It reminded me of me when I came within four inches of a speeding delivery van when about to step off the curb and cross the street. The van had run a red light.
So in the illustration I presumed that the van was still a few seconds away, and we're about to see the guy step onto the road and get a full frontal splattering.
> The.com.au is the.. official space for Australian business.
Oh! God DAMN I hate the morons who came up with whatever.com.au and all the other stupid.com.TLDs. I keep getting mis-directed internal e-mail from an Australian health care company when the morons working at it forget to put the.au on the end of.com.au, and so it comes to our company which has the actual.com domain name.
I'm considering starting a collection of Australian Citizen Health records, and then auctioning it all off:)
Hey, what's that postal rule? If you didn't ask for it and you get it, it's yours?!
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Arrhhh. Pardon me. I read the first sentence and then posted. Then I read the second sentence. Duh. And your comments about it being clunky do hit home.
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> And nobody's mentioning the most important factor, the inverse square law.
Incorrect. In reports I've seen it is often explicitly noted that the reason phone A got a lower rating than phone B was due to the antenna of phone A happened to be of a different configuration/positon than phone B. The phones were "tested in the standard phone-to-the-ear configuration", so I don't think these tests 'overlooked' this factor.
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Right.
So where can we see a list of the reasons and events that caused Black Ice (aka Network Ice) to be added? Then we'll be able to make judgement calls as to whether or not MAPS was being defamatory or un-reasonable.
The neat thing is that as soon as I saw you talk about liquid CO2 for dry cleaking, I was thinking of an ultra cooled liquid being used to wash my clothes, and thinking that "gosh, it must cost a lot to re-cool the CO2 after pouring it on all those room temperature clothes". Of course if you have enough pressure, you can have liquid CO2 at room temperature, which is just damn strange if I think about it. Warm liquid air? Ok, if you say so..:)
See the bottom of this for the phase diagram, which indicates that at room temperature you need 30 plus atmospheres of pressure, or more than 450 lbs per square inch.
I want to know how they know that liquid CO2 has a slightly acidic taste and odor!! Did they get inside a 30 atmosphere room temperature container with some liquid CO2 and take a taste?
You mention "SDMI engineers", while I seem to read into the article that there are two camps, there are the media industry people, completely non technical who want the impossible, and the technical industry people, who are getting dragged into this just to try and influence things and keep from losing money (to lawsuits or worthless technology). I've got the impression that there are engineers involved who hope it all falls apart, so that it would provide an opportunity to shake some sense into the media industry morons who are asking for the impossible.
The engineers are trying to avoid a DivX like scenario, where they spend all this money to push products that consumers reject outright. In such circumstances, DRM (digital rights management, encryption and server authentication) or any other "more secure" system seems just as bad as watermarking, and would be something that consumers would reject just as much.
You stated that you thought the Billions wasted implementing the restricted technology would be a good thing. I think that the media companies would not suffer too much if SDMI was pushed out and then broken. Media is cheap to make. It is the hardware companies (the ones who are more on our side) who will get screwed if they have to invest in *any* SDMI like system and then get it rejected by consumers or broken.
If SDMI had been pushed out and then pushed back, the only thing you would have less of are hardware, MP3 players, and other such things.
The only real win-win scenario is if no restricted system is pushed out. The consumers don't get screwed, and the hardware companies don't get screwed. How do we accomplish this?
I was initially 'with' everyone here and in the community on the issue of boycotting the challenge, because I thought it would 'punish' the proponents of SDMI if they went to the trouble of commercializing it only to have it quickly broken. I presumed that breaking it now would help the SDMI.
However this article points out a lot of things that seem to be coming true and mentioned in the article that is the focus of this slashdot item, that basically the music company executives didn't expect it to be broken, don't have anything to fall back on, and the SDMI may in fact fall apart now that two years of their work have been effortlessly cut into shreds! Which is EXCELLENT news!
I really wish that the article quoted above had been written earlier and had come to our attention earlier, for it is quite a valid and compelling counter to the "rah rah let's boycott the challenge" idea.
Basically, maybe we were all wrong, and cracking it quickly and effortlessly will not help the SDMI, but actually destroy it! Go crackers!
And did anyone else notice that the Codebook Solution, http://codebook.org/codebook_solution.ht ml, is missing the section on Stage 5! I had to DL the pdf document to read that.
