It would be kind of strange to log in as one user to play mellow stuff to calm down and an other user to get pumped up. I didn't see any Linux downloads on the site either, wonder why if it was developed on Linux initialy
I'm not sure about this but I'd be surprised if radio music selection was random. It would be stupid of them not to try to tie in the demographics of a song played just before a commercial and the comercial itself.
Also why play a Burger King commercial just before a song that vaguely reminds people of the McDonald's theme unless McDonald's is kicking in a little money.
If they are not doing this now they probably will be after reading this post!
It could reduce the number of surprise MOOD SWINGS in post-hysterectomy women. Or even Email your doctor with, "he's listening to too much of that weird shit again recomend increasing the thorazine doseage"
altho it's been a while in my first psychology course, the instructor told us that intellence is what an IQ test measures
Well let's see Koko the guerilla, taught a vocabulary of 300 signs takes a IQ test and scores 95, disturbingly the same as the average for black males so Its my opion that we don't have a clue what intellence realy is. If there was a cultural bias, it seems that it would favor white males first, black males second, and guerillas would be way out in left field.
I think in a couple of decades we'll be seeing IQ tests that are a whole lot less gender-biased I think if we're lucky the entire concept of an IQ test will be out the door in favor of testing for more specific apptitudes and skills. Personaly I have a exceptional ability to score well on IQ tests, I'm pretty smart, but I'm not in the 96th percentile like your IQ tests show.
No the pointy haired boss is going to think that women require more resouces(more expensive wide aspect LCD monitors) to be as productive as men; therefore its easier and cheaper to test apptitude ability of potential new hires in a standardized, nondiscriminatory way with dinky computer monitors.
personaly I know more black medical doctors and lawyers than NBA NFL and MLB athlete's, and I think statisticaly this trend could easily be shown to be valid for a larger population than just me.
One of the reason for the jewish bankers is that the christian theorcracy taught that it was unchristian to charge interest on lent money, also why there were also many more christian hog butcher at the same time.
Personaly, I was always disapointed with the aspect ratio of computer monitors, especialy when you reduce the vertical space to add it menus and button bars on your program which tends to limit the available space to about 1/2 a sheet of letter sized paper, intuitively I thought it would have been better to have rotated the screen 90 degrees. I remember that some early xerox's and possibly the apple lisa either had the monitor on edge or had a rotatable monitor so you could work on graphics in landscape and word process in portrate modes. One thing to remember about this is that they are talking about 3D natigation, so it's more about camera angle of the view, going to a wider angle of the view seems to meet the needs of woman a bit more than the aspect ratio of the monitor.
didn't realise it was that bad, never got my liecense and my HW101 hasn't worked in years. If the firewire is putting out that much RF makes you wonder what kind of data can be picked up and from how far away.
I retired from the Michigan National Guard, and everybody is probably aware of the fact that the NG has had significant roles in civil disturbances. One thing that was pounded into our heads was to use the press as much as possible. Durring a riot people often see themselves as anonymous, the sight of press cameras strip away this feeling of anonymity very effectivly, and often preserves life, limb and property. Having said that I think that the tactics used by the authorities in this case will probably back-fire on them the next time. Siezing computers and hard-drive is going to make people who might otherwise vollenteer evedence much more likely to delete it instead. Freedom of the press is all well and good, but you have to be ready to risk contempt of court charges and indeterminate jail time to assert it in the face of search warrents and supenas
just spray down the Mobo with WD-40, about $9 a gallon at Lowes so you don't get any condensation that would have better geek-appeal. People would think your over-clocked to the max cause your keeping the machine in a working fridge!
I was going to something like that at work, plaster and pumice dust, I used an old cabinet for the box. I discovered that just being inside the box kept the dust down to tolerable levels and my printer fitted inside the drawer pretty well and the keyboard sets on top of the drawer. The monitor sits on top with 2, 2 inch holes for cable on the top. The faraday cage might be a little extreme for most applications.
+1 funny? come on mods, that's not funny, it might even be appropriate advice in some situations. On the other hand, he may have a work style where being in the basement and not subjecting others to his geek pad is is best for all too or maybe he just move in and there are space constraints or kids involved.
Of course vacuuming the basement would help cut down on the dust just a litle bit. I agree start in the far corner at the ceiling after the ceiling is done, do the walls, then the floor. Steam clean the floor and add a little fabric softener to the mixture and it'll help keep down any static. After that he my find that the exotic filtration is un-necessary and the nylon trick described above is more than enough.
