Good, my 1968 muscle car will still work. And since everyone else's cars will be dead, there'll be plenty of cheap gas and I won't care that it only gets 9MPG.
That and you'll get more 'muscle' by pumping the gas out of the station's underground tank by hand. Bring cash.
It seems anything with small wires, including microprocessors, gets fried.
I don't think it's worth obsessing about date approximations when > 95% of the fleet is affected and we're approaching a time when only 'antique' cars are not vulnerable.
Does anybody know how the advent of GMR hard drive heads influences the EMP scenarios? They're resistant to change enough that regular high-power drive de-gaussers don't work anymore.
I'd hate to see what would happen if all our energy usage was electric instead of burning stuff.
It doesn't matter, we have electronic controls everywhere. If there's an EMP-level event from the Sun, any cars made since about 1970 will be rendered inoperable.
The old ________ has finally caught up with itself and now without the ________ we must pay the penance for its mistakes and not having proper plans afterwards.
as in NSDAP party programme, and minus all the frenzy about Jews
Can Falun Gong be interchangeably substituted?
The irony is that China may be the best place for developing a business now, in the best and average cases. In the worst case, though, they execute you for offending the State and send a bill to your family for the cost of the bullet.
This basically means we're staying in Afghanistan indefinitely.
Don't worry, the United States General Government is on the verge of bankruptcy. The empire will have to end, unless, for instance, they claim rights to these kinds of minerals, but I think even the anemic States would protest at outright pillage.
In the circles I run in, everybody says 'record' for video or audio, specifying if necessary, but usually just through context.
I wonder if it's region, age, or something else. I may have presumed 'geekhood' as a criteria, but I think we can cancel that out within a slashdot discussion.
Some big top-down plan isn't going to work, it never does.
Who here has their car set up to sync their podcasts from their driveway? I'd like to start there, and I think there's probably a huge market for it. A Mini-ITX PC with smart power control is probably part of the mix. I'm sure this isn't an original thought, I've been wanting it for a half-dozen years but have been too cheap/lazy to code it up.
But I suspect somebody here has already posted a HOWTO...
2-3 days. It's called the 'settlement period'. You don't really own the stock until the settlement occurs, and you shouldn't be able to sell something you don't own, otherwise you're engaging in something like small option contracts.
There was an NPR story talking about moving high velocity traders into the NYSE data center because the packet latency was important to make more money. This has nothing to do with corporate ownership, being a shareholder, voting at shareholder meetings, etc. - it's parasitic on the system.
You know, I learned how to do square roots by hand in seventh grade, but I quickly forgot how to and now haven't the foggiest idea.
But since then I've so rarely had to deal with actually finding the arithmetic root of anything (as opposed to just dealing with a root as a term) and when I'm actually in search of a value (gas mileage and some recent woodworking come to mind) there's always a square root button nearby.
If I were stranded on a desert island I'd probably spend the time to derive the method, but until then I'm so unbothered by being ignorant.
A few decent reasons. Netbooks are ass slow. I'm using mine now - I love it, but it's ass slow. The screen is too small for some jobs. Windows is expensive to manage the security on. Apple makes tools that school administrators can figure out.
Linux gets you both, of course, and free.
Cheaper for taxpayers and parents alike, and Windows 7 at least prepares them for the corporate world.
These are high school kids. It'll be 5 years minimum before they enter the corporate world. Windows tends to copy Mac from a few years back, so there's actually a decent chance that Windows 10 will operate sort of like Snow Leopard. If people regularly buy operating systems in six years.
do not have the political power to do anything but make a mostly ignored noise as they complain
The US hasn't built a new nuclear reactor in 30 years. The 'smelly hippies' won.
Then they (Clinton, Kerry, Gore) got into power and killed our research into the safe kind of reactor that cleans up our nuclear waste.
Now they rake in untold fortunes promoting 'green energy' which doesn't seem to actually make any mathematical sense. But they've finally figured out the secret to alchemy: CO2 + government = gold.
Isn't proposing a reduction in government spending that would slow the economy actually primarily a thing conservatives are doing?
'Conservatives' typically want to reduce government spending to increase private sector activity.
Greens (the so-called '350' crowd) need to shut down the world's economy for at least 20 years (back to agrarian levels) to achieve their AGW-related goals.
All progress must stop so we can, um, stay in the financial crisis forever?
Don't worry - the greens are trying their damnest to slow the economy to a point where it will never have enough surplus to support the creation of clean energy. To "save the planet".
The problem is politicians who won't say, "go take economics 101 and come back with a revised sob-story".
So, we've been waiting a little over seven years to skewer those who we knew were on the wrong side of the SCO vs. IBM issue, both here and on the broader Internet.