Not only that, but they had their distributed software running on hundreds of workstations. Most ordinary people don't have access to that all on their own either. Not yet.
Of course if we're talking ordinary, most ordinary people don't have the right software or the right education to do stage 9 or 10. Not yet;)
Sputtering may have been responsible for removing up to 1 bar of the early Martian atmosphere.
So why only the early Martian atmosphere? That sentence implies that the sputtering no longer occurs, or is miniscule.
My guess is that the other processes mentioned on that page mean that there is so little atmosphere that the 'upper' martian atmosphere is no longer that far up there and/or is thinner than the thick early Martian atmosphere, thus current sputtering is weak or negligible.
However that theory suggests that if Mars' atmosphere were to ever become as thick as it's early atmosphere was, it may again suffer from sputtering.
Because there are really good odds that it's not just "some R&D", but is actually at the heart of an ongoing Ponzi scheme! And there's no such thing as too much publicity and evidence exposing a Ponzi scheme. Those less intelligent souls out there need, nay deserve our help.
May I ask what a '"white heat" technology' is? What does the term "white heat" mean for you?
( Don't get me wrong, I understood and appreciated your comment, but only by presuming what "white heat" means... my curiosity makes me want to know what it actually means to you. Clear:)
> Ownership is being transferred and capital gains tax is being paid.
Right. What I'm still trying to figure out is why in the process of this transfer of ownership, the company gets to write off billions in taxes? Why does the transfer of ownership mean that a company with huge net revenues can pay no taxes?
I understand that taxing profit after expenses (such as employee wages) makes sense. And effectively whether a company pays employees wages or gives them options, the owners of the company are losing equity (either straight from the company's cash coffers or in diluted ownership), and thus either one should not imbue a tax penalty. However when my holdings in a company get diluted, and the shares lose value (effectively or absolutely), and the owners get a tax break, right? So here we have two tax breaks taking place.
Something's missing in my picture here. I still don't feel comfortable with stock options alowing a company with such huge net profits to pay no taxes.
Perhaps it could make sense if it means that effectively the company has no revenue, as the gain in tax savings for the company/owners is offset by the dillution of the ownership... which is sort of the implication of the fool article I guess.
Maybe it's the completely underhanded manner of getting current owners to effectively fund the company's expenses without actually telling them so, that's continuing to make me uneasy. That's got to be it. I mean, if a company is taking in billions in revenue and yet paying no taxes, it means that *somebody* is getting screwed:)
> I think it's pretty clear to/. readers that Signal 11 is not an idiot.
Yes he is. I concurr with CmdrTaco and Hemos' opinions on Signal11 100%. If I were either of them, I would have banned him and his ilk long ago. It's people like Signal11 who have destroyed Slashdot, it's the reason I gave up my sub-80,000 account in frustration a while ago, it's the reason I and others like me may continue to stay away. It's the reason that the current discussions are full of such idiots and pathetic comments, and yes I'm talking about even the stuff that's modded up. In fact, it's quite clear that the IQ of the mass of moderators (let alone posters) has fallen below 100.
Perhaps you didn't notice a lot of what went on with siggy, but basically it can be summarized like this:
Siggy thinks he's so smart, and he has to prove it, just like all immature people feel they need to prove themselves, *bar nothing*. Thus when he came across something that he thought was *leet*, something he thought was broken or could be used as a weapon, he had to prove that it was broken or that it could be used as a weapon.
As a result he became the very thing he now claims that he was trying to prove 'could exist'. What kind of idiot picks up a knife and says "gosh, this could hurt some one, I'd better prove it and knife the next kid I see".
It's a pathetic world when hundreds of newsgroups, sites, and public parks get destroyed or made generally useless because of the morons like Signal11, when we have to spend any effort at all 'bomb proofing' our things and our world against such morons.
> I do get the feeling, though, that/. doesn't want to move to that
> kind of moderation system in part because of pride.
Umm, no, it's CPU horsepower that's preventing it. And coding. Can't just wish it into existence. Didn't you read the logs?
This is another thing that pisses me off. All these whiny people bitching about how the moderation system is "broken" because the trolls can find a way to fuck with you. The trolls wouldn't be able to do it if you weren't so ill informed that you regarded Signal11 as 'not an idiot'.
