Last time I did it the volume from a needle through a piece of paper was sufficient to hear the sound clearly. However, I did cheat and use a turntable to spin the record. I think if you've gone as far as laying a needle to the track, you're expecting to make a sound, so you'll adjust the speed until it sounds reasonable.
Given the time frame you suggested, it seems highly unlikely that we wouldn't be able to play records. I think it would require a catastrophic failure of civilization. Otherwise, in 100 years there would still be people who knew people who played records and told them how they worked. You'll still be able to see the equipment. People own phonographs that are already 100 years old. I doubt we'll lose them all in the next 100 years.
Now, if you find an ipod 100 years from now...good luck with that.
> In another 50-100 years we ourselves may not be able to read > those audio messages we sent out to space on those golden records.
Why not? You should be able to play them back with any sharp metal wire poked through a sheet of paper or plastic. Put the disk on a turntable, poke a wire through a thin piece of plastic or paper, lay the point of the wire in the groove while holding the sheet. When you turn the disk, the needle will vibrate the sheet and you'll hear the sounds.
Of course, you'll probably scratch the shit out of it.
Kids: Don't try it with your Dad's mint condition LPs (the black disks sealed in the plastic sleeves that he only handles while wearing gloves). Ask your grandmother if your aunt's 45s are still in her attic;-)
As long as we can still figure out that the squiggly grooves are sounds, we should be able to play them fine. Hell, if there's no wire you might be able to get it working with an oak splinter.
Life is algorithms. There's an algorithm for starting a car. There's an algorithm for balancing your checkbook. There's an algorithm for building a house. There's an algorithm for baking a cake.
In this case, there was an algorithm that defined how you could access and store a hard disk containing sensitive information, but the algorithm was flawed. Someone could have reviewed the algorithm and may have seen a problem.
Process for handling secure media
1) Retrieve media from secure location
2) Leave media in insecure location
3) ???
4) Profit!!!
Dude, investigative journalism *was* happening during the last 8 years. However, all the people who believe that newspapers were obsolete weren't reading them. They were watching the spin on TV. Nevertheless, most of what we know about what happened during the last 8 years was reported by print journalists. Not bloggers, not twits, not a plumber on his day off. In fact, I think the plumber on his day off may have been working the spin machine to keep us in the dark.
That's why people are concerned about the loss of newspapers. They are the ones doing the real work. Everyone else is just spouting opinion or rumor. If you want the truth, you have to pay someone to dig it up.
Having said that, you are right. The news print business model is dead. Not because they weren't doing their job, but because no one cares. People want to hear about what the celebrity bubble heads are snorting, shaving, or banging. They want to hear reassuring lies from their leaders so that they can pretend they're safe and believe that the "right" people are being killed. During the lead up to the war in Iraq, newspapers were saying it was bullshit, but the Bush administration didn't care. They went on TV, told their lies, and the American public swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. Ultimately, Bush was right. No one cared until it hit them where they lived. Freedoms don't matter. Only cheap gas and easy credit.
That distant buzzing noise you hear are the founding fathers spinning in their graves.
They need something akin to the news stand price. Free access to headlines & summaries, or you could pay $0.99 to for 24 hour access to all articles.
If I see an article I want to read, I'm not likely to shell out $19.99 for a subscription so I can read the rest of the article. However, I might pay $0.99 to read it. If I find myself doing that regularly, I'd switch to a subscription.
I looked it up at http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html, and it said you must precede the conjunction with a comma when introducing an independent clause.
> Reason for requested leave: Starting an evil empire
Trust me, it's not as great as it sounds. The overhead is a lot more than you expect. Everyone figures they'll just steal a couple nuclear warheads and they're in business, but they never think about the essentials. Do you know how much toilet paper your evil lair will go through in a week? Even though you have the contribution jar next to the coffee maker, no one ever pitches in unless you happen to be standing there. With the downturn in the economy, you don't have the same staffing issues as you normally do, but finding decent henchmen is always a chore. The ones you do find are all, "We want dental!", "We need flex time!", "Respect me as an equal!", and "Oh God, no, save me, IT BURNS!!!" I mean, come on, what am I your mommy?
You go through all that, then in the middle of one of your best speeches, some moron running around in a tuxedo blows it all up with a can of hairspray and a laser beam built into a wristwatch.
I don't understand what seeing a picture of her has to do with anything. However, there is a current picture attached to the article.
There was one part of the article which I found to be particularly illuminating:
"They didn't even look at my records," she said. "They didn't even know I was a good kid."
The school district does not contest that Ms. Redding had no disciplinary record, but says that is irrelevant.
"Her assertion should not be misread to infer that she never broke school rules," the district said of Ms. Redding in a brief, "only that she was never caught."
My wife is an optometrist. She wants every patient to get dilated. Her explanation is that it makes the difference between looking into a room through the keyhole or looking through the open door. Still people don't like the drops, they don't like how it feels, they don't like having blurry vision until it wears off, many people refuse to get dilated.
