Failed typing in high school -- guess I spent too much time observing the mostly opposite sex in that class, but really, I just couldn't get good at it. But now type faster than almost any other human -- and it was from coding experience. Once I found something I loved to do, that did it....Now I can do it while listening to the radio and talking to someone without looking or slowing down -- but as the parents say, that's because I wrote one heck of a lot of code and the typing just came naturally as a result.
Hard to see how some utter klutz is also going to be a good designer -- if you can't handle your own body, I feel for ya, but I'm not likely to hire you.
I type blindingly fast -- and am also just about the best coder I've ever met (and I'm not alone in that opinion). But I agree with the two posts above - that's not so important. The main thing knowing you can do the typing part super fast gives you is the confidence to spend more time planning what to implement, so that when you type, there's better code and less of it. When I know I can get a lot of code in in a short time, there's more time for planning, comments, overviews for maintainers, you name it -- and those things are important to the final quality output.
Fewer better lines -- I don't care the language or whether it's code or documentation -- are better, end of story.
I used to work in devstudio (ver 6 and down) when yes, you could get a ton of code written in no typing on your own - but only if you really knew MFC internals, and what all those strange macros would expand into. There was no "simplification" or "cheating" in that tool, actually, the ones who thought that made good programming easy are the blue screen creators. Now I work mostly embedded or linux, and mostly use very simple tools -- gedit, makefiles, scripts....works fine.
I do have to say, not having to worry diddly about typing, not even having to look at either screen or keyboard, is cool.
But not necessary.
I run a small board, using PHPBB. I require real signons, and yes, it helps prevent spam. The user's email is collected, but I can't see it at all unless they also put it in their profile on purpose. It's actually a pain not to have my user's emails, not because I'd ever sell them (most are both cheapskates and too smart to fall for spam anyway) -- but because sometimes you want to ping on someone who hasn't signed on for a long time (also, to make sure they are real), and the private messaging obviously doesn't work if they don't log on. I can't see their passwords either, they are hashed before going into the database I believe.
I don't allow anonymous cowards on my board. Anything someone has to say they can either say with their real name, or somewhere else.
This also keeps the post quality higher. No astroturfing.
I'm not saying it's hack proof, I really doubt it is. But in my case it seems good enough, and I do keep backups. Since it's a science discussion, there's not much to encourage hacking anyway.
I have Makitas here in the shop. Sorry, 2 years max, and only running them down about once a month tops, if that. 25 cycles, $100 battery. And both they and the Ryobi I have (much worse) have uP controls, thermistor temp sensors and so on (but not individual cell monitoring.
I'm an EE's EE, and aware of all this -- I designed body worn prosthetics among other things and have been fighting this issue since the first NiCds. It's gotten better, but not enough by a very long way.
For my home solar power system, if they're any good. I already have a 2010 Camaro SS that drives just fine, thanks, and even gets decent mileage if you drive sanely (not that I do, but I commute from home, to, well, home so I don't burn much gas).
That is, if the batteries really give the cycle counts they claim, which I kind of doubt based on similar usage of smaller ones in my hand power tools. GM's really going to be up a creek if they don't last an awful long time, since they probably cost more to replace than whatever part of the above mentioned Camaro breaks first.
If I had one -- there'd be no further demand on the grid, since I've been off it since about 1982, thanks. It works well for me.
It would be a nice place to store some of the excess power my large solar PV array makes.
Yah, like I need to be able to hold more in my megapixel camera and stuff. It already takes too long to download over USB and find the few new ones I want to put to hard drive.
And I really need to spend a bunch more money on some new media, which I'll have to do if this gets adopted in anything, long before I've worn out the stuff I have.
No, I don't want to say something like 640k should be enough for anybody (but with well written code, it's still not bad -- think what you can do in a dinky embedded micro). But this is just a way to make everyone have to buy it all all over again. Like the RIAA pushing new media so they could sell us the Beatles one more time, rather than find or develop another good band and take any actual risk.
Oh, this time it was Apple, wasn't it. I suppose this will generate flames, so be it. Why not just take the music off one of the 45's, cassettes, vinyl, CD's etc you already own and put it on your dumb portable player you use to allow being more impolite to the people around you?
