I live in California and the first broadcaster I heard of the Asiana aircraft crash at SFO was the BBC World Service.
On topic - I drive through Avenel a number of times each year. All the better reason to keep the windows rolled up, the sunroof closed and be glad my car has an air filter on the ventilation intake.
I did something similar at "Canada's Premiere Undergraduate Experience"
Long story short, one of the people running for Student Union President won my House election the year before. He did so by getting the competition kicked out on technicalities. No, I wasn't running, and No, I wasn't friends with anyone who did. Since every day a poster is up is a "violation" they racked up fast. This guy was going out with the person who's job it is to notify people of potential violations, and they were never warned.
Fast forward two years, and I logged in as every. single. student. from a MacDonalds down the road. Didn't actually vote, just logged in, logged right back out. Then repeated 8k times. Once a student logged in, they had an hour to finish. Since everyone's hour was up at 9AM, almost no one voted.
Somehow, there was still a landslide win. Not only did he have 90% of the votes, he had more votes than there were students in the entire university.
The whole election should have been thrown out. People complained on official forums, topics were deleted as fast as they went up.
It pays to play dirty apparently.
Have to be careful when playing dirty. In my elementary school was a fellow running for class president and he was well liked and popular. One of his competitors for the honor (as there really wasn't much to the office) found he had been born outside the US (he was an Aussie by birth) and this revelation -- why it was even considered by the faculty baffled me -- meant the popular student was ineligible. It really broke his heart and seemed incredibly unfair, particularly to classmates. Keep in mind most of us were 12 or younger, but we already had a pretty well developed sense of what is fair and how you deal with weasels who succeed in removing competition by devious means, the weasel was soundly defeated in the vote. So the lesson here isn't that you cannot have your competitor diminished by technicalities or smearing, but you should always have a surrogate do it on the side so you don't get caught for the 'Swiftboating'.
On the one hand, fraud is bad. On the other, student government is usually a joke that deserves to be pranked. At the college level it is, AFAIK, not much better than HS. Our Class President gave a friggin' 15 minute speech at commencement. Holy Crap! That was the only real debacle at graduation. I'll never forget it. That's all I remember about the class president.
Student government is seldom more than a popularity contest.
It can be good training (relatively speaking and tongue firmly in cheek) for figuring out social engineering skills - what are the hot buttons for people, what people are likely to remember of your (ha) promises after you've been elected and practice in keeping skeletons from accumulating in your closet.
If a user has a website remember their login via a cookie, and I make a copy of that cookie and put it into my browser, I will be logged in as that user? I am shocked...
It doesn't take much to be considered an "hacking professor" now days, does it?
Someone alert the Girl Scouts, this is an easier way to make money on Cookies.
Well yeah, you put the boiler on one side and a refrigerator on the other.
I would like to know if this is more efficient than your regular Peltier module..
News at 5: Ocean water temperatures suddenly rise while middle America experiences heatwave and use Air Conditioners in record numbers, polar ice caps reduced to a few ice cubes.
The problem is that any biomarkers of an individual is at best half the story.
What would they find? A propensity to act impulsively or violently to certain stimuli, perhaps? What if such a person could gain enough experience to control those impulses?
Alternately, otherwise perfectly normal people go bananas because they are subjected to people who are not violent, but they are incredibly manipulative. Or perhaps situations completely outside their control like a terrible accident or terrorist attack. Their otherwise non-impulsive nature might, over time, be turned to murderous rage.
There are real concerns about labeling people in a way that could cause immediate action to be taken against them before the whole picture is understood. Incomplete science can always be used as a particularly potent excuse for atrocity.
I channel my violent urges into coding spells.
I'm very sorry for writing that bit which the NSA has been using...
You know, 700 years ago the Indians were burning lots of fires to send smoke signals. Obviously they caused a climate change that brought the "Sandy" like hurricanes to their shores back then.
Somewhere around 13,000 years ago the last glacial age ended, in effect the Earth has been warming prior and is accelerating today, which means weather patterns are changing. To mark 1 in 700 seems almost casually to overlook this relatively short time span and what has transpired within.
... is that it is possible to flip a coin and have it land heads up 1,000 times consecutively - it can happen and is increasingly likely to happen in a larger number of trials. Same can be said for a "Sandy" occurring in consecutive (or near neighbor) years. One thing is evident - the east coast, sand bars, outer banks, etc, were formed and shaped by this type of storm. I expect the 700 year estimate is fanciful.
