> a big red emergency stop button (think Staples Easy button).
Has Slashdot's audience diverged from IT workers so far that a Big Red Button needs explanation? Has no one been in a data center or used industrial equipment lately?
I've been curious about those "I'm not a robot" checkboxes. How does it differentiate between a humsn and script checking that box? I've guessed that it had to do with timing of page load vs checkbox, or with tracking mouse movements for human-like movements. Anyone have the scoop?
My first thought was that yes, it would throw off pining down a date for the Big Bang.
As for Biblical creation, do keep in mind that the story starts with "the face of God moving over the deep". The earth, formless and void though it be, existed before day 1. The universe was created, and was in place for an undetermined period of time before the 7 days of creation.
If you consider the frame of reference, the surface of the earth, the 7 days of creation play out logically. You can't see the sun or moon until the atmosphere is cleaned up and put to into a usable-for-life state, for example.
I'm sure the experts have thought of this, but don't see an answer: is the 16 inch sinking measured from the top of the tower, or from ground level?
In other words, does that measurement include settling within the 58 above-ground stories? I would think that a building that large would have some internal compaction over time, independent of the ground beneath it.
I presume that the ground surrounding the building is deformed downward with the building, otherwise the entrance threshold would have moved markedly compared to the street level. Road crews could probably identify pavement cracks in vaguely concentric rings around the building.
I like this system. A lot. I'd amend it with: * Make voting day an official federal holiday. (Then we can keep the 2nd Tuesday in November date) * Use paper ballots with an electronic scanner for tallying. (best of both worlds) * Longer hours for voting. Maybe 7am to 6pm. * No absentee or mail-in votes, at all.
An official inflated job title is a good thing - on your resume. You may think that the company is giving you something worthless, but on a resume, it's official documentation that you're doing a higher job than you were hired in for. Use that acknowledgement as part of your resume to make the next hop easier.
That's why in your work history section, you list the last job title you had with an employer, not the first. When you hop, get more pay at the new job than what you should have been making at the previous job.
Where do you get that idea? You can share your pay stub data with anyone you want, as can your employer. Most employers highly discourage you talking about it - mostly because you'd get jealous when you hear the new guy gets more than you. Some companies will even fire over this.
How do you think companies know what to offer people coming in? They do research. just like Realtors. You compare what everyone else is doing, and copy them. To get data, you have to submit data.
Easy fix - search (or self report) on the industry standard title of your job. Forget your actual internal title it, when you're shopping for a new job or doing research. Sites like those in TFA are very valuable when moving to a new job role, or applying for a different job than you've been doing. You have to know if that hop is a move up or a move down.
That theory doesn't line up with the $4.2 billion in NASA contracts they have lined up. Plus tons (pardon the pun) of other launches lined up from non-NASA sources.
Nuts, a quick google shows that most financial experts say that SpaceX isn't just making money - they are likely making a whole lotta money. And will be likely raking in a 40% profit margin on future launches.
If Elon wants, Earth orbit launches could fund past Earth launches - until those start making a profit. Tell me that NASA wouldn't love to pay for payloads to Mars that get there faster & cheaper than in-house rockets.
In terms of Delta-V, Mars isn't that much further out than the moon. Most of the cost is getting into Earth orbit.
In terms of environment, moon dust is extremely hazardous, especially over the long term. Air-tight seals are going to be a serious problem on the moon. Mars, on the other hand, has some atmosphere, and dust there is nowhere near as abrasive.
If you want a good rabbit-hole, research how we got moon dust samples back from the Apollo missions. Many of the air-tight sample containers failed, due to the evil nature of moon dust. Look into how moon dust got deep under fingernails, and took weeks to grow back out. Moon dust is straight up evil-toxic-hazardous.
This. What any presidential candidate needs is a veep who is inert - someone who won't outshine the candidate and doesn't have strong opinions (especially those that might conflict with said candidate).
