while this is a humorous twist to an old joke, there is an element of truth here. Next you happen to use the bathroom with an experimental chemist, observe the first thing that they do is wash their hands. Becuase the last thing you want is something like highly concentrated acids|bases|toxic wastes doing their worst on the family jewels.
Has anyone ever considered sending them forged checks/money orders or bearer bonds/stock certificates that would immediately be recognized as fraudulent when they attempt to cash them? It seems to me that this would be great fun and the results should cause some serious problems for the scammers.
I suppose that using counterfiet money would be out though as that is a federal offense just to make it. To bad, having a legitamate reason to crank out a few thou in fake money would be cool (I wonder if the would allow you to do that as a cooperative sting operation... hmmm).
That when IPV6 goes official that the gorverning body would consider handing out a block (maybe 256 addys) to every person. These are assigned permanently and can then be your phone number, personal webspace, permanent email address, etc. I think this would be really nice,
Anyone care to comment on their perceived pros and cons to this idea?
I have a strategy for massive voter turnout
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CNN Reports on Diebold
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· Score: 2, Interesting
using an electronic voting system with an audit trail that is also a tax credit coupon.
When you go into a voting booth you get a card that has the time that the last person voted (this allows individual authentication of the voting record, more on this later).
You insert the card into the voting machine and, if you want a tax credit, your ssn. The time stamp plus ssn is one way hashed and the hash is printed on your card. The card number is then your tax credit authentication code.
At the time your card is printed (vote cast), another blank card with just a time stamp is generated for the next voter.
The voting machine records to two seperated databases, call them db1 and db2, the following; db1( My_Candidate++, My_timestamp ) db2( hash( ssn, timestamp ) ) The db's writen to a permanent media, like maybe cdr, dvdr, or paper, or whatever. db1 is used to tally the vote, it is also made publically available, db2 is sent to the IRS for tax credit validation purposes.
And last, a law is passed that forbids any entity from combining the two db's (this is the weak link, still have to think about this). In fact, no one but the IRS is legally allowed to have a copy of db2. Also, the oneway hash needs to have a crack effort barrier that is computationally huge (like a couple of minutes on an NSA machine;-).
Pros The tax credit ensures massive turnout
If you are paranoid about giving your ssn out, then you don't have to, but you don't get the tax credit either.
You can look at the publically available voting record to see that no votes were inserted between yours and the previous voter.
Cons Possible breach of anonymous voting (but this also possible by other means, like bugging or social engineering).
I mean *a friend* of mine watched a couple of these movies DL'ed from the web, and I uh... *he* didn't see any artifacts at all. My guess is that they were either edited out by the ripper, or that the compression did not enhance them the way that the studios might have hoped.
Don't forget that you also need to include the magnetic monopole current term, analogous to curl(B)-(1/c)(partial E/Partial t) = (4pi/c)J_e to get curl(E)+(1/c)(partial B/partial t) = (4pi/c)J_b rather than 0.
I have not been this blown out by a discovery for a long time. I imagine that many people will feel the same way, but I have one question: What are the possible uses for this? It seems quite at odds to be this astounded by something that, as far as I can tell, has absolutely no purpose.
OK, I did a little computation. The height of the pentagon is ~77 feet From these pictures under extra info at cnn. The first three explosion shots at a guessed 30/sec frame rate show an explosion expanding at one building height every 2 frames, or 77*30/2= ~1155 ft/sec, not unreasonable for a fuel air explosion. Now, the low end air speed of an approaching plane is 250 and the high end is 600 mph that means that the plane was moving at ~1000 ft/sec at the fastest and should have been viewable for three or four frames. So were are the images of the impacting plane?
Further the explosion originates at the outer edge of the building and shows no forward momentum in the debris expansion as would be expected of a frontal impact.
1) Disconnect box from all external cords 2) Encase box in several hundred cubic meters of concrete 3) Surround concrete with meter thick lead lining 4) Bury under radioactive waste in a geologically stable region 5) Saturate the surface with nuclear land mines 6) Curse MicrSoft, becase you still get hacked!
Jumped in to it while taking college trig. Definately doable, but also takes you to the edge, after 10 weeks we were at the level were new research could be done.
1. I don't want the latest processor 2. I am perfectly happy with the one I have. 3. Having a faster CPU would make me more productive. 4. I bought the cheapest one because I want to support the underdog. 5. Noisy CPU fans don't really bother me. 6. If I get the most expensive one, I won't have to upgrade for a long time. 7. My life is so much better now that I have CPU x. 8. I don't envy you your brand new CPU, because mine has a years long proven track record. 9. Nobody will ever need a 64bit CPU for home use. 10. I only read newsgroups for the articles.
