If you want progress, go for old-fashioned horizontal drag-racing using electrical engines and suitable batteries. This might have an impact on technology advances in a sector that might essentially help save the planet by using different resources.
Depends what you consider "progress". Drag racing with electric motors has different requirements than downtown driving. Drag racing emphasizes one brief, powerful pulse -- you might end up with a power source featuring EMP and MHD extraction from a shaped explosive charge within a titanium chamber.
I just think we don't need Formula1 teams with 800hp cars, that talk about "doing research for the cars on the road in 10 years". We don't need developing drag race technology that will never see any commercial use.
Um.. Formula 1 are not drag racers, they're open-wheel racers. Drag racers try to zoom quickly in a short straight line. Formula 1 races are in the 2-hour range.
And this research you're disparaging is the same research which produced fuel injection, electronic ignition, computer powertrain controls, and those other things which increased gas mileage over the past 25 years from 10 MPG...
"The Blue Team has been extraordinarily lucky in the junkyard, and found an old Atlas combustion chamber and a 300HP fuel pump!
"Meanwhile, the Red Team has covered the blackboard and half their walls in diagrams and has decided to build their rocket engine from hubcaps and motorcycle handlebars..."
No, my complaint about the Wired site is that clicking on the link to the next page of an article triggers a frame breakout. I browse my popular sites within a navigation frame with tools such as a "NEXT" button to go to the next site in my sequence, and a "SCROLL" wand which automatically scrolls the site at reading speed.
I'm expecting any day now to be told that my comment violated the nutritional needs of a pack of orange monkeys.
The U.S. FTC is already investigating Sun, Rambus, and Unocal to see if they illegally kept patents secret while standards requiring the patents were established. It's not clear how much disclosure is necessary.
The story was in the September 10 USA Today, and September 11 Wall Street Journal. I searched, but don't find a Slashdot story about it.
Well, as long as the article fits on one page. Wired's links to other pages of an article includes code to break out of frames, which wrecks my web navigation Javascript frame, which messes up my daily scanning of favorite sites. Wired would be a favorite if it wasn't for that...
How do you keep the worm in it?
It's got one sleeve and nothing else.
For safety use buttons, not a zipper.
Make sure you sell them by the gross, because when you have one worm you
have many.
Make sure you label them as gross.
Offer a subscription service, the worm-clothing-of-the-month club, so
they can keep next month's worm comfortable.
"Got Worms?"
"I'm with Worm ->"
"I'm with Worm ->
->
->
->"
"Did my worm poke you yet?"
"Thanks, Bill!"
"Don't Worm, Be Happy!"
"Worm!"
"With Worm Regards"
"Fly Northwest To Worm Climate"
"Microsoft: Bringing Worms to Minnesota Year-Round"
"My MS Computer Is a Dog, It Has Worms"
"Worms: Automatic Distributed Computing"
"Worms. Because 1GHz is a terrible thing to waste."
The Unix security philosophy is isolation except where allowed. The DOS security philosophy is that you can reboot when something goes wrong.
Unix admins are used to multi-user environments where users have to be isolated from each other.
Unix admins are used to permissions which allow control over inter-user capabilities.
Unix admins have been learning about and doing configuration of network servers for decades, so have more security awareness and skills.
Unix admins have more tools, so can more easily adjust their configuration because they're not dependent upon someone else having written a point-and-click tool which can do a desired change.
Unix admins more experienced and know that nobody and nothing is invulnerable.
Fry's seems fine, and I wish there were one near me, but I told Egghead to opt me out because I don't know what info they want to pass along. When I want to give my credit card number to Fry's then I will do so.
Well, I suppose it's the lesser of two evils. Having a benchmark result printed on a retail box does carry a little more information than having a clock rate on the box.
(Of course for the benefit of the consumer who doesn't know the differences between benchmarks, some standard benchmark would have to be used so the consumer can simply know "a bigger number on the box is better".)
Radio reports that a Red Cross blood donation facility in one city has shut down -- they have a huge amount of donations today but can't fly the blood anywhere. This suggests a particular need for donations near the East Coast
I can program emotions for electronic brains. An electronic brain with an enthusiasm enhancer would indeed have enthusiasm. How similar to mammal enthusiasm would depend upon how similar the brain's activity centers are, and how the enthusiasm enhancer alters similar centers. [Just as enthusiasm is expressed differently in dogs and in cats...or perhaps it's just that cats with claws get trained quickly to not leap on their owner's chest]
If somehow you think evolved enthusiasm is unique, well... digital actions can be created through evolution also.
Great design. Let's see.. to snuff a forest fire that's five miles in diameter you'd need about...um...
The Hiroshima bomb destroyed most buildings within a mile, so that's a two-mile diameter, so you'd need about five Hiroshima-sized bombs to have a significant blast effect over an area five miles across. That's 15 kilotons, so you'd need 15 x 5 = 75 kilotons, or 75,000 tons, or 150,000 pounds of conventional explosive. (Yeah, it might not snuff the fire, but the updraft under the mushroom cloud will tend to suck the fire inward and slow its outward travel -- ignoring the effect of flying flaming objects)
Maybe five aircraft would be more practical, but let's see if one can do it. It looks like a 707 or KC-135 can handle 150,000 pounds and have capacity for some fuel weight. I don't know what the safety requirements would be to allow unmanned flight for civilian use of something like that.
Now, about the foam.. The area of a circle 2.5 miles in diameter is 547 million square feet (pi * r^2), so if you're going to cover just the surface (not trying to cover all branches on trees) to a depth of one foot, you need 547 million cubic feet of foam.