As long as natural gas and coal can emit CO2 without any penalty to the real cost of that emission, nuclear plants will continue to close. It is funny that every time that nuclear power is brought up that people shake their fists demand that it is able to pay its entire costs, while they never mention the tragedy of commons that is going on with fossil fuel derived power. It is a pity that our ability to do risk analysis and balance alternatives is weighted on whether it can blow up in a scary fashion and release a radioactive plume versus causing irreversible destruction to the entire planet (but slow enough that only your grandchildren will care).
Further north, in California you can find a lot of wind turbines, including Shiloh II. I was by the San Luis Reservoir (Pump and Store engergy/water resource) and noticed more turbines are being erected near there (a very windy place.) These 1.5 megawatt turbines are turning up in some amazing places, even solo installations in a rightly situated location, where a land owner can use some power and sell the rest at a tidy profit.
With all the talk of Santa Ana Winds I think there's an opportunity to build some of these wind farms in SoCal.
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BBC is the closest news network to cover it?
I live in California and the first broadcaster I heard of the Asiana aircraft crash at SFO was the BBC World Service.
On topic - I drive through Avenel a number of times each year. All the better reason to keep the windows rolled up, the sunroof closed and be glad my car has an air filter on the ventilation intake.
How about we show some of those early flying machines from the 1900's, they're crazy, too.
I did something similar at "Canada's Premiere Undergraduate Experience"
Long story short, one of the people running for Student Union President won my House election the year before. He did so by getting the competition kicked out on technicalities. No, I wasn't running, and No, I wasn't friends with anyone who did. Since every day a poster is up is a "violation" they racked up fast. This guy was going out with the person who's job it is to notify people of potential violations, and they were never warned.
Fast forward two years, and I logged in as every. single. student. from a MacDonalds down the road. Didn't actually vote, just logged in, logged right back out. Then repeated 8k times. Once a student logged in, they had an hour to finish. Since everyone's hour was up at 9AM, almost no one voted.
Somehow, there was still a landslide win. Not only did he have 90% of the votes, he had more votes than there were students in the entire university.
The whole election should have been thrown out. People complained on official forums, topics were deleted as fast as they went up.
It pays to play dirty apparently.
Have to be careful when playing dirty. In my elementary school was a fellow running for class president and he was well liked and popular. One of his competitors for the honor (as there really wasn't much to the office) found he had been born outside the US (he was an Aussie by birth) and this revelation -- why it was even considered by the faculty baffled me -- meant the popular student was ineligible. It really broke his heart and seemed incredibly unfair, particularly to classmates. Keep in mind most of us were 12 or younger, but we already had a pretty well developed sense of what is fair and how you deal with weasels who succeed in removing competition by devious means, the weasel was soundly defeated in the vote. So the lesson here isn't that you cannot have your competitor diminished by technicalities or smearing, but you should always have a surrogate do it on the side so you don't get caught for the 'Swiftboating'.
why would the NSA want the ones stupid enough to be caught?
Yeah, they can just hire them as contractors.
On the one hand, fraud is bad. On the other, student government is usually a joke that deserves to be pranked. At the college level it is, AFAIK, not much better than HS. Our Class President gave a friggin' 15 minute speech at commencement. Holy Crap! That was the only real debacle at graduation. I'll never forget it. That's all I remember about the class president.
Student government is seldom more than a popularity contest.
It can be good training (relatively speaking and tongue firmly in cheek) for figuring out social engineering skills - what are the hot buttons for people, what people are likely to remember of your (ha) promises after you've been elected and practice in keeping skeletons from accumulating in your closet.
all he needed to do was use a keystroke logger to work his keystroke logger.
I see you made a typo, then corrected it. Well done. (c:
I think this kid's ready for the big time! Future statesman, you heard about him first on Slashdot!
I'm not sure mentioned on slashdot is any kind of endorsement. You don't see Wil Wheaton in the DC, do you?
in national politics. But who will get him, the Dems or the Republicans?
Follow the money -- as in: who is the highest bidder?
If a user has a website remember their login via a cookie, and I make a copy of that cookie and put it into my browser, I will be logged in as that user? I am shocked...
It doesn't take much to be considered an "hacking professor" now days, does it?
Someone alert the Girl Scouts, this is an easier way to make money on Cookies.
The industry will still try and spin this off as being a side effect of their anti-piracy push.
