It isn't practical. Speakers can handle far more of a reasonable signal than a horribly clipped almost square wave. While a "normal" audio signal will be converted to transducer movement, a square wave will end up being dissipated primarily as heat in the driver coil. Speakers can handle normal overload far better than they can handle severe clipping. It's easier to destroy a 500W speaker with a 30W amp driven to clipping than with a 1000W amp driven to make the peaks push your threshold of pain.
Another way to say this might be that it's not power that kills speakers, it's distortion...
Ok, I tried the beta. Yeah its not pretty, the comment section is pretty small width wise, it looks HORRIBLE on my iPad... The client side filtering of comments completely ignores my long time preferences, etc etc.
To the point; Many have asked about cloning Slashdot, and retaking the community site. But has anyone thought about how such a mission could be accomplished? Yes I know I can go grab slashcode and standup a 16 core xeon box to toss on my 100mbps connection. But what about the users, the stories, the comments. We can't just screen scrape those to stand up a new site.
In what possible way could we honestly standup a new slashdot that is community owned?
Brett
The stories and comments come with the users.
The users seem to be ready to shift as soon as they're given an option.
state dept can do little. It is time for the govs. to stop it.
The state department is part of the government. They are specifically tasked with protection of this sort they just don't have the balls to go up against China. http://www.state.gov/e/eb/tpp/...
It may make sense to have an automatic expiration on bills like the PATRIOT ACT, but as a general rule for law that would result in complete chaos.
Actually: I would favor a constitutional requirement, that every new tax, revenue bill, regulation, OR grant of rights to any government entity has to be written so that the bill must be re-authorized or automatically expire by the house a minimum of three times, no sooner than 2 years after the original bill was passed, no longer than 6 years, AND at least 3 of the required re-authorizations separated by a minimum of 14 months.
That way, if the current session of congress does something stupid --- the NEXT congress has to continue to support it after the next two elections, OR the default is that the new experimental law goes away.
You mean like George W. putting patriot act in place and Obama renewing it?
It seems y'all are assuming the documents were digital in nature. These might have been paper documents which would explain why they were only stored in one place.
And yes, it would be logical to have scanned copies or whatever but that doesn't mean it was done - quite possibly deliberately in the same spirit that this fire is just a bit too convenient to occur just after said records were requested.
Just registered bangslashdot.com/net/org (!/.) in case Slashdot needs to be forked to a new site. Will happily sell the domain to a more capable web-type for the exact price I paid (with the stipulation that I get a low UID).
No doubt they're in the 'research and development' department.
"...on charges of stealing trade secrets in what the authorities and agriculture experts have called an unusual and brazen scheme to undercut expensive, time-consuming research."
It stops being unusual when it's industrial espionage of absolutely anything that can be reverse engineered and copied on a constant basis.
The western state departments need to get their balls out of cold storage and deal with this economic warfare against us.
Why aren't we signing contents using our PGP keys that at least make multiple signers possible and habitual, and, and this is the essential difference, IMHO: That *you* have made a conscious decision to trust or mistrust, to a certain degree, by reviewing a web of trust, as in informed consent as opposed to blind paternalism of massivly built-in, pretrusted certificates by distant companies you really have no clue about.
I just had this nightmare of facebook offering to spread pgp keys between facebook 'friends'
Small scale key exchange works but can it really work to communicate on the scale that we use every day? Commercial sites, for example, with all the individual users that connect to them?
It only takes a FEW cars disabled in key intersections to plug city streets. Police could do this, or criminals could do it keep police away from the bank heist (or what ever). Or the mythical terrorists, I suppose.
Its bad enough when Obama visits any town in the US and shuts the the airport and motorcade route down for nothing but a political fundraiser. Can you imagine this technology loose in wild?
I guarantee if this gets passed in the EU it will arrive in the US in short order. Every time there is a police chase anywhere, there will be a hue and cry from the usual useful idiots lobbying for this on all cars.
You're assuming it doesn't already exist in the US.
And yes this is paranoia but with the way things have been with the NSA of late it's almost like anything that can be thought of has been or is being done.
I think the idea is that if they have visas to hand out to companies, the companies will be willing to put offices in Detroit for those people to work in. From there, services will be needed from the lower-skill people in the area, think food service, etc. This will then eat into the 17.1% unemployment. The problem isn't the number of workers but the type and skill of the workers, and getting things back in balance. I'm not sure this is the right solution to the problem, but I am willing to consider that it may be A solution to the problem for now.
No doubt there are qualified Americans who would be willing to live and work in the Detroit area (somewhere around there anyway) if they were sufficiently financially motivated.
This is just another ploy for American corporations to pay as little as possible to their workers.
