Granted - the underwater beasts DON'T listen to modern music . . .
BUT - they DO navigate / communicate / LIVE with the underwater 'noise'
Kinda' SUCKS that your NAVAL PROTECTION is _literally_ destroying / overwhelming the echo-location biological organs that the sea-going mammals require to JUST LET ME LIVE ! ! !
"so far that your neutrons can't function properly" . . . ummm, I THINK you meant NEURONS Water is a neutron moderator (slowing them down in reactors so they can be captured by Uranium and continue the fission chain reaction), but this action has no real bearing on life processes. OTOH, NEURONS are the stuff carrying nerve impulses around the body, and over-hydration (too much water) disrupts the action of the sodium mediated electrical impulses by dropping their relative concentration to a level where the neural firing activity is dampened out. A potentially fatal example is the disruption (dampening) of the electrical signals that trigger the heartbeat, which could lead to heart failure and death.
Geez Guys, it's kinda' a shame you couldn't pull your heads out'a your backside and TAKE A STAND about this issue when it could have counted. Instead, you whine and moan because your cash cow got slam-dunked, and you suddenly realize that this issue - net neutrality - had a serious impact on YOU, and YOUR CA$H FLOW, and NOW you want to take a stand! Sorry, but even if I get flame-bait / troll on this post, I just can't tolerate this type of 'Geez, this is BAD' after-the-fact type of response from an agent that gets it's lifeblood support from a full and open internet speed environment.
Woops - day late & mod points short - - - SERIOUSLY appropriate. Car crashes, Smoking, Cancer - all types, DEATH AS A DISEASE ALL of these issues NEED to be dealt with before we panic over a few dozen cases of drug-resistant bacteria. The bacteria will ALWAYS find a mutation that will manage to survive attacks against it/them - they have done so for many hundreds of millions of years. AND, we are living in a world-wide culture dish that is slamming the bacteria with massive (and often inappropriate) dosages of antibiotics, leading to faster mutation rates to survive these attacks. Due to their incredibly rapid reproduction rates (sometimes as short as minutes), these creatures will (probably) always find a survival mutation, and continue to pose a risk for some.
Already 'modded' this thread, so I have to post this comment . . . OFFTOPIC, and a bit of FLAMEBAIT tossed in for good measure. The micro-SBC's are NOT meant to be full-blown computers from power-up, but are designed to be HOBBY'ist and low-cost home-brew throw-away toys/tools for inexpensive training and self-improvement platforms. IF I could have modded this post, it would be -1 off-topic, and maybe another -1 for being a bit snarky/flamebait'ish.
Thank You for the lead on the OnShape CAD software. As an ancient programmer/developer (yep, soldered my first motherboard with 16K ram and had to hand program my BIOS chip at my college computer center). I have wanted to keep 'playing around' with the newer components and devices, but the software co$t$ were just stupendously expensive and far beyond my retired budget. OnShape even has a FREE version for the old codgers like me, so it is absolutely perfect for the low-budget hobbyest.
Better yet . . . have several of the AI's engaging in conversations that are abruptly silenced when someone enters the room. Imagine the occupants furtively putting glasses or stethoscopes to the walls in a vain attempt to overhear the 'plotting' between the various AI-enabled devices.
I really hate "ME2" posts, but I have to bite the bullet and do it here. Please, do NOT expose moderator's ID, as it will definitely set off retaliatory mod'ing from the original poster - - - not in every case, but often enough to cause concern about stalking issues.
Thank you for your OPEN and 'wild west' attitude toward posts and your continuing efforts to allow for the readers to police themselves.
The one item I have seen in this thread that I DO like is to screen for targeted down-mod'ers, and use a sliding scale penalty on the award of their mod points - exclusively (or over 90%) target down-mod'ers are permanently removed from mod point awards, while minimally targeted (less than 10%) aimed at a specific poster - business as usual.
Reminds me of a conversation with my doctor - where he dreams he is assigned to a nursing home as a physical rehab clinician. The primary rehab issue is getting the old people help and retraining to overcome the crippling arthritis of their thumbs resulting from a lifetime of thumb button pushing and swiping on their mobile phones . . .
Actually, the US govt would have kept it secret (or as secret as they can be - which at best, is pretty poor in general) and allowed the US security services (one of the many 3-letter 'above/outside the law' agencies) to use to exploit for domestic spying activities.
Thank you - a very interesting read. Unfortunately, too many will get bogged down in the archaic verbiage, but it will still provide some historical enlightenment to those who are willing to wade through the whole article.
