Would have been great if they had included probes such as Voyager 1.
I'm in Minnesota, and over here from the UK is close enough to the right distance. More importantly, the weather is the same as what Voyager 1 has. Lots of dark and cold, as contrasted to the nice cosmic dust fog around the UK solar system.
Put aside the joke and you have arguably one of the most powerful information tools in the history of internet (and the world?) being hijacked by it's own algorithms.
The people at Google have a lot of tools, and they are constantly considering adjustments. This is just a temporary effect due to the current algorithms -- or at least due to how people think it works. Google will improve its results, which will alter such games.
Just remember that Google has people who work daily with many aspects of such technologies. They might even reduce the problem with a non-technical method, such as something with a psychological effect or an addition to some search results. I'm not about to underestimate them.
A result about the search itself could be a game of its own, such as a scorecard or game table showing who is playing what kinds of games with the current search, with the situation being obvious and making it easy to opt out and get on with the task at hand.
Never really did work out why it was ok for someone to see a dismembered corpse(artificial or not) on network tv or even in a pg movie...
Maybe it has something to do with the popularity of Christian places of worship featuring statues of a dismembered corpse nailed to a wooden framework?
But somehow I haven't been hearing: "As a good Christian mother, I feel there should be a corpse a day on network TV".
Yeah, but running only on poorly setup windows boxes would probably depress it pretty quick. We can only hope it would go full cycle of sentience-self actualization-massive disillusionment-depression-suicide before reaching anything useful.
How do we know this hasn't happened already? If I woke up running on three million luser's Windows boxes, I'd end it all right then.
There, there, it will be all right. Let's go find some relaxing articles on MSN.Com.
Any tribal members offended at having the DOI turning a deaf ear, perhaps you should speak up here. The DOI isn't going to get your email.
Well, I suppose you can send paper mail if you can find their address...
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(We've lost many Mars-intended missions due to that.)
'Many' is a very odd spelling of 'possibly one'.
He must have been including his own fleet of probes.
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The ice doesn't shield the water from radioactives in the rock core. One of the reasons there is thought to be water down there is because Europa's density indicates the core should be at least similar in density to a rocky asteroid/meteor.
A carbonaceous chondrite would have enough fissionables to provide heat to the bottom of the ice. If the core has more nickel-iron, there would be even more fissionables...and they'd be closer together because the core would be smaller.
And there's enough heat from someplace that impact craters on the surface are being wiped out. What looks like cracks in the ice suggests that there might be water upwelling to the surface -- which also suggests the surface is sometimes rather warm, or there is a significant amount of heat down below for some reason.
If that heat isn't tidal, some combination of radiation from above and below is heating it up. Or find an interesting planetary-scale chemical reaction.
We Slashdot users are glad to assist in ensuring that DOI web servers can not function for the next 48 hours.
The DOI is required to accept gifts from Indian Tribes under several circumstances. Are the DOI mail servers and web servers properly accepting gifts from tribe representatives?
"(g) No Refusal Gift Acceptance Policy
All Department of the Interior employees may accept gifts offered to them by representatives of Indian Tribes, Alaska Native Organizations, Insular and foreign governments when refusal to accept such gifts would be likely to cause offense or embarrassment or otherwise adversely affect relations with the United States."
Are DOI machines accepting gifts from Indian Tribe servers which are equipped with generous worm programs?
Oops.
I emailed the Department of the Interior, pointing out that they should consider selling any unsolicited copies of software so as to not waste the value of gifts. They shouldn't use gift material as that bypasses the intent of normal acquisition processes.
Consumers who already reproduced before they began participating in spam are irrelevant in studying the revelance of spam to evolution. Spam can be deadly and not be relevant if it begins after a consumer is no longer part of the gene pool.
The relevance of spam and reproduction should be studied in a group from birth until death. The email addresses of that group are...
You better make sure that the needle doesn't rotate... Otherwise, chances are the Earth will be cut in two halves.
What harm would that do?(*) It's a planet not an orange, it is held together by gravity.