Life on Jovian planets - "As on a Darkling Plain"
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> I hate it when people say, "Oh, there can't be life on these because.."
> You have experienced a smallish percentage of ONE world.
> So, what was the weather like on Jupiter yesterday?
One of my favorite books of all time was Ben Bova's "As on a Darkling Plain", which as a part of the plot a person gets "integrated" into a sub-like exploration probe (lets just say he "became one" with the probe, if you get my drift) and is sent down into the depths of a Jovian planet, and discovers... ummm, well, I won't spoil it for you(*).
Find this book and read it. I promise you, it's not the typical Bova like crap of the last 10 years. This is from his earlier days, when he had original ideas.
- CK
(*) - The only things lately that have impressed me as much are:
1) The video footage of those schools of 6 foot long squid coming out at night and savagely eating huge fish (I never knew they could turn completely red-white-red-white like a strobe light! Unbelievable. And the savage way they tore fist sized chunks out of the big fish, you'd think you were watching a pack of sharks!)
2) The footage obtained by that guy who put a camera onto the back of a sperm whale with a suction cup, and we watch a pack of these sperm whales diving down through 1000 feet on their way to hunt giant squid at the bottom of the ocean, right from the back of the whale! Too bad the whales were only on a training dive and came back up prematurely, and then knocked the suction cup loose. Unbelievable. Just when you thought the world we live on couldn't provide any more thrills! I can't wait for this guy to successfully bring back some really spectacular footage of a pack of sperm whales hunting down giant squid at the bottom of the ocean!
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Yeah. I'd go a step further tho.
It reminded me of me when I came within four inches of a speeding delivery van when about to step off the curb and cross the street. The van had run a red light.
So in the illustration I presumed that the van was still a few seconds away, and we're about to see the guy step onto the road and get a full frontal splattering.
or stock.
You didn't miss that did you? It could all be done without a single dime of real money going anywhere, just a 'paper merger'.
Who cares. Let them die the pathetic death that they've got coming to them.
It began it's life as a part of the earth's crust, and so shall it be once again.
Yeah, that's right. I want to take their designs and turn them into real combat levels!
Just 'smack'? I thought it was blatantly obvious. I think we should ask the Slashdot team to delete this story, it stinks so much.
> The
Oh! God DAMN I hate the morons who came up with whatever.com.au and all the other stupid .com.TLDs. I keep getting mis-directed internal e-mail from an Australian health care company when the morons working at it forget to put the .au on the end of .com.au, and so it comes to our company which has the actual .com domain name.
I'm considering starting a collection of Australian Citizen Health records, and then auctioning it all off :)
Hey, what's that postal rule? If you didn't ask for it and you get it, it's yours?!
Arrhhh. Pardon me. I read the first sentence and then posted. Then I read the second sentence. Duh. And your comments about it being clunky do hit home.
There is a windows port!
> And nobody's mentioning the most important factor, the inverse square law.
Incorrect. In reports I've seen it is often explicitly noted that the reason phone A got a lower rating than phone B was due to the antenna of phone A happened to be of a different configuration/positon than phone B. The phones were "tested in the standard phone-to-the-ear configuration", so I don't think these tests 'overlooked' this factor.
Right.
So where can we see a list of the reasons and events that caused Black Ice (aka Network Ice) to be added? Then we'll be able to make judgement calls as to whether or not MAPS was being defamatory or un-reasonable.
The neat thing is that as soon as I saw you talk about liquid CO2 for dry cleaking, I was thinking of an ultra cooled liquid being used to wash my clothes, and thinking that "gosh, it must cost a lot to re-cool the CO2 after pouring it on all those room temperature clothes". Of course if you have enough pressure, you can have liquid CO2 at room temperature, which is just damn strange if I think about it. Warm liquid air? Ok, if you say so..
See the bottom of this for the phase diagram, which indicates that at room temperature you need 30 plus atmospheres of pressure, or more than 450 lbs per square inch.
Here is a demo/video of dry ice turning into liquid CO2! (get rid of the space after the L near the end of the URL. Sorry, the submission form is wrapping it.)
Ask A Scientist - Liquid CO2
Liquid Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Surfactant System For Garment Care
Why CO2 in Fire Suppression Systems
CO2 Snow Cleaning and what it's best used for.
