...that he decided to spread US diplomatic cables. Imagine if he had gotten a hold of a similar set of Russian ones and publicized them. His site wouldn't be DDOS'ed, he'd be dead.
But Comcast does receive something in return- customers. Customers want to access Netflix, and (presumably) won't use an ISP that won't carry Netflix. Yes, this may require Comcast to expand their services, but that's the price to maintain customers.
Of course, in America where you may not have a choice in ISPs, this breaks down entirely and Comcast is free to do whatever they want.
That's one of my favorite "Bullshit!" episodes. It choked me up a little too; here was a kid who gibbed countless npc's and avatars of real humans, and it hadn't turned him into a desensitized monster. He seemed crushed by the reality of a noisy, heavy gun that does horrible damage. It restored a little of my hope for humanity.
A large part of military training is teaching people to overcome their natural revulsion towards causing another person harm. It's hard- studies showed that the majority of soldiers in WW2 never fired their weapons at the enemy. The percentage has gone up since then, but whether that's due to better training methods, volunteer troops or different sorts of battles is (to my knowledge) unknown.
You see the same thing with drive-by gang shootings- you get these incidents where 30-40 rounds are fired and only a couple of them hit- they're just randomly spraying the area rather than actually looking down the sights directly at their target.
Of course. No Fortune 500 company wants to be associated with someone caught cheating.
That implies you're too stupid for words. They only want to hire the successful cheaters, especially since the successful ones haven't ever had any consequences from their lying and cheating and thus are more willing to continue
I have relatives close to those areas (south-central VA, another really depressed area) There are a ton of worker retraining programs run through community colleges and the like, and there's a fair amount of funding for them through various grants. That said, it's going to be tough for a lot of them: the folks I know who were laid off from mills generally do not have a good educational base and are often well removed from the educational experience, and numbers-wise there's no way these data centers are going to employ as many people as the old mills did.
Guess what. They don't care. The sort of folks who obsessively block ads aren't good customers anyway, and they aren't interested in random traffic, they are only interested in traffic from potential consumers.
I admit to finding it amusing that it's a.com address. Shouldn't it be a.org at least? You could make the claim for.edu, perhaps. A lot of political candidates would claim it should be.gov, and reading a bunch of the passages I might even accept.mil, but.com?
They are an international partnership, but they are also an independent company. I'm pretty sure their launch site (157W, 0 N) is outside of territorial waters of any country.
That said, the idea that the pirate party can actually scrape up the cash to buy a launch vehicle, build a satellite, handle ground operations and uplink and the rest is possible the most laughable idea I've ever seen on/.
Actually, there are those of us out there who actually go for that look.
I drive a 2006 Hyundai Sonata, bought used. I doubt there is a bigger "family-of-four-bland-box" car out there. You might as well paint it white and put a big black label on it reading "CAR". It replaced a 14-year-old Accord that I would have happily kept for another 14 years if I hadn't been a dumbass and rear-ended a guy hard enough to set off the air bags. ($4k to fix a car worth $1k?) I'll drive the Sonata into the ground as well.
Why? Call it "cheapass chic". It's bland, it's boring, but it gets me from A to B, it fits 4 (and cargo), it starts every morning and it's farking paid for. I don't need anything else- I bought a guitar for *my* midlife crisis.
Let's see: according to SpaceX, they have just over 1000 employees as of June 7th, the launch of the Falcon 9. That's to develop the Falcon 1, 1e and 9, the Merlin, Merlin-vac and Kestrel engines and to get a couple of them into orbit starting from scratch.
Meanwhile, it takes 800 people just to build a fuel tank for the shuttle, much less the folks needed to move it, assemble it to the stack, etc. Yeah yeah, I know, apples to oranges, but damn that's a lot of people to make a couple of tanks a year.
Of course, you could use the Jacquard loom to print out Life patterns, then scan those back in and create a new set of Jacquard cards based on the next iteration of the pattern.
With enough cells you could create a general purpose computer using glider guns for logic. Might be a bit slow though.
While light speed (or any reasonable fraction thereof) is going to be unavailable due to energy issues, we should be rethinking the assumptions here. Minimizing Delta-V is great- but perhaps it would be better to think about propulsion strategies that can give us higher total delta-V rather than working out multiple gravity assist trajectories? While they work, they also tie you to very long flight times and narrow launch windows. The Grand Tour of Voyager 2 isn't possible anymore- even New Horizons needed a narrow range of dates or it would miss the Jupiter assist, adding several years to flight time.
Chemical rockets just aren't a great option- at least let us use an ion engine, or perhaps let us see what we can do with a VASMIR?
If you look at your 1040 and are happy with what you see, good for you. As for me, the value I receive for the money I spend really pisses me off.
I'm curious. The federal budget can be basically broken down into four categories at this point: Social Security, Medicare, Defense and interest payments on the debt. Every other single line item is epsilon compared to these four. All discretionary funding totaled is something like 12%
Which of these four is a tremendously bad value for your money?
