Y'know, I would totally watch the show if it turned into "Win Alex Trebek's Money".
I bet he doesn't know shit without the cards.
In other news, do you remember that X-Files episode where Trebek was one of the weird alien Men-In-Black guys? I remember remarking to a friend of mine, "That's not really Alex Trebek, he just seems to be him, so what if Alex Trebek happened to be there, wouldn't that be weird?"
And then she said, "Yeah, it'd be like 'Alex Trebek and Alex Trebek in... _Double_Jeopardy_'."
It was basically one of the funniest things that I've ever heard, maybe you had to be there.
Apparently it's necessary to explain, in layman's terms, why it's impossible to extract energy from a permenant magnet by 'depleting' it.
A piece of material that is potentially magnetic has the same ammount of 'magnetism' regardless of whether it sticks you your refridgerator or not. The only difference between an iron bar magnet (for example) and a chunk of iron is that the magnetic domains...
(no, wait, that's not a layman's term)...the crystal structure of the...
(argh, this is harder than I thought)
Ok, a piece of iron is made of atoms. Each of these atoms has a magnetic field that points in a particular direction (never mind why). So, each atom is like a tiny magnet.
In a non-magnetic chunk of iron, the atoms are all oriented in a random direction (this is a simplification, but accurate enough for our purposes.) So all of the magnetic fields cancel each other out.
In a magnet, all (well, most) of the atoms are aligned in the same direction. So their magnetic fields reinforce each other and add up to a big magnetic field that you can measure macroscopically (by sticking it to your refridgerator.)
So, a magnet doesn't really 'store' any energy. Magnetic material is magnetic, regardless of whether it is 'a magnet'. A magnet is depleted as thermal, concussive, electro-magnetic or quantum effects eventually re-randomize the 'tiny magnets' inside it, and no energy is liberated in the process.
The claim that the extra energy is coming 'from permanent magnets' is risible. It's like claiming to extract energy from the gravitational field of the earth.
MAYBE he has a very efficient motor (though I haven't seen any independant evaluation of that claim). But he certainly doesn't understand how it works, and his claim that he can extract more energy from a motor-generator configuration than he put in is obvious fraud.
I'm not sure what's worse, that the journalist who wrote the article is so credulous, or that the people here (who should damn well know better) are.
(Former cybersecurity czar) Richard Clark came to us two days after taking the job following 9/11, and I told him, "There are 13 geographically dispersed data centers. You really couldn't take it out." And he said, "What if I drove a truck up to each one and blew them up at the same time?"
Finally, someone with a good idea!
But seriously, this attitude of "now that the Internet has value, it's time for someone responsible to take over," is a huge slap in the face to all those who, with great effort and vision, actually brought the thing into existence.
And his assertion that he's not declaring war is totally disingenuous. Here's my imaginary conversation with Sclavos.
Me: Hello.
Sclavos: [Stepping on my foot.] Hi.
M: Whoah! Careful there.
S: What?
M: You stepped on my foot.
S: [Spits in my face.] You're a little too sensitive.
M: Yuck! What the hell was that for?
S: What do you mean? I'm providing a service.
M: You're service is to be a total d--?
S: [Pokes me in the eye.]
M: Augh!
S: 99% of people are happy with what I'm doing.[Punches me in the face.]
M: [Falls down.] You're hurting me!
S: You're looking at this the wrong way, it's because you have an agenda.[Kicks me in the ribs.]
M: Ow! Fuck you! An agenda?! What the..!?
S: It's because I represent a commercial interest, isn't it? Jeez, it's like a religion with you people.[Kicks me in the head.]
M: NO! It's because you're doing something wro--!
S: [Stomp!] Oh, come ON! There's no harm in what I'm doing, my experts say so! [Kick!]
M: [Gurgle]
S: You have to [Kick!] allow [Kick!] innovation, [Stomp!] or things [Kick!] will stagnate.
I'm sure they're under some pressure from management who are skiming the boards and seeing bad things.