Corporatism, don't get me started.
I'm not sure what the Pirelli P-zero's are rated for, but on my new Camaro SS they've already handled over 180 mph for the few miles I was willing to try it (car and tires were fine, I was crapping myself)....offtopic, but hey, truth.
Missing some (but not all) of the point above. Sure, it's money, always real important. Also, it's conditioning the sheeple for the totalitarian government that is creeping up on us day by day - From Patriot act to CALEA, to even ACTA, to "non constitutional zones". These are not the actions of a government afraid FOR its people; they ARE the actions of a government afraid OF its people.
Wise up sheep, it's your own wool being pulled over your eyes.
Agree but for one thing. He's so stupid he doesn't realize he IS paying for it......or would be next time he gets medical care of any kind, or pays an insurance bill.
Because it's very rare for them to lose anything -- the boxes get there and still have the corners intact, unlike UPS (I don't have stock in either company, but my own company ships and is shipped to a lot, fedex creams ups, pure and simple). Since we weren't told what it was, maybe it was nothing hotter than a lamp mantle (the old kind, the new ones aren't radioactive at all). Surely it wasn't a therapeutic amount of Co60 or something, or the pig would have been hundreds of pounds to stop the hot gammas. You know how that is -- OMG, it's radioactive! -- probably about 1/10th as much as the face of an old big ben clock (which actually can make you sick, eventually) or a few smoke detectors.
In other words, as some one who works with radioactive stuff, without a lot more info, there's nothing to see here, move on.
And would it not be a CPT violation if it didn't, or would that only happen if the thing it was falling up away from was also antimatter?
I don't see how they'll tell in this trap how gravity affects the stuff -- trapping forces are many G equivalent. But that's really the important question, not does it have the same visible spectra, which almost certainly, it does.
And wha? Who said most of the energy of annihilation goes off as neutrinos? That's ignorant. e+ and e- colliding makes two gamma rays of 511 mev each. Protons, being much heavier and all, probably make quite the shower of particles created from the high energy photons. Which then decay. Some, but not most of the energy would go off in neutrinos. Just like in beta decay.
And yes, I AM a physicist.
You have to realize, that this has nothing whatsoever to do with our security. Best case, it has to do with their job security -- haven taking every possible means to prevent previous attack vectors is standard CYA for any bureaucrat.
That's the best case. And as we've seen, with all this, zillions of bucks and unmeasurable inconvenience and losses for airlines and the people who might spend money at some tourist trap that now won't -- not one single credible threat has been apprehended by any of this.
That's an almost unbelievable fact -- not one, zero, nada, zip -- by chance you'd think maybe one, right?
Therefore if there's any rationality involved by anyone, you have to find a credible reason. One that was frequently given is the nature of government bureaucracy to just grow and grow, getting more people, more money, without limit.
That one's flat out now -- they are endangering that by outraging everyone, which puts that at risk, and no sane government agency would do that.
Therefore, there must be another reason. From all that wiretapping and so on, not to mention the last election, they have to know how mad we all are about how badly this place is being run. Being afraid of losing power overall, they are, and have been, finding ways to implement the very totalitarianism the terrorists wish they could claim we have, and are being successful at it. This isn't a partisan observation -- both Dems and Pubs are doing it, nothing changes with those parties about the various unconstitutional behavior our government has been increasingly engaging in.
They know we've tried the ballot box, and don't like the results.
They know we've tried the soapbox, without result.
They are really afraid we'll remember that last box -- the ammo box.
They've made it basically impossible to organize without detection, which was required even for the American Revolution in which we had the huge advantage of being at the far end of a difficult supply chain for our adversaries.
They've made sure everyone knows this. Gitmo, patiot act, Calea, and a bunch of others, and now this -- training to submit to invasive personal searches in public places merely to do travel -- which is the only other way to organize that can't be tapped now and isn't.
Conditioning that the police/agents etc are all powerful and cannot be resisted -- even that guy who refused and walked out is now liable for a fine!
For just leaving! Private propterty! Without "permission" after refusing the invasive, warrant-less search. By not a law officer.
Of course, one could suppose a more benign reason -- they want to find out our limits before we really start fighting back, but why would they want to know that?