Now a little math... 361,000,000,000m^2*0.01m = 3.61 billion cu meters used in 10,000 years. total volume of the worlds ocean ( again from the first site ) is 1,347,000,000 cu km or 1.347x10^18 cu meters. So the first divided by the second gives percent of the ocean used, about 2.7x10^-9 ( avery small fraction of the ocean) Now we must process 10,000 times that much to get the deuterium, so about 3 thousandths of one percent of the total volume of the worlds oceans.
A very good ball park figure, but hardly enough to worry about. Further the original rate reference was talking about the growth of the the consumption rate, not the consumtion rate itself. I don't think that the consumtion rate will grow a thousand times. If anything, between ten and a hundred, times the current consumption rate, with an initial increase and a return to the regular rate as technology advances. Just because there is more power doesn't mean that we wont strive for effeciency. For instance, throwing more wattage at a CPU is not a viable means of improvement. As another poster claims, the biggest will come from metallurgical and chemical processes, not consumer use (are we all gonna be driving our electric cars around with giant drogue chutes hanging off the back end?).
I once read a statistic (sorry no source) that we could use energy at the current growth rate for 10,000 years and only use up one centimeter off the top of the worlds oceans. Incidentally, the increase in ambient heat might just melt the polar caps enough to offset the lowering.
At least in 10,000 years we will be able to play DukeNukem Forever and...;-)
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Well, almost. Before we bought our new house I bargained with her. I get the garage and the nerd room (home office), she gets the rest of the house.
fairly weak on techinical details. Seems mostly about what the guy who designed it.
Has anyone found any quality links about the construction challenges and methods?
while this is a humorous twist to an old joke, there is an element of truth here. Next you happen to use the bathroom with an experimental chemist, observe the first thing that they do is wash their hands. Becuase the last thing you want is something like highly concentrated acids|bases|toxic wastes doing their worst on the family jewels.
now all I need to get my warp reactor going again is to build a cancer cell injector.
use lsof to monitor tcp/udp/rcp sockets that are open on the host and pointing at the file space that nfs is serving.
/.?
Then write a wrapper around each of halt, shutdown, and reboot to check the open ports and fail if they are active.
Seems fairly hackish, but... whaddya expect from
OH yah, and here also.
There has been a lot of developement into finding self solving systems. Here is an article to get you started, then just follow google.
readme
Has anyone ever considered sending them forged checks/money orders or bearer bonds/stock certificates that would immediately be recognized as fraudulent when they attempt to cash them? It seems to me that this would be great fun and the results should cause some serious problems for the scammers.
I suppose that using counterfiet money would be out though as that is a federal offense just to make it. To bad, having a legitamate reason to crank out a few thou in fake money would be cool (I wonder if the would allow you to do that as a cooperative sting operation... hmmm).
does looking at images of eructations that are larger than a planet make anyone else nervous?
That when IPV6 goes official that the gorverning body would consider handing out a block (maybe 256 addys) to every person. These are assigned permanently and can then be your phone number, personal webspace, permanent email address, etc. I think this would be really nice,
Anyone care to comment on their perceived pros and cons to this idea?
using an electronic voting system with an audit trail that is also a tax credit coupon.
;-).
When you go into a voting booth you get a card that has the time that the last person voted (this allows individual authentication of the voting record, more on this later).
You insert the card into the voting machine and, if you want a tax credit, your ssn. The time stamp plus ssn is one way hashed and the hash is printed on your card. The card number is then your tax credit authentication code.
At the time your card is printed (vote cast), another blank card with just a time stamp is generated for the next voter.
The voting machine records to two seperated databases, call them db1 and db2, the following;
db1( My_Candidate++, My_timestamp )
db2( hash( ssn, timestamp ) )
The db's writen to a permanent media, like maybe cdr, dvdr, or paper, or whatever.
db1 is used to tally the vote, it is also made publically available, db2 is sent to the IRS for tax credit validation purposes.
And last, a law is passed that forbids any entity from combining the two db's (this is the weak link, still have to think about this). In fact, no one but the IRS is legally allowed to have a copy of db2. Also, the oneway hash needs to have a crack effort barrier that is computationally huge (like a couple of minutes on an NSA machine
Pros
The tax credit ensures massive turnout
If you are paranoid about giving your ssn out, then you don't have to, but you don't get the tax credit either.
