I didn't read the article, but it stands to reason that there may be upsides to that, as well. Presumably the core is still hot, even if there isn't active volcanism and plate tectonics, and it would seem reasonable that there could be a wider swath of the crust that may have habitable conditions, because on Earth you'll eventually get too hot and hit the mantle.
The hypocracy being, the protesters sitting in the public parks, parks paid for with taxpayer money, sucking down taxpayer dollars in security and later to clean up the mess are all largely in the 1% world-wide, and are sitting there in their tents and sleeping bags made in near-slave-labor, blogging about their trials with their iPhones, made with near slave labor, wearing clothes made with near slave labor.
They're not complaining about the rich hoarding wealth, they're just complaining about people doing it better than themselves.
And while the current versions of most OSes support IPv6, they do not do so by default.
What are those OSes? Its been a long time since I turned on ipv6 at home. As I recall I had to do little other than turn it on. There is a difference between "activate" which is kind of like setting the sound mixer output to a comfortable level no big deal, vs searching on the internet to install 3rd party drivers and/or recompiling kernels.
Windows 7 actually defaults to it being turned on, but will generally not do anything with it if it doesn't get an IPV6 DHCP address. But some MS technology (like the Win7 HomeGroup support, and DirectAccess) work via IPV6. Odds are there are a TON of people using IPV6 on their home network and just don't know it.
Unlike all other Ask Slashdots, this question is not prededed by "$USERNAME writes", so who actually proposed this question? A user that didn't get credit? A Slashdot editor? Someone from Sourceforge? The post introducing sponsored Ask Slashdots says that "the sponsors don't pick the questions", but that's still ambiguous. Many people are skeptical about this being thinly veiled astroturfing, so it's important to be as transparent as possible.
Well its refreshing to see them at least trying to thinly veil it. That's a step up from the last few years on here.
So, when will we be able to get a spectrographic reading on its atmosphere to see if there is free oxygen there? If an amateur using a 10" scope can see the dust around another star, is there any way the very best techniques using twin 10 meter scopes with' anti-aberration lasers can block out enough of the stars light to see just the planet's atmosphere?"
NASA has lost ALL of it's Saturn V knowledge. The scientist have died, the documents have rotten and been lost. The parts were SOLD AS SCRAP. NASA is currently trying to buy up all the lost parts from scrap dealers. All this old knowledge is for the 'new' space program. Yes, we are indeed regressing.
I can't be 100% certain, but I'm 90% certain 100% of what you posted is wrong. I know 90% of it is wrong.
I guess my point is, in theory its possible to calculate if it is actually possible. He may be correct (although accidentally).
If the type of encounter that Voyager could actually survived added little enough speed, and the time between those encounters are long enough, and the odds of surviving non-ideal encounters is low enough, presumably you could calculate the time it would take to build up that kind of speed *even in that one in quintillion chance*, and compare that time to the time the galaxy will actually be around with the appropriate types of masses useful for accelerating Voyager like that.
The point is, there's definitely swaths of solutions to that math that result in conditions where Voyager could *never* leave the galaxy, and its entirely possible that the parameters ensure that you're always in that range, and Voyage could *never* leave the galaxy.
I suck at that sort of math, but I'm sure someone could work through all the variables. Might even make an interesting paper.
I would assume one (and by one, I mean not me!) could calculate the distance it would have to pass away from a typical stellar center of gravity, and figure out if it could actually get a 20x increase in speed without its approach to that center of gravity being within the star.
That'd tell you if it was possible short of passing by something exotic like a neutron star. (And presumably one could calculate how close it would have to pass to even something that dense to get that kind of acceleration, and if the structure of the probe could handle the tidal stress or if it would be torn apart.)
And if you determined there was actually stellar objects that had the sufficient gravity, and sufficient density to accelerate the probe without it hitting the object, you could probably calculate the odds of an encounter with that object resulting in the probe getting that kind of speed, and calculate the number of those objects around and figure out if it really is possible.
I would assume a great many slow accelerations could do it, but every close encounter you need reduces the odds of it not hitting something.
They're starting to realize that Groupon customers don't translate into long-term customers, which makes the value of offering deals on Groupon very low.
You do realize that B&N uses the industry standard DRM, right? No lock involved, in fact you can open the books on any computer that supports Adobe Editions
In other words, they tie you into using one of the worst pieces of crap software since Adobe Flash Player.
I just don't buy e-books with DRM, it's much simpler.
That statement is just moronic. "industry standard" and "Adobe Editions"?
