FSF wants Windows, Office, Photoshop, and everything else to be free. That's their job. People need to be able to make money on software, or large corporations won't invest in it. That's why FOSS-friendly companies like Sun are going under and being snapped up by profit-hungry pricks like Larry Ellison. Film at 11.
I can't seem to get my men to hench properly. That's why I switched them out for goons. Or was it Goonies? I don't know, but they scare people off with the Truffle Shuffle.
Wouldn't that folder be in nearly every Windows install? Or is that something that's only installed when you turn that language on in the Windows setup? Otherwise, it should have been pretty easy for VIPRE to test that condition. Do we know if Mr. Security Expert had the Slovenian language installed?
The problem with limiting to.edu's is that you miss out on professionals who are experts but not professors. Bill Gates is the classic example here - he never graduated Harvard, but I don't think anybody denies he's an expert in his field. What could probably be done, though, is a list of "reputable domains" for each category - for example, cern.ch is not a.edu domain, but people who work there are probably particle physics experts.
I didn't intend the "same field" modification you propose, but I do think that might add extra validity to things. At least making multiple people vote a change down means you need to amass trolls in greater numbers to undo a reputable change. But saying that changes made by experts can only be undone by other experts is a step in the right direction. You'd still have the occasional issue, for example, a creationist and an evolutionist could both be considered experts on the origins of life, but they might still disagree. But on the whole, I think that could be mediated by having separate articles for conflicting theories, and letting each maintain one.
So maybe don't accept resumes, only degrees that can be validated, save exceptions for ridiculously famous people that are easily verified. Bill Gates didn't graduate Harvard, but it's fair to say he knows something about software. For those people, a scan of a driver's license or some similar ID ought to do.
1. Again, modify the "base model" slightly for various environments. Add insulation, cooling, shock absorbers, bigger treads, etc. as needed. Very minor customizations that are roughly the equivalent of getting your Scion xB with a sunroof or not.
2. Develop a simple delivery vehicle that includes three pieces: the rover itself, a reverse-thrust delivery pod (which provides a heat shield for atmospheric planets, and reverse-thrusters to slow it to a soft landing on non-atmospheric ones), and a module that separates and stays in orbit, which can then be used to relay signals back to Earth. The pod lands, cracks open like a flower bud, and the rover just rolls down the ramp created by the sides of the pod and into the soil. Swap the thrusters for parachutes, and that's pretty much exactly what they used to deploy Spirit and Opportunity.
3. I don't know, I saw some pictures of Mercury a few minutes ago that looked awfully Mars-like. Bet the MESSENGER crew would love to be able to drop Spirit or Opportunity's twin on some of those craters right about now.
1. Hire a person or two to work @ Wikipedia (I live in town, Jimmy, hire me!) to accept and process documentation from users indicating them an expert on subject matter. So, I submit my PhD in Astrophysics, and I get the Astrophysics Expert flag on my account. I give my resume saying I've been a programmer for 30 years, and I get the Computer Programming expert flag.
2. Use the existing tag cloud-style architecture to tag articles by their subject matter (ie, this article on geostationary orbit goes in Astrophysics).
3. Any edits made by a Verified Expert to an article flagged as being part of their area of expertise must be voted down by multiple Wikipedians before they can be removed.
And then they'd have to prove you gave your password out deliberately, as opposed to just getting haxx0red by the 1337 ninjas on the Starbucks wifi. And they have to hope you didn't use a $50 pre-paid Visa debit card and a fake address to buy your first MP3 to create the account with. Or better yet, the bad guys make an Amazon account with legitimate credit card data that they stole from some company that failed PCI compliance, and now it's some random Joe's ass when 200,000 people are downloading Lady Gaga from an account with his credit card on it.
Until you hand that Amazon password out to 200,000 of your closest friends on IRC. Everybody uploads their content to the one "shared" account, takes what they want, and voila. Amazon is now hosting an all-you-can-pirate buffet.