I am now officially ashamed to be an American, an old cold warrior, because I thought we'd won that one, and stopped, but it's obvious we lost -- and we are providing and excuse for other countries to follow suit, setting the worst possible of examples. I never thought I would ever say that -- I've shed blood for this country, and evidently it was a complete waste. No, I'm not going to try and overthrow the government, but I'm actively looking for a better place to move to right now. That's enough for me, for now. It should be enough for anyone -- this is so over the top by a government to do, I can't believe they can say "of, by, and for the people" with a straight face. If they can, they should be shot on sight, as they are obviously sociopaths.
Rats, you beat me to it. That's about how it works in reality. Or, you can get "busted" with such lousy evidence that by the time you and your lawyer get to court -- it's been decided to "null pros" it -- just like it never happened. Can you then recover your legal expenses? No. Do you get anything for living in fear that you're going to jail (and your family starve) for a felony for months while they hem and haw and put things off, meanwhile demanding you show up multiple times to find out you're "continued" -- sometimes being picked up by cops, and put in handcuffs again when a phone call would have sufficed to get you there? No.
Can you then sue them for all this? GoodLuckWithThat. If a private firm broke that many laws, and caused you that much hassle and pain, you'd maybe not expect them to go to jail, but you could at least sue them and have a decent shot.
Of course the (other) golden rule applies. Had I rooted even one box, I'd be in a lot more hurt than say, anyone at Sony, right?
If corporations are legally people, and have "free speech" -- why don't we treat them like people ALL THE WAY -- things like the death penalty for heinous crimes, limited lifespans, jail time for officers (the buck should stop [i]somewhere[/i]), all the rest, when they do wrong? That's the problem.
Rather than just tech, glueing things that already exist together, Hobby real science is also done and out there. I have a site, and so do many others.
My site's in my sig, another for fusion is
www.fusor.net
And many of the members of both also have their own sites where real science is done in collaberation with others, many of whom don't know real names and will probably never meet face to face. It's not all "big science". With open source methodology, we can do the same things for science that have been done for software -- teams, but by agreement, and far more flexible and faster.
So hose me for slashvertising -- none of us are selling anything whatever except a chance to play the game with us -- it's not free -- you have to do your share to be interesting.
I've met the man, and even worked with him a little. He's a slick politico, usually runs unopposed, and indeed is tech savvy.
He gave use the Sonny Bono copyright extension, supported ACTA and UCITA (which was merely a state law), didn't support net neutrality, and was totally in the pocket of the unions. He used to boast about bringing jobs to the district -- but they were all sweatshop call center jobs. Why his union handlers put up with this is because they were then easy to unionize.
He continually boasted about the pork and earmarks he brought us. Things like a high rent industrial center in a county full of entrepreneurs that already had rent-free facilities (here, we call them barns, or old trailers) and where no one wanted to commute to (in the mountains, everywhere is a lot of effort to get to -- the nearest place where there are jobs to me is Blacksburg, over an hour drive on twisty roads).
I don't pay as much attention to the pork brought to other counties than the one I live in, but here and there heard similar stories.
I think we did Slashdotters a favor throwing this turkey out (not that the other guy is going to be better -- but he won't have the power to be as bad, either). The pork wasn't doing us any good, but costing everyone money. His actual stances on the tech stuff (as committee chair of such things) turned out, well -- see for yourself. Is any of that stuff things we like here?
As I said, a slick politico indeed. Getting you to believe he's on your side while doing what he gets paid by others to do anyway is a mark of that one -- he really *was* good at that part, then doing whatever the big corps wanted.
There's a longer list where he didn't back his constituents (oops, I mean the voters of the 9th district) on things like power lines we didn't want, and unsafe gas pipelines we didn't want, we had to do without his "help" on those.
Unless he's replaced by someone even worse for our rights....I see this as a win for us all.
And I won't even bring up the Patriot act or Gitmo, or a lot of other things.
I dunno, I did a lot of "government work" and what this guy says rings fairly true. On the other hand, in VA all the NG systems recently shut down our DMV for awhile so they couldn't do business.