Now that it's decided, it's time to see who was right. Daniel Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, seems like a good place to start. "Crunchy linux users" indeed.
I'm not sure I'm discouraged (because this makes it look like it will take more time before humanity can easily colonize space) or encouraged (because this makes it look like it will take more time before every third-world country will be able to produce intercontinental missiles).
I'm actually very encouraged because it would mean that they're designing their own rockets, not using the US design that the Clinton fundraisers sold to China in the 90's or whatever Russian designs have made the rounds.
Along the way they'll develop new insights and improve the state of the art. Eventually, there will be a greater base of knowledge upon which to build the next generation of spacecraft.
So, given the choice between some of the newer mini-ITX systems, what are the advantages that a basic microcontroller would offer?
Power is one. The MiniITX boards I've worked with have tended towards 22W or so. Last I measured was with a Via, now using Atoms but not with the low-power north/south-bridges yet (they're available, but more expensive currently).
So you might want to run an Arduino on a AAA battery in some applications and then that would be a much better solution.
or they can accept the fact that people will route around this
They can require apps to authenticate with a signed certificate and revoke any that leak. So the authors will have to put DRM into their apps and stop distributing open source. And they'll have to kill the Twitter web client so nobody writes a scraper.
Wait, maybe this idea wasn't entirely well thought-through. Some knucklehead probably said, "we should be selling an ad for each of these clicks!". Maybe they should try to figure out a business model that can work instead of one they wish could work. Maybe Twitter's web interface could have included a URL shortener 3 years ago with 30 lines of javascript instead of trying to retroactively herd the elvises.
I'd hate to see them disappear and try to exist as a company suing Facebook for patent infringement. Gah, I miss the discussions about whether their service sucks because they used Rails or because they tried to scale vertically.
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Good, my 1968 muscle car will still work. And since everyone else's cars will be dead, there'll be plenty of cheap gas and I won't care that it only gets 9MPG.
That and you'll get more 'muscle' by pumping the gas out of the station's underground tank by hand. Bring cash.
Why?
It seems anything with small wires, including microprocessors, gets fried.
I don't think it's worth obsessing about date approximations when > 95% of the fleet is affected and we're approaching a time when only 'antique' cars are not vulnerable.
non-magnetic backups of everything
Does anybody know how the advent of GMR hard drive heads influences the EMP scenarios? They're resistant to change enough that regular high-power drive de-gaussers don't work anymore.
I'd hate to see what would happen if all our energy usage was electric instead of burning stuff.
It doesn't matter, we have electronic controls everywhere. If there's an EMP-level event from the Sun, any cars made since about 1970 will be rendered inoperable.
The old ________ has finally caught up with itself and now without the ________ we must pay the penance for its mistakes and not having proper plans afterwards.
There, generalized that for you.
as in NSDAP party programme, and minus all the frenzy about Jews
Can Falun Gong be interchangeably substituted?
The irony is that China may be the best place for developing a business now, in the best and average cases. In the worst case, though, they execute you for offending the State and send a bill to your family for the cost of the bullet.
This basically means we're staying in Afghanistan indefinitely.
Don't worry, the United States General Government is on the verge of bankruptcy. The empire will have to end, unless, for instance, they claim rights to these kinds of minerals, but I think even the anemic States would protest at outright pillage.
I still hear "taping" for audio recordings, too.
Weird, and I haven't heard that since the 90's.
In the circles I run in, everybody says 'record' for video or audio, specifying if necessary, but usually just through context.
I wonder if it's region, age, or something else. I may have presumed 'geekhood' as a criteria, but I think we can cancel that out within a slashdot discussion.
It's the height of arrogance to assume the little people are more than they are.
Careful, buddy, our irony meters might get stretched out of shape.
Some big top-down plan isn't going to work, it never does.
Who here has their car set up to sync their podcasts from their driveway? I'd like to start there, and I think there's probably a huge market for it. A Mini-ITX PC with smart power control is probably part of the mix. I'm sure this isn't an original thought, I've been wanting it for a half-dozen years but have been too cheap/lazy to code it up.
But I suspect somebody here has already posted a HOWTO...
(where is 1 week/6 months/1 year).
2-3 days. It's called the 'settlement period'. You don't really own the stock until the settlement occurs, and you shouldn't be able to sell something you don't own, otherwise you're engaging in something like small option contracts.
There was an NPR story talking about moving high velocity traders into the NYSE data center because the packet latency was important to make more money. This has nothing to do with corporate ownership, being a shareholder, voting at shareholder meetings, etc. - it's parasitic on the system.
Although, it's good practice so you don't forget.