Actually, the real difference is that the Republicans steal as a unified organization (or sub-organization, as in the Tea Party coalition), whereas the Democrats steal as individual entrepreneurs.
Seems like I'm always talking to the deaf, but GO TO THE MOON - LOTS of silicon ===> LOTS of solar cells ===> LOTS of power. A basic rail/mass-driver can deliver any amount of raw materials (or even REFINED materials) anywhere in the earth/moon system (and BEYOND). The most rudimentary crude AI-driven scoop/heat/refine machinery can be turned into a quasi-von neuman solar cell factory - - - placing power-generating panels end-to-end, side-by-side, EVERYWHERE, and providing the energy needed to power a mass-driver to deliver materials into space at - essentially - NO COST, after the solar panels are in place. PRIMARY ISSUE ===> put a crusher/scoop/refinery mini-bot on the surface, let it make solar cells, and WAIT. After the power is available, specialty metal/material refining and orbital injection become trivial issues. OK, so it only works for 14 days out of 28 - - - it still WORKS FOR FREE - driven by SOLAR ENERGY, just wait and let it do the job under AI-automation. Hell, if you want 24/7 operation, put a SECOND system on the other side of the moon - - - each working 14 days out of 28, so you have continuous production/operation. Additionally, even though the poly-silicon solar cells aren't top-notch efficient, just MAKE MORE - - - there's a LOT of silicon, and a LOT of room, and all it takes is the initial investment to get the scoop-miners/refiners (mirror-ovens for heat/processing)/solar-cell building mini-bots ON THE MOON ! ! ! ! ! ! There's also lots of aluminum in the crust, so the metal framework, rails, and electrical wiring are all no-brainers. Most people believe that iron is needed for it's magnetic properties so the electrical-driven mass-driver can work.. However, aluminum wiring can be used to make electromagnetically-linked coils (like a transformer or electromagnet) around the mass-driver buckets to accomplish the same task.
WORSE CASE - drop my 10mm socket . . . and watch it return in a couple of years in a drift/altered gravitational differential, magnetic bias, solar wind offset, etc.) orbit at 10K(+) MPH to blow through my habitat like a micro-nuke ! ! !
Actually, the CHEAPEST and best long-term supply of base-materials is from the moon . . . using a mass-driver system (electric driven from solar power) to deliver as much material as needed ANYWHERE in the earth-moon system.
Let's review a couple of items - OLED are BRIGHTER and MORE VIVID, but suffer BURN-IN failure issues. RESOLUTION - DON'T fix the burn-in issue, just reduce the brightness and contrast - well, GOLLY-GEE - - - now we are reverting to the older LED display illumination and contrast - so just fork over the $$$ for the NEWEST_&_BEST technology, and then cripple it so it doesn't damage the screen - OR . . . just remain with the current development level of LEDs and save the NEW_OLED tech for those that just MUST have the latest and greatest.
Sorry for the sarcasm (but only a little bit), but it's kinda' like throttling the efficiency of any device just to make sure it doesn't meet an early end-of-life failure.
Make it GREAT, find a FLAW, fix the FLAW by making it NOT-SO-GREAT. Where's the advantage, other than to the mfgr who charges for the premium feature, then charges again to downgrade that feature to keep from failing early.
OMG - YES. There IS a portion of humanity that can take a break, get coffee, eat a snack, and make it back to the desk WITHOUT TALKING (or even THINKING) . . . SPORTS ! ! ! !
Holy Sh!t, EditorDavid - you either need more coffee, or more beer, or better weed (maybe all 3) - AND a $4.99 globe (with pencil sharpener) - to determine what the difference between PACIFIC and ATLANTIC mean to the REAL WORLD - - - - ooops, guess I forgot where I was posting, since/. does seem to make up it's OWN real world on occasion -lol-
I really, REALLY hope this was a spoofed sig, and not a post from one of/.'s REAL editors . . . . .
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Granted - the underwater beasts DON'T listen to modern music . . .
BUT - they DO navigate / communicate / LIVE with the underwater 'noise'
Kinda' SUCKS that your NAVAL PROTECTION is _literally_ destroying / overwhelming the echo-location biological organs that the sea-going mammals require to JUST LET ME LIVE ! ! !
YEAAAAAH ! ! !
GO DONALD ! ! !
KILL EVERYTHING THAT CAN'T VOTE ! ! !