This is probably the reason that the board admins have lately been cracking down a little too hard, IMHO.
Now that the boards are private, the admins will be able to lighten up. Information will again flow freely within the community, without bringing down the hammer of the skittish management types.
It is an unfortunately thing to have to do, however. I can only assume that Raph's wish is to be able to open the boards again once the 'Gamma Testing' is done.
It's great that the GBA is giving a new generation of gamers the opportunity to play some of the old classic SNES games.
Some of these games (Zelda: A Link to the Past, for example) are very good. Porting them to the GBA makes them attractive even when they can't hold their own against the glitz of modern console titles.
I, for one, am having a great time playing some of my old favorites.
My copies of Zahn ATE my copy of "Jedi Search" and then stomped up and down on my testicles until I promised never to buy another Kevin J. book as long as I live.
From the Article:
If the weather turns and the rescue mission is aborted, Mill has just seven days before the next full moon changes the landscape so dramatically that no plane could land, though he will be parachuted some extra supplies.
The gravitational pull of a full moon in a week's time on the icy landscape of the north pole will turn the relatively flat surface of the ice floe into a treacherous series of mini ice-mountains.
Uh, what? As far as I know, the phase of the moon has very little to do with tidal forces.
I commented on a previous article on slashdot about the fragmentation of the Linux kernel by saying that it reminded me of an old famous usenet post about the immenent death of usenet.
Strangely enough, less than a week later I find myself suffering another bout of deja vu.
This is almost exactly the same concept that was put forth in another famous usenet post which title was "Intersteller Spacecraft Engine" or something similar.
The idea was that you generate a strong magnetic pulse at one end of a long armature. When the magnetic field (traveling at the speed of light) reaches the other end of the armature it acts upon another magnet, pulling it towards the first.
The propulsion was supposed to be generated during the few nanoseconds when the receiving magnet was influenced by the field but the transmitting magnet was inert. This would be in the tiny moment after the pulse was transmitted. I suppose the length of the pulse in seconds would therefore correspond to the length of the armature in light seconds.
The usenet groups to which this article was frequently posted never fully came to a consensus as to whether this would work. The discussion was generally broken into three camps.
Camp one were people who thought the idea violated newton, and was therefore crap.
Camp two were people who thought that the radiating asymetric magnetic field would act as the propulsive medium, and the idea would therefore work.
Camp three were people who knew for a fact that this is how the Enterprise's impulse engines worked.
Gee, this topic always reminds me of...
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IMMINENT DEATH OF USENET!!!
(these caps are important for the sake of the joke, it's a quote. stick this in your filter.)
Hovercraft are generally slow and cumbersome compared to their wheeled bretheren, but the main advantage is that they're amphibious an all terrain. Why would I want something that has the disadvantages of a hovercraft but not the advantages?
Yeah, ok. It's pretty cool anyway. But I wouldn't buy one.
Many of you recent Linux users probably don't remember, but we used to say that the kernel version numbers were asymptotically approaching v1.0. Compared to then, this is no big deal
"We feel that this change will be sufficient to discourage "hackers", although it is obviously insufficient to protect a node against a determined and malicious attack."
This citation proves that the term "hacker" from the very beginning involved an implicit violation of 'territory' (trespassing) and threat to system integrity (vandalism).
This interpretation is dubious in my opinion. It would seem that this text is intentionally making a distinction between a "hacker" who might be merely poking around and who will be sufficiently discouraged, and a "determined and malicious" attacker who will not be stopped by "this change".
This seems to demonstrate a clear separation between the concepts of the curious 'hacker' and the malicious 'cracker', contrary to what Mr. Bickford claims.
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Y'know, I would totally watch the show if it turned into "Win Alex Trebek's Money".
I bet he doesn't know shit without the cards.
In other news, do you remember that X-Files episode where Trebek was one of the weird alien Men-In-Black guys? I remember remarking to a friend of mine, "That's not really Alex Trebek, he just seems to be him, so what if Alex Trebek happened to be there, wouldn't that be weird?"