I wish more people understood that you can go blind without realizing it.
So, thanks for sharing. Maybe some nerds will listen & get their eyes checked.
They're getting smaller *because* it is an advantage. Evolution isn't a bunch of fish getting together and deciding to get smaller or larger or whatever. The smaller fish are surviving longer (despite whatever other predators are out there) because we don't eat the small ones. The longer you stay small, the longer we keep throwing you back. The individual fish doesn't have a choice. The individual does not matter.
If they reach the point where we don't eat them, and something else starts to, then they'll evolve away from that. Maybe the next step is to grow legs and climb out of the water.
The only real question here is, how do we avoid letting all our food evolve away from us? Sharks can't do it, but we might be able to. We need to encourage the fish to grow big. It might be nice if we could get them to evolve a tendency to jump into our boats. Hell, just have them swim to shore & jump onto the beach.
Crap! Salmon! They do it already! How did we manage that?
I noticed Jackie listed BestBuy as one of the places that sells violent games to kids.
I got a BestBuy gift card for Christmas, so I was there using it up. I got a copy of GTA Vice City (I generally don't indulge in video games - my wife was encouraging me to get something for me instead of the kids). The cashier had to see my license before she could sell me the game. I'm 38 years old. I have enough gray that no sane person would consider me a minor. However, the cash register wouldn't let her run the game through until she slid my license through the card reader!
I don't agree with JT. I'd prefer if everyone just let me decide what my kids are allowed to do. Although that isn't always easy, thinking that the government will do a better job is just insane.
Of course, the government already has a system for taking care of kids whose parents can't be bothered. It's called prison.
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Wouldn't they also need to be licensed in every state?
Last time I did it the volume from a needle through a piece of paper was sufficient to hear the sound clearly. However, I did cheat and use a turntable to spin the record. I think if you've gone as far as laying a needle to the track, you're expecting to make a sound, so you'll adjust the speed until it sounds reasonable.
Ooo...Just paper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMDaOBxUXk
No electricity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPWyTBUYolo
Given the time frame you suggested, it seems highly unlikely that we wouldn't be able to play records. I think it would require a catastrophic failure of civilization. Otherwise, in 100 years there would still be people who knew people who played records and told them how they worked. You'll still be able to see the equipment. People own phonographs that are already 100 years old. I doubt we'll lose them all in the next 100 years.
Now, if you find an ipod 100 years from now...good luck with that.
> In another 50-100 years we ourselves may not be able to read
> those audio messages we sent out to space on those golden records.
Why not? You should be able to play them back with any sharp metal wire poked through a sheet of paper or plastic. Put the disk on a turntable, poke a wire through a thin piece of plastic or paper, lay the point of the wire in the groove while holding the sheet. When you turn the disk, the needle will vibrate the sheet and you'll hear the sounds.
Of course, you'll probably scratch the shit out of it.
Kids: Don't try it with your Dad's mint condition LPs (the black disks sealed in the plastic sleeves that he only handles while wearing gloves). Ask your grandmother if your aunt's 45s are still in her attic ;-)
As long as we can still figure out that the squiggly grooves are sounds, we should be able to play them fine. Hell, if there's no wire you might be able to get it working with an oak splinter.
Life is algorithms. There's an algorithm for starting a car. There's an algorithm for balancing your checkbook. There's an algorithm for building a house. There's an algorithm for baking a cake.
In this case, there was an algorithm that defined how you could access and store a hard disk containing sensitive information, but the algorithm was flawed. Someone could have reviewed the algorithm and may have seen a problem.
Process for handling secure media
1) Retrieve media from secure location
2) Leave media in insecure location
3) ???
4) Profit!!!
Since your on a tangent, I might as well do another...
If we have some compromising documents that could be damaging to wikileaks, who should we leak them to?
Who leaks the leakers?
Congratulations. You figured out how to get slashdot readers to read the article (or at least skim it looking for pictures).
That's reasonable. Steve's an @sshole.
Or are you talking about a different Steve?
Just the right size to keep the kitchen table from wobbling.
What form?
Dude, investigative journalism *was* happening during the last 8 years. However, all the people who believe that newspapers were obsolete weren't reading them. They were watching the spin on TV. Nevertheless, most of what we know about what happened during the last 8 years was reported by print journalists. Not bloggers, not twits, not a plumber on his day off. In fact, I think the plumber on his day off may have been working the spin machine to keep us in the dark.
That's why people are concerned about the loss of newspapers. They are the ones doing the real work. Everyone else is just spouting opinion or rumor. If you want the truth, you have to pay someone to dig it up.
