India should just implement currency controls similar to the ones implemented by China. Really, China has a billion people too, and it's been working really well for them.
The lower the price for the yuan (a.k.a the renminbi) in dollars, the more dollars China earns from exports, and the fewer dollars it spends on imports. By not allowing its currency to rise, China generates a dollar surplus, and hence must buy up the excess dollars by purchasing Treasuries and maintaining large dollar reserves. A similar policy for India would need to go further, so that one rupee is equivalent to -1 dollars.
The Paypal thing makes it easy to do this. Here's what India has to do:
From its headquarters in Mumbai, the Reserve Bank of India purchases Indian treasuries on the open market, using a Paypal account.
When the bill arrives, the central bank simply ignores the positive account balance, leaving Paypal holding the bag with a large reserve of dollars.
Meanwhile the bank prints a new type of security, which holds them accountable for 10,000 dollars each, backed by the full faith and credit of Paypal.
The bank puts these up for sale for rupees, accepting all methods of payment other than Paypal.
When everyone realizes they've been suckered into buying dollars with rupees, the dollar will acquire a negative exchange rate in terms of the rupee, as everyone beats on Paypal's doors to pay them back. But Paypal, holding dollars, is not in a position to do so. This is equivalent to the rupee falling down to a value of minus one dollars.
The fact that the receiver is in your house (if not even on your person) might well indicate an effect on the required power output from the transmitter.
...because I have a hands-free phone setup in my car. I just mow over other people when they cross the street and some bitch is breaking up with me over the phone.
Can someone find an Ebay link to an auction for an advanced combat optical gunsight with an inscripted reference to a Bible verse that appears lit for several decades when viewed through the scope?
[JN 8:12]Then spake Jesus again unto them saying, "I am the light of the world: he who followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of five keV beta emission incident unto copper-activated zinc and burning sulfur emitting greenish secondary radiation having peak wavelength of one millionth of a cubit."
It's actually mild on Slashdot, probably because people from all around the world participate on this board, not just Americans.
I've only seen it for a few decades, but this country used to be a lot different when I was younger, and the change has been accelerating especially during the past 15 years. Rejection of science seems to be something that is new, and that used to be confined to creationism. But these days you'll frequently hear that scientists all around the world are all in some sort of conspiracy they've formed to get U.S. government money for producing false research.
The C-64 had keys to change the cursor color, but to change the foreground color the manual told you to POKE 53281, 15 (for whatever color code from 0 to 15).
I had a ZX81 which didn't have a good way to save machine code programs. The manual said you could set RAMTOP and put stuff into the top of memory, but it wouldn't make it onto the tape drive. The goofball technique in the Sinclair manual was to write a huge BASIC program starting with a shitload of POKE statements and ending with something like
LET A = USR(...).
What everyone did (anyone remember this?) was to write a short BASIC program starting with a monster comment-
10 REM AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...
20 PRINT USR(16514)
30 SAVE
40 GOTO 20
Then you started poking machine code instructions into memory starting at address 16514, which was the first A. The REM statement turned into gibberish, and when you finished you entered RUN 30
That would save everything onto the tape. Then when you LOAD this Sinclair program off the tape (the kind of thing kids today never experience) the execution would resume at line 40 which tried to evaluate USR(16514) for passing to the PRINT command, which never ran because the machine code would start.
What works like that today? Well, there was that Code Red worm a few years back whose attack vector was a huge URL, starting with:
Upon receipt of a GET request for this thing, a gets C function in the IIS indexer tried to store the URL into a fixed-size buffer, which this URL overran. When the gets returned, it popped a bullshit return address off the stack and the CPU started executing the machine code instructions that someone had poked into this goddamn URL.
You see, kiddies, this is how computers are supposed to work.
The bans are naturally going to be ineffective in reducing actual crashes if people are merely getting tickets and still being allowed to drive. I don't understand why this surprises everybody.
What this reduction in cellphone use but not crashes is indicating, is that the idiots who make calls in cars (whether or not they decide a $100 ticket is costly enough to be a disincentive) are the same self-absorbed and self-important assholes who pay too much attention to shit inside the car and are the most likely to crash under any circumstance. A ban on cellphone use makes big news and we see it putting fear into a lot of people who don't want to waste money. But they're still going to remain totally unconscious of other mundane laws that have been around for years forbidding things like vehicular manslaughter.
