Because honestly, they all sound equally fake and ridiculous. The difference is that Pastafarians aren't required to believe in their God... I'm sorry, but this needs to be overruled. You can't *safely* define what is and isn't a true religion without trampling the spirit of the first amendment.
I'd like to know when AMD plans on releasing a Linux driver that actually manages to use the hardware. NVIDIA at least gives a closed-source effective driver... why can't AMD? Put some of that open-source love towards us Linux gamers please:D
but.... I would be happy if my parent's rural location could get a consistent 2 Mb/s up and down connection without paying $100/month for high latency satellite.
Or for that matter, no https support either. How do I know all the jokes and comments of my fellow/.ers are real and not some man in the middle feeding me fake jokes?
Yeah, I get that neither is really important for the slashdot site, but they would add some nice spice:D
This may take some time, but after the technology proves itself, the cost of insurance on self-driving models, or even models that employ automatic emergency accident avoidance, should start to go down considerably.
Volvo just seems to be shouldering the initial risk factor.
Honestly, I don't think I would ever be happy with a fully self-driving car (I like driving my standard transmission vehicles), but they will be a lot better at avoiding those common human error accidents. Unfortunately, getting off the beaten path might be a pain. Imagine trying to backseat drive when a computer is behind the wheel!!
Yeah, I loaded up both my Desktop and my Server with 32 GB (4 x 8) of RAM each over the past year... I don't recall it being 'cheap'... but then again, I did buy 32 GB or ram which was a typical harddrive back in the late 90's if I remember correctly.
The shockwave was satisfying, but it would have crushed that helicopter long before it hit the ground and those cars would be crushed by the rapid pressure increase of the shockwave before being lifted up... still a lot better than most though.
For CGI done in 1991, they have my respect... at least for the macro-scale of the damage if not the hard to produce micro-effects. Thanks for that, I'll add it to the incredibly short list.
Hollywood has exaggerated every explosion or fireball effect that they have ever tried to use in an action film to the point it no longer resembles reality. The opposite is true with every nuclear weapon that Hollywood has ever tried to use in a film.
My limited knowledge of movies confessed, I can only think of two movies that are even close: Godzilla 1998 has a fantastic opening sequence of nuclear tests, however their accuracy is only there because the footage is of real American nuclear tests. The other movie, where the effects were surprisingly well captured, was (don't laugh) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, though the realistic effects of the blast were completely undone in my mind when Indy's lead lined refrigerator was thrown several miles to safety when it should have been crushed like a tin can by the compression force of the shockwave. Don't get me started on the 4MT bomb that was detonated a full minute (by hovercraft velocity mind you) off of Gotham's coast in the latest batman. The heat damage from that would have melted glass and given 3rd degree burns to anyone exposing bare skin only seconds before the shockwave would have leveled most skyscrapers. Instead, Hollywood gave us a mushroom cloud clipart in the distance that could at best rival Hiroshima (keep in mind a yield difference factor of 200).
This lack of appreciation for the true power of nuclear weapons is a huge problem with any real effort in nuclear disarmament or non-proliferation. I'm not sure if this is a problem of public ignorance, or if the scale shear scale of the destructive power of thermonuclear weapons is beyond the grasp of most humans. I would guess a combination of both. My recommendation to anyone who wants to get a true feel for their power is to watch the documentary titled 'Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie'.
I would actually like to see a live action movie where effort is made into the accuracy of the effects of nuclear weapons. Why do people fear the radiation released by nuclear blasts far more than the damn blast itself? If you are caught in a nuclear blast, there's at least 5 likely causes of death that I can think of that would kill you long before the effects of any radioactive fallout are even noticed.
Look up the concept of a nuclear triad... a full pre-emptive nuclear strike against any nation with nuclear triad capabilities will only do one thing effectively: get 100's of millions or billions of human beings killed.
A while back, a similar claim was made that matter never crosses the event horizon because the black hole never collapses far enough to become a bona fide black hole. If the matter and information simply get stuck in a sphere surrounding the event horizon (assuming an event horizon ever forms) then the theories are essentially the same.
You know that Lithium-6 (the stuff used in bombs) is only 7.5% of natural Lithium, right?
I'm pretty sure that any government looking to create Lithium-6 Deuteride isn't going to source the Lithium from cell phone batteries. And besides, without the fission bomb going off right next to it in order to heat and compress it, your Lithium-6 is just a lump of silvery-white metal.
