He's merely exposing inherent flaws in attempting to filter the internet. Deny-by-default is the only possible and effective way, but of course, people don't like that because we live in a free country where access to information is considered a basic right.
If it was some-other-random-proxy-site, they'd be going after the people using it, which is what they OUGHT to be doing now.
VB.net's syntax is, in my OPINION, inferior. It's much harder to write clean, legible code in VB.net than it is in C#, and it also leaves you open to a few other little idiosyncracies such as whitespace and linebreaks.
Call me old fashioned, but when a line with two statements on it has a different meaning than two statements on seperate lines, it strikes me as odd.
Probably most of this is a result of people who seek out VB.net because it is 'easier' rather than inherent in the language, so it might be more the VB.net 'culture' that I am criticizing. Regardless, maintenance is a royal pain in the ass, whatever the cause is.
The cable mass is offset by the tether. a '60%' station would be the distance to geosync plus 20% (120% of geosynchronous orbit)
As opposed to a cable-only space elevator, which would be 100% (200% of geosynchronous orbit)
See, the CENTER OF MASS of the entire system has to be on the geosynchronous point, not the station. No matter how large your station was (assuming it's roughly symmetrical) it'd still be pulled off station by the weight of the elevator.
No matter what impact, it heads out. it's being flung away from earth like a tennis ball on a string, the only thing holding it to earth is the elevator. If it were to become suddenly disconnected, it would either ascend to orbit the earth, or leave earth orbit entirely.
What is not known is whether we can continuously develop new antibiotics that kill new antibiotic-resistant strains of germs and that will not kill human cells. As each successive generation of new antibiotics bombards the bacteria and as it adapts to the new medicines, will the bacteria become so powerful that it cannot be killed?
Simple: the bacteria will evolve into human cells. After all, if we can continue to make drugs which kill everything except human cells, they'll just have to evolve into human cells.
I'd guess you're correct, it appears that monitors are running into the same issues as normal networking. Really, to be future-safe, they ought to do an order-of-magnitude increase (eg 100gbps vs DVI-B 10gbps)
Not only that, but the point of catalysts is to increase the rate of reaction (in some cases with equilibrium reactions it results in shifting the balance to the other side)
With microchannels like he's using, the surface area is so high you've got a naturally higher rate of reaction, so you may not need the catalyst at all.
I concur with this one. Make them as bulletproof as you can get them, if the construction of DDR is any guide to go buy, steel, rivets/welding, and 3/8ths thick (or thicker) plexi is the way to go.
Design it as though an elephant will stomp on it, and then maybe it'll last long enough for you to enjoy it
If I recall correctly, many of the "volume license key" leaks have been from places like Dell, wherein the OS is preinstalled, and then each consumer is given a taped-on key on their PC.
This, of course, would be the consumer version of the OS, in general.
That's true, however, unless you're specifically, personally told to go to work due to being in a "critically needed" job, you stay home. During a pandemic outbreak, the vast, vast majority of people would be told to sit on their asses.
In fact, depending on the exact circumstances, martial law might very well become a serious consideration: When everyone including the police are quarantined, who is to stop the looters? Congress (from suitable distance as to not infect each other, surely) would have to void the strictures of the posse comitatus laws and send soldiers in biowarfare gear out, especially considering that looters would be spreading disease as they went, almost certainly.
The disparity lies in the fact that some portion of the people who fall ill do not require (or recieve, however one looks at it) hospitalization, either through fast onset of morbidity and mortality (unable to get to a hospital in a town with even fewer ambulances than hospital beds), or through having a lower level of symptoms (not needing hospitalization at all).
For "normal" flu, this level is approximately 1%. However, if we extrapolate from the fact that pandemic flu (of whatever type, be it bird flu or the 1918 flu) often has a mortality rate 25 times that of normal flu (0.1% vs 2.5% for 1918) then you can see that perhaps a quarter of the people would be hospitalized.
Again, this is all guesswork, and either way it's entirely beyond any theoretical capability of the medical system to cope with.
Slashdot Mirror
Two words:
Thin mints
Note: Mind the spaces that slashcode mindlessly inserts in this config file. There are no spaces in it, so you can safely delete them all.
Hope that helps, it's gotten me back to a place where I enjoy browsing the internet. Even takes the ads off slashdot!
He's merely exposing inherent flaws in attempting to filter the internet. Deny-by-default is the only possible and effective way, but of course, people don't like that because we live in a free country where access to information is considered a basic right.
If it was some-other-random-proxy-site, they'd be going after the people using it, which is what they OUGHT to be doing now.
Running a (proxy|remailer|*) is not a crime.
His point is that the dialog box should always have a choice. You should always be able to decide "wait, that's not good" and cancel, or the like.