It seems to be escaping people that the ineffectiveness of this ban is neither here nor there. Drivers yakking on cellphones cause accidents at a 4X rate and that alone means they deserve to be fined as a punitive measure.
"The Mountain West in an uninhabitable wasteland, enormously expensive to get to, and impossible to survive in for long periods without costly, regular support deliveries from the Industrialized East." That's always been "true", and always been a lame excuse. Yes, in a colonization effort LOTS of people fail - ask the Roanoake colony. But someone will succeed, and MAKE the "wasteland" into a paradise.
Glass is inedible. Tomatoes used to be thought inedible. So someone will succeed in eating glass, and MAKING tasty spaghetti with it.
Black holes can contain lots of usable energy, for those that might be in the black holes.
No, there's a large amount of energy inside, but it's all in the form of a high temperature, and there's no colder heat reservoir available to anyone down there that would try to extract useful work from it. (Since nothing outside the singularity is reachable once you're there.) Useful work could be extracted from outside the hole by letting stuff fall in, like the way a hydroelectric generator works, but not if there's nothing outside left to fall in.
There's an asymptotic limit to the universe's entropy that is approached but not necessarily reached, where everything would have fallen into one massive hole, free to explore an immensely large number of quantum states available to it at its high temperature. When you fall in your mass contributes to the number of states (and the temperature). The entropy rises with the logarithm of the number of states. A black hole singularity is postulated as being some single particle with a complicated wave function composed of a large number of available component states.
I originally posted it here in 2002. Note how dated it is (e.g. no smartass comment about CAPTCHA).
Some mathematician (I forget who) had his graduate students send back cards with forms like these to people who sent in attempted proofs of Fermat's Last Theorem.
It is free expression on Trijicon's part, but whether the US military should be purchasing rifles inscripted with references to Bible verses is another issue entirely.
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Statements like "this is why you shouldn't entrust your data to proprietary solutions" make me wonder what I've been doing with my life.
No, I just have my posts written there in exchange for worthless karma.
The lower the price for the yuan (a.k.a the renminbi) in dollars, the more dollars China earns from exports, and the fewer dollars it spends on imports. By not allowing its currency to rise, China generates a dollar surplus, and hence must buy up the excess dollars by purchasing Treasuries and maintaining large dollar reserves. A similar policy for India would need to go further, so that one rupee is equivalent to -1 dollars.
The Paypal thing makes it easy to do this. Here's what India has to do:
The fact that the receiver is in your house (if not even on your person) might well indicate an effect on the required power output from the transmitter.
...because I have a hands-free phone setup in my car. I just mow over other people when they cross the street and some bitch is breaking up with me over the phone.
Can someone find an Ebay link to an auction for an advanced combat optical gunsight with an inscripted reference to a Bible verse that appears lit for several decades when viewed through the scope?
[JN 8:12] Then spake Jesus again unto them saying, "I am the light of the world: he who followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of five keV beta emission incident unto copper-activated zinc and burning sulfur emitting greenish secondary radiation having peak wavelength of one millionth of a cubit."
Advance to 3:40 in this gunsight review to get the idea. For those of you who aren't Christians, well whatever, get over it.
I'll believe it when they transport a red shirt into oblivion.
Because a lot of people don't go through their crap until they know they're about to die soon.
It's actually mild on Slashdot, probably because people from all around the world participate on this board, not just Americans.
I've only seen it for a few decades, but this country used to be a lot different when I was younger, and the change has been accelerating especially during the past 15 years. Rejection of science seems to be something that is new, and that used to be confined to creationism. But these days you'll frequently hear that scientists all around the world are all in some sort of conspiracy they've formed to get U.S. government money for producing false research.
The C-64 had keys to change the cursor color, but to change the foreground color the manual told you to POKE 53281, 15 (for whatever color code from 0 to 15).
I had a ZX81 which didn't have a good way to save machine code programs. The manual said you could set RAMTOP and put stuff into the top of memory, but it wouldn't make it onto the tape drive. The goofball technique in the Sinclair manual was to write a huge BASIC program starting with a shitload of POKE statements and ending with something like
LET A = USR(...).