None of the people on the "rich" flavor list could possibly fit that criteria. Someone was having fun daydreaming and actually wrote it down.
I'm looking forward to hackers causing city level gridlock by playing with light timing. Or just turning them all red forever. Not everything needs to be connected to a network.
Auto makers just don't understand tech, and the product cycle of phones is way, way faster than cars. I own a car typically 10-15 years. I own a phone maybe 4, if it doesn't get a fatal screen break.
I want my car to have an audio input, and a USB charge port. That's it - let me handle the GPS, audio, whatever with my own phone & my own apps.
If autos want to really get fancy, mirror my phone on a bigger touch screen - but stay out of the way.
>scale ion thrusters or solar sails or Moon based laser push-beams OK, and how many ounces is that going to push?
Dude, manned missions are HEAVY. You have the people, their air systems, food, water redundant everything to keep people alive. Slow pushers like what you listed make the travel time a LOT longer (say 10x, if you're optimistic), meaning you need that much more food, water, oxygen, etc - making the whole payload mind-bogglingly heavy... meaning then the engine then won't get the job done at all.
The solution to government control and burocracy is not more government control and burocracy. Non-rich people can, and do, give to charitable causes. If you consider donating time as a non-zero valued item, the poor and middle class give far more to charitable causes than the rich.
Your need to stop thinking that government is the only answer.
Slashdot Mirror
> a big red emergency stop button (think Staples Easy button).
Has Slashdot's audience diverged from IT workers so far that a Big Red Button needs explanation? Has no one been in a data center or used industrial equipment lately?
>that just passed 1015 days uptime with no restarts or reboots
If that's really true, then you haven't been patching. I would not be bragging about a system that poorly managed and vulnerable.
I've been curious about those "I'm not a robot" checkboxes. How does it differentiate between a humsn and script checking that box?
I've guessed that it had to do with timing of page load vs checkbox, or with tracking mouse movements for human-like movements.
Anyone have the scoop?
Just like when you plug 2 power strips into a loop- free power forever!
... we don't do blunt force trauma for the fun of it...
Pipe down, I can't hear the MMA match on my TV. Also looking forward to the boxing match later tonight, and the marathon of Jackass tomorrow.
My first thought was that yes, it would throw off pining down a date for the Big Bang.
As for Biblical creation, do keep in mind that the story starts with "the face of God moving over the deep". The earth, formless and void though it be, existed before day 1. The universe was created, and was in place for an undetermined period of time before the 7 days of creation.
If you consider the frame of reference, the surface of the earth, the 7 days of creation play out logically. You can't see the sun or moon until the atmosphere is cleaned up and put to into a usable-for-life state, for example.
$0.02. Opinions on the topic are many and varied.
I'm sure the experts have thought of this, but don't see an answer: is the 16 inch sinking measured from the top of the tower, or from ground level?
In other words, does that measurement include settling within the 58 above-ground stories? I would think that a building that large would have some internal compaction over time, independent of the ground beneath it.
I presume that the ground surrounding the building is deformed downward with the building, otherwise the entrance threshold would have moved markedly compared to the street level. Road crews could probably identify pavement cracks in vaguely concentric rings around the building.
I like this system. A lot. I'd amend it with:
* Make voting day an official federal holiday. (Then we can keep the 2nd Tuesday in November date)
* Use paper ballots with an electronic scanner for tallying. (best of both worlds)
* Longer hours for voting. Maybe 7am to 6pm.
* No absentee or mail-in votes, at all.
An official inflated job title is a good thing - on your resume.
You may think that the company is giving you something worthless, but on a resume, it's official documentation that you're doing a higher job than you were hired in for. Use that acknowledgement as part of your resume to make the next hop easier.
That's why in your work history section, you list the last job title you had with an employer, not the first. When you hop, get more pay at the new job than what you should have been making at the previous job.
Where do you get that idea? You can share your pay stub data with anyone you want, as can your employer.