I want to know how they know that liquid CO2 has a slightly acidic taste and odor!! Did they get inside a 30 atmosphere room temperature container with some liquid CO2 and take a taste?
And finally - test your knowledge of Liquid CO2
You mention "SDMI engineers", while I seem to read into the article that there are two camps, there are the media industry people, completely non technical who want the impossible, and the technical industry people, who are getting dragged into this just to try and influence things and keep from losing money (to lawsuits or worthless technology). I've got the impression that there are engineers involved who hope it all falls apart, so that it would provide an opportunity to shake some sense into the media industry morons who are asking for the impossible.
The engineers are trying to avoid a DivX like scenario, where they spend all this money to push products that consumers reject outright. In such circumstances, DRM (digital rights management, encryption and server authentication) or any other "more secure" system seems just as bad as watermarking, and would be something that consumers would reject just as much.
You stated that you thought the Billions wasted implementing the restricted technology would be a good thing. I think that the media companies would not suffer too much if SDMI was pushed out and then broken. Media is cheap to make. It is the hardware companies (the ones who are more on our side) who will get screwed if they have to invest in *any* SDMI like system and then get it rejected by consumers or broken.
If SDMI had been pushed out and then pushed back, the only thing you would have less of are hardware, MP3 players, and other such things.
The only real win-win scenario is if no restricted system is pushed out. The consumers don't get screwed, and the hardware companies don't get screwed. How do we accomplish this?
So there was! I stand corrected.
I was initially 'with' everyone here and in the community on the issue of boycotting the challenge, because I thought it would 'punish' the proponents of SDMI if they went to the trouble of commercializing it only to have it quickly broken. I presumed that breaking it now would help the SDMI.
However this article points out a lot of things that seem to be coming true and mentioned in the article that is the focus of this slashdot item, that basically the music company executives didn't expect it to be broken, don't have anything to fall back on, and the SDMI may in fact fall apart now that two years of their work have been effortlessly cut into shreds! Which is EXCELLENT news!
I really wish that the article quoted above had been written earlier and had come to our attention earlier, for it is quite a valid and compelling counter to the "rah rah let's boycott the challenge" idea.
Basically, maybe we were all wrong, and cracking it quickly and effortlessly will not help the SDMI, but actually destroy it! Go crackers!
And did anyone else notice that the Codebook Solution, http://codebook.org/codebook_solution .ht ml, is missing the section on Stage 5! I had to DL the pdf document to read that.
Not only that, but they had their distributed software running on hundreds of workstations. Most ordinary people don't have access to that all on their own either. Not yet.
Of course if we're talking ordinary, most ordinary people don't have the right software or the right education to do stage 9 or 10. Not yet ;)
So as long as Canada has lots of room left, why go to all the trouble of terraforming Mars and then moving there?
Come on over, eh! BTW: BYOB - except you yanks, for you that means "Bring Your Own Barley", and we'll turn it into real beer once you get here.
Sputtering may have been responsible for removing up to 1 bar of the early Martian atmosphere.
So why only the early Martian atmosphere? That sentence implies that the sputtering no longer occurs, or is miniscule.
My guess is that the other processes mentioned on that page mean that there is so little atmosphere that the 'upper' martian atmosphere is no longer that far up there and/or is thinner than the thick early Martian atmosphere, thus current sputtering is weak or negligible.
However that theory suggests that if Mars' atmosphere were to ever become as thick as it's early atmosphere was, it may again suffer from sputtering.
Because there are really good odds that it's not just "some R&D", but is actually at the heart of an ongoing Ponzi scheme! And there's no such thing as too much publicity and evidence exposing a Ponzi scheme. Those less intelligent souls out there need, nay deserve our help.
May I ask what a '"white heat" technology' is? What does the term "white heat" mean for you?
( Don't get me wrong, I understood and appreciated your comment, but only by presuming what "white heat" means... my curiosity makes me want to know what it actually means to you. Clear :)
And go see what a Deja search on the newsgroups turns up! Thousands of 'Make Money Fast' posts. And I quote:
Alphacom distributor's fees are only $5. Join NOW! How can you lose! The potential is staggering!
Right. What I'm still trying to figure out is why in the process of this transfer of ownership, the company gets to write off billions in taxes? Why does the transfer of ownership mean that a company with huge net revenues can pay no taxes?