Depending on where you are, this may be a plus. The Mars Rovers (and the Sojourner as well) have to keep all of their electronics and some of the optics in a warm box that's heated with a couple of radioisotope sources. Their electric budgets are limited but the excess heat would be welcome.
I don't know when Line6 put out the first POD guitar amp/effects modelers, but they have an entire line of music-related products that use the POD name. More recent versions can attach to computers via USB even. The name and shape (red kidney bean) are pretty iconic in the guitar world- even the people who hate them will recognize them instantly. No idea why Steve isn't suing them, unless it's because Line6 used the name first.
Why does it have to be electronic?
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I made a major change in my class this fall, introducing both a long and short game from the Reacting to the Past project. These are elaborate role playing games, where the students take on the roles of various historic characters to play out scenarios ranging from the creation of the US Constitution to the trial of Galileo.
No technology involved at all, but students are forced to learn the material in unusual ways- rather than lecture and ask them to regurgitate on a test, I've got students who will have to defend intellectual positions against attacks from other students. (And they will attack- they get bonus points for meeting their objectives, and the games are designed with winners and losers)
The short game (around the decision to de-planetize Pluto) worked pretty well and they're set to start Tuesday on the long form game about the decision to award Darwin a medal from the Royal Society. Crossing my fingers on this one- there's some stuff that's tough to understand, and I've got 16 first-years teaching it all to each other (with a little coaching outside the class:^)
Seriously. Ever seen a left handed violin or viola? If you play in an orchestra, you're going to play right handed. Doesn't matter if you're a lefty. Out of curiosity I flipped my guitar one day to play like Hendrix. (He played a right-handed Strat upside down) I could do it- I was really, really bad, but I wasn't any worse than when I picked up a guitar for the first time. I'm certain I could relearn the muscle motions to finger right handed and strum left, it would just take time. But it wouldn't take any longer than learning how to do it the other way.
I had to look this guy up, and found out that his platform involves "Free towels in all Swimming Pools, A polar Bear for the Reykjavík Zoo, All Kinds (of things) for Weaklings, Disneyland in the Vatnsmýri area, A drug-free parliament by 2020, Sustainable Transparency, Tollbooths on the border with Seltjarnarnes, to do away with all debt, Free Access to Hljómskálagarðurinn"
Best. Mayor. Ever, even if I don't understand half the words
I'll second this. I'm teaching a course that includes a lot of philosophy of science this semester which is waaaay outside my normal comfort zone (I'm a chemist by training) and the SEoP has been a really useful resource. It's pretty accessible and I have a lot higher comfort level in the material there than a place like Wikipedia.
When I teach Chem101, I typically do have a traditional final. Intro science courses lend themselves to it- the problems are usually short and don't require research or presentation skills, and there are a lot of students. For other sorts of courses, there are so many better ways to do a comprehensive evaluation- in my class this semester that's a ~12 page paper, poster session and half an hour of oral presentation and defense of their topic in class. They'll do a ton more work on that than they will studying for some 3 hour short essay final.
Back in the late 1980s, I took a course in weapons of mass destruction. My all time favorite assignment read something like:
"You have a 1 megaton nuclear weapon and your choice of delivery systems. Destroy Norfolk, Virginia. Explain where you targeted the bomb and why. Estimate casualties and diagram the fallout patterns." Best. Assignment. Ever, even if the professor turned down my request for 4-250KT bombs instead. I just couldn't manage to wipe the city off the map with a single bomb.
Amusing fact- I ended up using the hospital where my #2 son was born many years later as my target. Central to the city and I figured the helipad would make a nice bullseye.
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or be outsourced to India in record time. I think I know which is more likely
...that he decided to spread US diplomatic cables. Imagine if he had gotten a hold of a similar set of Russian ones and publicized them. His site wouldn't be DDOS'ed, he'd be dead.
Of course, in America where you may not have a choice in ISPs, this breaks down entirely and Comcast is free to do whatever they want.
A large part of military training is teaching people to overcome their natural revulsion towards causing another person harm. It's hard- studies showed that the majority of soldiers in WW2 never fired their weapons at the enemy. The percentage has gone up since then, but whether that's due to better training methods, volunteer troops or different sorts of battles is (to my knowledge) unknown.
You see the same thing with drive-by gang shootings- you get these incidents where 30-40 rounds are fired and only a couple of them hit- they're just randomly spraying the area rather than actually looking down the sights directly at their target.
Umm, if you're having periods how are you having kids?
That implies you're too stupid for words. They only want to hire the successful cheaters, especially since the successful ones haven't ever had any consequences from their lying and cheating and thus are more willing to continue
Why yes, I *do* teach in higher ed....
I have relatives close to those areas (south-central VA, another really depressed area) There are a ton of worker retraining programs run through community colleges and the like, and there's a fair amount of funding for them through various grants. That said, it's going to be tough for a lot of them: the folks I know who were laid off from mills generally do not have a good educational base and are often well removed from the educational experience, and numbers-wise there's no way these data centers are going to employ as many people as the old mills did.