What everyone did (anyone remember this?) was to write a short BASIC program starting with a monster comment-
10 REM AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...
20 PRINT USR(16514)
30 SAVE
40 GOTO 20
Then you started poking machine code instructions into memory starting at address 16514, which was the first A. The REM statement turned into gibberish, and when you finished you entered
RUN 30
That would save everything onto the tape. Then when you LOAD this Sinclair program off the tape (the kind of thing kids today never experience) the execution would resume at line 40 which tried to evaluate USR(16514) for passing to the PRINT command, which never ran because the machine code would start.
What works like that today? Well, there was that Code Red worm a few years back whose attack vector was a huge URL, starting with:
default.ida?NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN%u9090%u6858%ucbd3
%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3
%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00
%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000
Upon receipt of a GET request for this thing, a gets C function in the IIS indexer tried to store the URL into a fixed-size buffer, which this URL overran. When the gets returned, it popped a bullshit return address off the stack and the CPU started executing the machine code instructions that someone had poked into this goddamn URL.
You see, kiddies, this is how computers are supposed to work.
The bans are naturally going to be ineffective in reducing actual crashes if people are merely getting tickets and still being allowed to drive. I don't understand why this surprises everybody.
What this reduction in cellphone use but not crashes is indicating, is that the idiots who make calls in cars (whether or not they decide a $100 ticket is costly enough to be a disincentive) are the same self-absorbed and self-important assholes who pay too much attention to shit inside the car and are the most likely to crash under any circumstance. A ban on cellphone use makes big news and we see it putting fear into a lot of people who don't want to waste money. But they're still going to remain totally unconscious of other mundane laws that have been around for years forbidding things like vehicular manslaughter.
It seems to be escaping people that the ineffectiveness of this ban is neither here nor there. Drivers yakking on cellphones cause accidents at a 4X rate and that alone means they deserve to be fined as a punitive measure.
It would take an act of Congress to change this.
That's not an insurmountable obstacle. Write your Senator once the army gets self-driving tanks.
Tomatoes used to be thought inedible.
I'd really like some source for that.
I'll refer you to your own Slashdot post 30925170:
It was a myth common in Britain and its colonies
"The Mountain West in an uninhabitable wasteland, enormously expensive to get to, and impossible to survive in for long periods without costly, regular support deliveries from the Industrialized East." That's always been "true", and always been a lame excuse. Yes, in a colonization effort LOTS of people fail - ask the Roanoake colony. But someone will succeed, and MAKE the "wasteland" into a paradise.
Glass is inedible. Tomatoes used to be thought inedible. So someone will succeed in eating glass, and MAKING tasty spaghetti with it.
I still don't understand what the ACORN scam was that was supposedly revealed.
Sending robots into space is much more cost-effective. They don't need return trips, oxygen, and Tang.
Black holes can contain lots of usable energy, for those that might be in the black holes.
No, there's a large amount of energy inside, but it's all in the form of a high temperature, and there's no colder heat reservoir available to anyone down there that would try to extract useful work from it. (Since nothing outside the singularity is reachable once you're there.) Useful work could be extracted from outside the hole by letting stuff fall in, like the way a hydroelectric generator works, but not if there's nothing outside left to fall in.
There's an asymptotic limit to the universe's entropy that is approached but not necessarily reached, where everything would have fallen into one massive hole, free to explore an immensely large number of quantum states available to it at its high temperature. When you fall in your mass contributes to the number of states (and the temperature). The entropy rises with the logarithm of the number of states. A black hole singularity is postulated as being some single particle with a complicated wave function composed of a large number of available component states.
Whoops, it was 2003. It seemed like longer ago.
I originally posted it here in 2002. Note how dated it is (e.g. no smartass comment about CAPTCHA).
Some mathematician (I forget who) had his graduate students send back cards with forms like these to people who sent in attempted proofs of Fermat's Last Theorem.
"In God We Trust" was added in the fifties by McCarthyites.
You can watch a review of the rifle sight with approving remarks on the Biblical verses if you fast forward to 3:42. (YouTube chap 3 verse 42)
It is free expression on Trijicon's part, but whether the US military should be purchasing rifles inscripted with references to Bible verses is another issue entirely.
Well, the most annoying thing about it now is that all the employers I run into are wanting to see experience with Hadoop and MapReduce.
Has Google filed its patent yet on "Method and Materials to Power a Pulsar Beam Using a Faster-Than-Light Current"?