You could make minor mods to them depending on where you're sending them. Going to Hoth? Wrap it in some insulation. Tattooine? Slap a water-cooling kit like you'd find in a PC on it, or some refrigerator coils. Really, places with atmosphere is all we really ought to care about - can't be any life anywhere else - unless you're just looking for a good place to set up a robotic mining colony to get some unobtanium.
We designed Spirit and Opportunity to last 90 days each. We've got one probably dead at just over 7 full years, and another fully healthy one after that same time. They were relatively cheap, too. These damn things WORK. NASA needs to mass-produce about 100 more of these, and get them to every solid surface in this solar system. If you know something's technologically sound, use it everywhere you can. Send them to all Saturn/Jupiter's solid moons, Mercury, Pluto, any asteroids who come near, the moon, Arkansas... any place where we might go looking for intelligent life.
I'd rather be bored in the dark than glowing in it.
Several posters have commented that the "dump concrete until problem solved" approach won't work, and have argued it well enough to convince me. I wonder, if the cooling was the biggest problem and lack of power is what prevented the cooling, why they didn't just roll up in a nuclear-powered Navy vessel and run some jumper cables onto the coast. I seem to recall Ray Nagin running half of New Orleans off an aircraft carrier's generator for a bit. Also, why water? Is there some nuclear chemistry reason why liquid nitrogen couldn't be used?
Somebody who isn't me, someplace that isn't Fukushima, has the knowledge and smarts to figure out how to fix this. We need to find that person, and in a damn hurry.
The UN needs to put together a Disaster Response Team for every conceivable type of major disaster - experts at dealing with flooding, oil spills, nuclear disasters, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, etc. Let them train like a military unit all year long, using hypothetical situations in places where they're likely to happen (for example, the studies that clearly showed New Orleans would be wiped off the map by a hurricane if one ever hit), and prep for this. Then, when it happens, immediately rip cleanup out of the hands of individual governments and corporations, both of which have motivations other than the public safety and environmental impact.
The UN guys can, at their discretion, use resources from willing governments and corporations to help them defray costs and get quicker response, but the UN's in command from Hour 1. Then, at the end of the day, assess charges to governments (when they failed to do safety checks) and corporations (when they're directly involved) to recoup costs to perform the cleanup operation.
Keeping this stuff in the hands of corporations CANNOT end well. Perfect examples during the gulf oil spill include BP paying scientists NOT to study the environmental impact (and thus guaranteeing those guys couldn't testify against them), and engineers from competing oil companies not pitching in to help, because it was more profitable to sit back and watch their biggest competitor implode on the world scale.
Concrete is a mixture that's water-based. Start with some dry concrete powder (or some Jell-O Instant Pudding), and your radioactive water becomes radioactive concrete. Then, put more concrete on the outside of that to put as much mass between fish and isotopes, and you're golden.
Bury the whole damn thing in concrete, and be done with it. This crisis would have been resolved two weeks ago if TEPCO wasn't more interested in repairing and reusing the reactor than the public safety.
If/. is no longer your cup of tea, why not leave? There's about 40 zillion other tech news sites you can hang out on and spare us all your trolling every story.
The Republicans have the majority. Congress requires a majority to pass any resolution. So nothing can happen if the Republicans don't do it. It's not prejudice, it's simple math.
... but to me, we shouldn't take the shuttles apart until we have a viable replacement that isn't just drawings and a budget meeting. If we dismantle the shuttles, and then the Republicans cut space budget for the new vehicle, we're at the mercy of Russia, China and the EU for the foreseeable future. Bad, bad move without a functioning replacement in the hangar.
Really? It takes 8-10 months to get to Mars, and less than a second to fire up an app I developed here with over 200K lines of code in it and about 19 dependent libraries.
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FSF wants Windows, Office, Photoshop, and everything else to be free. That's their job. People need to be able to make money on software, or large corporations won't invest in it. That's why FOSS-friendly companies like Sun are going under and being snapped up by profit-hungry pricks like Larry Ellison. Film at 11.
