The submitter claims it's fully functional - but he obviously has neither ever used a tape measure nor actually watched the video. With no markings, it's just a cool ribbon and not a tape measure. And the narrator on the video even admits it's not fully functional because wear will cause increasing errors in the length of the ribbon. The non repeatability of the "dial calipers" readings lead to the same conclusion - neat art object, not a functional tool.
. I'm guessing that every US submarine that transits the IO for the next ten years will have secondary tasking to search for MH370.
Almost certainly not since the pings will fall silent in the next two weeks.
We actually had better data on the Air France jet that went down in the Atlantic a few years ago. They eventually recovered the flight data recorders, although it took almost 2 years. But we had a pretty good idea of the track of the aircraft, even though we didn't know WHEN it had gone down.
Actually, they had a pretty good idea of when it went down... It ended up taking two years to find because the weather in the area prevented 24/7/365 searches and the availability of suitable equipment and support vessels meant a search expedition could only be mounted at intervals. (I.E. it's not like they searched for two years, more like six weeks spread across two years.)
Yaknow, I used to think the Two Minutes Hate from Orwell's 1984 was the least realistic, most suspension-of-disbelief breaking part of the book. It just didn't make any sense and the idea of people getting up in front of others to show how much they hated Big Brother's enemies was just ridiculous. But now that I'm older, hell...what else is this story other than despising those who think differently than we do? We write something to show how much we support the prevailing point of view and then move on with the rest of our day.
To me, the Two Minute Hate was the most realistic part of the book - because it so closely paralleled things that had happened and were happening in the real world. Things that continue to happen even today.
And I've long noted the prevalence of Two Minute Hate clickbait articles on Slashdot, especially since it got bought out. Sometimes it's creationists, other times, Google or Apple or Wikipedia... it varies with the current prejudices of Slashdot's readership. But they've always stood out for me, articles with little substantive news but just enough meat to let the fanboys and the haters duke it out or to let the "geeks" rail against the world.
Not really. It's watered down infotainment riding on the coat tails of it's famous name and the current media presence/popularity of it's host. Given the political views of the person bankrolling it (Seth McFarlane), the erroneous presentation on Giordiano Bruno in the first episode, some of the comments around the evolution of life segment in the second... I'm starting to suspect there's a political motive at work as well.
Anyone who doesn't realize we don't have the tech to build a self sustaining off-world colony... is an idiot. We can't even build a closed loop ECLSS that will keep a handful of people in O2 indefinitely without outside support - let alone all the other infrastructure of an industrial society. We barely have a handle on the known unknowns. And given the example of terrestrial colonies, it's not at all clear it's even possible to build a fully self supporting colony. (And for a lunar colony, unlike terrestrial ones, dropping tech to survive isn't an option.)
A Bitcoin wallet is just a text file. They moved it to offline storage to protect it from hacking. They had it in their accounting software, that's how they knew it was missing.
If they had it in their accounting software... it (the old wallet) should never have been missing in the first place. (Especially if they were balancing and auditing their books on a regular basis.)
No, the OP is correct, this smells fishy. Either their accounting system truly was/is fucked up beyond all human belief, or this 'discovery' is a PR/save their bacon maneuver to throw the blame for malfeasance onto mischance/incompetence.
You don't need to have a degree to be a scientist - you simply have to apply the scientific method when studying a subject.
By this test, Bill Nye still fails to be a scientist because he was never part of any scientific investigation. Otherwise, what you're doing is stretching the meaning of "scientist" so far as to render it meaningless.
To continue the above you don't have to be using the scientific method 100% of the time to be a scientist. In fact many scientists doesn't use it in daily life and others have non-scientific views in areas where they aren't experts.
To continue with the above, if you stretch a definition (or essentially create a new one of whole cloth) in order to justify giving the title to someone who would otherwise not deserve it... you're a fool. Hero worship has replaced common sense.
Bill Nye is media personality, not a scientist. Deal with it, or join the bible thumpers.
Now... tell me why its oh so much more productive to piss everyone off for no reason while offering nothing constructive to any discussion?