I understand that taxing profit after expenses (such as employee wages) makes sense. And effectively whether a company pays employees wages or gives them options, the owners of the company are losing equity (either straight from the company's cash coffers or in diluted ownership), and thus either one should not imbue a tax penalty. However when my holdings in a company get diluted, and the shares lose value (effectively or absolutely), and the owners get a tax break, right? So here we have two tax breaks taking place.
Something's missing in my picture here. I still don't feel comfortable with stock options alowing a company with such huge net profits to pay no taxes.
Perhaps it could make sense if it means that effectively the company has no revenue, as the gain in tax savings for the company/owners is offset by the dillution of the ownership... which is sort of the implication of the fool article I guess.
Maybe it's the completely underhanded manner of getting current owners to effectively fund the company's expenses without actually telling them so, that's continuing to make me uneasy. That's got to be it. I mean, if a company is taking in billions in revenue and yet paying no taxes, it means that *somebody* is getting screwed :)
Yes he is. I concurr with CmdrTaco and Hemos' opinions on Signal11 100%. If I were either of them, I would have banned him and his ilk long ago. It's people like Signal11 who have destroyed Slashdot, it's the reason I gave up my sub-80,000 account in frustration a while ago, it's the reason I and others like me may continue to stay away. It's the reason that the current discussions are full of such idiots and pathetic comments, and yes I'm talking about even the stuff that's modded up. In fact, it's quite clear that the IQ of the mass of moderators (let alone posters) has fallen below 100.
Perhaps you didn't notice a lot of what went on with siggy, but basically it can be summarized like this:
Siggy thinks he's so smart, and he has to prove it, just like all immature people feel they need to prove themselves, *bar nothing*. Thus when he came across something that he thought was *leet*, something he thought was broken or could be used as a weapon, he had to prove that it was broken or that it could be used as a weapon.
As a result he became the very thing he now claims that he was trying to prove 'could exist'. What kind of idiot picks up a knife and says "gosh, this could hurt some one, I'd better prove it and knife the next kid I see".
It's a pathetic world when hundreds of newsgroups, sites, and public parks get destroyed or made generally useless because of the morons like Signal11, when we have to spend any effort at all 'bomb proofing' our things and our world against such morons.
> I do get the feeling, though, that /. doesn't want to move to that
> kind of moderation system in part because of pride.
Umm, no, it's CPU horsepower that's preventing it. And coding. Can't just wish it into existence. Didn't you read the logs?
This is another thing that pisses me off. All these whiny people bitching about how the moderation system is "broken" because the trolls can find a way to fuck with you. The trolls wouldn't be able to do it if you weren't so ill informed that you regarded Signal11 as 'not an idiot'.
> You have experienced a smallish percentage of ONE world.
> So, what was the weather like on Jupiter yesterday?
One of my favorite books of all time was Ben Bova's "As on a Darkling Plain", which as a part of the plot a person gets "integrated" into a sub-like exploration probe (lets just say he "became one" with the probe, if you get my drift) and is sent down into the depths of a Jovian planet, and discovers... ummm, well, I won't spoil it for you(*).
Find this book and read it. I promise you, it's not the typical Bova like crap of the last 10 years. This is from his earlier days, when he had original ideas.
- CK
(*) - The only things lately that have impressed me as much are:
1) The video footage of those schools of 6 foot long squid coming out at night and savagely eating huge fish (I never knew they could turn completely red-white-red-white like a strobe light! Unbelievable. And the savage way they tore fist sized chunks out of the big fish, you'd think you were watching a pack of sharks!)
2) The footage obtained by that guy who put a camera onto the back of a sperm whale with a suction cup, and we watch a pack of these sperm whales diving down through 1000 feet on their way to hunt giant squid at the bottom of the ocean, right from the back of the whale! Too bad the whales were only on a training dive and came back up prematurely, and then knocked the suction cup loose. Unbelievable. Just when you thought the world we live on couldn't provide any more thrills! I can't wait for this guy to successfully bring back some really spectacular footage of a pack of sperm whales hunting down giant squid at the bottom of the ocean!
Wait a minute. You're asking us to trust your 'snap judgement' telling us not to trust anyone else's long well thought out peer reviewed judgements?
Somethings not right, and I think it's your screwy judgement.