There *are* some industry standard formats. MOBI (Amazon's format for most books that aren't converted via scanning the paper book, Topaz) *is* a documented standard. The DRM *is* a documented standard. *Lots* of readers can read them, *including* DRM copies, as long as you have the key.
I'm a cancer survivor. I'm also sympathetic, to a degree, to alternative medicines. But never for cancer! I have known a number of people who tried to treat their cancers through diet, herbs, acupuncture, and so on. Every one of them is dead. Every. Single. One. For cancer, you need the big guns, the heavy chemicals, the knives, the radiation. They leave lots and lots of collateral damage, but at least they have have a chance of keeping you alive for awhile longer.
So when I see people like Burzynski preying on frightened cancer patients and their families with their snake oil, it makes me see red.
Congrats on surviving your cancer. But you're no better than anyone else who follows that quackery. You're basically saying "well, I had such and such disease, so I know 'alternative' therapy doesn't work and people die", but proclaiming some belief that *other* "alternative" treatments for diseases you *haven't* had are viable?
Alternative medicine that is proven to work has a special name... "medicine".
The quackery that killed the people you know with cancer kills, maims, or makes poor millions of other people who grasp for hope and are taken advantage of.
First and foremost, don't convince yourself you're better than you really are. You need to be honest with yourself about your experience before you can be honest with a prospective employer.
Being self-taught doesn't suggest you don't know the technology, but *does* suggest you may not know a lot of other things that are critical that come from studying things in school -- process, teamwork, communication, etc...
Basically, don't BS yourself into seeking jobs you really aren't qualified for, particularly in this market. You'll just waste your time, adn the time of those you're talking to. You're going to have to build up the credentials based on your work experience that you lack in formal education. (And, I can tell you as someone who has done a lot of hiring -- a lot of the comments here are wrong... you need actual *employment* exprience, not hobby projects to show your abilities, because as I said, doing something with a team, on a deadline, is very different than doing something by yourself.)
Reminds me of how China would constantly get hit with human-rights abuses accusations, then they started writing up biased reports against everyone else. "See, everyone else in the world is just as bad!"
Are you suggesting they're either wrong, or not making a valid point?
Because, it seems to me they're making a valid point. Does China do bad things? Sure as shit they do. Does the US? If you think the US is any better, you're high. While there are definitely substantial differences culturally between the two countries, you're wearing blinders if you think the gap is anything but noise.
Sure, there are issues in China -- it is a country with nearly a billion people living in poverty after all, but its also a country with a middle class twice the size of the US. We may like to criticize things like child labor in their factories, but there's plenty of children living in poverty just as deep in parts of the US, and if you talk to people in China about it, they're the first to tell you its better to be ten years old and making four dollars a day than being ten years old and starving. I'm not sure the US has a moral high ground to stand on with the realities of farm labor, staggering poverty, complete lack of healthcare and social services in similarly poor portions of the US population.
Every country spends its time struggling between the betterment of the population and the power of the elite. There are lots of countries that get that balance done well, but they're not superpowers like the US and China. Superpowers get that way by taking power, by wielding their influence and through propoganda.
It'd be good for our country for the general population of the US would stop being ignorant and living in a mouthbreathing "US good, big adversary bad" mentality all the time.
And you think they manage their currency valuation any more rigidly than the US does?
The US uses politics and dealing globally to keep the value of the dollar strong.
So does China. The difference is that the rabid "need" for Americans to live well beyond their means, consuming vastly more than we produce, means China holds all the cards in that poker game. When their domestic market was weak enough they needed US sales, they had to tone down the rhetoric, but now that China's domestic market is growing massively, they don't need to be nearly as conservative about calling a duck a duck with the US.
The US doesn't wear the pants anymore in this relationship.
Then you register that your application opens any arbitrary files. The point is, the user knows when they choose to buy and/or install the application that it has asked for permission to do that. If that makes sense to the user, they'll buy it. If it doesn't, they won't.
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I didn't read the article, but it stands to reason that there may be upsides to that, as well. Presumably the core is still hot, even if there isn't active volcanism and plate tectonics, and it would seem reasonable that there could be a wider swath of the crust that may have habitable conditions, because on Earth you'll eventually get too hot and hit the mantle.
Hypocritical? The problem is the hypocracy.
As far as I'm concerned they're the problem, not what they're protesting.
The hypocracy being, the protesters sitting in the public parks, parks paid for with taxpayer money, sucking down taxpayer dollars in security and later to clean up the mess are all largely in the 1% world-wide, and are sitting there in their tents and sleeping bags made in near-slave-labor, blogging about their trials with their iPhones, made with near slave labor, wearing clothes made with near slave labor.
They're not complaining about the rich hoarding wealth, they're just complaining about people doing it better than themselves.
