Also, it is very wise to never forget that in the US, everybody and his dog has access to guns. It doesnt matter if the shooter is 12 years old or 70, you are going to be shot to death either way.
Over there, you have no choice but to take the death threats seriously. If somebody is coming for you, and they likely have firearms and know where you live, you need to do all that you can to protect yourself.
These threats are not to be taken lightly. They need to be investigated by the police and the crazed shooter needs to be chucked in jail before people are murdered.
Has anyone done the "taking sand for granite" joke yet? It works on so many levels.
No, I do believe that you are the very first. I dont get it, so can you please tell us the joke?
I have a hunch that you somehow think the word 'granite' sounds kinda-maybe like 'granted', but that sounds pretty absurd and I am not going to assume that you are stupid....can you please elaborate?
Rote memorization is very important and is seriously undervalued. Try learning an instrument or a sport w/o rote memorization. Memorizing, and developing the capacity to memorize is important. We need more rote memorization, not less.
In other words, "Dont think, learn!" I wonder how far that will get you in Engineering and the Sciences...
(*) See the various media interviews of Commander Carlson, Captain of the USS Sides, which was assigned to the same mission and tracked Iran Air Flight 655 on her own radar prior to the shootdown.
Commander Carlson's testimony is not to be taken seriously, it is completely biased...we all know the Sides he is on.
If NASA is struggling with the Metric system then there is something very very wrong going on here.
It should be pretty much a given that rocket science is hard. Metric is not hard. An Engineer should be pretty damn proficient with SI units. So why does an organization like NASA struggle with something so fundamental to Science and Engineering as the Metric and SI system of units?
We see this on the farm. Nature guides the hand of evolution in the wild through selective adaptive pressures. On the farm it is the hand of man, sometimes, but the same thing. We use selective pressure to improve our livestock. In just the past slightly more than a decade we have made significant evolutionary changes to our pigs. They're a particularly nice animal to work with for genetic selection because they reproduce fast (up to 3 litters a year) with very large litters (8 to 21 piglets per litter) with rapid growth (6 months to market, 9 months to breed) so we can turn over generations quickly.
Bacon! Even nature sees the evolutionary benefits of Bacon.
Glorious, delicious Bacon!
Bacon is the universal meat. Loved by all who eat it, so so versatile, and the only known word that all by itself is the most effective counter to the Vegan Argument.
Teh Vegans try to convince me to not eat meat?
"BACON!" Teh Vegans walk away thoroughly and intellectually beaten....
I made this during the developer previews because I don't like the default puke green for most of my IM conversations.
Please heed my advice, your life literally depends on it!!
If your puke is that shade of green, you need to get yourself to a hospital right NOW. You may have a life threatening condition and need to seek expert medical advice ASAP.
Please, do yourself and your family a favour and get yourself checked out. No puke should EVER be that colour, now quit reading this and get yourself to a hospital QUICKLY!!
Telsa... you're being banned state by state, what's wrong?
Thats a very very good question. What is wrong here? Look at everywhere else in the world. ONLY in the US do these batshit crazy weird laws against carmakers selling cars to consumers exist.
Its one of the strangest laws you guys have. Its akin to banning HP from selling computers to consumers, or banning Mc Donalds from selling Big Macs directly to consumers. It makes absolutely no logical or ethical sense whatsoever. Not in the slightest.
10 MW is not an issue, you just need a suitably sized 11kV(for instance) transformer at the station. a 10MW 11kV transformer is nothing special in the power industry. Many factories use similar amounts of power.
Moving all of the energy that a 85 kW-hr lithium-ion EV battery can hold into a battery in 2 or 5 minutes would require some truly dangerous amperage, and some enormous amount of heat could be generated.
Go parallel.
The 85kW battery pack in a Tesla for instance, has a huge bunch of standard lithium ion cells in parallel and in series. Have multiple charger conductors to each charge a section of the entire pack, which reduces the amperage per conductor, but keeps the power input to the whole pack at a maximum.
Its miles only in the summary; the article is in SI units. Apparently, someone believes that folks on Slashdot either don't know what a kilometer is or are incapable of converting them to another unit of measurement.
