heh, i got a hold of I, Robot when i was six, and haven't stopped reading Asimov yet. problem is, the Three Laws are physically hard-coded into the positronic brains (Little Lost Robot gets into this a bit - apparently without the three laws, there's no imaginary solutions to the positronic field equations...but i digress); i haven't heard of anybody using custom processors with hard-coded "rules" in robots as of yet. i'm not scared that we're going to have sociopathic killing machines in the next few years, but it is lurking at the back of my mind...a true AI would have to be capable of learning, with few or no restrictions on what behaviors it could pick up - and we all know how well we teach our little learning machines (children) to be nonviolent...we aren't ready for robots that need raising until we can raise kids right....but that's just my $0.02.
i really don't know what to say about this. on the one hand, it's cool as hell, and an amazing technological achievement - a robot that can actually register itself, get a badge, be rude in the process, and give a lecture. on the other hand, it's sort of scary - robots are getting autonomous; what do we do when the day comes that GRACE decides she doesn't like the judge's attitude and decides to "adjust" it?
well, shithead, i have asked the people in the cleanrooms, but since they don't work with hard drives, they don't have the foggiest idea of where to begin. Ask Slashdot? damn...you must be dumber than you look. i really don't think this is that much of a burning question on most slashdotters minds; i'd assume most of them don't have cleanroom access. why don't i try a google search? god damn, do i come off as THAT stupid that i would just post without even trying to find the info myself? jeez.
kay, i/really/ dig the clear HD tops, but there's no way in hell i'm gonna open up my drive in the Great Outdoors. i have access to all ranges of cleanrooms at the lab, from (ISO) Class 8 down to better-than-Class 1 (i don't have personal access, but i know people with access to the rooms who'd be happy to slap a plexiglas cover on my drive). so my question is this: what class cleanroom would be the best for cracking a drive? i could just send it in to the cleanest one onsite, but i'd like to keep the hassle for everybody involved to a minimum, and that means using the minimum cleanroom neccessary.
I'd like to think that Guy Kawasaki innovated the form heh. i was an evangelista for a few years back in the day, and there didn't seem to be much underhandedness or trickiness about it. we were always clearly self-marked 'mac zealots', making no secret of why we were what we were up to. fun, though...
so, in americaII, i can buy nitric acid and glycerin, mix and heat gently, and leave jars lying around for people to find? and i can buy that used AR-15 i've been looking at and convert it? while i saw off my Mossberg barrel? COOL! god...some people.
yah know, AFAIK, as long as you're doing it soley for your own shits and giggles, and never ever resell the car, it's perfectly legal to file off the VIN. it's when you then use the absence of the VIN to commit some sort of fraud (sell a lemon, fake claims, etc) that it becomes illegal, or at least that's the point where they're actually going to arrest you for it. i doubt they'd really care if you showed up at the station with an 88 Corolla with the VINs filed off...they'd probably laugh and send you on your way...
If you chopped off the chasis number on a car you own,
IMHO this doesn't seem so much like chopping off the chassis no. (serial no. - still legal to remove those, assuming you don't do anything else illegal) but rather changing your license plate numbers (your IMEI no.) - the former set of no's only serves to identify the static piece of hardware, but the latter actually identifies your particular piece of hardware as being registered and cleared for operation on its particular network (of roads, as the case may be). i really don't see what the issue is with this - it's illegal to change your license plate numbers, even though that's soley based on the premise that "anybody who changes tag numbers is up to noo good cuz nobody's demonstrated a legitimate use for it yet" - and frankly, i can't think of a really/legitimate/ reason you'd want to chenge your IMEI...
heh...i don't really have the karma to burn (but i wouldn't know for sure, all it tells me is "Good"), but i hafta open my mouth (and get all manner of troll/flamebait mods)...
Send him a message by voting for his Republican opponent.
...aren't the Republicans the horrible, inhuman, evil cabal that conspired to steal the election away from the Democrats, who are a group of shining white knights on horseback who can do no wrong and that we're all supposed to vote for in 2004 so that the bible-thumping woman-hating earth-raping election-thieving GOP is stomped out of existence forever?
sorry about that; it just bugs me when i see umpteen thousand sigs that say "Vote Democrat in 2004!", "Republicans are all Evil" or some variation, and then see the entire community go into apoplectic paroxysms over this and scream "vote Republican!" (or at least that seems to be the zeitgeist today...).
