assertion, O'Gara remained with Sys-Con; as of 2009, she is the Virtualization News Desk editor at Sys-Con Media, who describe her as "[o]ne of the most respected technology reporters in the business" and has her work published in multiple magazines owned by Sys-Con Media.[29]
SCO executives Darl McBride and Blake Stowell also denigrated Jones, and claimed that she worked for IBM.[30] Jones denied this allegation,[31] as did IBM in a court filing.[32] During an SCO conference call on April 13, 2005, McBride said, "The reality is the web site is full of misinformation, including the people who are actually running it" when talking about Groklaw, adding also "What I would say is that it is not what it is purported to be". Later developments in the court cases showed that McBride's statements to the press regarding the SCO litigation had limited credibility; very few such statements were ever substantiated and most were shown to be false. For example, McBride claimed that SCO owned the copyrights to UNIX, and SCO filed suit to try to enforce these claims.[33] The outcome went against McBride's claims. The jury found that SCO had not purchased these copyrights.[34][35] SCO appealed this ruling and lost.[36] McBride also made a claim to the press that there was a "mountain of code" misappropriated to create Linux.[37] When SCO finally presented their evidence of infringement, which centered on nine lines of error name and number similarities in the file errno.h, Judge Wells famously said "Is this all you've got?"[38] Professor Randall Davis of MIT later made a convincing demonstration that there were no elements of UNIX which might be copyright protectable present in the Linux source code.[39]
PJ and Groklaw would be a huge boon for slashdot if you could somehow reach out to her and bring her back.
Yes. No energy of any kind was extracted from their experiment. There was no intention to extract any energy.
However I don't really get why you are looking at energy efficiency. This experiment was to see if they could contain the plasma, that is all. If you poured water into a cup to test if the cup could hold water would you be looking for energy efficiency? This is essentially what they did, they made a cup to hold plasma.
That seems extreme. Here you aren't allowed to exceed 500ft without permission in anywhere that counts as controlled airspace. Which essentially is everywhere anyone lives or fly over heavily populated public spots. So you can fly in a park for example but not if it's full of people.
CASA is looking into the regulations around drones, but have actually been loosening them, in particular for low altitude commercial stuff like taking a video for a realestate site. That said I expect they will require licensing for exceeding 500ft and have talked about requiring transponders on drones that exceed that height.
See the title. But there seems to be a lot of news about drones and lots of actions by the government. Are there really that many drones kicking around that they are this much of an issue?
I mean lots of people own drones here in Aus but I rarely actually see many flying around.
HI AmiMoJo,
I know that some people will have a different opinion on various articles. I just posed my thoughts, which are based around my belief that it isn't a particular issue with the sciences and education but actually a massively wider problem that infects pretty much every sector and industry. This makes it more a generalist issue than a nerd one.
As for calling it an ad-hom against ScienceHabit, look at their posting history. They have never ever commented on a story, they have only ever posted submissions from sciencemag.org, no where else. I would have no objection to you posting exactly the same story because you are a part of slashdots community even if it wouldn't be my first choice of front page story.
If slashdot wants to accept submissions from sites then fine, but I don't think it should be masquerading as a member of the site when it blatantly isn't.
As for your question. It depends on the direction slashdot goes in. If the stories are generally submitted by a bot then yes I would want to be able to filter them. But then it starts being a bit like google news. If however the posts are selected by the community then I wouldn't want to filter.
Pretty much agree with you. I grew up with a similar old man, except it was on motorcycles. Do you have any idea how hard it is to ride a motorcycle fitted with a road front tyre and a knobby rear tyre on wet grass? Taught me a lot about how to recover losing the front end though. Something that has saved me a couple of times in the wet and having hit diesel.
Nope no reason it isn't possible. You were towing a broken vehicle, so I assume your speed was low and you weren't "yank hard on a lever or push as hard as you can down on a pedal to engage a mechanical emergency brake" like I was responding to.
You're not going to lock wheels if you use a hand brake with control and when you have thought about it. If however you are going to say you were going 55mph and the safari's handbrake managed to overcome the engine on the S15 that for some reason was in runaway mode I might be saying something different.