Most of the "pro-science" crowd doesn't give a damm about being productive or constructive. Being right is their goal, and because they're right anyone who doesn't believe as they do is completely wrong. (And even though they admit that "science isn't perfect" in the abstract.... they're loathe to deal with it in the concrete. It's all about the ego and the self image.) Anyhow, there isn't a real difference between the "pro-science" crowd and any other sub group. You could replace "right" in the above sentence with "blessed by God" or practically anything else and have an equally valid result.
In regards to climate change... We really need to go over some solutions to the issue that don't instantly piss everyone off.
The problem is, to not piss people off, you have to rewind the clock and undo years of fuckups by the climate change crowd - because they went political before they went scientific. It's been about weaponizing the discussion and humiliating the opposition from the very start.
I would think that is sufficient education to be "the Science Guy". Why do we need to tear him down?
Because he isn't a scientist despite the semantic games you play with his degree - he's an engineer. He returns to Cornell to lecture not because he's qualified to lecture, but because he's a famous media personality.
We're not tearing him down - we're pointing to the truth. He's not a scientist, his name originates from a comedy routine, and he's pretty much nothing but a media personality. If your hero worship can't stand the truth, that's not the truth's problem.
True. But much of what the person you quoted is true too. Denying the facts isn't going the way of kuro5hin, it's going the way of the creation "scientists".
And the antenna length of the wiring attached to the starter or alternator is no more than a couple of meters, INSIDE a faraday cage.
Nope, all the wiring in the stator and rotor of the starter or alternator serves as an antenna as well. As is the metal case of either. As is the adjacent engine block.
That's what makes high levels of EMP so difficult to shield against in the real world - literally everything conductive serves as an "antenna" (even if it's not "antenna shaped"). Even stuff adjacent but not connected to the object of interest can cause a problem as current flows through it and a magnetic field forms and subsequently collapses.
An ignition coil would take less current to burn out than a starter or alternator, but still a whole hell of a lot more current than it would ever see inside the faraday cage of the car body.
Even if the body of a car formed a Faraday cage (it doesn't), the ignition coil isn't in the body - it's in the engine compartment, which is open on the bottom. (And fairly open from the front.)
I'm not debating that they're considered trade secrets, my point is that they are covered under trade secret AND copyright at the same time which is highly unusual - I am not aware of any other work that gets both of those protections simultaneously.
Since you have failed to grasp the difference between work products and releases, it's unsurprising you think this is unusual.
Ah, Slashdot! Where everyone knows more than everyone else!
Trust me, knowing more than you is a bar so low as to be non existent for all practical purposes.
I wonder how he worked for MS for 7 years as H1-B Visas are supposed to be limited to 6 years.
Nothing in the linked article says that all seven years were in the US. In fact, the second linked article specifically points out that that for some portion of the period he worked from Lebanon.
Even so, he could be a Microsoft employee for seven years without ever stepping foot in the US - Microsoft is an international company with branches and subsidiaries all over the world.
No I am not. Patents and copyright were BOTH set up for the purpose of encouraging people to release their work.
No, the intention of copyright law is to encourage people to make their works available to the public by motivating the creator with the power of monetization.
And since Windows 8 is available to the public - I fail to see how your claim that the system is broken has any merit. You want to buy a copy of Windows 8, head down the store and Microsoft will happily monetize their work by selling you a copy. You want to see what the patents cover, head over to the USPTO databases and download a copy. Patents have never required the holder to release the details of how he implements the patent in the process of creating the final work. (In this case, the executeable.) Copyright has never required the creator to release the work products used in the creation, only the final work. (And, as the grandparent points out, in the case of the actual code nothing about copyright requires that you release it until it enters the public domain.)
Further, that internal work products (like interim builds and unfinished releases) can be treated as confidential and trade secrets is a well established principle. (That's the legal basis for NDA's, which were in use long before the computer and software industries were established.)
Your belief that the system is broken is based on a fundamental cluelessness about how the system works.
College was not considered vocational training until relatively recently though (say the last one hundred years), in the sense of teaching specific vocational skills.
True, but even so they were vocational training in the sense that they prepared one for a professional career. The idea that training for a professional career involves training specific skills (like a physicist or an accountant) rather than providing a broadly based liberal education is itself also a relatively recent one. The third change is that of "broadening the mind" - today it means exposure to things outside of one's chosen major. But back then it mean taking a curriculum designed to teach the student logic, argument, speaking, writing, etc... all the skills required for any kind of professional career and also the things that (given the haphazard nature of primary and secondary education) a student may or may not have encountered previous to college.