I was always under the impression that a kilowatt laser wasn't that impressive you have been watching too much real genius. one of my friends works with a multiple-laser mass spectrometer over in atmospheric sciences (the Single Particle Laser-Ablation Time-of-flight Mass Spec, SPLAT-MS, if you're curious) - they have a 1.5 watt, 20ms pulsed CO2 (infrared, same wavelength range the military wants to use) laser that will cause third-degree burns if you put your hand in the beam for *two pulses*. now this laser they're talking about is a 100kW; i don't know if the solid-state is less efficient than the gas laser, but either way there's still going to be a lot more than 1.5W coming out, for a lot longer than 20ms. i'd like to see what happens if you blast a chunk of asphalt with that sucker - the SPLAT laser makes little firepuffs of burning tar vapor; the military laser would probably "ablate" (vaporize) the entire rock. and to ice the cake, IR laser emission is totally invisible, even the scattered stuff...
...excercising the fundamental right, enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, to "alter or abolish" any government which tramples on my basic rights to Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness and/or stops "deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed". i.e. - i'm seriously considering buying an SSG300 0 and setting up 900m from the Capitol. The tree of liberty from time to time must be watered with the blood of patriots...i'm feeling that it's time for a real revolution. none of this civil disobedience, or ACLU lawsuits, or protests, or sitins, or any of that pussy crap. i'm talking an army of citizens storming Washington, armed to the teeth. anybody else ever have that desire?
here's the legal definition of insanity. might work....he could claim he was schizophrenic or something; whenever he picked up a soldering iron his concepts of Right and Wrong went bye-bye for a bit.
ads on the eyelids? futurama reference...
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They'd advertise on the backs of my eyelids if they could get away with it
(after fry wakes up during the underwear dream-ad) fry: "you people have ads in your dreams!?" amy: "didn't you have ads in the 20th century?" fry: "well sure we had ads, but they weren't in our dreams. they were on tv, the radio, the internet, billboards, buses, food continaners, in magazines, in movies...but not in our dreams, nope."
(i'm probably wrong with the details, but you get the point. peace.)
errr...isn't the spray of water coming out the back of a jetski what makes it go forward in the first place? (YES i know what squirt you actually mean, it's just a weak attempt at humor. shut up and laugh.)
i'd assume there's something in it - the articles all say "water-based colling solution". although why you'd really need antifreeze (or antiboiling) additives is a little beyond me though - if the system's on, the heat from the processor should keep the coolant liquid, and if it's off...it shouldn't be sitting outside in the winter anyway.
it's not even general impurites - sucrose in dH2O is an extremely poor conductor. what makes water conductive are ions - they facilitate the transport of free electrons through the water lattice. or something like that, chemical oceanography was a while ago.
might not be caused by the change in temperature, but rather the horrible nastiness that's likely growing inside the AC unit. they changed the filters in our building last week...*shudder* anyway, isn't it an old wives' tale that being too cold will make you sick? hell...we never had AC when i was a kid, and i only seemed to get colds during the summer - winter was wonderful.
well, at least they're making the rules consistent. not particularly nice, but at least they're becoming one and the same - should make it that much easier to push for any reform we need (especially if the adopt the phone system to internet regs and not vice-versa).
The most thrilling scene I ever saw in an IMAX documentary was the escape procedure taken by astronauts in case of a critical emergency on the launch pad. It involved strapping onto a line that's connected somewhere around the top of the shuttle and then zipping along into a net at ground level. It was completely unexpected in a fascinating documentary primarily dominated by shots of Earth from space.
yeah, that was the first IMAX movie i ever saw...that scene damn near made me shit my pants, it was that intense (you probably have to see it to know what i mean). fuck hollywood, THAT'S action.
IIRC a frame of 35mm (still or motion) film is about 4500x3000 grains. i'm not sure what that works out to in dpi...i'd call it ~4000dpi. the grains in film are randomly sized and distributed though, which seems to me, having worked a bit with both, to make the B&W tonality and smoothness of shade of good 35mm film (Delta 100/Royal Gold Select 100) far above and beyond what you get with an equivalent number of pixels. digis do seem to have more consistent colors, though.
