Once again (and I'm sure I'll get jeered at and have potatoes thrown at me for daring to suggest this) a brief explanation of an initialism would have helped.
RSA is both the name of a network security firm and the name of a security conference that they run.
Which doesn't work. Google doesn't treat it as a literal string. It just returns a bunch of results which contain text of the form "[something] [something] me".
A bad example on my part. You do also get it in the opening form "Top Gun actor Tom Cruise..." or "Chelsea midfielder Juan Mata" in the sports pages, despite it being a fairly good assumption that most people really interested in reading said sports pages would already know who he is.
The media don't seem to be in any rush to provide details. The latest rumour seems to be that he posted it on his own wall, then someone else took a screenshot of that and posted the screenshot on a Find April support group.
But this guy posted it on the offical Find April Jones Facebook page. Thus, it might be considered directed at the victims, and is hence a breach of criminal law.
That does make a difference. But I can't easily find a cite for this - do you have one? All I read is that he posted "on Facebook," but no-one's going into specifics.
Ever notice how newspapers will refer to someone as "Prime Minister David Cameron" or in an article about Tom Cruise, manage to slip in "The Top Gun actor said today...", despite these things being very common knowledge? It's just good journalistic style to include these things. Yes, Googling (if that can give you an easily-recognisable-as-correct answer, which is not always the case) would have been preferable to asking, but he shouldn't have had to ask in the first place. Yes, I know, this is Slashdot, News for Nerds and all that, but us nerds aren't some homogenous mass with a hive mind. Maybe there should be an entrance exam before you're allowed a login.
Your comment subject seems to be stating a fact, but your comment is all questions...
He will be going at terminal velocity for that altitude, which is (I guess) faster than the speed of sound at a lower level, but not necessarily faster than sound at where he jumps from.
The information here suggests that exceeding the local speed of sound is exactly what they're hoping to achieve:
At about 100,000 feet above sea level, Felix Baumgartner will need to accelerate to about 690 miles per hour* to match the speed of sound, known as Mach 1. Then if he continues to accelerate and surpasses the speed of sound, he'll be "supersonic."
* that's the speed of sound at 100,000 feet - at sea level it's closer to 760mph.
Odd? You'd be "distracted" too if you were flying a helicopter and found yourself temporarily blinded.
Captain Robert Hamilton of the Air Line Pilots Association... describes what it's like to take a direct cockpit hit from a laser beam. "I had temporary blindness. My eyes were burning. It caused disorientation, and it was distracting," he said.
You're right, shame on the GP to comment on a broken link in a Slashdot summary. Such mistakes should be routinely ignored so that none may share in the hidden bounty to be found at the other end of the link. In fact, let's just do away with the tag throughout the WWW. I mean, it's not like it was ever intended to serve up some kind of "hypertext" where you could just click a conveniently highlighted piece of text and expect to be transferred to another page for more information. That's be nuts.
I just don't understand why some people assume that because a story isn't interesting to them, it's not slashdot worthy.
Because it has nothing to do with technology or science. It's not "news for nerds" and it doesn't matter to anyone except those who work in the syrup industry.
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The hypothetical machine has been dubbed a 'MacGyver Bot,'
Once again (and I'm sure I'll get jeered at and have potatoes thrown at me for daring to suggest this) a brief explanation of an initialism would have helped.
RSA is both the name of a network security firm and the name of a security conference that they run.
Check around for concealed hunter camera gear.
How's he supposed to find that?!
Who says Slashvertising doesn't work?
No, it's okay because everyone has the same IP address - 127.0.0.1.
Which doesn't work. Google doesn't treat it as a literal string. It just returns a bunch of results which contain text of the form "[something] [something] me".
They forgot the first rule of modern marketing - make it Google-able.
1. The Doctor
Doctor who?
A bad example on my part. You do also get it in the opening form "Top Gun actor Tom Cruise..." or "Chelsea midfielder Juan Mata" in the sports pages, despite it being a fairly good assumption that most people really interested in reading said sports pages would already know who he is.
The media don't seem to be in any rush to provide details. The latest rumour seems to be that he posted it on his own wall, then someone else took a screenshot of that and posted the screenshot on a Find April support group.
But this guy posted it on the offical Find April Jones Facebook page. Thus, it might be considered directed at the victims, and is hence a breach of criminal law.
That does make a difference. But I can't easily find a cite for this - do you have one? All I read is that he posted "on Facebook," but no-one's going into specifics.
Ever notice how newspapers will refer to someone as "Prime Minister David Cameron" or in an article about Tom Cruise, manage to slip in "The Top Gun actor said today...", despite these things being very common knowledge? It's just good journalistic style to include these things. Yes, Googling (if that can give you an easily-recognisable-as-correct answer, which is not always the case) would have been preferable to asking, but he shouldn't have had to ask in the first place. Yes, I know, this is Slashdot, News for Nerds and all that, but us nerds aren't some homogenous mass with a hive mind. Maybe there should be an entrance exam before you're allowed a login.
He is aiming to exceed 690mph at 100,000 feet, which is the speed of sound at that altitude.
He will be going at terminal velocity for that altitude, which is (I guess) faster than the speed of sound at a lower level, but not necessarily faster than sound at where he jumps from.
The information here suggests that exceeding the local speed of sound is exactly what they're hoping to achieve:
At about 100,000 feet above sea level, Felix Baumgartner will need to accelerate to about 690 miles per hour* to match the speed of sound, known as Mach 1. Then if he continues to accelerate and surpasses the speed of sound, he'll be "supersonic."
* that's the speed of sound at 100,000 feet - at sea level it's closer to 760mph.
Kittinger jumped from a height of 31km and reached a top speed of 275m/s. Between sea level and 31km the speed of sound is never less than 290m/s.
It's okay, they'll put a five-second delay in case anything goes wrong. Why, such a thing would be idiot-proof.
Captain Robert Hamilton of the Air Line Pilots Association ... describes what it's like to take a direct cockpit hit from a laser beam. "I had temporary blindness. My eyes were burning. It caused disorientation, and it was distracting," he said.
The ones with the big flappy arms and all the straps, right?
A number of developers have posted on the web
Must be true then. Best disregard the GP's factual technical information.
It has a beak shaped like a parrot?
You're right, shame on the GP to comment on a broken link in a Slashdot summary. Such mistakes should be routinely ignored so that none may share in the hidden bounty to be found at the other end of the link. In fact, let's just do away with the tag throughout the WWW. I mean, it's not like it was ever intended to serve up some kind of "hypertext" where you could just click a conveniently highlighted piece of text and expect to be transferred to another page for more information. That's be nuts .
With this spaceplane heist you're putting an awful lot of time and money in to acquire something with zero return.
I don't think this guy is thinking that far ahead. His first mistake was writing up his entire plan and blogging about it...
Given the sheer scale of the project, I would have to say it is nigh impossible.
Which is exactly the sort of thing people would have said in the past of the Hoover Dam, or the Great Wall of China, or putting a man on the moon.
These three things have been against us for pretty much any project our species has ever attempted
And we overcome them all the time.
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I just don't understand why some people assume that because a story isn't interesting to them, it's not slashdot worthy.
Because it has nothing to do with technology or science. It's not "news for nerds" and it doesn't matter to anyone except those who work in the syrup industry.