"Crack"? Do you have any idea of timescale involved in your original assertion? The oldest still-existant universities predate the Middle Ages. Oxford, Cambridge, Sorbonne, Bologna, all founded by the early 13th century. Al-Karaouine, Al-Azhar University, and Nizamiyya predate the frickin' Battle of Hastings. So no, I didn't include the idea of not spending one's life working the soil as either a joke or rhetorical, I meant it quite literally.
I know you meant it literally, that's why I took quite literally. I labeled it a 'crack' because you, like so many others, don't seem to grasp that the educated nobility and upper classes weren't 'idle rich'. Not intentionally anyhow, to the mindset that persisted for centuries it was "from each according to their means" - the peasants toiled in the fields and the educated nobility and upper classes toiled in the office, each keeping in their appointed place and to their appointed roles.
Well now, I don't quite know how to respond to that... You should go back and re-read what I said, because you just defended it as thoroughly as I would have. So um... Thanks, I guess?
I did read what you said, maybe you should learn to write because you said and what seem to think you said aren't at all the same thing. You repeat the same error in your "tldr" below.
tldr: "the "college is for broadening the mind" meme is a fairly recent one" vs "the things you scoff at as "arts" were meant to be practical education (I.E. training the mind to think and analyze)". Pick one.
tl,dr; you haven't a clue what you're talking about - because you completely fail to grasp the role of higher education in pre-modern times. There is no 'pick one' because you fail to grasp that the "arts" you scoff at were not meant to "broaden the mind" in the modern sense.
I have - that's exactly why I made the statements I did. (Despite constant attempts by the biased and/or the less well educated, "research" still doesn't mean "drunk the kool-aide".) Somewhere in my disaster area of an office are the sketches and calculations for a variety of differently sized aquaponics systems, all the way from "science fair" level mockups to some preliminary thinking on an industrial scale system. (Yes, I got the exact contaminant wrong, I was posting with a massive head cold, sue me.)
This kind of closed loop is definitely going to shake up agriculture in some form, not only because of its much smaller water consumption and higher density, but because the current state of agriculture is extremely oil-dependent for both its machinery and its fertilizer and pesticide production. Reducing that dependency is going to matter a great deal.
Aquaponics isn't a closed loop - it's very much open and constantly bleeding in the form of evaporation and harvested plant and animal material. To make up for this, it requires constant inputs in the form of fish food (and you might do some research on where that food comes from), make up water (to replace that lost from evaporation as well as what vanishes from the system in the harvested material), and energy (for the pumps, and for heating in colder climates). TANSTAAFL. Like so many other "alternative" farming methods, aquaponics works on the small scale precisely because that massive industrial infrastructure exists - and equally like so many others, it's not at all clear that it scales well to industrial sizes while retaining the purported benefits.
First, that doesn't exactly count as historically accurate.
Neither does what you posted with your crack about "the financial luxury to spend years not toiling in the fields". From the time of the first universities down to the late 19th/early 20th centuries, college was vocational training meant to produce trained professionals - doctors, lawyers, accountants, administrators, etc... (Someone "not toiling in the field" was often "toiling in the office" running the joint, and college was meant to train the latter.) Practical education was scant because the things you scoff at as "arts" were meant to be practical education (I.E. training the mind to think and analyze). It wasn't really practical* by modern standards, but as with so much else, they weren't modern people and had different theories and standards.
*Law schools still follow this model of teaching to think and analyze however.
Not so fast. The Scorpion was found because the U.S. had an extensive underwater listening array in the Atlantic (SOSUS) designed specifically to (wait for it...) locate and track submarines. Soviet submarines, but it worked equally well on U.S. submarines which were making a lot of noise - like one in its death throes from an onboard explosion and imploding as it passed crush depth. One of their first clues that something disastrous had happened was when those sounds showed up on SOSUS audio tapes.
Not so fast yourself. In the late 1960's, SOSUS only had detection capability - it had no significant localization capacity. (Though that was coming down the pipe.) The best it could do was give them a rough position that could potentially be off by many miles. That's why Mizar had to spend several weeks 'trolling' the bottom with a photographic survey sled to actually locate the wreck.
To be honest, I don't put much stock in Craven's claims, because all the evidence supporting his claim comes circularly back to claims he's made elsewhere.