And while the current versions of most OSes support IPv6, they do not do so by default.
What are those OSes? Its been a long time since I turned on ipv6 at home. As I recall I had to do little other than turn it on. There is a difference between "activate" which is kind of like setting the sound mixer output to a comfortable level no big deal, vs searching on the internet to install 3rd party drivers and/or recompiling kernels.
Windows 7 actually defaults to it being turned on, but will generally not do anything with it if it doesn't get an IPV6 DHCP address. But some MS technology (like the Win7 HomeGroup support, and DirectAccess) work via IPV6. Odds are there are a TON of people using IPV6 on their home network and just don't know it.
That's not new at all -- the Phoenix area has been doing that for at least 20 years, and probably more.
its spread farther, too, its pretty common in Nevada and Colorado, too. But its pretty much ubiquitous in AZ, and has been since the 80s.
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No. Next story.
Not yet. The sponsor paid good money for this discussion.
Unlike all other Ask Slashdots, this question is not prededed by "$USERNAME writes", so who actually proposed this question? A user that didn't get credit? A Slashdot editor? Someone from Sourceforge? The post introducing sponsored Ask Slashdots says that "the sponsors don't pick the questions", but that's still ambiguous. Many people are skeptical about this being thinly veiled astroturfing, so it's important to be as transparent as possible.
Well its refreshing to see them at least trying to thinly veil it. That's a step up from the last few years on here.
So, when will we be able to get a spectrographic reading on its atmosphere to see if there is free oxygen there? If an amateur using a 10" scope can see the dust around another star, is there any way the very best techniques using twin 10 meter scopes with' anti-aberration lasers can block out enough of the stars light to see just the planet's atmosphere?"
No. Not even close. Yet.
Agreed. If it's the same density then 2.4x radius would be 14x the mass. I'm trying to picture a planet with intelligent pancake beings.
Or they'd have a stronger physiology. Or live in the water. Or perhaps a thousand other options we haven't thought of.
Not without the recipient knowing and without comitting a crime.
Other than that, your nerdy little ass is right.
That's just plain moronic. Its just as illegal to access someone's e-mail, and at least it has a password. My mailbox doesn't.
Hey, don't disregard the risk of losing farm equipment. Tractors are really small, and the corn can easily be as high as an elephant's eye!
NASA has lost ALL of it's Saturn V knowledge. The scientist have died, the documents have rotten and been lost. The parts were SOLD AS SCRAP. NASA is currently trying to buy up all the lost parts from scrap dealers. All this old knowledge is for the 'new' space program. Yes, we are indeed regressing.
I can't be 100% certain, but I'm 90% certain 100% of what you posted is wrong. I know 90% of it is wrong.
Nice job.
Since individual genomes vary by less than 1% from each other, they can be losslessly compressed to roughly 4 megabytes.
640K will always be enough!
I guess my point is, in theory its possible to calculate if it is actually possible. He may be correct (although accidentally).
If the type of encounter that Voyager could actually survived added little enough speed, and the time between those encounters are long enough, and the odds of surviving non-ideal encounters is low enough, presumably you could calculate the time it would take to build up that kind of speed *even in that one in quintillion chance*, and compare that time to the time the galaxy will actually be around with the appropriate types of masses useful for accelerating Voyager like that.
The point is, there's definitely swaths of solutions to that math that result in conditions where Voyager could *never* leave the galaxy, and its entirely possible that the parameters ensure that you're always in that range, and Voyage could *never* leave the galaxy.
I suck at that sort of math, but I'm sure someone could work through all the variables. Might even make an interesting paper.
I would assume one (and by one, I mean not me!) could calculate the distance it would have to pass away from a typical stellar center of gravity, and figure out if it could actually get a 20x increase in speed without its approach to that center of gravity being within the star.
That'd tell you if it was possible short of passing by something exotic like a neutron star. (And presumably one could calculate how close it would have to pass to even something that dense to get that kind of acceleration, and if the structure of the probe could handle the tidal stress or if it would be torn apart.)
And if you determined there was actually stellar objects that had the sufficient gravity, and sufficient density to accelerate the probe without it hitting the object, you could probably calculate the odds of an encounter with that object resulting in the probe getting that kind of speed, and calculate the number of those objects around and figure out if it really is possible.
I would assume a great many slow accelerations could do it, but every close encounter you need reduces the odds of it not hitting something.
They're starting to realize that Groupon customers don't translate into long-term customers, which makes the value of offering deals on Groupon very low.
You do realize that B&N uses the industry standard DRM, right? No lock involved, in fact you can open the books on any computer that supports Adobe Editions
In other words, they tie you into using one of the worst pieces of crap software since Adobe Flash Player.