In may area in Michigan we do use pens to mark paper ballots which are then read through a scanner, these ballots can be sacnned, rescanned and hand counted if necessary. Make a mistake you can ask for a new ballot, forget to mark a candidate that you intended to vote for and your SOL. Sometimes it's a bit complicated because you may have to vote for 3 candidates out of 5 running for things like judges and school/college boards
somewhat hostile Compared to most of the vocal/.ers on privacy naive or even gullable; I actualy thought the the FLA election fiasco was basicaly much ado about nothing. After reading the article, allowing for editorial liciense on the interviewer side and giving the election officail the benefit of the doubt the only thing I can conclude is that Miller should be ashamed to cash his pay check. This Miller guy was not somewhat hostile, he was downright evasive unaceptable for a public servant. I could except answers like, "I don't know that's Joe Snuffy's area of expertice, let me ask him and I'll Email back an answer ASAP"
I made my first 'puter by wire-wrapping from a schematic back in 1976, and there is no way I'd trust a system without a hard copy output for anything more inportant than internet surfing.
basicaly what I got out of the interview is 1. a company make the voting machines named AccuVote 2. this company issues updates on CD's and if the update is significant it's independantly tested but nobody seems to have a definition of significant. 3. the CD's arrive from a source that's not explained, and don't seem to be verified as coming from an authorized source. Something like doing a MD5 checksum to verify the cd might be usefull for accounting purposes. 4. the CD are load into the system and they do what-ever they do and nobody seems to be accountable for tracking the machines that are updates; or even verifing which files have been changed. 5. before the election's the system is tested for Logic and Accuracy and if this test is passed, it's assumed valid for live data. of course off the top of my head an election would need huge amounts test data to cover all of the different vote possibilities and possible user responses. I'd also have to agree with the interviewer, touch-screen voting machines are untestable. Seems a pretty sloppy way for a secratary of state's office to do bussiness if you ask me
Burt Rutan has a long history of building strong safe composite aircraft. A biographry of found at Burt Rutan may boost your confidence in his ability to pull this off. Two other points to consider is first in aircraft almost every part contributes to the strength of the total aircraft (Which sometimes explain $300.00 toilet seats). With composites the various parts are bonded which tend to relieve stress points. Secondly the big stresses that most space-craft experience are often on launch; I worked on the HAWK missile and launcher in the Army and the launcher didn't even release the misslie until the engine had developeds 2000 pounds of thurst. The space plane wont have to deal with that, by being dropped at high altitude, the thrust can come up slower and gradual. With most scace craft the hardest thing is the first inch of the flight. After the boast phase it just coasts not a lot of stress there either, it doesn't even have to get that much velocity up because it's sub-orbital. My guess is that this thing will have less flight stresses than most aircraft are designed for.
No the orbital period is the same as the earth's day. The only reason they don't appear to move is because both the surface of the Earth and the geo-sync sattalite are rotating around the Earth's center of gravity at the same period.
Burt's designs have always been a bit bizare looking especial when viewed on the ground. Remember that he designs flying amchine and they fly like a dream. This guy builds machines with little regard for what's conventional, and great regard for what's functional
If it doesn't say instant or in-store it just doesn't count to me, the other thing is the sales tax is paid on gross sales, so the state actualy get more money by stores using rebates than if it were a manufacturer sponsored sale.
I think on most of the junk that's pushed via rebaits anymore, they keep more on reduced warentee claims from people sending in the all important original sales reciept, than they spend in reates anyways. At least Bestbuy prints you an extra reciept on the spot, and are noramly not too bad about returns. I do recall that it's usualy easier to return something and say it's because you just don't like it than to return something that's genuinely broken. once I had to buy a new one and then return the broken one for a refund to get around some return policy once.
We wouldn't have time to say "oops" before the entire earth and solar system was sucked in. 1 the blackhole would have the same mass and gravity as it did before it became a blackhole.
2 the earth would still effect it like it did before, it would be pulled toward the Earth's center of gravity.
Imagine dropping a BB on the ground, however instead of hitting the ground and stopping, it acreats the matter from the surface and radiate gamma radiation, sort of a flash of light that's falling at 32 ft/sec^2. it cutts through the earth easier than a hot knife through butter. eventualy it falls through the center and travels outward to almost the same height that it started from, only to fall back through biggger and more massive. Of course the Earth rotates, and orbits the sun and the tides from the sun and moon affect the exact path so it doesnt fall back and forth through the same whole, it makes a new hole each time.
It wouldn't kill us quick but would eat us slow hell a quantum black hole could fall through you and the only way you would know it happen would be because of unexplainable radiation burns. Eventualy it would stablize into the same solar orbit as the Earth, hard to imagine what the earth would be like when that happened.
certain experiments are so dangerous that they could destroy the whole planet if they go wrong.