You can look at the publically available voting record to see that no votes were inserted between yours and the previous voter.
Cons
Possible breach of anonymous voting (but this also possible by other means, like bugging or social engineering).
Uhmmm, unless the lasers are considerably cheaper than this, I think that you are going to be hard pressed to put one together for a grand.
I mean *a friend* of mine watched a couple of these movies DL'ed from the web, and I uh... *he* didn't see any artifacts at all. My guess is that they were either edited out by the ripper, or that the compression did not enhance them the way that the studios might have hoped.
oops, sorry. I read right past that part :-/
Don't forget that you also need to include the magnetic monopole current term, analogous to
curl(B)-(1/c)(partial E/Partial t) = (4pi/c)J_e to get
curl(E)+(1/c)(partial B/partial t) = (4pi/c)J_b rather than 0.
I have not been this blown out by a discovery for a long time. I imagine that many people will feel the same way, but I have one question:
What are the possible uses for this?
It seems quite at odds to be this astounded by something that, as far as I can tell, has absolutely no purpose.
OK, I did a little computation.
The height of the pentagon is ~77 feet
From these pictures under extra info at cnn. The first three explosion shots at a guessed 30/sec frame rate show an explosion expanding at one building height every 2 frames, or 77*30/2= ~1155 ft/sec, not unreasonable for a fuel air explosion. Now, the low end air speed of an approaching plane is 250 and the high end is 600 mph that means that the plane was moving at ~1000 ft/sec at the fastest and should have been viewable for three or four frames. So were are the images of the impacting plane?
Further the explosion originates at the outer edge of the building and shows no forward momentum in the debris expansion as would be expected of a frontal impact.
This must be one the few slashdot stories that is completely on topic, and by that I mean "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters".
This will be a nice new toy for me in my work as a research student, Thanks!
1) Disconnect box from all external cords
2) Encase box in several hundred cubic meters of concrete
3) Surround concrete with meter thick lead lining
4) Bury under radioactive waste in a geologically stable region
5) Saturate the surface with nuclear land mines
6) Curse MicrSoft, becase you still get hacked!
This question just promises to be a hot bed of contention rife with all the attendant pillaging and trolling... Oh wait thats me. Uh never mind ;-)
Jumped in to it while taking college trig. Definately doable, but also takes you to the edge, after 10 weeks we were at the level were new research could be done.
1. I don't want the latest processor
2. I am perfectly happy with the one I have.
3. Having a faster CPU would make me more productive.
4. I bought the cheapest one because I want to support the underdog.
5. Noisy CPU fans don't really bother me.
6. If I get the most expensive one, I won't have to upgrade for a long time.
7. My life is so much better now that I have CPU x.
8. I don't envy you your brand new CPU, because mine has a years long proven track record.
9. Nobody will ever need a 64bit CPU for home use.
10. I only read newsgroups for the articles.
A little browsing and... .
according to this site, there is
an area of about 361 million sq km for the worlds oceans. According to this source, deuterium is one part in ten thousand of the hydrogen in water
Now a little math... 361,000,000,000m^2*0.01m = 3.61 billion cu meters used in 10,000 years. total volume of the worlds ocean ( again from the first site ) is 1,347,000,000 cu km or 1.347x10^18 cu meters. So the first divided by the second gives percent of the ocean used, about 2.7x10^-9 ( avery small fraction of the ocean) Now we must process 10,000 times that much to get the deuterium, so about 3 thousandths of one percent of the total volume of the worlds oceans.
A very good ball park figure, but hardly enough to worry about. Further the original rate reference was talking about the growth of the the consumption rate, not the consumtion rate itself. I don't think that the consumtion rate will grow a thousand times. If anything, between ten and a hundred, times the current consumption rate, with an initial increase and a return to the regular rate as technology advances. Just because there is more power doesn't mean that we wont strive for effeciency. For instance, throwing more wattage at a CPU is not a viable means of improvement. As another poster claims, the biggest will come from metallurgical and chemical processes, not consumer use (are we all gonna be driving our electric cars around with giant drogue chutes hanging off the back end?).
I once read a statistic (sorry no source) that we could use energy at the current growth rate for 10,000 years and only use up one centimeter off the top of the worlds oceans. Incidentally, the increase in ambient heat might just melt the polar caps enough to offset the lowering.
... ;-)
At least in 10,000 years we will be able to play DukeNukem Forever and
I am really really curios about what happened to them. Because I really want to know what heppened to them!
For the submission "...wondering about what happened to all those cool ideas for a new shuttle and what happened to them..."