One Goodyear Blimp has 202,700 cubic feet of helium, so we'll assume it can hold that much foam.
So, fill a 707 with explosives and strap around it 2,700 Goodyear Blimps full of foam. Probably want to add some more, as some of the foam will be vaporized by the blast. Well, might be easier to just drop the blimp-sized bags of foam separately. There ya go, it's all designed. The rest is just engineering.
People with privacy concerns might not have their real SSN in the computer. I've encountered employee computer entries with SSNs which are obviously fake.
I confirmed that they were being kept out of the systems -- the required tax paperwork was done manually by the few people which the employment agreement allowed to have the SSNs.
Slashdot Mirror
Depends what you consider "progress". Drag racing with electric motors has different requirements than downtown driving. Drag racing emphasizes one brief, powerful pulse -- you might end up with a power source featuring EMP and MHD extraction from a shaped explosive charge within a titanium chamber.
Um.. Formula 1 are not drag racers, they're open-wheel racers. Drag racers try to zoom quickly in a short straight line. Formula 1 races are in the 2-hour range.
And this research you're disparaging is the same research which produced fuel injection, electronic ignition, computer powertrain controls, and those other things which increased gas mileage over the past 25 years from 10 MPG...
"Meanwhile, the Red Team has covered the blackboard and half their walls in diagrams and has decided to build their rocket engine from hubcaps and motorcycle handlebars..."
I'm expecting any day now to be told that my comment violated the nutritional needs of a pack of orange monkeys.
The story was in the September 10 USA Today, and September 11 Wall Street Journal. I searched, but don't find a Slashdot story about it.
Well, as long as the article fits on one page. Wired's links to other pages of an article includes code to break out of frames, which wrecks my web navigation Javascript frame, which messes up my daily scanning of favorite sites. Wired would be a favorite if it wasn't for that...
Isn't a cup of really hot tea also a semiconductor?
What about restricting the speech of users of government sites using Frontpage?
Does the 1st amendment apply to a government web site which requires Frontpage? Do any of the Justice Department pages use Frontpage?
> Internet Worm clothing and other novelties.
How do you keep the worm in it?
It's got one sleeve and nothing else.
For safety use buttons, not a zipper.
Make sure you sell them by the gross, because when you have one worm you have many.
Make sure you label them as gross.
Offer a subscription service, the worm-clothing-of-the-month club, so they can keep next month's worm comfortable.
"Got Worms?"
"I'm with Worm ->"
"I'm with Worm ->
->
->
->"
"Did my worm poke you yet?"
"Thanks, Bill!"
"Don't Worm, Be Happy!"
"Worm!"
"With Worm Regards"
"Fly Northwest To Worm Climate"
"Microsoft: Bringing Worms to Minnesota Year-Round"
"My MS Computer Is a Dog, It Has Worms"
"Worms: Automatic Distributed Computing"
"Worms. Because 1GHz is a terrible thing to waste."
The U.S. Congress is already considering doing just that. Encryption: "Anything not permitted is not allowed."
Do you have a page where we can watch a real-time view of your site getting slashdotted?
Fry's seems fine, and I wish there were one near me, but I told Egghead to opt me out because I don't know what info they want to pass along. When I want to give my credit card number to Fry's then I will do so.
The limit of five Tolkien rings can be a problem for large corporate empires. And adding a new ring can be quite a quest.
(Of course for the benefit of the consumer who doesn't know the differences between benchmarks, some standard benchmark would have to be used so the consumer can simply know "a bigger number on the box is better".)
Organizing the class is left as an exercise for the reader of law.
If somehow you think evolved enthusiasm is unique, well... digital actions can be created through evolution also.
It's Joint Terrorism...is that as in Reefer Madness?
Make sure you create a cron entry which will email you a reminder when the 64-bit limit is approaching so you can fix your code.
I don't see an eternal flame in the Turing Memorial. Of course, it should have have an infinite tape
The Hiroshima bomb destroyed most buildings within a mile, so that's a two-mile diameter, so you'd need about five Hiroshima-sized bombs to have a significant blast effect over an area five miles across. That's 15 kilotons, so you'd need 15 x 5 = 75 kilotons, or 75,000 tons, or 150,000 pounds of conventional explosive. (Yeah, it might not snuff the fire, but the updraft under the mushroom cloud will tend to suck the fire inward and slow its outward travel -- ignoring the effect of flying flaming objects)
Maybe five aircraft would be more practical, but let's see if one can do it. It looks like a 707 or KC-135 can handle 150,000 pounds and have capacity for some fuel weight. I don't know what the safety requirements would be to allow unmanned flight for civilian use of something like that.
Now, about the foam.. The area of a circle 2.5 miles in diameter is 547 million square feet (pi * r^2), so if you're going to cover just the surface (not trying to cover all branches on trees) to a depth of one foot, you need 547 million cubic feet of foam.
One Goodyear Blimp has 202,700 cubic feet of helium, so we'll assume it can hold that much foam.
So, fill a 707 with explosives and strap around it 2,700 Goodyear Blimps full of foam. Probably want to add some more, as some of the foam will be vaporized by the blast. Well, might be easier to just drop the blimp-sized bags of foam separately. There ya go, it's all designed. The rest is just engineering.
So, why doesn't it exist yet?
I wonder how much the government could raise by auctioning vanity numbers. Would someone pay extra for 1111111111, 1000000000, 1234567890?
Personally, I'd want a random number rather than something which might be used in database tests...
I confirmed that they were being kept out of the systems -- the required tax paperwork was done manually by the few people which the employment agreement allowed to have the SSNs.
Anything can be changed by contract or law.