You know, I learned how to do square roots by hand in seventh grade, but I quickly forgot how to and now haven't the foggiest idea.
But since then I've so rarely had to deal with actually finding the arithmetic root of anything (as opposed to just dealing with a root as a term) and when I'm actually in search of a value (gas mileage and some recent woodworking come to mind) there's always a square root button nearby.
If I were stranded on a desert island I'd probably spend the time to derive the method, but until then I'm so unbothered by being ignorant.
Why not just use netbooks w/Windows 7 Starter?
A few decent reasons. Netbooks are ass slow. I'm using mine now - I love it, but it's ass slow. The screen is too small for some jobs. Windows is expensive to manage the security on. Apple makes tools that school administrators can figure out.
Linux gets you both, of course, and free.
Cheaper for taxpayers and parents alike, and Windows 7 at least prepares them for the corporate world.
These are high school kids. It'll be 5 years minimum before they enter the corporate world. Windows tends to copy Mac from a few years back, so there's actually a decent chance that Windows 10 will operate sort of like Snow Leopard. If people regularly buy operating systems in six years.
do not have the political power to do anything but make a mostly ignored noise as they complain
The US hasn't built a new nuclear reactor in 30 years. The 'smelly hippies' won.
Then they (Clinton, Kerry, Gore) got into power and killed our research into the safe kind of reactor that cleans up our nuclear waste.
Now they rake in untold fortunes promoting 'green energy' which doesn't seem to actually make any mathematical sense. But they've finally figured out the secret to alchemy: CO2 + government = gold.
Isn't proposing a reduction in government spending that would slow the economy actually primarily a thing conservatives are doing?
'Conservatives' typically want to reduce government spending to increase private sector activity.
Greens (the so-called '350' crowd) need to shut down the world's economy for at least 20 years (back to agrarian levels) to achieve their AGW-related goals.
Hey, you've got it easy. I made a polite request on the forum and they shut it down!
Pretty soon Flash for 64-bit linux will be the new Duke Nukem meme around here.
There's been some progress since this paper.
It's not there yet, but there's hope.
The good news is this will eventually stop the botnets. One all that computing power is reliably usable, there's profit motive to defend it.
All progress must stop so we can, um, stay in the financial crisis forever?
Don't worry - the greens are trying their damnest to slow the economy to a point where it will never have enough surplus to support the creation of clean energy. To "save the planet".
The problem is politicians who won't say, "go take economics 101 and come back with a revised sob-story".
Someone pulls it from their site and they get hunted down like a witch.
AT&T paid good money for their legislators and regulators. They're entitled, in return, for some "protection service", aren't they?
So, we've been waiting a little over seven years to skewer those who we knew were on the wrong side of the SCO vs. IBM issue, both here and on the broader Internet.
Now that it's decided, it's time to see who was right. Daniel Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, seems like a good place to start. "Crunchy linux users" indeed.
I'm not sure I'm discouraged (because this makes it look like it will take more time before humanity can easily colonize space) or encouraged (because this makes it look like it will take more time before every third-world country will be able to produce intercontinental missiles).
I'm actually very encouraged because it would mean that they're designing their own rockets, not using the US design that the Clinton fundraisers sold to China in the 90's or whatever Russian designs have made the rounds.
Along the way they'll develop new insights and improve the state of the art. Eventually, there will be a greater base of knowledge upon which to build the next generation of spacecraft.
So, given the choice between some of the newer mini-ITX systems, what are the advantages that a basic microcontroller would offer?
Power is one. The MiniITX boards I've worked with have tended towards 22W or so. Last I measured was with a Via, now using Atoms but not with the low-power north/south-bridges yet (they're available, but more expensive currently).
So you might want to run an Arduino on a AAA battery in some applications and then that would be a much better solution.
By magically circumventing the permissions system in Windows?
But Mom, everybody else is doing it!
I can't say that it worries me a lot - I use Linux.
But I run automatic updates in Windows and don't trust Microsoft! Oh, wait.
or they can accept the fact that people will route around this
They can require apps to authenticate with a signed certificate and revoke any that leak. So the authors will have to put DRM into their apps and stop distributing open source. And they'll have to kill the Twitter web client so nobody writes a scraper.
Wait, maybe this idea wasn't entirely well thought-through. Some knucklehead probably said, "we should be selling an ad for each of these clicks!". Maybe they should try to figure out a business model that can work instead of one they wish could work. Maybe Twitter's web interface could have included a URL shortener 3 years ago with 30 lines of javascript instead of trying to retroactively herd the elvises.
I'd hate to see them disappear and try to exist as a company suing Facebook for patent infringement. Gah, I miss the discussions about whether their service sucks because they used Rails or because they tried to scale vertically.