Nope, very easy in fact. Shredded paper is one of the best roof insulations you can get and it is treated with boric acid to make it fire retardant. Here is a link to someone hitting Cool or Cosy (a brand name version of shredded paper insulation) with a blow torch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Off topic I know but I wanted to say I appreciate the changes that have happened to slashdot as well. I look at the front page and there is only 1 story I would remove (The Anthropology sexual abuse one) and the rest are ones that I was actually interested to read about. I compare that to a fortnight ago and the difference is massive.
So thank you Whiplash.
And if you are interested these are the reasons why I would remove the Anthropology story
* Click bait headline - There is no way a single incident would "Rock" an entire global sector or industry.
* It isn't related to science, technology or anything that I would call Nerd worthy. You could change the word Anthropology for anything and the story doesn't change. It is a people story.
* Read the comments. There isn't anything to really discuss. Either you think the guy was a fuckwit or you think someone over reacted. There is no grey zones to discuss. No expert that could come in and give me a nugget of information that I didn't know.
* Sciencehabit is a posting bot. He / She / It isn't part of this community. I suspect there is a multi-poster somewhere with their credentials loaded into it and the only thing they are doing is trying to drive traffic to sciencemag.org having posted the same stuff to every site they could.
Hill hold is essential in slippery situations or where any roll backwards is a problem. Yes you can time the move from braking to acceleration really closely but the car will always move a little without a handbrake or a hill hold.
I don't understand. The plasma has to reach 100M K for there to be any energy output at all. The whole project is a massive energy sink at this stage. There is absolutely no efficiency to measure, or at least none that matters. The idea is you get the plasma to that temp and THEN you trigger fusion inside the plasma. Right up until that point there is no energy coming out of the plasma at all (other than the heat you wish it wasn't dumping).
Think about this as cranking over an engine without having any fuel in the system. They are spinning the engine at half the required RPM with an external power source to see if the engine is going to come flying apart. Next step will be to test it for longer, then to test it at full speed and then finally to pour the petrol in get it running under its own power.
Also it makes sense that if you are going fully electronic to get it out of the way. It doesn't make sense to keep it in easy reach if you don't use it regularly.
This wasn't to change gear, this was to change drive modes. As I said I could be remembering it wrong but I'm sure it had park in the middle, press it down once and it went into neutral, press down again and it went into drive. Then you had to push up up up to get to reverse and I'm sure the level returned to the starting point every time.
Just looked for a youtube video - here https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The lever returns to the center every time.
Please don't ever ever ever pull on your hand brake while moving. They aren't emergency brakes they are parking brakes. Firstly they have significantly less braking power than your standard brakes and your standard brakes will almost certainly overwhelm the power production of your engine. Secondly they only operate on the rear wheels, so if your parking brake did have enough power to stop the rear wheels turning your would instantly lose control of the vehicle, the rear end would try to over take the front end and all of a sudden you are spinning.
Finally most modern automatic cars don't have a physical connection to their gear box any more anyway. The lever is like it is through legacy, not because it needs to be.
As for your comment about direct mechanical connection to the brakes we are starting to see Brake-by-wire systems in consumer cars though they aren't that common outside of hybrids. Toyota's LFA is brake by wire.
Ummmm. I have had my brake pads rust and freeze to my rotors and the amount of force to brake that connection is absolutely negligible. Unless your rotors were submerged and then the lake froze there is no way that ice will prevent the car rolling. Not to mention that the pads will be in contact with the rotors anyway when you have stopped and the only difference between hand brake on or off is a small amount of pressure so if they were going to freeze with the hand brake on they would freeze with the hand brake off. Pads are pushed away from the rotor by the movement of the rotor. There is no mechanical system that pulls it away, drum brakes are different of course.
But cars aren't all the same. For example my car doesn't have a hand brake lever, it has a pedal down in the foot well and a release lever under the dash. Now here is something for you to consider..... It's a manual. The first time you have to do a hill start in it, you will have a mild panic.
Panic that is until you learn that if you press the brake pedal hard the brakes stay locked on even with your foot off the brake and auto disengage as you start to move forward.
I could be wrong as it has been a while since I drove one but I'm pretty sure that the ML series Mercedes use sequential presses on the gear shift, but instead of being on the floor it is a lever on the steering wheel. I have seen other autos with the gear selecter on the tree as well but having the positions.
But it is the duration that is news worthy. It is massively longer than anything else that has been achieved. So now you have China who can keep the plasma contained for a long time but not have the temp needed and JET which has the temp but not the duration. Put those two together and hopefully you get the temp and the duration.