I just don't buy e-books with DRM, it's much simpler.
That statement is just moronic. "industry standard" and "Adobe Editions"?
There *are* some industry standard formats. MOBI (Amazon's format for most books that aren't converted via scanning the paper book, Topaz) *is* a documented standard. The DRM *is* a documented standard. *Lots* of readers can read them, *including* DRM copies, as long as you have the key.
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/221/
That cartoon contains code for returning a single value, but the programmer came up with that value by rolling the dice.
On behalf of all the blind readers of Slashdot, thank-you.
I'm a cancer survivor. I'm also sympathetic, to a degree, to alternative medicines. But never for cancer! I have known a number of people who tried to treat their cancers through diet, herbs, acupuncture, and so on. Every one of them is dead. Every. Single. One. For cancer, you need the big guns, the heavy chemicals, the knives, the radiation. They leave lots and lots of collateral damage, but at least they have have a chance of keeping you alive for awhile longer.
So when I see people like Burzynski preying on frightened cancer patients and their families with their snake oil, it makes me see red.
Congrats on surviving your cancer. But you're no better than anyone else who follows that quackery. You're basically saying "well, I had such and such disease, so I know 'alternative' therapy doesn't work and people die", but proclaiming some belief that *other* "alternative" treatments for diseases you *haven't* had are viable?
Alternative medicine that is proven to work has a special name... "medicine".
The quackery that killed the people you know with cancer kills, maims, or makes poor millions of other people who grasp for hope and are taken advantage of.
The highly skilled people take jobs Americans want.
The uneducated immigrants, all media hyperbole aside, take jobs Americans don't.
Its as simple as that.
That's not an issue of most Slashdot readers. Half of them likely never leave their parents basement.
The real scary thing, though, is that the new world order may be run entirely by Digg readers!
First and foremost, don't convince yourself you're better than you really are. You need to be honest with yourself about your experience before you can be honest with a prospective employer.
Being self-taught doesn't suggest you don't know the technology, but *does* suggest you may not know a lot of other things that are critical that come from studying things in school -- process, teamwork, communication, etc ...
Basically, don't BS yourself into seeking jobs you really aren't qualified for, particularly in this market. You'll just waste your time, adn the time of those you're talking to. You're going to have to build up the credentials based on your work experience that you lack in formal education. (And, I can tell you as someone who has done a lot of hiring -- a lot of the comments here are wrong... you need actual *employment* exprience, not hobby projects to show your abilities, because as I said, doing something with a team, on a deadline, is very different than doing something by yourself.)
Reminds me of how China would constantly get hit with human-rights abuses accusations, then they started writing up biased reports against everyone else. "See, everyone else in the world is just as bad!"
Are you suggesting they're either wrong, or not making a valid point?
Because, it seems to me they're making a valid point. Does China do bad things? Sure as shit they do. Does the US? If you think the US is any better, you're high. While there are definitely substantial differences culturally between the two countries, you're wearing blinders if you think the gap is anything but noise.
Sure, there are issues in China -- it is a country with nearly a billion people living in poverty after all, but its also a country with a middle class twice the size of the US. We may like to criticize things like child labor in their factories, but there's plenty of children living in poverty just as deep in parts of the US, and if you talk to people in China about it, they're the first to tell you its better to be ten years old and making four dollars a day than being ten years old and starving. I'm not sure the US has a moral high ground to stand on with the realities of farm labor, staggering poverty, complete lack of healthcare and social services in similarly poor portions of the US population.
Every country spends its time struggling between the betterment of the population and the power of the elite. There are lots of countries that get that balance done well, but they're not superpowers like the US and China. Superpowers get that way by taking power, by wielding their influence and through propoganda.
It'd be good for our country for the general population of the US would stop being ignorant and living in a mouthbreathing "US good, big adversary bad" mentality all the time.
And you think they manage their currency valuation any more rigidly than the US does?
The US uses politics and dealing globally to keep the value of the dollar strong.
So does China. The difference is that the rabid "need" for Americans to live well beyond their means, consuming vastly more than we produce, means China holds all the cards in that poker game. When their domestic market was weak enough they needed US sales, they had to tone down the rhetoric, but now that China's domestic market is growing massively, they don't need to be nearly as conservative about calling a duck a duck with the US.
The US doesn't wear the pants anymore in this relationship.
Then you register that your application opens any arbitrary files. The point is, the user knows when they choose to buy and/or install the application that it has asked for permission to do that. If that makes sense to the user, they'll buy it. If it doesn't, they won't.