Having said that, you are right. The news print business model is dead. Not because they weren't doing their job, but because no one cares. People want to hear about what the celebrity bubble heads are snorting, shaving, or banging. They want to hear reassuring lies from their leaders so that they can pretend they're safe and believe that the "right" people are being killed. During the lead up to the war in Iraq, newspapers were saying it was bullshit, but the Bush administration didn't care. They went on TV, told their lies, and the American public swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. Ultimately, Bush was right. No one cared until it hit them where they lived. Freedoms don't matter. Only cheap gas and easy credit.
That distant buzzing noise you hear are the founding fathers spinning in their graves.
They need something akin to the news stand price. Free access to headlines & summaries, or you could pay $0.99 to for 24 hour access to all articles.
If I see an article I want to read, I'm not likely to shell out $19.99 for a subscription so I can read the rest of the article. However, I might pay $0.99 to read it. If I find myself doing that regularly, I'd switch to a subscription.
I looked it up at http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html, and it said you must precede the conjunction with a comma when introducing an independent clause.
The Jerky Boys had to get their victims to sign releases. See http://www.deuceofclubs.com/write/jerky.htm.
If this dude had managed to get his victims to sign releases, he would have been OK too.
> Reason for requested leave: Starting an evil empire
Trust me, it's not as great as it sounds. The overhead is a lot more than you expect. Everyone figures they'll just steal a couple nuclear warheads and they're in business, but they never think about the essentials. Do you know how much toilet paper your evil lair will go through in a week? Even though you have the contribution jar next to the coffee maker, no one ever pitches in unless you happen to be standing there. With the downturn in the economy, you don't have the same staffing issues as you normally do, but finding decent henchmen is always a chore. The ones you do find are all, "We want dental!", "We need flex time!", "Respect me as an equal!", and "Oh God, no, save me, IT BURNS!!!" I mean, come on, what am I your mommy?
You go through all that, then in the middle of one of your best speeches, some moron running around in a tuxedo blows it all up with a can of hairspray and a laser beam built into a wristwatch.
Seriously.
Unless they moved her, the Moshulu is docked at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia: http://www.moshulu.com/
She's next to Admiral Dewey's flagship, the cruiser Olympia, and the World War II submarine Becuna.
Sorry. You just married the wrong female.
So? How was Einstein proven wrong? As I read it that just means that quantum mechanics is insane.
You just brought back a memory of having to remove the battery to change the driver's side headlight in a car.
I don't understand what seeing a picture of her has to do with anything. However, there is a current picture attached to the article.
There was one part of the article which I found to be particularly illuminating:
"They didn't even look at my records," she said. "They didn't even know I was a good kid."
The school district does not contest that Ms. Redding had no disciplinary record, but says that is irrelevant.
"Her assertion should not be misread to infer that she never broke school rules," the district said of Ms. Redding in a brief, "only that she was never caught."
My wife is an optometrist. She wants every patient to get dilated. Her explanation is that it makes the difference between looking into a room through the keyhole or looking through the open door. Still people don't like the drops, they don't like how it feels, they don't like having blurry vision until it wears off, many people refuse to get dilated.
I wish more people understood that you can go blind without realizing it.
So, thanks for sharing. Maybe some nerds will listen & get their eyes checked.
You're looking at it wrong.
They're getting smaller *because* it is an advantage. Evolution isn't a bunch of fish getting together and deciding to get smaller or larger or whatever. The smaller fish are surviving longer (despite whatever other predators are out there) because we don't eat the small ones. The longer you stay small, the longer we keep throwing you back. The individual fish doesn't have a choice. The individual does not matter.
If they reach the point where we don't eat them, and something else starts to, then they'll evolve away from that. Maybe the next step is to grow legs and climb out of the water.
The only real question here is, how do we avoid letting all our food evolve away from us? Sharks can't do it, but we might be able to. We need to encourage the fish to grow big. It might be nice if we could get them to evolve a tendency to jump into our boats. Hell, just have them swim to shore & jump onto the beach.
Crap! Salmon! They do it already! How did we manage that?
Cool. I'm glad someone got my joke ;-)
Term limits would also get rid of the honest, competent politicians who serve their constituents with integrity.
If we ever get anyone like that, it will be a shame to lose them because of term limits.
>Super Bowl is typically regarded as something that the whole family can watch.
I initially read that as: "Super Bowl is typically retarded as something that the whole family can watch."
I noticed Jackie listed BestBuy as one of the places that sells violent games to kids.
I got a BestBuy gift card for Christmas, so I was there using it up. I got a copy of GTA Vice City (I generally don't indulge in video games - my wife was encouraging me to get something for me instead of the kids). The cashier had to see my license before she could sell me the game. I'm 38 years old. I have enough gray that no sane person would consider me a minor. However, the cash register wouldn't let her run the game through until she slid my license through the card reader!
I don't agree with JT. I'd prefer if everyone just let me decide what my kids are allowed to do. Although that isn't always easy, thinking that the government will do a better job is just insane.
Of course, the government already has a system for taking care of kids whose parents can't be bothered. It's called prison.