A couple weeks before that I'd tried to do something online, and got a "you're going to have to trust this expired certificate from some other part of the VA government to do business" which of course, didn't make me feel great, so I fired off an email to their support about it, pointing out that this was pretty bad and no one with a lick of sense would click through (and this whole thing is supposed to be a money saver for all compared to going there, which is also terrible).
Guess what I get back?
Some crap letter (probably not a form letter, and maybe I should go find it) that indicates they don't understand the problem and assuring me all is well.
Yeah, right. I worked as a contractor and sorry, we'd not have ever done that.
They had time to do that but not fix it?
Is the basis of some of that. But! We aren't enforcing some other issues of person hood. I have to die someday, for example, so why not corps? If I do crimes, I do time -- but when Sony roots my box, they don't, they just pay a fine, and not to me. If corps are going to have "person hood" let's not shilly shally around here -- let them have the whole package. You have to get old and creaky. You may live a long time, but not forever. You can't buy another "person" -- don't we have rules about that now? And so forth. Just be consistent.
As Heinlein pointed out -- people (or corps) that live essentially forever eventually can't be tolerated by the rest of us for very good reasons.
Agree -- as one of those programmers in the top percentile of whatever-you-want-to-call-it, that kind of statement -- that only a team of government experts could so something, smacks me as pretty weird, as I've worked with those as well, and most aren't that great compared to the people I hire and fire. Anyone who has worked here could have done that, alone, but wouldn't have been interested in the job, we like our internet, it's how we made all that money, we have no interest in breaking it.
Yes, getting the key was, well, key. But there are lots of leaks in things that most people consider more important (that give direct access to money, for example). Could have been just laying around to be stolen, we don't know, and for sure if that's the case, no one's going to admit it.
As one of the Tea Party from near the beginning, nope, that's not me. I'm not a corporatist, not rich, not a religious conservative, none of the above.
What was started by people who just wanted their constitution back, of course has drawn attempts from all over to co-opt it in some way. Duh....don't you know how things work?
Even on NPR...they had an "interview" with a Texas woman who was a real tea party organizer, and cut in with some dude who was one of those religious wing nuts (only a member of the tea party, so he said) who basically, right there on the air threatened that if the tea party didn't go his way (org of family something or other) they'd pull out. She said, fine -- you are welcome here, it's a big tent, but nope, we're not going to push your particular cause for you, why not go try and convince the NRA to push laws against abortion -- you're in the wrong place.
Though NPR is showing signs of seeing blood in the water and not as much a cheerleader of the current majority in government as before, this was their big attempt to discredit the tea party, and it failed pretty badly I think.
When something like that comes from nowhere and threatens the incumbency machine that is the rebuplocrats -- sure, there's going to be a s**t storm of attempts to discredit it, again, doh.
If either the dems or the repubs were "for the people" would there be the mickey mouse copyright law?
Would pot still be illegal?
Wouldn't someone at least have gone to jail over the economic issues?
I'm too lazy to type the other five hundred examples, do some homework.
You might not like the tea party, and for sure it has collected some whack jobs -- big tents do that.
Wouldn't a bunch of crazy incompetents do a better job than the current batch of well connected thieves?
That I used to fix for them, back when they were pretty new? I'd be surprised if they actually did, it was a nice setup, reliable and all, and would have been a good bit of work to do. They had about 1 per experiment per bird back then, up in Maryland. It was a nice place to visit while some real engineers still worked there, instead of mostly impractical academics now.
Yeah, really, I'm a competitive shooter myself. Had I been filming that I think I've have started moving real quick when the rifle came up. Either the guy was real lucky, or the bad guy was a lousy shot -- on purpose or by accident. Give me a couple seconds and I can always put one inside 1 MOA (for you guys who don't know what that means, it's inside an inch at 100 yds, scaling with distance).
I don't know many hunters who are as good, but if you're close enough to see an eye in the scope, man, you're too close for an even mediocre shooter to miss most of the time.
And as we say here nothingofvaluewaslost. I see far to much time-wasting dangerous and plain impoliteness around users of wireless devices for my taste....From the drivers talking and texting putting me in danger, to the impolite jerks who hold up the lines in stores because they just can't avoid being on the phone while the clerk is asking them something.