Also nothing has been released about if they stopped for fuel, or if it is known.
This isn't a little car or a Cessna. This is a huge intercontinental jet - it can't just stop for fuel somewhere.
So if they re-fueled OR if they loaded extra fuel, they could be anywhere, and the Indian Ocean flight corridor that is speculated on would lead to waypoints to the middle east.
But to get to the Middle East - it would have to cross a bunch of areas criss-crossed with military and civilian radars.
What this tells me, is that there is clearly a demand that is not being met by 'traditional' colleges/universities. These schools offer people a chance at a diploma that they can put on their resume.
There's clearly a demand not being met by 'traditional' medicine. Homeopaths offer people a chance to treat themselves. So, should 'traditional' medical schools take note and start training people to be homeopaths?
(That's probably a bit over-the-top sarcastic, but it was meant to illustrate how abysmally clueless you are about the issue.)
These schools give people, who maybe got off to a bad start, a chance to go to classes in the evenings, it is a path for those students who were not necessarily 'good' at school and would score poorly on an ACT or SAT test.
Some of these schools do that, but by no means all of them do. Others give the students false hope that by earning a specific vocational degree in 'x', the student will get a good paying job in 'y' - except the 'education' they provide (degree 'x') is actually something of a Potemkin village. It looks good from the outside, good enough that they can't be accused outright of malfeasance... but it's actually essentially valueless. (And from the schools point of view, it's not their fault the students can find jobs.)
It's the second type of school the Feds are going after. Nor it is the first time, they went after their advertising methods (essentially advertising a product they couldn't deliver) a few years back.
If you don't have that piece of paper on your resume, you are not even going to get an interview regardless of how knowledgeable you are in the field (unless you have a contact inside the company already).
Employers are, in general, not stupid. When they see the "piece of paper" is from one of "those" schools (the second type mentioned above), you aren't going to get an interview either.
I think the traditional colleges need to take notice and start offering programs that mimic what these for-profit schools offer. Flexible schedules for adult students, shorter paths to a certificate or diploma, etc.
Community colleges have been doing just that for decades. You're way late to the party.
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The submitter claims it's fully functional - but he obviously has neither ever used a tape measure nor actually watched the video. With no markings, it's just a cool ribbon and not a tape measure. And the narrator on the video even admits it's not fully functional because wear will cause increasing errors in the length of the ribbon. The non repeatability of the "dial calipers" readings lead to the same conclusion - neat art object, not a functional tool.
Almost certainly not since the pings will fall silent in the next two weeks.
Actually, they had a pretty good idea of when it went down... It ended up taking two years to find because the weather in the area prevented 24/7/365 searches and the availability of suitable equipment and support vessels meant a search expedition could only be mounted at intervals. (I.E. it's not like they searched for two years, more like six weeks spread across two years.)
To me, the Two Minute Hate was the most realistic part of the book - because it so closely paralleled things that had happened and were happening in the real world. Things that continue to happen even today.
And I've long noted the prevalence of Two Minute Hate clickbait articles on Slashdot, especially since it got bought out. Sometimes it's creationists, other times, Google or Apple or Wikipedia... it varies with the current prejudices of Slashdot's readership. But they've always stood out for me, articles with little substantive news but just enough meat to let the fanboys and the haters duke it out or to let the "geeks" rail against the world.
Not really. It's watered down infotainment riding on the coat tails of it's famous name and the current media presence/popularity of it's host. Given the political views of the person bankrolling it (Seth McFarlane), the erroneous presentation on Giordiano Bruno in the first episode, some of the comments around the evolution of life segment in the second... I'm starting to suspect there's a political motive at work as well.
The disturbing part is that I think you're as serious as you are clueless.
(And for the record, I'm Southern born and bred too - and I'm hardly ignorant.)
Anyone who doesn't realize we don't have the tech to build a self sustaining off-world colony... is an idiot. We can't even build a closed loop ECLSS that will keep a handful of people in O2 indefinitely without outside support - let alone all the other infrastructure of an industrial society. We barely have a handle on the known unknowns. And given the example of terrestrial colonies, it's not at all clear it's even possible to build a fully self supporting colony. (And for a lunar colony, unlike terrestrial ones, dropping tech to survive isn't an option.)