REALLY Gotta' Love AMERICA - - - where ANYBODY (. . . insert appropriate venomous remark . . .) CAN BE PRESIDENT
So Sorry Everybody, I voted 'DONALD' as an anti-Hillary protest !
"so far that your neutrons can't function properly" . . . ummm, I THINK you meant NEURONS
Water is a neutron moderator (slowing them down in reactors so they can be captured by Uranium and continue the fission chain reaction), but this action has no real bearing on life processes.
OTOH, NEURONS are the stuff carrying nerve impulses around the body, and over-hydration (too much water) disrupts the action of the sodium mediated electrical impulses by dropping their relative concentration to a level where the neural firing activity is dampened out.
A potentially fatal example is the disruption (dampening) of the electrical signals that trigger the heartbeat, which could lead to heart failure and death.
DUH! Have you LISTENED to Trump about this - the HEAD of the US govt. I think headless would be a real a bonus in this situation.
correction - not asshole, but semi-hole
Geez Guys, it's kinda' a shame you couldn't pull your heads out'a your backside and TAKE A STAND about this issue when it could have counted.
Instead, you whine and moan because your cash cow got slam-dunked, and you suddenly realize that this issue - net neutrality - had a serious impact on YOU, and YOUR CA$H FLOW, and NOW you want to take a stand!
Sorry, but even if I get flame-bait / troll on this post, I just can't tolerate this type of 'Geez, this is BAD' after-the-fact type of response from an agent that gets it's lifeblood support from a full and open internet speed environment.
Lost my mod points - too slow to mod, too lazy to be faster -lol-
Someone please mod this +1 INFORMATIVE
Woops - day late & mod points short - - -
SERIOUSLY appropriate.
Car crashes, Smoking, Cancer - all types, DEATH AS A DISEASE
ALL of these issues NEED to be dealt with before we panic over a few dozen cases of drug-resistant bacteria.
The bacteria will ALWAYS find a mutation that will manage to survive attacks against it/them - they have done so for many hundreds of millions of years. AND, we are living in a world-wide culture dish that is slamming the bacteria with massive (and often inappropriate) dosages of antibiotics, leading to faster mutation rates to survive these attacks. Due to their incredibly rapid reproduction rates (sometimes as short as minutes), these creatures will (probably) always find a survival mutation, and continue to pose a risk for some.
Already 'modded' this thread, so I have to post this comment . . .
OFFTOPIC, and a bit of FLAMEBAIT tossed in for good measure.
The micro-SBC's are NOT meant to be full-blown computers from power-up, but are designed to be HOBBY'ist and low-cost home-brew throw-away toys/tools for inexpensive training and self-improvement platforms.
IF I could have modded this post, it would be -1 off-topic, and maybe another -1 for being a bit snarky/flamebait'ish.
Thank You for the lead on the OnShape CAD software.
As an ancient programmer/developer (yep, soldered my first motherboard with 16K ram and had to hand program my BIOS chip at my college computer center). I have wanted to keep 'playing around' with the newer components and devices, but the software co$t$ were just stupendously expensive and far beyond my retired budget.
OnShape even has a FREE version for the old codgers like me, so it is absolutely perfect for the low-budget hobbyest.
Better yet . . . have several of the AI's engaging in conversations that are abruptly silenced when someone enters the room.
Imagine the occupants furtively putting glasses or stethoscopes to the walls in a vain attempt to overhear the 'plotting' between the various AI-enabled devices.
I really hate "ME2" posts, but I have to bite the bullet and do it here.
Please, do NOT expose moderator's ID, as it will definitely set off retaliatory mod'ing from the original poster - - - not in every case, but often enough to cause concern about stalking issues.
Thank you for your OPEN and 'wild west' attitude toward posts and your continuing efforts to allow for the readers to police themselves.
The one item I have seen in this thread that I DO like is to screen for targeted down-mod'ers, and use a sliding scale penalty on the award of their mod points - exclusively (or over 90%) target down-mod'ers are permanently removed from mod point awards, while minimally targeted (less than 10%) aimed at a specific poster - business as usual.
Keep up the good work.
Reminds me of a conversation with my doctor - where he dreams he is assigned to a nursing home as a physical rehab clinician. The primary rehab issue is getting the old people help and retraining to overcome the crippling arthritis of their thumbs resulting from a lifetime of thumb button pushing and swiping on their mobile phones . . .
HUH? Isn't that the primary 'news' source for /. ? ? ?
Actually, the US govt would have kept it secret (or as secret as they can be - which at best, is pretty poor in general) and allowed the US security services (one of the many 3-letter 'above/outside the law' agencies) to use to exploit for domestic spying activities.