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It looked like this. Same issues with loose parts and headaches.
NODWICK?!
Henchmen, you amateurs!
I can't seem to get my men to hench properly. That's why I switched them out for goons. Or was it Goonies? I don't know, but they scare people off with the Truffle Shuffle.
Wouldn't that folder be in nearly every Windows install? Or is that something that's only installed when you turn that language on in the Windows setup? Otherwise, it should have been pretty easy for VIPRE to test that condition. Do we know if Mr. Security Expert had the Slovenian language installed?
Everybody needs some goons.
The problem with limiting to .edu's is that you miss out on professionals who are experts but not professors. Bill Gates is the classic example here - he never graduated Harvard, but I don't think anybody denies he's an expert in his field. What could probably be done, though, is a list of "reputable domains" for each category - for example, cern.ch is not a .edu domain, but people who work there are probably particle physics experts.
I didn't intend the "same field" modification you propose, but I do think that might add extra validity to things. At least making multiple people vote a change down means you need to amass trolls in greater numbers to undo a reputable change. But saying that changes made by experts can only be undone by other experts is a step in the right direction. You'd still have the occasional issue, for example, a creationist and an evolutionist could both be considered experts on the origins of life, but they might still disagree. But on the whole, I think that could be mediated by having separate articles for conflicting theories, and letting each maintain one.
So maybe don't accept resumes, only degrees that can be validated, save exceptions for ridiculously famous people that are easily verified. Bill Gates didn't graduate Harvard, but it's fair to say he knows something about software. For those people, a scan of a driver's license or some similar ID ought to do.
1. Again, modify the "base model" slightly for various environments. Add insulation, cooling, shock absorbers, bigger treads, etc. as needed. Very minor customizations that are roughly the equivalent of getting your Scion xB with a sunroof or not.
2. Develop a simple delivery vehicle that includes three pieces: the rover itself, a reverse-thrust delivery pod (which provides a heat shield for atmospheric planets, and reverse-thrusters to slow it to a soft landing on non-atmospheric ones), and a module that separates and stays in orbit, which can then be used to relay signals back to Earth. The pod lands, cracks open like a flower bud, and the rover just rolls down the ramp created by the sides of the pod and into the soil. Swap the thrusters for parachutes, and that's pretty much exactly what they used to deploy Spirit and Opportunity.
3. I don't know, I saw some pictures of Mercury a few minutes ago that looked awfully Mars-like. Bet the MESSENGER crew would love to be able to drop Spirit or Opportunity's twin on some of those craters right about now.
1. Hire a person or two to work @ Wikipedia (I live in town, Jimmy, hire me!) to accept and process documentation from users indicating them an expert on subject matter. So, I submit my PhD in Astrophysics, and I get the Astrophysics Expert flag on my account. I give my resume saying I've been a programmer for 30 years, and I get the Computer Programming expert flag. 2. Use the existing tag cloud-style architecture to tag articles by their subject matter (ie, this article on geostationary orbit goes in Astrophysics). 3. Any edits made by a Verified Expert to an article flagged as being part of their area of expertise must be voted down by multiple Wikipedians before they can be removed.
And then they'd have to prove you gave your password out deliberately, as opposed to just getting haxx0red by the 1337 ninjas on the Starbucks wifi. And they have to hope you didn't use a $50 pre-paid Visa debit card and a fake address to buy your first MP3 to create the account with. Or better yet, the bad guys make an Amazon account with legitimate credit card data that they stole from some company that failed PCI compliance, and now it's some random Joe's ass when 200,000 people are downloading Lady Gaga from an account with his credit card on it.
Until you hand that Amazon password out to 200,000 of your closest friends on IRC. Everybody uploads their content to the one "shared" account, takes what they want, and voila. Amazon is now hosting an all-you-can-pirate buffet.