If you have a problem with it, you can just bring it to a Walmart.
i don't think your average walmart is going to be able to provide much linux tech support. of course, if they hired one or two geeks/store to do just that, then they could be a truly serious threat to M$...pushing linux hard, and making sure mom and pop can use it, would be a Very Good Thing.
here's a VERY intersting page on high-altitude skydiving...it's main focus is civilian HALO jumping, but there's quite a bit of very good information on space-jumping. includes Kittinger, the French dude, another woman who wants to jump from 130K this year, and lots and lots of space-escape systems. great way to burn an hour at work.
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heh, i got a hold of I, Robot when i was six, and haven't stopped reading Asimov yet. problem is, the Three Laws are physically hard-coded into the positronic brains (Little Lost Robot gets into this a bit - apparently without the three laws, there's no imaginary solutions to the positronic field equations...but i digress); i haven't heard of anybody using custom processors with hard-coded "rules" in robots as of yet. i'm not scared that we're going to have sociopathic killing machines in the next few years, but it is lurking at the back of my mind...a true AI would have to be capable of learning, with few or no restrictions on what behaviors it could pick up - and we all know how well we teach our little learning machines (children) to be nonviolent...we aren't ready for robots that need raising until we can raise kids right....but that's just my $0.02.
i really don't know what to say about this. on the one hand, it's cool as hell, and an amazing technological achievement - a robot that can actually register itself, get a badge, be rude in the process, and give a lecture. on the other hand, it's sort of scary - robots are getting autonomous; what do we do when the day comes that GRACE decides she doesn't like the judge's attitude and decides to "adjust" it?
well, shithead, i have asked the people in the cleanrooms, but since they don't work with hard drives, they don't have the foggiest idea of where to begin. Ask Slashdot? damn...you must be dumber than you look. i really don't think this is that much of a burning question on most slashdotters minds; i'd assume most of them don't have cleanroom access. why don't i try a google search? god damn, do i come off as THAT stupid that i would just post without even trying to find the info myself? jeez.
infinite apologies for feeding the trolls.
kay, i /really/ dig the clear HD tops, but there's no way in hell i'm gonna open up my drive in the Great Outdoors. i have access to all ranges of cleanrooms at the lab, from (ISO) Class 8 down to better-than-Class 1 (i don't have personal access, but i know people with access to the rooms who'd be happy to slap a plexiglas cover on my drive). so my question is this: what class cleanroom would be the best for cracking a drive? i could just send it in to the cleanest one onsite, but i'd like to keep the hassle for everybody involved to a minimum, and that means using the minimum cleanroom neccessary.
I'd like to think that Guy Kawasaki innovated the form
heh. i was an evangelista for a few years back in the day, and there didn't seem to be much underhandedness or trickiness about it. we were always clearly self-marked 'mac zealots', making no secret of why we were what we were up to. fun, though...
so, in americaII, i can buy nitric acid and glycerin, mix and heat gently, and leave jars lying around for people to find? and i can buy that used AR-15 i've been looking at and convert it? while i saw off my Mossberg barrel? COOL!
god...some people.
yah know, AFAIK, as long as you're doing it soley for your own shits and giggles, and never ever resell the car, it's perfectly legal to file off the VIN. it's when you then use the absence of the VIN to commit some sort of fraud (sell a lemon, fake claims, etc) that it becomes illegal, or at least that's the point where they're actually going to arrest you for it. i doubt they'd really care if you showed up at the station with an 88 Corolla with the VINs filed off...they'd probably laugh and send you on your way...
If you chopped off the chasis number on a car you own,
/legitimate/ reason you'd want to chenge your IMEI...
IMHO this doesn't seem so much like chopping off the chassis no. (serial no. - still legal to remove those, assuming you don't do anything else illegal) but rather changing your license plate numbers (your IMEI no.) - the former set of no's only serves to identify the static piece of hardware, but the latter actually identifies your particular piece of hardware as being registered and cleared for operation on its particular network (of roads, as the case may be).
i really don't see what the issue is with this - it's illegal to change your license plate numbers, even though that's soley based on the premise that "anybody who changes tag numbers is up to noo good cuz nobody's demonstrated a legitimate use for it yet" - and frankly, i can't think of a really
sorry about that; it just bugs me when i see umpteen thousand sigs that say "Vote Democrat in 2004!", "Republicans are all Evil" or some variation, and then see the entire community go into apoplectic paroxysms over this and scream "vote Republican!" (or at least that seems to be the zeitgeist today...).