Doesn't using the phrase "an immigrant would be required to 'live and work' in Detroit for an undetermined length of time" sound a lot like an indentured labour program? It seems awfully familiar to what the Brits did to/in India during the 1800s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_indenture_system)
Except that presumably these immigrants would have the right to leave Detroit (and the USA) whenever they want.
"An October 2010 Washington Post canvass of 647 local Tea Party organizers asked "which national figure best represents your groups?" and got the following responses: no one 34%, Sarah Palin 14%, Glenn Beck 7%, Jim DeMint 6%, Ron Paul 6%, Michele Bachmann 4%.[60]"
Ergo, the largest part of Tea Party supporters do not associate with any political figure, which is what I was saying. (In 2010, not even Sarah Palin was a politician anymore.) I.e., you proved my point.
Could you be any less specific and answer, or rather not answer, any more generally?
I accused you of being a partisan, and by repeating the standard caricature of libertarians by Democrats and US liberals, you proved it.
You don't like what I say and therefore I'm wrong is not a very convincing argument.
You're a partisan, not anybody interested in a debate.
34% is not "most of" but it is a substantial part of. "Most of" tea party supporters indicated a republican and almost all of the tea party leadership is republican.
I have no idea what the 'standard caricature of libertarians by Democrats and US liberals is' so I'll have to take your word for it. I came up with my own opinion after about ten minutes of reading the stance that the libertarian party takes on various issues of the day by reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
So no, I am not partisan. I am a registered independent and always have been. Unfortunately there is no one that I think is worth voting for at all at this point as the vast majority make up a single pseudo party and the rest are infeasible and / or unrealistic.
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It isn't practical. Speakers can handle far more of a reasonable signal than a horribly clipped almost square wave. While a "normal" audio signal will be converted to transducer movement, a square wave will end up being dissipated primarily as heat in the driver coil. Speakers can handle normal overload far better than they can handle severe clipping. It's easier to destroy a 500W speaker with a 30W amp driven to clipping than with a 1000W amp driven to make the peaks push your threshold of pain.
Another way to say this might be that it's not power that kills speakers, it's distortion...
Things have taken a bit of a dive.
What's interesting is that it hasn't totally tanked after a country like Russia declares it illegal, is happened with China.
Of course in Russia everything is illegal so maybe it's not that big a deal.
It's a good thing we won world war 2 isn't it.
At least we've had sixty years of freedom.
Thanks :-)
Ok, I tried the beta. Yeah its not pretty, the comment section is pretty small width wise, it looks HORRIBLE on my iPad... The client side filtering of comments completely ignores my long time preferences, etc etc.
To the point; Many have asked about cloning Slashdot, and retaking the community site. But has anyone thought about how such a mission could be accomplished? Yes I know I can go grab slashcode and standup a 16 core xeon box to toss on my 100mbps connection. But what about the users, the stories, the comments. We can't just screen scrape those to stand up a new site.
In what possible way could we honestly standup a new slashdot that is community owned?
Brett
The stories and comments come with the users.
The users seem to be ready to shift as soon as they're given an option.
If you build it, they will come...
You mean like George W. putting patriot act in place and Obama renewing it?
Hm.. good point... on second thought.... put the bills to a popular vote for re-authorization within
2 years?
Nah that would be democracy - which is not the American way of doing things.
state dept can do little. It is time for the govs. to stop it.
The state department is part of the government. They are specifically tasked with protection of this sort they just don't have the balls to go up against China.
http://www.state.gov/e/eb/tpp/...
It may make sense to have an automatic expiration on bills like the PATRIOT ACT, but as a general rule for law that would result in complete chaos.
Actually: I would favor a constitutional requirement, that every new tax, revenue bill, regulation, OR grant of rights to any government entity has to be written so that the bill must be re-authorized or automatically expire by the house a minimum of three times, no sooner than 2 years after the original bill was passed, no longer than 6 years, AND
at least 3 of the required re-authorizations separated by a minimum of 14 months.
That way, if the current session of congress does something stupid --- the NEXT congress has to continue to support it after the next two elections, OR the default is that the new experimental law goes away.
You mean like George W. putting patriot act in place and Obama renewing it?
It seems y'all are assuming the documents were digital in nature. These might have been paper documents which would explain why they were only stored in one place.
And yes, it would be logical to have scanned copies or whatever but that doesn't mean it was done - quite possibly deliberately in the same spirit that this fire is just a bit too convenient to occur just after said records were requested.
Aren't there?
This reminds me of the "Interesting Times Gang" when the old ships come out of nowhere to start commenting during the emerging Excession crisis...
I really wish someone with a big-name reputation in the geek community would do a Slashdot fork.
We could call it a Slork !
Just registered bangslashdot.com/net/org (!/.) in case Slashdot needs to be forked to a new site. Will happily sell the domain to a more capable web-type for the exact price I paid (with the stipulation that I get a low UID).