I'm as pro tech as they come, but gheesh, people -- a heck of a lot of plain old misuse goes on too, like most tools it's a double edged thing. It's like, get a life that doesn't require mindless continuous babble with any and everyone to make you think you're OK. Does turning the thing off now and then really inconvenience anyone much?
As with the recent facebook downtime, maybe you're better off without some of this.
All they proved is that neutrinos created by decaying gold 198 don't seem to affect the decay rate of gold 198. The variable decay rate issue is still alive and kicking.
And with the short half life of gold 198, it's hard to believe they even proved that. I work with it on a daily basis, as an integrating neutron detector for my fusor (normal gold 197 picks up a neutron in a moderated neutron oven and becomes radioactive). It's fairly numb compared to say, Silver or Indium, but a little longer lived so the error due to the time it takes to stop a run and start the activity count is less. To make enough gold hot enough to do a statistically valid test, they must have had one heck of an intense source of medium-low energy neutrons. Gold picks them up best at a resonance energy somewhat above "thermal" which is what is found in most reactors -- it's more complex than that, of course, as reactors have a spectrum of neutron energies available if designed for that.
As another poster (calidoscope) pointed out, neutrinos seem to oscillate, and another poster (scruffie) also pointed out that there are also antineutrinos.
So this test was pretty limited in terms of what was actually tested, and how well it could be tested over the pretty short half life of radioactive gold.
Better than not testing at all, but just barely, it doesn't cover many of the bases at all.
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Hard to see how some utter klutz is also going to be a good designer -- if you can't handle your own body, I feel for ya, but I'm not likely to hire you.
Fewer better lines -- I don't care the language or whether it's code or documentation -- are better, end of story.
I used to work in devstudio (ver 6 and down) when yes, you could get a ton of code written in no typing on your own - but only if you really knew MFC internals, and what all those strange macros would expand into. There was no "simplification" or "cheating" in that tool, actually, the ones who thought that made good programming easy are the blue screen creators. Now I work mostly embedded or linux, and mostly use very simple tools -- gedit, makefiles, scripts....works fine.
I do have to say, not having to worry diddly about typing, not even having to look at either screen or keyboard, is cool. But not necessary.
Too expensive even if you can afford the other things on the list.
I run a small board, using PHPBB. I require real signons, and yes, it helps prevent spam. The user's email is collected, but I can't see it at all unless they also put it in their profile on purpose. It's actually a pain not to have my user's emails, not because I'd ever sell them (most are both cheapskates and too smart to fall for spam anyway) -- but because sometimes you want to ping on someone who hasn't signed on for a long time (also, to make sure they are real), and the private messaging obviously doesn't work if they don't log on. I can't see their passwords either, they are hashed before going into the database I believe. I don't allow anonymous cowards on my board. Anything someone has to say they can either say with their real name, or somewhere else. This also keeps the post quality higher. No astroturfing. I'm not saying it's hack proof, I really doubt it is. But in my case it seems good enough, and I do keep backups. Since it's a science discussion, there's not much to encourage hacking anyway.
I have Makitas here in the shop. Sorry, 2 years max, and only running them down about once a month tops, if that. 25 cycles, $100 battery. And both they and the Ryobi I have (much worse) have uP controls, thermistor temp sensors and so on (but not individual cell monitoring. I'm an EE's EE, and aware of all this -- I designed body worn prosthetics among other things and have been fighting this issue since the first NiCds. It's gotten better, but not enough by a very long way.
That is, if the batteries really give the cycle counts they claim, which I kind of doubt based on similar usage of smaller ones in my hand power tools. GM's really going to be up a creek if they don't last an awful long time, since they probably cost more to replace than whatever part of the above mentioned Camaro breaks first.
If I had one -- there'd be no further demand on the grid, since I've been off it since about 1982, thanks. It works well for me.
It would be a nice place to store some of the excess power my large solar PV array makes.
Yah, like I need to be able to hold more in my megapixel camera and stuff. It already takes too long to download over USB and find the few new ones I want to put to hard drive. And I really need to spend a bunch more money on some new media, which I'll have to do if this gets adopted in anything, long before I've worn out the stuff I have. No, I don't want to say something like 640k should be enough for anybody (but with well written code, it's still not bad -- think what you can do in a dinky embedded micro). But this is just a way to make everyone have to buy it all all over again. Like the RIAA pushing new media so they could sell us the Beatles one more time, rather than find or develop another good band and take any actual risk. Oh, this time it was Apple, wasn't it. I suppose this will generate flames, so be it. Why not just take the music off one of the 45's, cassettes, vinyl, CD's etc you already own and put it on your dumb portable player you use to allow being more impolite to the people around you? Corporatism, don't get me started.