At least a lot of things that have world altering potential require vast teams of scientists and a lot of peer review, and would be self-moderating. but unfortunatly not everything.
Example, I had an idea that it would be cool to splice a gene to produce vegetable oil into algea, stick it in a solar collector bubble air throught and it would reduce CO2 from the atmophere and give us fuel at the same time. Good idea right, wrong I quickly saw that if it escaped into the wild, it would eventualy kill all of our lakes and oceans with an oil slick.
actualy the term depleted in this case means that the fissile U235 and Pu239 has been extracted, leaving only the non-fissile U233. In lay terms you can't use it for nuclear fuel, that's all. Any toxicity inherent in uranium is still present. We use it in anti-tank cannons because the stuff is much better at punching through thin armor than the much lighter lead w/ tungston core AP rounds do.
Yes most pesticide are acetyl-choline esterase inhibitors; but its a bit of a jump going from a organo-phosphate that's tuned especialy to distupt an insect's neverous system to one tune specificaly to disrupt a human's nevous system. That would be like saying a volkswagen beetle is equivilant to a lamborgini, both are internal combustion engined cars after all. VX, GA and GB have no known agricultural uses. Actualy if we find absolutely no nerve agents in Iraqi to me would be more damning because it means they specificaly cleaned house to avoid detection. No army trains specialists in chemical warfare defense with out giving them a chance to decontaminate some live stuff. Nothing causes your ass-hole to pucker like watching a rat die almost instantly when the instructor puts a drop of GA on a vehicle.
Actualy I was agent white a lot on my lawn to kill weeds, a lot of people do. White phosphorus was used a a smoke agent, it was normaly loaded in artilery shells and WP sharpnel would re-ignite spontaniously on contact with air makeing surgical removal of WP sharpnel a bit tricky, the surgon had to operate on the victem while the wound is maintained under water so the WP wouldn't burn. A bit of copper sulphate in the water slowly reacted with the WP to make it glow and a lot easier to find. WP is one weapon that strike pure terror in the hearts of infantryman, nasty stuff. WP was replaced in the US arsenal by red phosphorus, which isn't as nasty and terririfing but the smoke has much bettter infra-red obscurant properties.
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It would be kind of strange to log in as one user to play mellow stuff to calm down and an other user to get pumped up. I didn't see any Linux downloads on the site either, wonder why if it was developed on Linux initialy
I'm not sure about this but I'd be surprised if radio music selection was random. It would be stupid of them not to try to tie in the demographics of a song played just before a commercial and the comercial itself.
Also why play a Burger King commercial just before a song that vaguely reminds people of the McDonald's theme unless McDonald's is kicking in a little money.
If they are not doing this now they probably will be after reading this post!
It could reduce the number of surprise MOOD SWINGS in post-hysterectomy women. Or even Email your doctor with, "he's listening to too much of that weird shit again recomend increasing the thorazine doseage"
altho it's been a while in my first psychology course, the instructor told us that intellence is what an IQ test measures
Well let's see Koko the guerilla, taught a vocabulary of 300 signs takes a IQ test and scores 95, disturbingly the same as the average for black males so Its my opion that we don't have a clue what intellence realy is. If there was a cultural bias, it seems that it would favor white males first, black males second, and guerillas would be way out in left field.
I think in a couple of decades we'll be seeing IQ tests that are a whole lot less gender-biased I think if we're lucky the entire concept of an IQ test will be out the door in favor of testing for more specific apptitudes and skills. Personaly I have a exceptional ability to score well on IQ tests, I'm pretty smart, but I'm not in the 96th percentile like your IQ tests show.
"The gender difference simply disappeared,"
No the pointy haired boss is going to think that women require more resouces(more expensive wide aspect LCD monitors) to be as productive as men; therefore its easier and cheaper to test apptitude ability of potential new hires in a standardized, nondiscriminatory way with dinky computer monitors.
personaly I know more black medical doctors and lawyers than NBA NFL and MLB athlete's, and I think statisticaly this trend could easily be shown to be valid for a larger population than just me.
One of the reason for the jewish bankers is that the christian theorcracy taught that it was unchristian to charge interest on lent money, also why there were also many more christian hog butcher at the same time.