I was always under the impression that a kilowatt laser wasn't that impressive
you have been watching too much real genius. one of my friends works with a multiple-laser mass spectrometer over in atmospheric sciences (the Single Particle Laser-Ablation Time-of-flight Mass Spec, SPLAT-MS, if you're curious) - they have a 1.5 watt, 20ms pulsed CO2 (infrared, same wavelength range the military wants to use) laser that will cause third-degree burns if you put your hand in the beam for *two pulses*. now this laser they're talking about is a 100kW; i don't know if the solid-state is less efficient than the gas laser, but either way there's still going to be a lot more than 1.5W coming out, for a lot longer than 20ms. i'd like to see what happens if you blast a chunk of asphalt with that sucker - the SPLAT laser makes little firepuffs of burning tar vapor; the military laser would probably "ablate" (vaporize) the entire rock. and to ice the cake, IR laser emission is totally invisible, even the scattered stuff...
...excercising the fundamental right, enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, to "alter or abolish" any government which tramples on my basic rights to Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness and/or stops "deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed". i.e. - i'm seriously considering buying an SSG300 0 and setting up 900m from the Capitol. The tree of liberty from time to time must be watered with the blood of patriots...i'm feeling that it's time for a real revolution. none of this civil disobedience, or ACLU lawsuits, or protests, or sitins, or any of that pussy crap. i'm talking an army of citizens storming Washington, armed to the teeth. anybody else ever have that desire?
here's the legal definition of insanity. might work....he could claim he was schizophrenic or something; whenever he picked up a soldering iron his concepts of Right and Wrong went bye-bye for a bit.
They'd advertise on the backs of my eyelids if they could get away with it
(after fry wakes up during the underwear dream-ad)
fry: "you people have ads in your dreams!?"
amy: "didn't you have ads in the 20th century?"
fry: "well sure we had ads, but they weren't in our dreams. they were on tv, the radio, the internet, billboards, buses, food continaners, in magazines, in movies...but not in our dreams, nope."
(i'm probably wrong with the details, but you get the point. peace.)
errr...isn't the spray of water coming out the back of a jetski what makes it go forward in the first place? (YES i know what squirt you actually mean, it's just a weak attempt at humor. shut up and laugh.)
i'd assume there's something in it - the articles all say "water-based colling solution". although why you'd really need antifreeze (or antiboiling) additives is a little beyond me though - if the system's on, the heat from the processor should keep the coolant liquid, and if it's off...it shouldn't be sitting outside in the winter anyway.
it's not even general impurites - sucrose in dH2O is an extremely poor conductor. what makes water conductive are ions - they facilitate the transport of free electrons through the water lattice. or something like that, chemical oceanography was a while ago.
might not be caused by the change in temperature, but rather the horrible nastiness that's likely growing inside the AC unit. they changed the filters in our building last week...*shudder*
anyway, isn't it an old wives' tale that being too cold will make you sick? hell...we never had AC when i was a kid, and i only seemed to get colds during the summer - winter was wonderful.
if there's a Linux solution, there's at least a relatively easy to create OS X solution, at least. (or does X fully support only HFS+ disks?)
well, at least they're making the rules consistent. not particularly nice, but at least they're becoming one and the same - should make it that much easier to push for any reform we need (especially if the adopt the phone system to internet regs and not vice-versa).
35 mm film is actually 36mm wide, so 4500dots/(36mm/25.4mm*inch^-1) = 3175dots*inch^1 (exactly!)
IIRC a frame of 35mm (still or motion) film is about 4500x3000 grains. i'm not sure what that works out to in dpi...i'd call it ~4000dpi. the grains in film are randomly sized and distributed though, which seems to me, having worked a bit with both, to make the B&W tonality and smoothness of shade of good 35mm film (Delta 100/Royal Gold Select 100) far above and beyond what you get with an equivalent number of pixels. digis do seem to have more consistent colors, though.
7,500 terabytes...7.5 petabytes?
If you have a problem with it, you can just bring it to a Walmart.
i don't think your average walmart is going to be able to provide much linux tech support. of course, if they hired one or two geeks/store to do just that, then they could be a truly serious threat to M$...pushing linux hard, and making sure mom and pop can use it, would be a Very Good Thing.
here's a VERY intersting page on high-altitude skydiving...it's main focus is civilian HALO jumping, but there's quite a bit of very good information on space-jumping. includes Kittinger, the French dude, another woman who wants to jump from 130K this year, and lots and lots of space-escape systems. great way to burn an hour at work.