I'm not sure what the Pirelli P-zero's are rated for, but on my new Camaro SS they've already handled over 180 mph for the few miles I was willing to try it (car and tires were fine, I was crapping myself)....offtopic, but hey, truth.
Missing some (but not all) of the point above. Sure, it's money, always real important. Also, it's conditioning the sheeple for the totalitarian government that is creeping up on us day by day - From Patriot act to CALEA, to even ACTA, to "non constitutional zones". These are not the actions of a government afraid FOR its people; they ARE the actions of a government afraid OF its people. Wise up sheep, it's your own wool being pulled over your eyes.
Agree but for one thing. He's so stupid he doesn't realize he IS paying for it......or would be next time he gets medical care of any kind, or pays an insurance bill.
Because it's very rare for them to lose anything -- the boxes get there and still have the corners intact, unlike UPS (I don't have stock in either company, but my own company ships and is shipped to a lot, fedex creams ups, pure and simple). Since we weren't told what it was, maybe it was nothing hotter than a lamp mantle (the old kind, the new ones aren't radioactive at all). Surely it wasn't a therapeutic amount of Co60 or something, or the pig would have been hundreds of pounds to stop the hot gammas. You know how that is -- OMG, it's radioactive! -- probably about 1/10th as much as the face of an old big ben clock (which actually can make you sick, eventually) or a few smoke detectors. In other words, as some one who works with radioactive stuff, without a lot more info, there's nothing to see here, move on.
And would it not be a CPT violation if it didn't, or would that only happen if the thing it was falling up away from was also antimatter? I don't see how they'll tell in this trap how gravity affects the stuff -- trapping forces are many G equivalent. But that's really the important question, not does it have the same visible spectra, which almost certainly, it does. And wha? Who said most of the energy of annihilation goes off as neutrinos? That's ignorant. e+ and e- colliding makes two gamma rays of 511 mev each. Protons, being much heavier and all, probably make quite the shower of particles created from the high energy photons. Which then decay. Some, but not most of the energy would go off in neutrinos. Just like in beta decay. And yes, I AM a physicist.
That's the best case. And as we've seen, with all this, zillions of bucks and unmeasurable inconvenience and losses for airlines and the people who might spend money at some tourist trap that now won't -- not one single credible threat has been apprehended by any of this.
That's an almost unbelievable fact -- not one, zero, nada, zip -- by chance you'd think maybe one, right?
Therefore if there's any rationality involved by anyone, you have to find a credible reason. One that was frequently given is the nature of government bureaucracy to just grow and grow, getting more people, more money, without limit.
That one's flat out now -- they are endangering that by outraging everyone, which puts that at risk, and no sane government agency would do that.
Therefore, there must be another reason. From all that wiretapping and so on, not to mention the last election, they have to know how mad we all are about how badly this place is being run. Being afraid of losing power overall, they are, and have been, finding ways to implement the very totalitarianism the terrorists wish they could claim we have, and are being successful at it. This isn't a partisan observation -- both Dems and Pubs are doing it, nothing changes with those parties about the various unconstitutional behavior our government has been increasingly engaging in.
They know we've tried the ballot box, and don't like the results. They know we've tried the soapbox, without result.
They are really afraid we'll remember that last box -- the ammo box.
They've made it basically impossible to organize without detection, which was required even for the American Revolution in which we had the huge advantage of being at the far end of a difficult supply chain for our adversaries.
They've made sure everyone knows this. Gitmo, patiot act, Calea, and a bunch of others, and now this -- training to submit to invasive personal searches in public places merely to do travel -- which is the only other way to organize that can't be tapped now and isn't.
Conditioning that the police/agents etc are all powerful and cannot be resisted -- even that guy who refused and walked out is now liable for a fine! For just leaving! Private propterty! Without "permission" after refusing the invasive, warrant-less search. By not a law officer.