So Rule 34 comes to slashdot now too...
No doubt they're in the 'research and development' department.
"...on charges of stealing trade secrets in what the authorities and agriculture experts have called an unusual and brazen scheme to undercut expensive, time-consuming research."
It stops being unusual when it's industrial espionage of absolutely anything that can be reverse engineered and copied on a constant basis.
The western state departments need to get their balls out of cold storage and deal with this economic warfare against us.
Why aren't we signing contents using our PGP
keys that at least make multiple signers possible and habitual, and, and this is the essential difference, IMHO: That *you* have made a
conscious decision to trust or mistrust, to a certain degree, by reviewing a web of trust, as in informed consent as opposed to blind paternalism
of massivly built-in, pretrusted certificates by distant companies you really have no clue about.
I just had this nightmare of facebook offering to spread pgp keys between facebook 'friends'
Small scale key exchange works but can it really work to communicate on the scale that we use every day? Commercial sites, for example, with all the individual users that connect to them?
That's only half the problem. The other half is the shortsightedness of those elected.
It only takes a FEW cars disabled in key intersections to plug city streets.
Police could do this, or criminals could do it keep police away from the bank heist (or what ever).
Or the mythical terrorists, I suppose.
Its bad enough when Obama visits any town in the US and shuts the the airport and motorcade route down
for nothing but a political fundraiser. Can you imagine this technology loose in wild?
I guarantee if this gets passed in the EU it will arrive in the US in short order. Every time there is
a police chase anywhere, there will be a hue and cry from the usual useful idiots lobbying for this on
all cars.
You're assuming it doesn't already exist in the US.
And yes this is paranoia but with the way things have been with the NSA of late it's almost like anything that can be thought of has been or is being done.
How can airplanes that require human pilots remain competitive against (future) drone fighter jets that do not have human limitations of G forces?
Same reason we don't watch robot cars racing each other round F1 circuits at top speed. Would be cool and all but probably not all that great.
You're talking today's tech. We already have self driving cars it's only a matter of time before they're competing against human drivers in races.
I think the idea is that if they have visas to hand out to companies, the companies will be willing to put offices in Detroit for those people to work in. From there, services will be needed from the lower-skill people in the area, think food service, etc. This will then eat into the 17.1% unemployment. The problem isn't the number of workers but the type and skill of the workers, and getting things back in balance. I'm not sure this is the right solution to the problem, but I am willing to consider that it may be A solution to the problem for now.
No doubt there are qualified Americans who would be willing to live and work in the Detroit area (somewhere around there anyway) if they were sufficiently financially motivated.
This is just another ploy for American corporations to pay as little as possible to their workers.
Doesn't using the phrase "an immigrant would be required to 'live and work' in Detroit for an undetermined length of time" sound a lot like an indentured labour program? It seems awfully familiar to what the Brits did to/in India during the 1800s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_indenture_system)
Except that presumably these immigrants would have the right to leave Detroit (and the USA) whenever they want.
You forgot some pertinent facts: The U.S. has a long history of funding terrorists, supporting coups, and undermining democracies.
Yes, but they are OUR terrorists, OUR coups, and OUR ENEMIES' democracies.
And we are RIGHT!
Moral choices are so much easier when your country is always right. It's practically like you don't even need to think.
Go Team America!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!
"The tea party is the Republican Party"
http://www.newrepublic.com/art...
"More than half (54 percent) identify as Republicans"
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/te...
"Views of the GOP and the tea party are virtually the same across all demographics."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Ergo, the largest part of Tea Party supporters do not associate with any political figure, which is what I was saying. (In 2010, not even Sarah Palin was a politician anymore.) I.e., you proved my point.
I accused you of being a partisan, and by repeating the standard caricature of libertarians by Democrats and US liberals, you proved it.
You're a partisan, not anybody interested in a debate.
34% is not "most of" but it is a substantial part of. "Most of" tea party supporters indicated a republican and almost all of the tea party leadership is republican.
I have no idea what the 'standard caricature of libertarians by Democrats and US liberals is' so I'll have to take your word for it. I came up with my own opinion after about ten minutes of reading the stance that the libertarian party takes on various issues of the day by reading this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
So no, I am not partisan. I am a registered independent and always have been. Unfortunately there is no one that I think is worth voting for at all at this point as the vast majority make up a single pseudo party and the rest are infeasible and / or unrealistic.
Computer augmented flying has been around for quite awhile as well.
I think it's just a matter of time -
I live in a first world country.
Aside from that you still haven't provided anything concrete to back up what you're saying.
Come up with some references or don't bother answering -
'fraid you're gonna just go ahead and show some references there jerky, cause google just ain't spittin up the same sploodge y'all are