The industry continues to have faith in their method of exterminating hornets by hitting them with a sledgehammer.
The way the industry has behaved would make great fodder for heroes and villains series.
i guess you hold a bunch of patents for this technology already?
welcome to hindsight
Hindsite?!?
Of course! Patent beans to energy after they've been used for food!
Well yeah, you put the boiler on one side and a refrigerator on the other.
I would like to know if this is more efficient than your regular Peltier module..
News at 5: Ocean water temperatures suddenly rise while middle America experiences heatwave and use Air Conditioners in record numbers, polar ice caps reduced to a few ice cubes.
And why should we expect that to be a unique identifier?
"Miserable.lying.bastards" could be applied to so many places it's not funny.
Primarily: Washington DC
Dirty.Greedy.Scum: Pick any Wallstreet investment bank
probably.your.neighborhood
Springfield, USA
Los Angeles:
Fucking.smoggy.hell
Los Angeles: La La Land
alternatively: Highways Of Hell
Stockton?
No, that's the crotch of California. The Armpit is Oakland.
Why crowded? Because it's Summer and temperatures are in 3 digits (F) inland.
The problem is that any biomarkers of an individual is at best half the story.
What would they find? A propensity to act impulsively or violently to certain stimuli, perhaps? What if such a person could gain enough experience to control those impulses?
Alternately, otherwise perfectly normal people go bananas because they are subjected to people who are not violent, but they are incredibly manipulative. Or perhaps situations completely outside their control like a terrible accident or terrorist attack. Their otherwise non-impulsive nature might, over time, be turned to murderous rage.
There are real concerns about labeling people in a way that could cause immediate action to be taken against them before the whole picture is understood. Incomplete science can always be used as a particularly potent excuse for atrocity.
I channel my violent urges into coding spells.
I'm very sorry for writing that bit which the NSA has been using...
You know, 700 years ago the Indians were burning lots of fires to send smoke signals. Obviously they caused a climate change that brought the "Sandy" like hurricanes to their shores back then.
Somewhere around 13,000 years ago the last glacial age ended, in effect the Earth has been warming prior and is accelerating today, which means weather patterns are changing. To mark 1 in 700 seems almost casually to overlook this relatively short time span and what has transpired within.
Sandy hit at high tide and a full moon
the gravity of the moon raised the water a few feet which is why the storm surge caused all the flooding
we had a more powerful storm hit NYC the year before and it did a lot less damage because it didn't hit at high tide. very minor flooding.
for another hurricane to do as much damage as Sandy, it has to hit the around the 22nd of the month and make landfall close to 8pm
Which sounds like as good a time and date to make landfall.
Where I grew up they'd describe a severe flood as happening once, every 70 years. I'm not 70 years old and another one has already happened.
That would be my guess as a good marker... :>
It's all T'Pring's doing. Her and her impeccable logic.
... is that it is possible to flip a coin and have it land heads up 1,000 times consecutively - it can happen and is increasingly likely to happen in a larger number of trials. Same can be said for a "Sandy" occurring in consecutive (or near neighbor) years. One thing is evident - the east coast, sand bars, outer banks, etc, were formed and shaped by this type of storm. I expect the 700 year estimate is fanciful.
Don't astronauts train underwater? It sounds like some sound stage technician fucked up.
What, like he was in a pool in outer space? Um...
As long as natural gas and coal can emit CO2 without any penalty to the real cost of that emission, nuclear plants will continue to close. It is funny that every time that nuclear power is brought up that people shake their fists demand that it is able to pay its entire costs, while they never mention the tragedy of commons that is going on with fossil fuel derived power. It is a pity that our ability to do risk analysis and balance alternatives is weighted on whether it can blow up in a scary fashion and release a radioactive plume versus causing irreversible destruction to the entire planet (but slow enough that only your grandchildren will care).
Further north, in California you can find a lot of wind turbines, including Shiloh II. I was by the San Luis Reservoir (Pump and Store engergy/water resource) and noticed more turbines are being erected near there (a very windy place.) These 1.5 megawatt turbines are turning up in some amazing places, even solo installations in a rightly situated location, where a land owner can use some power and sell the rest at a tidy profit.
With all the talk of Santa Ana Winds I think there's an opportunity to build some of these wind farms in SoCal.
Even native americans knew burying a fish next to a corn plant helped it grow faster (assuming a raccoon didn't dig up the fish first)