Most employers highly discourage you talking about it - mostly because you'd get jealous when you hear the new guy gets more than you. Some companies will even fire over this.
How do you think companies know what to offer people coming in? They do research. just like Realtors. You compare what everyone else is doing, and copy them. To get data, you have to submit data.
But illegal? Go cite me a law. No such thing.
Easy fix - search (or self report) on the industry standard title of your job. Forget your actual internal title it, when you're shopping for a new job or doing research.
Sites like those in TFA are very valuable when moving to a new job role, or applying for a different job than you've been doing. You have to know if that hop is a move up or a move down.
tl;dr: NAT your title for improved results.
That theory doesn't line up with the $4.2 billion in NASA contracts they have lined up. Plus tons (pardon the pun) of other launches lined up from non-NASA sources.
Nuts, a quick google shows that most financial experts say that SpaceX isn't just making money - they are likely making a whole lotta money. And will be likely raking in a 40% profit margin on future launches.
If Elon wants, Earth orbit launches could fund past Earth launches - until those start making a profit. Tell me that NASA wouldn't love to pay for payloads to Mars that get there faster & cheaper than in-house rockets.
This. When NASA gets to Mars, they will be going to visit SpaceX infrastructure to refuel.
A lot of experts disagree with you.
In terms of Delta-V, Mars isn't that much further out than the moon. Most of the cost is getting into Earth orbit.
In terms of environment, moon dust is extremely hazardous, especially over the long term. Air-tight seals are going to be a serious problem on the moon. Mars, on the other hand, has some atmosphere, and dust there is nowhere near as abrasive.
If you want a good rabbit-hole, research how we got moon dust samples back from the Apollo missions. Many of the air-tight sample containers failed, due to the evil nature of moon dust. Look into how moon dust got deep under fingernails, and took weeks to grow back out. Moon dust is straight up evil-toxic-hazardous.
You must be new to space news. NASA has blown up more rockets that SpaceX has ever built.
If you need a refresher:
https://www.google.com/webhp?q...
Ok, I'll bite. How far is "short range"?
This. What any presidential candidate needs is a veep who is inert - someone who won't outshine the candidate and doesn't have strong opinions (especially those that might conflict with said candidate).
None of the people on the "rich" flavor list could possibly fit that criteria. Someone was having fun daydreaming and actually wrote it down.
Only to the extent that ".com" addresses verify validity.
Quick, is "https:\\logins.accounts.bankcfamerica\" valid and the genuine site?
I, for one, welcome our TLD typo-squatting overlords.
I'm looking forward to hackers causing city level gridlock by playing with light timing. Or just turning them all red forever.
Not everything needs to be connected to a network.
Auto makers just don't understand tech, and the product cycle of phones is way, way faster than cars. I own a car typically 10-15 years. I own a phone maybe 4, if it doesn't get a fatal screen break.
I want my car to have an audio input, and a USB charge port. That's it - let me handle the GPS, audio, whatever with my own phone & my own apps.
If autos want to really get fancy, mirror my phone on a bigger touch screen - but stay out of the way.
Well now, aren't you just a ray of sunshine.
Exactly the same way that unemployment insurance and welfare has.
>scale ion thrusters or solar sails or Moon based laser push-beams
OK, and how many ounces is that going to push?
Dude, manned missions are HEAVY. You have the people, their air systems, food, water redundant everything to keep people alive.
Slow pushers like what you listed make the travel time a LOT longer (say 10x, if you're optimistic), meaning you need that much more food, water, oxygen, etc - making the whole payload mind-bogglingly heavy... meaning then the engine then won't get the job done at all.
Whoosh.
The solution to government control and burocracy is not more government control and burocracy.
Non-rich people can, and do, give to charitable causes. If you consider donating time as a non-zero valued item, the poor and middle class give far more to charitable causes than the rich.
Your need to stop thinking that government is the only answer.
Absolutely! How dare hey spend their own money in noble causes that they select without government mandate!