Castle Bravo taught us that Lithium-7 (the stuff they didn't realize they could use in bombs) works pretty damn good too... enough to almost triple the expected yield because it wasn't accounted for. Also if you couldn't tell, the post was meant to be facetious.
It's appalling to me to thing that the media and paranoid folks out there always focus on the mostly harmless electromagnetic radiation a mobile device puts out instead of the REAL danger! Seriously, there is a specific element used in most cell phone batteries that is literally weapons grade thermonuclear bomb fuel! Why don't people ever worry about that? Governments all over the world are probably stockpiling the stuff to use in their fusion bombs!
Fear the lithium, not the EMR. Keep in mind, every phone call you make puts nuclear fuel inches from your brain... isn't that a fun thought!
...cuz them Russian nukes and emp's are coming:D
I'm honestly not as worried about the humidity and dust as I am about the accessibility. I don't care what server you are running, eventually you are going to want to hit the reset button (especially during setup). Make sure you can easily access it for a quick reset, dedusting, upgrade etc..
If their experiment is successful, their computers should be able to give feedback fairly quickly as to what the driver should do before they actually do it. Advanced braking warning, correction if you get distracted/drowsy and start to drift out of your lane, speed corrections if the speed limit is changed or the road conditions changed etc etc. This idea is really cool and all, but they need to pack in a ton of sensors for any meaningful learning on the computer's part... once these sensors are there and the computer has some experience with decent drivers, the next step is to see how much better it can identify a bad situation and how much faster it can make the correct decision and if it can do it at a reliable rate. I'm not sure I want a computer trying to be my annoying Back Seat Driver.
Not necessarily. That's the amazing thing about linux. If you don't want it to ask for a root password, then you can tell it to shut the Hell up.
http://askubuntu.com/questions...
My parents just about fell for this exact same scam. After speaking with the scammers directly and Googling around, the process goes something like this:
--Caller (usually Indian) calls from a number listed as "out of area"
--Caller informs you that they are with Microsoft Tech Support
--Caller informs you that they have detected your Windows computer sending out virus reports
--Caller asks you to download a remote desktop tool
--Caller gets access to your desktop, pulls up task manager to show you some perfectly normal, though suspicious sounding, processes
--Caller then tries to sell you a $300 service and asks for credit card information.
--Various reports on the internet document the caller performing malicious acts (deleting files etc) on the host computer if you are uncooperative.
The sad thing is that this scam works! My parents have been contacted multiple times and they are just one of many households contacted. That kind of call volume requires a lot of man hours and that means it is generating serious revenue. Damn leeches.
Sounds way too good to be true... but it should make the lives of the FCC a living Hell... I mean how many people would willingly use the crowded 2.4 GHz spectrum for anything if they had a cheap and easy alternative? Looking forward to apps named FreqManip for all of my bottleneck bypassing needs... yeah I'll believe it when I see it.
See, this ethernet cable is super special in that instead of just passing every 0 or 1 verbatim, it also filters out those pesky qubits that don't seem to want to be in either state, ensuring that the only random audio chaos experienced by the end user comes from running their speaker wiring next to their power cabling, which is so random that it's almost always in the neighborhood of 60 hz.
At the risk of igniting the classic spooky-action-at-a-distance debate, communication in some sense may be taking place between the two particles, even separated by light years. Einstein's view is that both particles' states were pre-determined, you just had no way of knowing which one was which until you looked at one of them.
The modern quantum mechanics theory is that neither state is determined (think Schrodinger's cat). If you observe one particle, you force it to settle to a state and also force its twin several light years away to assume the opposite state.
So to say that there is no communication between the two isn't certain. My personal theory is that once you observe one particle, the universe splits into two separate realities. One reality where your coin is heads and your friend's is tails, and one reality where your coin is tails and your friend's is heads. Notice, there are only two possible outcomes here, not four as any statistician would argue... this is simply because a universe with two entangled particles having the same state is impossible and is thus excluded.
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Because honestly, they all sound equally fake and ridiculous. The difference is that Pastafarians aren't required to believe in their God... I'm sorry, but this needs to be overruled. You can't *safely* define what is and isn't a true religion without trampling the spirit of the first amendment.
I'd like to know when AMD plans on releasing a Linux driver that actually manages to use the hardware. NVIDIA at least gives a closed-source effective driver... why can't AMD? Put some of that open-source love towards us Linux gamers please :D
but.... I would be happy if my parent's rural location could get a consistent 2 Mb/s up and down connection without paying $100/month for high latency satellite.