ROFL - - - sorry, but THIS one really twigged my funny bone. I've been (more or less) a voting Democrat all my life, but I just HAVE to post this :
Hillary and the DNC _NEED_ some (artificial) intelligence, since they don't seem to have any REAL intelligence!
Thank you - a very interesting read. Unfortunately, too many will get bogged down in the archaic verbiage, but it will still provide some historical enlightenment to those who are willing to wade through the whole article.
Actually, the only REAL way to keep a secret is to NEVER mention that you HAVE a secret !
Actually, the real difference is that the Republicans steal as a unified organization (or sub-organization, as in the Tea Party coalition), whereas the Democrats steal as individual entrepreneurs.
Seems like I'm always talking to the deaf, but GO TO THE MOON - LOTS of silicon ===> LOTS of solar cells ===> LOTS of power.
A basic rail/mass-driver can deliver any amount of raw materials (or even REFINED materials) anywhere in the earth/moon system (and BEYOND). The most rudimentary crude AI-driven scoop/heat/refine machinery can be turned into a quasi-von neuman solar cell factory - - - placing power-generating panels end-to-end, side-by-side, EVERYWHERE, and providing the energy needed to power a mass-driver to deliver materials into space at - essentially - NO COST, after the solar panels are in place.
PRIMARY ISSUE ===> put a crusher/scoop/refinery mini-bot on the surface, let it make solar cells, and WAIT. After the power is available, specialty metal/material refining and orbital injection become trivial issues. OK, so it only works for 14 days out of 28 - - - it still WORKS FOR FREE - driven by SOLAR ENERGY, just wait and let it do the job under AI-automation. Hell, if you want 24/7 operation, put a SECOND system on the other side of the moon - - - each working 14 days out of 28, so you have continuous production/operation.
Additionally, even though the poly-silicon solar cells aren't top-notch efficient, just MAKE MORE - - - there's a LOT of silicon, and a LOT of room, and all it takes is the initial investment to get the scoop-miners/refiners (mirror-ovens for heat/processing)/solar-cell building mini-bots ON THE MOON ! ! ! ! ! !
There's also lots of aluminum in the crust, so the metal framework, rails, and electrical wiring are all no-brainers. Most people believe that iron is needed for it's magnetic properties so the electrical-driven mass-driver can work.. However, aluminum wiring can be used to make electromagnetically-linked coils (like a transformer or electromagnet) around the mass-driver buckets to accomplish the same task.
WORSE CASE - drop my 10mm socket . . . and watch it return in a couple of years in a drift/altered gravitational differential, magnetic bias, solar wind offset, etc.) orbit at 10K(+) MPH to blow through my habitat like a micro-nuke ! ! !
Actually, the CHEAPEST and best long-term supply of base-materials is from the moon . . . using a mass-driver system (electric driven from solar power) to deliver as much material as needed ANYWHERE in the earth-moon system.
Let's review a couple of items - OLED are BRIGHTER and MORE VIVID, but suffer BURN-IN failure issues.
RESOLUTION - DON'T fix the burn-in issue, just reduce the brightness and contrast - well, GOLLY-GEE - - - now we are reverting to the older LED display illumination and contrast - so just fork over the $$$ for the NEWEST_&_BEST technology, and then cripple it so it doesn't damage the screen - OR . . . just remain with the current development level of LEDs and save the NEW_OLED tech for those that just MUST have the latest and greatest.
Sorry for the sarcasm (but only a little bit), but it's kinda' like throttling the efficiency of any device just to make sure it doesn't meet an early end-of-life failure.
Make it GREAT, find a FLAW, fix the FLAW by making it NOT-SO-GREAT. Where's the advantage, other than to the mfgr who charges for the premium feature, then charges again to downgrade that feature to keep from failing early.
cheers . . .
OMG - YES. There IS a portion of humanity that can take a break, get coffee, eat a snack, and make it back to the desk WITHOUT TALKING (or even THINKING) . . . SPORTS ! ! ! !
Holy Sh!t, EditorDavid - you either need more coffee, or more beer, or better weed (maybe all 3) - AND a $4.99 globe (with pencil sharpener) - to determine what the difference between PACIFIC and ATLANTIC mean to the REAL WORLD - - - - ooops, guess I forgot where I was posting, since /. does seem to make up it's OWN real world on occasion -lol-
I really, REALLY hope this was a spoofed sig, and not a post from one of /.'s REAL editors . . . . .