Of course, one could suppose a more benign reason -- they want to find out our limits before we really start fighting back, but why would they want to know that?
I am now officially ashamed to be an American, an old cold warrior, because I thought we'd won that one, and stopped, but it's obvious we lost -- and we are providing and excuse for other countries to follow suit, setting the worst possible of examples. I never thought I would ever say that -- I've shed blood for this country, and evidently it was a complete waste. No, I'm not going to try and overthrow the government, but I'm actively looking for a better place to move to right now. That's enough for me, for now. It should be enough for anyone -- this is so over the top by a government to do, I can't believe they can say "of, by, and for the people" with a straight face. If they can, they should be shot on sight, as they are obviously sociopaths.
Can you then sue them for all this? GoodLuckWithThat. If a private firm broke that many laws, and caused you that much hassle and pain, you'd maybe not expect them to go to jail, but you could at least sue them and have a decent shot.
Of course the (other) golden rule applies. Had I rooted even one box, I'd be in a lot more hurt than say, anyone at Sony, right?
If corporations are legally people, and have "free speech" -- why don't we treat them like people ALL THE WAY -- things like the death penalty for heinous crimes, limited lifespans, jail time for officers (the buck should stop [i]somewhere[/i]), all the rest, when they do wrong? That's the problem.
System broken.
www.fusor.net
And many of the members of both also have their own sites where real science is done in collaberation with others, many of whom don't know real names and will probably never meet face to face. It's not all "big science". With open source methodology, we can do the same things for science that have been done for software -- teams, but by agreement, and far more flexible and faster.
So hose me for slashvertising -- none of us are selling anything whatever except a chance to play the game with us -- it's not free -- you have to do your share to be interesting.
He continually boasted about the pork and earmarks he brought us. Things like a high rent industrial center in a county full of entrepreneurs that already had rent-free facilities (here, we call them barns, or old trailers) and where no one wanted to commute to (in the mountains, everywhere is a lot of effort to get to -- the nearest place where there are jobs to me is Blacksburg, over an hour drive on twisty roads).
I don't pay as much attention to the pork brought to other counties than the one I live in, but here and there heard similar stories.
I think we did Slashdotters a favor throwing this turkey out (not that the other guy is going to be better -- but he won't have the power to be as bad, either). The pork wasn't doing us any good, but costing everyone money. His actual stances on the tech stuff (as committee chair of such things) turned out, well -- see for yourself. Is any of that stuff things we like here?
As I said, a slick politico indeed. Getting you to believe he's on your side while doing what he gets paid by others to do anyway is a mark of that one -- he really *was* good at that part, then doing whatever the big corps wanted.
There's a longer list where he didn't back his constituents (oops, I mean the voters of the 9th district) on things like power lines we didn't want, and unsafe gas pipelines we didn't want, we had to do without his "help" on those.
Unless he's replaced by someone even worse for our rights....I see this as a win for us all. And I won't even bring up the Patriot act or Gitmo, or a lot of other things.
Fear, Uncertainty, Deception.
Duh, doubt is covered by the second word, can anybody read and parse anymore?
I dunno, I did a lot of "government work" and what this guy says rings fairly true. On the other hand, in VA all the NG systems recently shut down our DMV for awhile so they couldn't do business. A couple weeks before that I'd tried to do something online, and got a "you're going to have to trust this expired certificate from some other part of the VA government to do business" which of course, didn't make me feel great, so I fired off an email to their support about it, pointing out that this was pretty bad and no one with a lick of sense would click through (and this whole thing is supposed to be a money saver for all compared to going there, which is also terrible). Guess what I get back? Some crap letter (probably not a form letter, and maybe I should go find it) that indicates they don't understand the problem and assuring me all is well. Yeah, right. I worked as a contractor and sorry, we'd not have ever done that. They had time to do that but not fix it?
Is the basis of some of that. But! We aren't enforcing some other issues of person hood. I have to die someday, for example, so why not corps? If I do crimes, I do time -- but when Sony roots my box, they don't, they just pay a fine, and not to me. If corps are going to have "person hood" let's not shilly shally around here -- let them have the whole package. You have to get old and creaky. You may live a long time, but not forever. You can't buy another "person" -- don't we have rules about that now? And so forth. Just be consistent. As Heinlein pointed out -- people (or corps) that live essentially forever eventually can't be tolerated by the rest of us for very good reasons.