Seriously, no IPV6 love for slashdot yet.
Or for that matter, no https support either. How do I know all the jokes and comments of my fellow /.ers are real and not some man in the middle feeding me fake jokes?
Yeah, I get that neither is really important for the slashdot site, but they would add some nice spice :D
I would have a hard time respecting a cop without a gun...
Please tell me exactly where in my post I said "I absolutely can not ever in a million years respect a cop without a gun."
No, I explicitly said I would have a hard time respecting, not that I could not respect.
There is no reason a copy shouldn't carry a gun just like there is no reason civilians shouldn't be able to carry a gun.
The fear of the gun is supplementary to the respect of the cop so there is no need for an exclusive 'or' statement.
I would have a hard time respecting a cop without a gun... that movie 'Mall Cop' comes to mind.
I might could take this post more seriously if he was trying to supplement guns instead of replacing them.
There's an old adage that goes something like "Never bring a $lessThanLethalImmobilizer to a gun fight."
This may take some time, but after the technology proves itself, the cost of insurance on self-driving models, or even models that employ automatic emergency accident avoidance, should start to go down considerably. Volvo just seems to be shouldering the initial risk factor. Honestly, I don't think I would ever be happy with a fully self-driving car (I like driving my standard transmission vehicles), but they will be a lot better at avoiding those common human error accidents. Unfortunately, getting off the beaten path might be a pain. Imagine trying to backseat drive when a computer is behind the wheel!!
Yeah, I loaded up both my Desktop and my Server with 32 GB (4 x 8) of RAM each over the past year... I don't recall it being 'cheap'... but then again, I did buy 32 GB or ram which was a typical harddrive back in the late 90's if I remember correctly.
The shockwave was satisfying, but it would have crushed that helicopter long before it hit the ground and those cars would be crushed by the rapid pressure increase of the shockwave before being lifted up... still a lot better than most though.
For CGI done in 1991, they have my respect... at least for the macro-scale of the damage if not the hard to produce micro-effects. Thanks for that, I'll add it to the incredibly short list.
The following irony scares the crap out of me:
Hollywood has exaggerated every explosion or fireball effect that they have ever tried to use in an action film to the point it no longer resembles reality. The opposite is true with every nuclear weapon that Hollywood has ever tried to use in a film.
My limited knowledge of movies confessed, I can only think of two movies that are even close: Godzilla 1998 has a fantastic opening sequence of nuclear tests, however their accuracy is only there because the footage is of real American nuclear tests. The other movie, where the effects were surprisingly well captured, was (don't laugh) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, though the realistic effects of the blast were completely undone in my mind when Indy's lead lined refrigerator was thrown several miles to safety when it should have been crushed like a tin can by the compression force of the shockwave. Don't get me started on the 4MT bomb that was detonated a full minute (by hovercraft velocity mind you) off of Gotham's coast in the latest batman. The heat damage from that would have melted glass and given 3rd degree burns to anyone exposing bare skin only seconds before the shockwave would have leveled most skyscrapers. Instead, Hollywood gave us a mushroom cloud clipart in the distance that could at best rival Hiroshima (keep in mind a yield difference factor of 200).
This lack of appreciation for the true power of nuclear weapons is a huge problem with any real effort in nuclear disarmament or non-proliferation. I'm not sure if this is a problem of public ignorance, or if the scale shear scale of the destructive power of thermonuclear weapons is beyond the grasp of most humans. I would guess a combination of both. My recommendation to anyone who wants to get a true feel for their power is to watch the documentary titled 'Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie'.
I would actually like to see a live action movie where effort is made into the accuracy of the effects of nuclear weapons. Why do people fear the radiation released by nuclear blasts far more than the damn blast itself? If you are caught in a nuclear blast, there's at least 5 likely causes of death that I can think of that would kill you long before the effects of any radioactive fallout are even noticed.
rant over
Look up the concept of a nuclear triad... a full pre-emptive nuclear strike against any nation with nuclear triad capabilities will only do one thing effectively: get 100's of millions or billions of human beings killed.
A while back, a similar claim was made that matter never crosses the event horizon because the black hole never collapses far enough to become a bona fide black hole. If the matter and information simply get stuck in a sphere surrounding the event horizon (assuming an event horizon ever forms) then the theories are essentially the same.