Personaly, I was always disapointed with the aspect ratio of computer monitors, especialy when you reduce the vertical space to add it menus and button bars on your program which tends to limit the available space to about 1/2 a sheet of letter sized paper, intuitively I thought it would have been better to have rotated the screen 90 degrees. I remember that some early xerox's and possibly the apple lisa either had the monitor on edge or had a rotatable monitor so you could work on graphics in landscape and word process in portrate modes. One thing to remember about this is that they are talking about 3D natigation, so it's more about camera angle of the view, going to a wider angle of the view seems to meet the needs of woman a bit more than the aspect ratio of the monitor.
didn't realise it was that bad, never got my liecense and my HW101 hasn't worked in years. If the firewire is putting out that much RF makes you wonder what kind of data can be picked up and from how far away.
I retired from the Michigan National Guard, and everybody is probably aware of the fact that the NG has had significant roles in civil disturbances. One thing that was pounded into our heads was to use the press as much as possible. Durring a riot people often see themselves as anonymous, the sight of press cameras strip away this feeling of anonymity very effectivly, and often preserves life, limb and property.
Having said that I think that the tactics used by the authorities in this case will probably back-fire on them the next time. Siezing computers and hard-drive is going to make people who might otherwise vollenteer evedence much more likely to delete it instead.
Freedom of the press is all well and good, but you have to be ready to risk contempt of court charges and indeterminate jail time to assert it in the face of search warrents and supenas
just spray down the Mobo with WD-40, about $9 a gallon at Lowes so you don't get any condensation that would have better geek-appeal. People would think your over-clocked to the max cause your keeping the machine in a working fridge!
I was going to something like that at work, plaster and pumice dust, I used an old cabinet for the box. I discovered that just being inside the box kept the dust down to tolerable levels and my printer fitted inside the drawer pretty well and the keyboard sets on top of the drawer. The monitor sits on top with 2, 2 inch holes for cable on the top. The faraday cage might be a little extreme for most applications.
+1 funny? come on mods, that's not funny, it might even be appropriate advice in some situations. On the other hand, he may have a work style where being in the basement and not subjecting others to his geek pad is is best for all too or maybe he just move in and there are space constraints or kids involved.
Of course vacuuming the basement would help cut down on the dust just a litle bit.
I agree start in the far corner at the ceiling after the ceiling is done, do the walls, then the floor. Steam clean the floor and add a little fabric softener to the mixture and it'll help keep down any static. After that he my find that the exotic filtration is un-necessary and the nylon trick described above is more than enough.
In may area in Michigan we do use pens to mark paper ballots which are then read through a scanner, these ballots can be sacnned, rescanned and hand counted if necessary. Make a mistake you can ask for a new ballot, forget to mark a candidate that you intended to vote for and your SOL. Sometimes it's a bit complicated because you may have to vote for 3 candidates out of 5 running for things like judges and school/college boards
somewhat hostile /.ers on privacy naive or even gullable; I actualy thought the the FLA election fiasco was basicaly much ado about nothing. After reading the article, allowing for editorial liciense on the interviewer side and giving the election officail the benefit of the doubt the only thing I can conclude is that Miller should be ashamed to cash his pay check. This Miller guy was not somewhat hostile, he was downright evasive unaceptable for a public servant. I could except answers like, "I don't know that's Joe Snuffy's area of expertice, let me ask him and I'll Email back an answer ASAP"
Compared to most of the vocal
I made my first 'puter by wire-wrapping from a schematic back in 1976, and there is no way I'd trust a system without a hard copy output for anything more inportant than internet surfing.
basicaly what I got out of the interview is
1. a company make the voting machines named AccuVote
2. this company issues updates on CD's and if the update is significant it's independantly tested but nobody seems to have a definition of significant.
3. the CD's arrive from a source that's not explained, and don't seem to be verified as coming from an authorized source. Something like doing a MD5 checksum to verify the cd might be usefull for accounting purposes.
4. the CD are load into the system and they do what-ever they do and nobody seems to be accountable for tracking the machines that are updates; or even verifing which files have been changed.
5. before the election's the system is tested for Logic and Accuracy and if this test is passed, it's assumed valid for live data. of course off the top of my head an election would need huge amounts test data to cover all of the different vote possibilities and possible user responses.
I'd also have to agree with the interviewer, touch-screen voting machines are untestable.
Seems a pretty sloppy way for a secratary of state's office to do bussiness if you ask me
Burt Rutan has a long history of building strong safe composite aircraft. A biographry of found at Burt Rutan may boost your confidence in his ability to pull this off. Two other points to consider is first in aircraft almost every part contributes to the strength of the total aircraft (Which sometimes explain $300.00 toilet seats). With composites the various parts are bonded which tend to relieve stress points. Secondly the big stresses that most space-craft experience are often on launch; I worked on the HAWK missile and launcher in the Army and the launcher didn't even release the misslie until the engine had developeds 2000 pounds of thurst. The space plane wont have to deal with that, by being dropped at high altitude, the thrust can come up slower and gradual. With most scace craft the hardest thing is the first inch of the flight. After the boast phase it just coasts not a lot of stress there either, it doesn't even have to get that much velocity up because it's sub-orbital. My guess is that this thing will have less flight stresses than most aircraft are designed for.