And even then, the density of He3 in the lunar regolith is... not actually all that impressive.
If they had it in their accounting software... it (the old wallet) should never have been missing in the first place. (Especially if they were balancing and auditing their books on a regular basis.)
No, the OP is correct, this smells fishy. Either their accounting system truly was/is fucked up beyond all human belief, or this 'discovery' is a PR/save their bacon maneuver to throw the blame for malfeasance onto mischance/incompetence.
By this test, Bill Nye still fails to be a scientist because he was never part of any scientific investigation. Otherwise, what you're doing is stretching the meaning of "scientist" so far as to render it meaningless.
To continue with the above, if you stretch a definition (or essentially create a new one of whole cloth) in order to justify giving the title to someone who would otherwise not deserve it... you're a fool. Hero worship has replaced common sense.
Bill Nye is media personality, not a scientist. Deal with it, or join the bible thumpers.
Most of the "pro-science" crowd doesn't give a damm about being productive or constructive. Being right is their goal, and because they're right anyone who doesn't believe as they do is completely wrong. (And even though they admit that "science isn't perfect" in the abstract.... they're loathe to deal with it in the concrete. It's all about the ego and the self image.) Anyhow, there isn't a real difference between the "pro-science" crowd and any other sub group. You could replace "right" in the above sentence with "blessed by God" or practically anything else and have an equally valid result.
The problem is, to not piss people off, you have to rewind the clock and undo years of fuckups by the climate change crowd - because they went political before they went scientific. It's been about weaponizing the discussion and humiliating the opposition from the very start.
Because he isn't a scientist despite the semantic games you play with his degree - he's an engineer. He returns to Cornell to lecture not because he's qualified to lecture, but because he's a famous media personality.
We're not tearing him down - we're pointing to the truth. He's not a scientist, his name originates from a comedy routine, and he's pretty much nothing but a media personality. If your hero worship can't stand the truth, that's not the truth's problem.
True. But much of what the person you quoted is true too. Denying the facts isn't going the way of kuro5hin, it's going the way of the creation "scientists".
Nope, all the wiring in the stator and rotor of the starter or alternator serves as an antenna as well. As is the metal case of either. As is the adjacent engine block.
That's what makes high levels of EMP so difficult to shield against in the real world - literally everything conductive serves as an "antenna" (even if it's not "antenna shaped"). Even stuff adjacent but not connected to the object of interest can cause a problem as current flows through it and a magnetic field forms and subsequently collapses.
Even if the body of a car formed a Faraday cage (it doesn't), the ignition coil isn't in the body - it's in the engine compartment, which is open on the bottom. (And fairly open from the front.)
Since you have failed to grasp the difference between work products and releases, it's unsurprising you think this is unusual.
Trust me, knowing more than you is a bar so low as to be non existent for all practical purposes.
Nothing in the linked article says that all seven years were in the US. In fact, the second linked article specifically points out that that for some portion of the period he worked from Lebanon.
Even so, he could be a Microsoft employee for seven years without ever stepping foot in the US - Microsoft is an international company with branches and subsidiaries all over the world.
And since Windows 8 is available to the public - I fail to see how your claim that the system is broken has any merit. You want to buy a copy of Windows 8, head down the store and Microsoft will happily monetize their work by selling you a copy. You want to see what the patents cover, head over to the USPTO databases and download a copy. Patents have never required the holder to release the details of how he implements the patent in the process of creating the final work. (In this case, the executeable.) Copyright has never required the creator to release the work products used in the creation, only the final work. (And, as the grandparent points out, in the case of the actual code nothing about copyright requires that you release it until it enters the public domain.)
Further, that internal work products (like interim builds and unfinished releases) can be treated as confidential and trade secrets is a well established principle. (That's the legal basis for NDA's, which were in use long before the computer and software industries were established.)
Your belief that the system is broken is based on a fundamental cluelessness about how the system works.
True, but even so they were vocational training in the sense that they prepared one for a professional career. The idea that training for a professional career involves training specific skills (like a physicist or an accountant) rather than providing a broadly based liberal education is itself also a relatively recent one. The third change is that of "broadening the mind" - today it means exposure to things outside of one's chosen major. But back then it mean taking a curriculum designed to teach the student logic, argument, speaking, writing, etc... all the skills required for any kind of professional career and also the things that (given the haphazard nature of primary and secondary education) a student may or may not have encountered previous to college.