You know that Lithium-6 (the stuff used in bombs) is only 7.5% of natural Lithium, right?
I'm pretty sure that any government looking to create Lithium-6 Deuteride isn't going to source the Lithium from cell phone batteries. And besides, without the fission bomb going off right next to it in order to heat and compress it, your Lithium-6 is just a lump of silvery-white metal.
Castle Bravo taught us that Lithium-7 (the stuff they didn't realize they could use in bombs) works pretty damn good too... enough to almost triple the expected yield because it wasn't accounted for. Also if you couldn't tell, the post was meant to be facetious.
It's appalling to me to thing that the media and paranoid folks out there always focus on the mostly harmless electromagnetic radiation a mobile device puts out instead of the REAL danger! Seriously, there is a specific element used in most cell phone batteries that is literally weapons grade thermonuclear bomb fuel! Why don't people ever worry about that? Governments all over the world are probably stockpiling the stuff to use in their fusion bombs!
Fear the lithium, not the EMR. Keep in mind, every phone call you make puts nuclear fuel inches from your brain... isn't that a fun thought!
...cuz them Russian nukes and emp's are coming :D
I'm honestly not as worried about the humidity and dust as I am about the accessibility. I don't care what server you are running, eventually you are going to want to hit the reset button (especially during setup). Make sure you can easily access it for a quick reset, dedusting, upgrade etc..
If their experiment is successful, their computers should be able to give feedback fairly quickly as to what the driver should do before they actually do it. Advanced braking warning, correction if you get distracted/drowsy and start to drift out of your lane, speed corrections if the speed limit is changed or the road conditions changed etc etc. This idea is really cool and all, but they need to pack in a ton of sensors for any meaningful learning on the computer's part... once these sensors are there and the computer has some experience with decent drivers, the next step is to see how much better it can identify a bad situation and how much faster it can make the correct decision and if it can do it at a reliable rate. I'm not sure I want a computer trying to be my annoying Back Seat Driver.
Not necessarily. That's the amazing thing about linux. If you don't want it to ask for a root password, then you can tell it to shut the Hell up. http://askubuntu.com/questions...
My parents just about fell for this exact same scam. After speaking with the scammers directly and Googling around, the process goes something like this: --Caller (usually Indian) calls from a number listed as "out of area" --Caller informs you that they are with Microsoft Tech Support --Caller informs you that they have detected your Windows computer sending out virus reports --Caller asks you to download a remote desktop tool --Caller gets access to your desktop, pulls up task manager to show you some perfectly normal, though suspicious sounding, processes --Caller then tries to sell you a $300 service and asks for credit card information. --Various reports on the internet document the caller performing malicious acts (deleting files etc) on the host computer if you are uncooperative. The sad thing is that this scam works! My parents have been contacted multiple times and they are just one of many households contacted. That kind of call volume requires a lot of man hours and that means it is generating serious revenue. Damn leeches.
Sounds way too good to be true... but it should make the lives of the FCC a living Hell... I mean how many people would willingly use the crowded 2.4 GHz spectrum for anything if they had a cheap and easy alternative? Looking forward to apps named FreqManip for all of my bottleneck bypassing needs... yeah I'll believe it when I see it.
You can try... and there's a high chance that a jury wouldn't know that.
Just thought it was funny how the author of the article thinks Utah is a city... not particularly relevant, but funny all the same.
See, this ethernet cable is super special in that instead of just passing every 0 or 1 verbatim, it also filters out those pesky qubits that don't seem to want to be in either state, ensuring that the only random audio chaos experienced by the end user comes from running their speaker wiring next to their power cabling, which is so random that it's almost always in the neighborhood of 60 hz.
At the risk of igniting the classic spooky-action-at-a-distance debate, communication in some sense may be taking place between the two particles, even separated by light years. Einstein's view is that both particles' states were pre-determined, you just had no way of knowing which one was which until you looked at one of them.
The modern quantum mechanics theory is that neither state is determined (think Schrodinger's cat). If you observe one particle, you force it to settle to a state and also force its twin several light years away to assume the opposite state.
So to say that there is no communication between the two isn't certain. My personal theory is that once you observe one particle, the universe splits into two separate realities. One reality where your coin is heads and your friend's is tails, and one reality where your coin is tails and your friend's is heads. Notice, there are only two possible outcomes here, not four as any statistician would argue... this is simply because a universe with two entangled particles having the same state is impossible and is thus excluded.