Agree -- as one of those programmers in the top percentile of whatever-you-want-to-call-it, that kind of statement -- that only a team of government experts could so something, smacks me as pretty weird, as I've worked with those as well, and most aren't that great compared to the people I hire and fire. Anyone who has worked here could have done that, alone, but wouldn't have been interested in the job, we like our internet, it's how we made all that money, we have no interest in breaking it. Yes, getting the key was, well, key. But there are lots of leaks in things that most people consider more important (that give direct access to money, for example). Could have been just laying around to be stolen, we don't know, and for sure if that's the case, no one's going to admit it.
What was started by people who just wanted their constitution back, of course has drawn attempts from all over to co-opt it in some way. Duh....don't you know how things work?
Even on NPR...they had an "interview" with a Texas woman who was a real tea party organizer, and cut in with some dude who was one of those religious wing nuts (only a member of the tea party, so he said) who basically, right there on the air threatened that if the tea party didn't go his way (org of family something or other) they'd pull out. She said, fine -- you are welcome here, it's a big tent, but nope, we're not going to push your particular cause for you, why not go try and convince the NRA to push laws against abortion -- you're in the wrong place.
Though NPR is showing signs of seeing blood in the water and not as much a cheerleader of the current majority in government as before, this was their big attempt to discredit the tea party, and it failed pretty badly I think.
When something like that comes from nowhere and threatens the incumbency machine that is the rebuplocrats -- sure, there's going to be a s**t storm of attempts to discredit it, again, doh.
If either the dems or the repubs were "for the people" would there be the mickey mouse copyright law? Would pot still be illegal? Wouldn't someone at least have gone to jail over the economic issues? I'm too lazy to type the other five hundred examples, do some homework.
You might not like the tea party, and for sure it has collected some whack jobs -- big tents do that.
Wouldn't a bunch of crazy incompetents do a better job than the current batch of well connected thieves?
I rest my case.
That I used to fix for them, back when they were pretty new? I'd be surprised if they actually did, it was a nice setup, reliable and all, and would have been a good bit of work to do. They had about 1 per experiment per bird back then, up in Maryland. It was a nice place to visit while some real engineers still worked there, instead of mostly impractical academics now.
Yeah, really, I'm a competitive shooter myself. Had I been filming that I think I've have started moving real quick when the rifle came up. Either the guy was real lucky, or the bad guy was a lousy shot -- on purpose or by accident. Give me a couple seconds and I can always put one inside 1 MOA (for you guys who don't know what that means, it's inside an inch at 100 yds, scaling with distance). I don't know many hunters who are as good, but if you're close enough to see an eye in the scope, man, you're too close for an even mediocre shooter to miss most of the time.
I'm as pro tech as they come, but gheesh, people -- a heck of a lot of plain old misuse goes on too, like most tools it's a double edged thing. It's like, get a life that doesn't require mindless continuous babble with any and everyone to make you think you're OK. Does turning the thing off now and then really inconvenience anyone much?
As with the recent facebook downtime, maybe you're better off without some of this.
And with the short half life of gold 198, it's hard to believe they even proved that. I work with it on a daily basis, as an integrating neutron detector for my fusor (normal gold 197 picks up a neutron in a moderated neutron oven and becomes radioactive). It's fairly numb compared to say, Silver or Indium, but a little longer lived so the error due to the time it takes to stop a run and start the activity count is less. To make enough gold hot enough to do a statistically valid test, they must have had one heck of an intense source of medium-low energy neutrons. Gold picks them up best at a resonance energy somewhat above "thermal" which is what is found in most reactors -- it's more complex than that, of course, as reactors have a spectrum of neutron energies available if designed for that.
As another poster (calidoscope) pointed out, neutrinos seem to oscillate, and another poster (scruffie) also pointed out that there are also antineutrinos.
So this test was pretty limited in terms of what was actually tested, and how well it could be tested over the pretty short half life of radioactive gold.
Better than not testing at all, but just barely, it doesn't cover many of the bases at all.