I know you meant it literally, that's why I took quite literally. I labeled it a 'crack' because you, like so many others, don't seem to grasp that the educated nobility and upper classes weren't 'idle rich'. Not intentionally anyhow, to the mindset that persisted for centuries it was "from each according to their means" - the peasants toiled in the fields and the educated nobility and upper classes toiled in the office, each keeping in their appointed place and to their appointed roles.
I did read what you said, maybe you should learn to write because you said and what seem to think you said aren't at all the same thing. You repeat the same error in your "tldr" below.
tl,dr; you haven't a clue what you're talking about - because you completely fail to grasp the role of higher education in pre-modern times. There is no 'pick one' because you fail to grasp that the "arts" you scoff at were not meant to "broaden the mind" in the modern sense.
I have - that's exactly why I made the statements I did. (Despite constant attempts by the biased and/or the less well educated, "research" still doesn't mean "drunk the kool-aide".) Somewhere in my disaster area of an office are the sketches and calculations for a variety of differently sized aquaponics systems, all the way from "science fair" level mockups to some preliminary thinking on an industrial scale system. (Yes, I got the exact contaminant wrong, I was posting with a massive head cold, sue me.)
Aquaponics isn't a closed loop - it's very much open and constantly bleeding in the form of evaporation and harvested plant and animal material. To make up for this, it requires constant inputs in the form of fish food (and you might do some research on where that food comes from), make up water (to replace that lost from evaporation as well as what vanishes from the system in the harvested material), and energy (for the pumps, and for heating in colder climates). TANSTAAFL. Like so many other "alternative" farming methods, aquaponics works on the small scale precisely because that massive industrial infrastructure exists - and equally like so many others, it's not at all clear that it scales well to industrial sizes while retaining the purported benefits.
Neither does what you posted with your crack about "the financial luxury to spend years not toiling in the fields". From the time of the first universities down to the late 19th/early 20th centuries, college was vocational training meant to produce trained professionals - doctors, lawyers, accountants, administrators, etc... (Someone "not toiling in the field" was often "toiling in the office" running the joint, and college was meant to train the latter.) Practical education was scant because the things you scoff at as "arts" were meant to be practical education (I.E. training the mind to think and analyze). It wasn't really practical* by modern standards, but as with so much else, they weren't modern people and had different theories and standards.
*Law schools still follow this model of teaching to think and analyze however.
Not so fast yourself. In the late 1960's, SOSUS only had detection capability - it had no significant localization capacity. (Though that was coming down the pipe.) The best it could do was give them a rough position that could potentially be off by many miles. That's why Mizar had to spend several weeks 'trolling' the bottom with a photographic survey sled to actually locate the wreck.
To be honest, I don't put much stock in Craven's claims, because all the evidence supporting his claim comes circularly back to claims he's made elsewhere.
This isn't a little car or a Cessna. This is a huge intercontinental jet - it can't just stop for fuel somewhere.
But to get to the Middle East - it would have to cross a bunch of areas criss-crossed with military and civilian radars.
You certainly are one ignorant jackass.
Aside from being completely paper designs, it's not as if Thorium plants weren't without problems.
But, as you say, don't let facts get in your way.
There's clearly a demand not being met by 'traditional' medicine. Homeopaths offer people a chance to treat themselves. So, should 'traditional' medical schools take note and start training people to be homeopaths?
(That's probably a bit over-the-top sarcastic, but it was meant to illustrate how abysmally clueless you are about the issue.)
Some of these schools do that, but by no means all of them do. Others give the students false hope that by earning a specific vocational degree in 'x', the student will get a good paying job in 'y' - except the 'education' they provide (degree 'x') is actually something of a Potemkin village. It looks good from the outside, good enough that they can't be accused outright of malfeasance... but it's actually essentially valueless. (And from the schools point of view, it's not their fault the students can find jobs.)
It's the second type of school the Feds are going after. Nor it is the first time, they went after their advertising methods (essentially advertising a product they couldn't deliver) a few years back.
Employers are, in general, not stupid. When they see the "piece of paper" is from one of "those" schools (the second type mentioned above), you aren't going to get an interview either.
Community colleges have been doing just that for decades. You're way late to the party.