And then she said, "Yeah, it'd be like 'Alex Trebek and Alex Trebek in... _Double_Jeopardy_'."
It was basically one of the funniest things that I've ever heard, maybe you had to be there.
(Or maybe you had to be on drugs.)
Looks like LabRat007 is a plagiarist.
Actually, it will kill you a lot less than the gallons more pesticide that would have been required to produce a similar quantity of non-GMO food.
Apparently it's necessary to explain, in layman's terms, why it's impossible to extract energy from a permenant magnet by 'depleting' it.
...the crystal structure of the...
A piece of material that is potentially magnetic has the same ammount of 'magnetism' regardless of whether it sticks you your refridgerator or not. The only difference between an iron bar magnet (for example) and a chunk of iron is that the magnetic domains...
(no, wait, that's not a layman's term)
(argh, this is harder than I thought)
Ok, a piece of iron is made of atoms. Each of these atoms has a magnetic field that points in a particular direction (never mind why). So, each atom is like a tiny magnet.
In a non-magnetic chunk of iron, the atoms are all oriented in a random direction (this is a simplification, but accurate enough for our purposes.) So all of the magnetic fields cancel each other out.
In a magnet, all (well, most) of the atoms are aligned in the same direction. So their magnetic fields reinforce each other and add up to a big magnetic field that you can measure macroscopically (by sticking it to your refridgerator.)
So, a magnet doesn't really 'store' any energy. Magnetic material is magnetic, regardless of whether it is 'a magnet'. A magnet is depleted as thermal, concussive, electro-magnetic or quantum effects eventually re-randomize the 'tiny magnets' inside it, and no energy is liberated in the process.
Why the fuck is this crackpot on slashdot?
The claim that the extra energy is coming 'from permanent magnets' is risible. It's like claiming to extract energy from the gravitational field of the earth.
MAYBE he has a very efficient motor (though I haven't seen any independant evaluation of that claim). But he certainly doesn't understand how it works, and his claim that he can extract more energy from a motor-generator configuration than he put in is obvious fraud.
I'm not sure what's worse, that the journalist who wrote the article is so credulous, or that the people here (who should damn well know better) are.
Finally, someone with a good idea!
But seriously, this attitude of "now that the Internet has value, it's time for someone responsible to take over," is a huge slap in the face to all those who, with great effort and vision, actually brought the thing into existence.
And his assertion that he's not declaring war is totally disingenuous. Here's my imaginary conversation with Sclavos.
Me: Hello.
Sclavos: [Stepping on my foot.] Hi.
M: Whoah! Careful there.
S: What?
M: You stepped on my foot.
S: [Spits in my face.] You're a little too sensitive.
M: Yuck! What the hell was that for?
S: What do you mean? I'm providing a service.
M: You're service is to be a total d--?
S: [Pokes me in the eye.]
M: Augh!
S: 99% of people are happy with what I'm doing.[Punches me in the face.]
M: [Falls down.] You're hurting me!
S: You're looking at this the wrong way, it's because you have an agenda.[Kicks me in the ribs.]
M: Ow! Fuck you! An agenda?! What the..!?
S: It's because I represent a commercial interest, isn't it? Jeez, it's like a religion with you people.[Kicks me in the head.]
M: NO! It's because you're doing something wro--!
S: [Stomp!] Oh, come ON! There's no harm in what I'm doing, my experts say so! [Kick!]
M: [Gurgle]
S: You have to [Kick!] allow [Kick!] innovation, [Stomp!] or things [Kick!] will stagnate.
This makes sense.
I'm sure they're under some pressure from management who are skiming the boards and seeing bad things.
This is probably the reason that the board admins have lately been cracking down a little too hard, IMHO.
Now that the boards are private, the admins will be able to lighten up. Information will again flow freely within the community, without bringing down the hammer of the skittish management types.