No the orbital period is the same as the earth's day. The only reason they don't appear to move is because both the surface of the Earth and the geo-sync sattalite are rotating around the Earth's center of gravity at the same period.
Burt's designs have always been a bit bizare looking especial when viewed on the ground. Remember that he designs flying amchine and they fly like a dream. This guy builds machines with little regard for what's conventional, and great regard for what's functional
If it doesn't say instant or in-store it just doesn't count to me, the other thing is the sales tax is paid on gross sales, so the state actualy get more money by stores using rebates than if it were a manufacturer sponsored sale.
I think on most of the junk that's pushed via rebaits anymore, they keep more on reduced warentee claims from people sending in the all important original sales reciept, than they spend in reates anyways. At least Bestbuy prints you an extra reciept on the spot, and are noramly not too bad about returns. I do recall that it's usualy easier to return something and say it's because you just don't like it than to return something that's genuinely broken. once I had to buy a new one and then return the broken one for a refund to get around some return policy once.
We wouldn't have time to say "oops" before the entire earth and solar system was sucked in.
1 the blackhole would have the same mass and gravity as it did before it became a blackhole.
2 the earth would still effect it like it did before, it would be pulled toward the Earth's center of gravity.
Imagine dropping a BB on the ground, however instead of hitting the ground and stopping, it acreats the matter from the surface and radiate gamma radiation, sort of a flash of light that's falling at 32 ft/sec^2. it cutts through the earth easier than a hot knife through butter. eventualy it falls through the center and travels outward to almost the same height that it started from, only to fall back through biggger and more massive. Of course the Earth rotates, and orbits the sun and the tides from the sun and moon affect the exact path so it doesnt fall back and forth through the same whole, it makes a new hole each time.
It wouldn't kill us quick but would eat us slow hell a quantum black hole could fall through you and the only way you would know it happen would be because of unexplainable radiation burns. Eventualy it would stablize into the same solar orbit as the Earth, hard to imagine what the earth would be like when that happened.
I'm not sure that I'd be comforatble with people make quantum black-holes even on neptune
certain experiments are so dangerous that they could destroy the whole planet if they go wrong.
At least a lot of things that have world altering potential require vast teams of scientists and a lot of peer review, and would be self-moderating. but unfortunatly not everything.
Example, I had an idea that it would be cool to splice a gene to produce vegetable oil into algea, stick it in a solar collector bubble air throught and it would reduce CO2 from the atmophere and give us fuel at the same time. Good idea right, wrong I quickly saw that if it escaped into the wild, it would eventualy kill all of our lakes and oceans with an oil slick.
actualy the term depleted in this case means that the fissile U235 and Pu239 has been extracted, leaving only the non-fissile U233. In lay terms you can't use it for nuclear fuel, that's all. Any toxicity inherent in uranium is still present. We use it in anti-tank cannons because the stuff is much better at punching through thin armor than the much lighter lead w/ tungston core AP rounds do.
Yes most pesticide are acetyl-choline esterase inhibitors; but its a bit of a jump going from a organo-phosphate that's tuned especialy to distupt an insect's neverous system to one tune specificaly to disrupt a human's nevous system. That would be like saying a volkswagen beetle is equivilant to a lamborgini, both are internal combustion engined cars after all. VX, GA and GB have no known agricultural uses. Actualy if we find absolutely no nerve agents in Iraqi to me would be more damning because it means they specificaly cleaned house to avoid detection. No army trains specialists in chemical warfare defense with out giving them a chance to decontaminate some live stuff. Nothing causes your ass-hole to pucker like watching a rat die almost instantly when the instructor puts a drop of GA on a vehicle.
Actualy I was agent white a lot on my lawn to kill weeds, a lot of people do. White phosphorus was used a a smoke agent, it was normaly loaded in artilery shells and WP sharpnel would re-ignite spontaniously on contact with air makeing surgical removal of WP sharpnel a bit tricky, the surgon had to operate on the victem while the wound is maintained under water so the WP wouldn't burn. A bit of copper sulphate in the water slowly reacted with the WP to make it glow and a lot easier to find. WP is one weapon that strike pure terror in the hearts of infantryman, nasty stuff. WP was replaced in the US arsenal by red phosphorus, which isn't as nasty and terririfing but the smoke has much bettter infra-red obscurant properties.