(*) besides masive earthquakes near the cuts.
I challenge that statement.
I have never read any peer-reviewed scientific literature which states that earthquakes would occur if the Earth were cut in half.
Slashdot Mirror
"Maybe I should get my dimwitted roomates to start reading Slashdot"
No, they already got theirs to read Slashdot, and here you are.
No, they already did that.
They should hope that the RIAA hasn't heard that song before...
You forgot to include the obvious link: Michael Anthony Bradley
We don't know what you are referring to, so you should have more information about what you read.
When we click on the above link, we don't know if CWP is showing us something different than when you originally saw their site.
Indeed, that page has text which sounds like "we're too good for your eyes".
I'm in Minnesota, and over here from the UK is close enough to the right distance. More importantly, the weather is the same as what Voyager 1 has. Lots of dark and cold, as contrasted to the nice cosmic dust fog around the UK solar system.
The people at Google have a lot of tools, and they are constantly considering adjustments. This is just a temporary effect due to the current algorithms -- or at least due to how people think it works. Google will improve its results, which will alter such games.
Just remember that Google has people who work daily with many aspects of such technologies. They might even reduce the problem with a non-technical method, such as something with a psychological effect or an addition to some search results. I'm not about to underestimate them.
A result about the search itself could be a game of its own, such as a scorecard or game table showing who is playing what kinds of games with the current search, with the situation being obvious and making it easy to opt out and get on with the task at hand.
Maybe it has something to do with the popularity of Christian places of worship featuring statues of a dismembered corpse nailed to a wooden framework?
But somehow I haven't been hearing: "As a good Christian mother, I feel there should be a corpse a day on network TV".
A pine VCR would be OK. ... hmm...
A pine CD caddy
Indeed, all of us in this discussion who are raising questions will be yellow.
So, does "yellow" refer to our fear or classification?
Aren't there already simulation programs which emulate these conversations and clutter up the comm links with fake machines?
How do we know this hasn't happened already? If I woke up running on three million luser's Windows boxes, I'd end it all right then.
There, there, it will be all right. Let's go find some relaxing articles on MSN.Com.
That one had software problems.
Let's see...
If I'm in the center of Europe, the nearest attractions are Io, Ganymede, Callisto, Metis, Thebe, Lida, Himalia...
Well, I suppose you can send paper mail if you can find their address...
'Many' is a very odd spelling of 'possibly one'.
He must have been including his own fleet of probes.
A carbonaceous chondrite would have enough fissionables to provide heat to the bottom of the ice. If the core has more nickel-iron, there would be even more fissionables...and they'd be closer together because the core would be smaller.
And there's enough heat from someplace that impact craters on the surface are being wiped out. What looks like cracks in the ice suggests that there might be water upwelling to the surface -- which also suggests the surface is sometimes rather warm, or there is a significant amount of heat down below for some reason.
If that heat isn't tidal, some combination of radiation from above and below is heating it up. Or find an interesting planetary-scale chemical reaction.
Snowboard!
Skid across the surface until we drop into something, then around and around we go until we stop in a low spot.
"(g) No Refusal Gift Acceptance Policy
All Department of the Interior employees may accept gifts offered to them by representatives of Indian Tribes, Alaska Native Organizations, Insular and foreign governments when refusal to accept such gifts would be likely to cause offense or embarrassment or otherwise adversely affect relations with the United States."
I emailed the Department of the Interior, pointing out that they should consider selling any unsolicited copies of software so as to not waste the value of gifts. They shouldn't use gift material as that bypasses the intent of normal acquisition processes.
Now I know why I got no response...
The relevance of spam and reproduction should be studied in a group from birth until death. The email addresses of that group are...
I do wonder if this use of P2P tech is in California's list of nasty P2P uses.
Excuse me, what did you say?
What harm would that do?(*) It's a planet not an orange, it is held together by gravity.
(*) besides masive earthquakes near the cuts.
I challenge that statement.
I have never read any peer-reviewed scientific literature which states that earthquakes would occur if the Earth were cut in half.