I think its mainly because everybody thinks only Muricans read Slashdot. Hence all the US centric articles and odd measurement units.
As scary as Ebola is it may not qualify as an emergency we have common problems from influenza, food poisoning, pneumonia that kill more...
Wait, the flu, food poisoning and pneumonia kill 70% of those infected!?
WTF, why didnt you start telling us all that beforehand! This is a global catastrophe!!! Once the flu season hits again, billions of people are gong to die! BILLIONS!
FUCK, the end of civilization is less than a year away! What are we going to do!?...oh wait a second.....is this for real, or are you talking absolute shit and know figuratively nothing about ebola and its previous outbreaks?
Please let me know, so I can decide whether to start planning for the end of the world or not.
know why? because you don't care about homeless people or the starving. The only thing you really care about is making excuses for your masters to justify their horrendous profiteering on said defenseless poor people across the earth and in murica
Really, you should kill yourself.
Greetings troll.
You need to add another reflective fold in your tinfoil hat, you are ranting shit-filled gibberish again. The mind control rays from our glorious, glorious masters have penetrated your defences. Please adjust your tinfoil hat to protect yourself.
Quick, hurry before the next MCR-Sat makes another orbital pass!!
... A high school student working on a Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor for their science fair project, capable of accelerating tenths of amperes, detects significant numbers of neutrons-byproducts of fusion reactions-coming from the experiment. This, they say, demonstrates the viability of their approach and marks progress toward the ultimate goal of producing more energy than the fusion device takes in.
Progress is progress and "breakthrough"s only exist in the minds of the people who weren't paying attention to all the incremental steps that created them.
We've been "making progress" in fusion research for 50 years now and still are no where close to turning Pinocchio into a real boy.
A factor of a hundred here, a factor of a hundred there, and pretty soon you're talking about orders of magnitude.
It's easy to make big increases from a starting point near zero. When they show that they can repeat that same level of increase in similarly short periods of time then I'll pay attention. Until then it is simply a cry for funding.
So what you are implying is, that we should just cut our losses and scrap all fusion research, give the finding money to others, and never try this again.....all because progress is not fast enough for you.
Heard of political science, law science, and all that gobblygook? Slashdot is a site for nerds, the type of nerds that power this country. The type that go to work as politicians, and lawyers, it's all a science my friend and this site is geared toward all these types. Business and economics play a huge roll, too.
Also secretly technology trends flow from the military and it's actions.. All the best technology, companies incomes, R&D flows from the military and actions of the military.
Making this news worthy to the real powers that be, the real geeks, the real nerds.
People like you are why the word "Science" has completely lost its original meaning and is now effectively worthless as a word to describe what the word 'Science" really meant.
This article is not worthy of the Slashdot of old. It is in no way shape or form, "news for nerds, stuff that matters".
Slashdot Mirror
The API **IS** the intellectual property.
Hey, it looks like we are playing the Speak Funny Nonsense Game. Its one of my favorites!
My turn:
"All computer hardware Engineers worth their salt know that the ALU in a CPU consists entirely of cat fur and dust bunnies"
OK, your turn!
Also, it is very wise to never forget that in the US, everybody and his dog has access to guns. It doesnt matter if the shooter is 12 years old or 70, you are going to be shot to death either way.
Over there, you have no choice but to take the death threats seriously. If somebody is coming for you, and they likely have firearms and know where you live, you need to do all that you can to protect yourself.
These threats are not to be taken lightly. They need to be investigated by the police and the crazed shooter needs to be chucked in jail before people are murdered.
Has anyone done the "taking sand for granite" joke yet? It works on so many levels.
No, I do believe that you are the very first. I dont get it, so can you please tell us the joke?
I have a hunch that you somehow think the word 'granite' sounds kinda-maybe like 'granted', but that sounds pretty absurd and I am not going to assume that you are stupid....can you please elaborate?
"the story of the earth will still have subsequent chapters told in grains of sand."
Huh? What the hell does that sentence even mean? Stories with sand-chapters made out of fine ground rock that tells "the story" of Earth...?
I tried to...but I don't even....