VB.net's syntax is, in my OPINION, inferior. It's much harder to write clean, legible code in VB.net than it is in C#, and it also leaves you open to a few other little idiosyncracies such as whitespace and linebreaks.
Call me old fashioned, but when a line with two statements on it has a different meaning than two statements on seperate lines, it strikes me as odd.
Probably most of this is a result of people who seek out VB.net because it is 'easier' rather than inherent in the language, so it might be more the VB.net 'culture' that I am criticizing. Regardless, maintenance is a royal pain in the ass, whatever the cause is.
Correct, but you realize that is subject to the vagaries of normal DSL service. T-1s are more reliable, generally.
T-1s are also much faster upstream, which is where a budding internet company or the like needs their bandwidth.
I find it very hardcore that you read slashdot.
The cable mass is offset by the tether. a '60%' station would be the distance to geosync plus 20% (120% of geosynchronous orbit)
As opposed to a cable-only space elevator, which would be 100% (200% of geosynchronous orbit)
See, the CENTER OF MASS of the entire system has to be on the geosynchronous point, not the station. No matter how large your station was (assuming it's roughly symmetrical) it'd still be pulled off station by the weight of the elevator.
v(t) = v(0) + a * t
For very small values of T, you need very large values of A, or nearly equal values of V(0)
in other words, the acceleration would kill you.
And that's even neglecting air friction.
No matter what impact, it heads out. it's being flung away from earth like a tennis ball on a string, the only thing holding it to earth is the elevator. If it were to become suddenly disconnected, it would either ascend to orbit the earth, or leave earth orbit entirely.
Simple: the bacteria will evolve into human cells. After all, if we can continue to make drugs which kill everything except human cells, they'll just have to evolve into human cells.
Actually, most cell towers are on independent power backup. They often have a UPS with an on-site generator.
Mind you, that's not ALL of them, but enough that the network doesn't go down entirely in disasters.
You forgot the big one: Oregonians pay scary property taxes. I'm unclear about the other states' property taxes
No, no, three games AT A TIME.
Remember flash is rewritable.
how many are you going to be able to fit on the largest of memory sticks?
$80 for 2gb = three games, roughly.
I find that 5mg dex and 100mg of modafinil keep me right on that perfect balance for about six hours
I'd guess you're correct, it appears that monitors are running into the same issues as normal networking. Really, to be future-safe, they ought to do an order-of-magnitude increase (eg 100gbps vs DVI-B 10gbps)
Not only that, but the point of catalysts is to increase the rate of reaction (in some cases with equilibrium reactions it results in shifting the balance to the other side)
With microchannels like he's using, the surface area is so high you've got a naturally higher rate of reaction, so you may not need the catalyst at all.
I concur with this one. Make them as bulletproof as you can get them, if the construction of DDR is any guide to go buy, steel, rivets/welding, and 3/8ths thick (or thicker) plexi is the way to go.
Design it as though an elephant will stomp on it, and then maybe it'll last long enough for you to enjoy it
Either they've been watching you, or this is one of the universal uses of photoshop.
Consider the implications, if you will.
If I recall correctly, many of the "volume license key" leaks have been from places like Dell, wherein the OS is preinstalled, and then each consumer is given a taped-on key on their PC.
This, of course, would be the consumer version of the OS, in general.
Off topic, I know, but I never understood that. They aren't even heat pipes TO somewhere. They're just sitting there.
That's true, however, unless you're specifically, personally told to go to work due to being in a "critically needed" job, you stay home. During a pandemic outbreak, the vast, vast majority of people would be told to sit on their asses.
In fact, depending on the exact circumstances, martial law might very well become a serious consideration: When everyone including the police are quarantined, who is to stop the looters? Congress (from suitable distance as to not infect each other, surely) would have to void the strictures of the posse comitatus laws and send soldiers in biowarfare gear out, especially considering that looters would be spreading disease as they went, almost certainly.
The disparity lies in the fact that some portion of the people who fall ill do not require (or recieve, however one looks at it) hospitalization, either through fast onset of morbidity and mortality (unable to get to a hospital in a town with even fewer ambulances than hospital beds), or through having a lower level of symptoms (not needing hospitalization at all).
For "normal" flu, this level is approximately 1%. However, if we extrapolate from the fact that pandemic flu (of whatever type, be it bird flu or the 1918 flu) often has a mortality rate 25 times that of normal flu (0.1% vs 2.5% for 1918) then you can see that perhaps a quarter of the people would be hospitalized.
Again, this is all guesswork, and either way it's entirely beyond any theoretical capability of the medical system to cope with.
A) I'd need a new motherboard
B) I'd need new ram (ECC unbuffered)
Negates the price difference for me, unfortunately.