Guess what. They don't care. The sort of folks who obsessively block ads aren't good customers anyway, and they aren't interested in random traffic, they are only interested in traffic from potential consumers.
What next- bible.biz?
That said, the idea that the pirate party can actually scrape up the cash to buy a launch vehicle, build a satellite, handle ground operations and uplink and the rest is possible the most laughable idea I've ever seen on /.
Dream on, baby!
I drive a 2006 Hyundai Sonata, bought used. I doubt there is a bigger "family-of-four-bland-box" car out there. You might as well paint it white and put a big black label on it reading "CAR". It replaced a 14-year-old Accord that I would have happily kept for another 14 years if I hadn't been a dumbass and rear-ended a guy hard enough to set off the air bags. ($4k to fix a car worth $1k?) I'll drive the Sonata into the ground as well.
Why? Call it "cheapass chic". It's bland, it's boring, but it gets me from A to B, it fits 4 (and cargo), it starts every morning and it's farking paid for. I don't need anything else- I bought a guitar for *my* midlife crisis.
Meanwhile, it takes 800 people just to build a fuel tank for the shuttle, much less the folks needed to move it, assemble it to the stack, etc. Yeah yeah, I know, apples to oranges, but damn that's a lot of people to make a couple of tanks a year.
Of course, you could use the Jacquard loom to print out Life patterns, then scan those back in and create a new set of Jacquard cards based on the next iteration of the pattern. With enough cells you could create a general purpose computer using glider guns for logic. Might be a bit slow though.
Wher Birth Certificat?!?
Chemical rockets just aren't a great option- at least let us use an ion engine, or perhaps let us see what we can do with a VASMIR?
I'm curious. The federal budget can be basically broken down into four categories at this point: Social Security, Medicare, Defense and interest payments on the debt. Every other single line item is epsilon compared to these four. All discretionary funding totaled is something like 12%
Which of these four is a tremendously bad value for your money?
Depending on where you are, this may be a plus. The Mars Rovers (and the Sojourner as well) have to keep all of their electronics and some of the optics in a warm box that's heated with a couple of radioisotope sources. Their electric budgets are limited but the excess heat would be welcome.
I don't know when Line6 put out the first POD guitar amp/effects modelers, but they have an entire line of music-related products that use the POD name. More recent versions can attach to computers via USB even. The name and shape (red kidney bean) are pretty iconic in the guitar world- even the people who hate them will recognize them instantly. No idea why Steve isn't suing them, unless it's because Line6 used the name first.
No technology involved at all, but students are forced to learn the material in unusual ways- rather than lecture and ask them to regurgitate on a test, I've got students who will have to defend intellectual positions against attacks from other students. (And they will attack- they get bonus points for meeting their objectives, and the games are designed with winners and losers)
The short game (around the decision to de-planetize Pluto) worked pretty well and they're set to start Tuesday on the long form game about the decision to award Darwin a medal from the Royal Society. Crossing my fingers on this one- there's some stuff that's tough to understand, and I've got 16 first-years teaching it all to each other (with a little coaching outside the class :^)
Seriously. Ever seen a left handed violin or viola? If you play in an orchestra, you're going to play right handed. Doesn't matter if you're a lefty. Out of curiosity I flipped my guitar one day to play like Hendrix. (He played a right-handed Strat upside down) I could do it- I was really, really bad, but I wasn't any worse than when I picked up a guitar for the first time. I'm certain I could relearn the muscle motions to finger right handed and strum left, it would just take time. But it wouldn't take any longer than learning how to do it the other way.
Best. Mayor. Ever, even if I don't understand half the words
I'll second this. I'm teaching a course that includes a lot of philosophy of science this semester which is waaaay outside my normal comfort zone (I'm a chemist by training) and the SEoP has been a really useful resource. It's pretty accessible and I have a lot higher comfort level in the material there than a place like Wikipedia.
When I teach Chem101, I typically do have a traditional final. Intro science courses lend themselves to it- the problems are usually short and don't require research or presentation skills, and there are a lot of students. For other sorts of courses, there are so many better ways to do a comprehensive evaluation- in my class this semester that's a ~12 page paper, poster session and half an hour of oral presentation and defense of their topic in class. They'll do a ton more work on that than they will studying for some 3 hour short essay final.
"You have a 1 megaton nuclear weapon and your choice of delivery systems. Destroy Norfolk, Virginia. Explain where you targeted the bomb and why. Estimate casualties and diagram the fallout patterns." Best. Assignment. Ever, even if the professor turned down my request for 4-250KT bombs instead. I just couldn't manage to wipe the city off the map with a single bomb.
Amusing fact- I ended up using the hospital where my #2 son was born many years later as my target. Central to the city and I figured the helipad would make a nice bullseye.
I admit, portability suffers a bit at this point, but aren't your pictures worth it?