Rote memorization is very important and is seriously undervalued. Try learning an instrument or a sport w/o rote memorization. Memorizing, and developing the capacity to memorize is important. We need more rote memorization, not less.
In other words, "Dont think, learn!"
I wonder how far that will get you in Engineering and the Sciences...
(*) See the various media interviews of Commander Carlson, Captain of the USS Sides, which was assigned to the same mission and tracked Iran Air Flight 655 on her own radar prior to the shootdown.
Commander Carlson's testimony is not to be taken seriously, it is completely biased...we all know the Sides he is on.
Or the shooting down of airliners by Americans...
That was in 1988 — before Reagan-intensified initiative was completed and GPS came into common usage.
Or the Ukrainians - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Interestingly enough, the Ukrainians responsible for that disaster are currently Russians — the missile came from Crimea...
Why oh why do people *still* go on about those planes that were shot down... ...crimea river.
If NASA is struggling with the Metric system then there is something very very wrong going on here.
It should be pretty much a given that rocket science is hard. Metric is not hard. An Engineer should be pretty damn proficient with SI units. So why does an organization like NASA struggle with something so fundamental to Science and Engineering as the Metric and SI system of units?
Is it because America?
Is it because laziness?
Anybody have any answers?
Again, we are subjected to incredible levels of laziness from a Slashdot Article Submitter.
Too blimmin lazy to even Google search in this day and age!!
Here, Ill do this complex and difficult task for you, since you have to ask Slashdot for help:
Q: "Where is the ACLU when you need them the most?"
A: ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York NY 10004
We see this on the farm. Nature guides the hand of evolution in the wild through selective adaptive pressures. On the farm it is the hand of man, sometimes, but the same thing. We use selective pressure to improve our livestock. In just the past slightly more than a decade we have made significant evolutionary changes to our pigs. They're a particularly nice animal to work with for genetic selection because they reproduce fast (up to 3 litters a year) with very large litters (8 to 21 piglets per litter) with rapid growth (6 months to market, 9 months to breed) so we can turn over generations quickly.
Bacon! Even nature sees the evolutionary benefits of Bacon.
Glorious, delicious Bacon!
Bacon is the universal meat. Loved by all who eat it, so so versatile, and the only known word that all by itself is the most effective counter to the Vegan Argument.
Teh Vegans try to convince me to not eat meat?
"BACON!"
Teh Vegans walk away thoroughly and intellectually beaten....
Why does article have an opinion tag?
I read the entire summary, and all it did was list facts. Not a single word of opinion is in there.
Now I can fully understand the reason for the iGarbage tag, as this is Slashdot, and no love of Apple products is permitted in any way, shape or form.
But opinion? huh?
I made this during the developer previews because I don't like the default puke green for most of my IM conversations.
Please heed my advice, your life literally depends on it!!
If your puke is that shade of green, you need to get yourself to a hospital right NOW. You may have a life threatening condition and need to seek expert medical advice ASAP.
Please, do yourself and your family a favour and get yourself checked out. No puke should EVER be that colour, now quit reading this and get yourself to a hospital QUICKLY!!
Telsa... you're being banned state by state, what's wrong?
Thats a very very good question. What is wrong here? Look at everywhere else in the world. ONLY in the US do these batshit crazy weird laws against carmakers selling cars to consumers exist.
Its one of the strangest laws you guys have. Its akin to banning HP from selling computers to consumers, or banning Mc Donalds from selling Big Macs directly to consumers. It makes absolutely no logical or ethical sense whatsoever. Not in the slightest.
Whats wrong?
Seriously. What is going on here?
And it's a fucking misnomer.
Artificial implies not real and intelligence implies thinking.
Artificial intelligence is so unattainable that the original definition has evolved to something meaningless.
True artificial intelligence is when a computer becomes depressed because it lost its connection to Facebook.
Since when does artificial imply "not real" ? Artificial implies "man made".
10 MW is not an issue, you just need a suitably sized 11kV(for instance) transformer at the station. a 10MW 11kV transformer is nothing special in the power industry. Many factories use similar amounts of power.
Moving all of the energy that a 85 kW-hr lithium-ion EV battery can hold into a battery in 2 or 5 minutes would require some truly dangerous amperage,
and some enormous amount of heat could be generated.