It is an unfortunately thing to have to do, however. I can only assume that Raph's wish is to be able to open the boards again once the 'Gamma Testing' is done.
It's great that the GBA is giving a new generation of gamers the opportunity to play some of the old classic SNES games.
Some of these games (Zelda: A Link to the Past, for example) are very good. Porting them to the GBA makes them attractive even when they can't hold their own against the glitz of modern console titles.
I, for one, am having a great time playing some of my old favorites.
Eeek.
My copies of Zahn ATE my copy of "Jedi Search" and then stomped up and down on my testicles until I promised never to buy another Kevin J. book as long as I live.
If the weather turns and the rescue mission is aborted, Mill has just seven days before the next full moon changes the landscape so dramatically that no plane could land, though he will be parachuted some extra supplies. The gravitational pull of a full moon in a week's time on the icy landscape of the north pole will turn the relatively flat surface of the ice floe into a treacherous series of mini ice-mountains.
Uh, what? As far as I know, the phase of the moon has very little to do with tidal forces.
No, naivete is the opposite of experience. The opposite of wisdom would be foolishness.
You obviously haven't seen Remembrance of the Daleks yet. ;-)
Hmm.
So taking drugs is a bad idea, and puts you in the stupid category. But irradiating your head with high doses of EMR is a good idea?
(Btw, nicotine... also a drug.)
Surely we can give the fellow the benefit of the doubt, and assume that he knows at least this much.
Better get these babies while they're still legal.
A great light has gone out of the world.
Just because something is convenient does not make it "right" or "necessary".
Uh... Someone should check CCITT fax encodings for prior art with regard to that compression scheme.
Strangely enough, less than a week later I find myself suffering another bout of deja vu.
This is almost exactly the same concept that was put forth in another famous usenet post which title was "Intersteller Spacecraft Engine" or something similar.
The idea was that you generate a strong magnetic pulse at one end of a long armature. When the magnetic field (traveling at the speed of light) reaches the other end of the armature it acts upon another magnet, pulling it towards the first.
The propulsion was supposed to be generated during the few nanoseconds when the receiving magnet was influenced by the field but the transmitting magnet was inert. This would be in the tiny moment after the pulse was transmitted. I suppose the length of the pulse in seconds would therefore correspond to the length of the armature in light seconds.
The usenet groups to which this article was frequently posted never fully came to a consensus as to whether this would work. The discussion was generally broken into three camps.
Camp one were people who thought the idea violated newton, and was therefore crap.
Camp two were people who thought that the radiating asymetric magnetic field would act as the propulsive medium, and the idea would therefore work.
Camp three were people who knew for a fact that this is how the Enterprise's impulse engines worked.
IMMINENT DEATH OF USENET!!! (these caps are important for the sake of the joke, it's a quote. stick this in your filter.)
The article doesn't mention this, so in case anyone was wondering. The last time this spacecraft was contacted was in October of 1997.
Hovercraft are generally slow and cumbersome compared to their wheeled bretheren, but the main advantage is that they're amphibious an all terrain. Why would I want something that has the disadvantages of a hovercraft but not the advantages?
Yeah, ok. It's pretty cool anyway. But I wouldn't buy one.
Many of you recent Linux users probably don't remember, but we used to say that the kernel version numbers were asymptotically approaching v1.0. Compared to then, this is no big deal
This citation proves that the term "hacker" from the very beginning involved an implicit violation of 'territory' (trespassing) and threat to system integrity (vandalism).
This interpretation is dubious in my opinion. It would seem that this text is intentionally making a distinction between a "hacker" who might be merely poking around and who will be sufficiently discouraged, and a "determined and malicious" attacker who will not be stopped by "this change".
This seems to demonstrate a clear separation between the concepts of the curious 'hacker' and the malicious 'cracker', contrary to what Mr. Bickford claims.
Holy cow. It's like they ran the article through babelfish several times in a row. I've seen better grammar from Dr. Spaitso.