You could make minor mods to them depending on where you're sending them. Going to Hoth? Wrap it in some insulation. Tattooine? Slap a water-cooling kit like you'd find in a PC on it, or some refrigerator coils. Really, places with atmosphere is all we really ought to care about - can't be any life anywhere else - unless you're just looking for a good place to set up a robotic mining colony to get some unobtanium.
We designed Spirit and Opportunity to last 90 days each. We've got one probably dead at just over 7 full years, and another fully healthy one after that same time. They were relatively cheap, too. These damn things WORK. NASA needs to mass-produce about 100 more of these, and get them to every solid surface in this solar system. If you know something's technologically sound, use it everywhere you can. Send them to all Saturn/Jupiter's solid moons, Mercury, Pluto, any asteroids who come near, the moon, Arkansas... any place where we might go looking for intelligent life.
It's the fuel rods -> Reactor Vessel -> Steel Pressure Vessel -> Concrete Containment -> Containment building
-> Duct Tape -> Chocolate Coating -> Batman
I'd rather be bored in the dark than glowing in it. Several posters have commented that the "dump concrete until problem solved" approach won't work, and have argued it well enough to convince me. I wonder, if the cooling was the biggest problem and lack of power is what prevented the cooling, why they didn't just roll up in a nuclear-powered Navy vessel and run some jumper cables onto the coast. I seem to recall Ray Nagin running half of New Orleans off an aircraft carrier's generator for a bit. Also, why water? Is there some nuclear chemistry reason why liquid nitrogen couldn't be used? Somebody who isn't me, someplace that isn't Fukushima, has the knowledge and smarts to figure out how to fix this. We need to find that person, and in a damn hurry.
The UN needs to put together a Disaster Response Team for every conceivable type of major disaster - experts at dealing with flooding, oil spills, nuclear disasters, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, etc. Let them train like a military unit all year long, using hypothetical situations in places where they're likely to happen (for example, the studies that clearly showed New Orleans would be wiped off the map by a hurricane if one ever hit), and prep for this. Then, when it happens, immediately rip cleanup out of the hands of individual governments and corporations, both of which have motivations other than the public safety and environmental impact. The UN guys can, at their discretion, use resources from willing governments and corporations to help them defray costs and get quicker response, but the UN's in command from Hour 1. Then, at the end of the day, assess charges to governments (when they failed to do safety checks) and corporations (when they're directly involved) to recoup costs to perform the cleanup operation. Keeping this stuff in the hands of corporations CANNOT end well. Perfect examples during the gulf oil spill include BP paying scientists NOT to study the environmental impact (and thus guaranteeing those guys couldn't testify against them), and engineers from competing oil companies not pitching in to help, because it was more profitable to sit back and watch their biggest competitor implode on the world scale.
Concrete is a mixture that's water-based. Start with some dry concrete powder (or some Jell-O Instant Pudding), and your radioactive water becomes radioactive concrete. Then, put more concrete on the outside of that to put as much mass between fish and isotopes, and you're golden.
The same way it was done in Chernobyl, where a concrete sarcophagus has held for nearly 30 years and a new, permanent one is underway to seal it away.
Bury the whole damn thing in concrete, and be done with it. This crisis would have been resolved two weeks ago if TEPCO wasn't more interested in repairing and reusing the reactor than the public safety.
If /. is no longer your cup of tea, why not leave? There's about 40 zillion other tech news sites you can hang out on and spare us all your trolling every story.
The Republicans have the majority. Congress requires a majority to pass any resolution. So nothing can happen if the Republicans don't do it. It's not prejudice, it's simple math.
... but to me, we shouldn't take the shuttles apart until we have a viable replacement that isn't just drawings and a budget meeting. If we dismantle the shuttles, and then the Republicans cut space budget for the new vehicle, we're at the mercy of Russia, China and the EU for the foreseeable future. Bad, bad move without a functioning replacement in the hangar.
Really? It takes 8-10 months to get to Mars, and less than a second to fire up an app I developed here with over 200K lines of code in it and about 19 dependent libraries.