Go parallel.
The 85kW battery pack in a Tesla for instance, has a huge bunch of standard lithium ion cells in parallel and in series. Have multiple charger conductors to each charge a section of the entire pack, which reduces the amperage per conductor, but keeps the power input to the whole pack at a maximum.
Personally, I would have gone with 176 football fields.
Which sort of Football? Soccer? Rugby? American football? AFL?
Its miles only in the summary; the article is in SI units. Apparently, someone believes that folks on Slashdot either don't know what a kilometer is or are incapable of converting them to another unit of measurement.
I think its mainly because everybody thinks only Muricans read Slashdot. Hence all the US centric articles and odd measurement units.
As scary as Ebola is it may not qualify as an emergency we have
common problems from influenza, food poisoning, pneumonia that
kill more...
Wait, the flu, food poisoning and pneumonia kill 70% of those infected!?
WTF, why didnt you start telling us all that beforehand! This is a global catastrophe!!! Once the flu season hits again, billions of people are gong to die! BILLIONS!
FUCK, the end of civilization is less than a year away! What are we going to do!? ...oh wait a second.....is this for real, or are you talking absolute shit and know figuratively nothing about ebola and its previous outbreaks?
Please let me know, so I can decide whether to start planning for the end of the world or not.
know why? because you don't care about homeless people or the starving. The only thing you really care about is making excuses for your masters to justify their horrendous profiteering on said defenseless poor people across the earth and in murica
Really, you should kill yourself.
Greetings troll.
You need to add another reflective fold in your tinfoil hat, you are ranting shit-filled gibberish again. The mind control rays from our glorious, glorious masters have penetrated your defences. Please adjust your tinfoil hat to protect yourself.
Quick, hurry before the next MCR-Sat makes another orbital pass!!
... A high school student working on a Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor for their science fair project, capable of accelerating tenths of amperes, detects significant numbers of neutrons-byproducts of fusion reactions-coming from the experiment. This, they say, demonstrates the viability of their approach and marks progress toward the ultimate goal of producing more energy than the fusion device takes in.
Or not.
How do you accelerate an ampere?
Progress is progress and "breakthrough"s only exist in the minds of the people who weren't paying attention to all the incremental steps that created them.
We've been "making progress" in fusion research for 50 years now and still are no where close to turning Pinocchio into a real boy.
A factor of a hundred here, a factor of a hundred there, and pretty soon you're talking about orders of magnitude.
It's easy to make big increases from a starting point near zero. When they show that they can repeat that same level of increase in similarly short periods of time then I'll pay attention. Until then it is simply a cry for funding.
So what you are implying is, that we should just cut our losses and scrap all fusion research, give the finding money to others, and never try this again.....all because progress is not fast enough for you.
wow.....just...wow.
Heard of political science, law science, and all that gobblygook? Slashdot is a site for nerds, the type of nerds that power this country. The type that go to work as politicians, and lawyers, it's all a science my friend and this site is geared toward all these types. Business and economics play a huge roll, too.
Also secretly technology trends flow from the military and it's actions.. All the best technology, companies incomes, R&D flows from the military and actions of the military.
Making this news worthy to the real powers that be, the real geeks, the real nerds.
Or are you just a consumer that doesn't get it?
http://www.obamasweapon.com/..
What complete and utter rot. No, seriously. Utter tripe.
"Political Science" ? really?
"Law Science"? really?
People like you are why the word "Science" has completely lost its original meaning and is now effectively worthless as a word to describe what the word 'Science" really meant.
This article is not worthy of the Slashdot of old. It is in no way shape or form, "news for nerds, stuff that matters".
I miss Old Slashdot.
Care to give us some tips for these "better sites"? Havent found any yet, but would love to find one thats similar to Old Slashdot.
I miss Old Slashdot.
You can't stop them with guns or bullets. you can't kill them all.
That's why we invented nuclear weapons. I suggest a 50 megaton air-burst over Mecca during the Hajj as a start.
Dont be ridiculous. You can easily kill everyone with 10 megatons.
Still wont fix the problem though.