Fortunately no one was hurt but it could have been tragic news. Most of the planet is reasonably uninhabited
I don't know about this Delta, but some of the rockets we send up are hydrazine powered. It can take a year for somebody to die from casual hydrazine hydrate contact.
I wonder if these rocket sections are appropriately marked with skulls and crossbones, or such markings could even be seen upon landing. Or even if any of the toxins we employ can survive re-entry.
If something fell out of space near me I'd be sorely tempted to check it out - we can't expect most of the world's population to understand that's not always a good idea.
I thought it was because the brain was mixing up short-term and long-term memories, putting things you just experienced into the "long-term" area.
There are a bunch of theories out there, it sounds like maybe you're thinking of the one about memory and familiarity processing getting switched? Spooling short-term memory to long-term is getting understood, and I don't think it can happen in a split-second manner.
If it were merely my brain remapping what I thought was going to happen, then I couldn't already have my phone out, could I? Therefore, it's more than merely an illusion.
It seems like it is just on the tip of the tounge, but just out of reach. Has anyone been able to announce a reasonaby random event before it happened while experiencing a deja vu? Something like "Bob will walk in though that door now" or "Bob is going to spill his drink".
No, they can't because it's an illusion. Your brain gets into a tight sensing/remembering loop for a short time, so it seems like you're recalling stuff that just happened, but it's the other way around. You're not used to that, so it's confusing and easily misinterpreted.
There's no more reason to be embarrassed by this than being fooled by optical illusions (happening in your visual cortex, not your eye in many instances) - our brains aren't perfect arbiters of the physical world, they interpolate quite a bit, so occasionally they get tripped up. This imperfection lets us laugh at Penn & Teller - it's all good.
Besides, we already know that memories are chemically encoded, so the only way to have memories of the future is magically putting chemical patterns in your brain. And between 'magic' and 'brain fart' - well, apply Occam's Razor.
Happily the TEDx program has spawned literally hundreds of independent TED events that charge $100 or less for admission.
Happily you can go to a LUG meeting in a thousand places every month, almost always for free, and learn something neat and engaging about technology.
Come on by DLSLUG on Thursday if you're near New Hampshire, James Murdza is presenting the Awesome window manager, some kind of GUI you customize with Lua scripts. Free, of course.
If you want the bigger-picture philosophical discussions, you'll have to come to the pre-meeting dinner and beer drinking event.
And we don't have the highly impersonal barrier of 1500 attendees.:)
TED puts out some great prezos, but let's not pretend it's not price rationed. If there's such a big waiting list they're throwing away money by not raising the price further.
yeah, but there seems to be something else going on, some effect on DNA. There was that one study about the 1800MHz DNA breakage, the one about the protein expression in skin cells, and the one about a protective effect against Alzheimers in mice. And those are just a few I happen to recall.
While you're right about non-ionizing radiation, we want to be careful not to say, "this isn't gamma radiation, so it has no effects".
That doesn't make any sense. If you are performing some illegal activity then Microsoft (or anyone else) is fully within their rights to cooperate with law enforcement in tracking you down (assuming there is a warrant, of course). That is not abuse; that is the way the system should work. If you have a problem with the law then get the law changed; don't cry about it being enforced.
A lower law says it's illegal, a higher law says the lower law is illegal. Getting that lower law overturned can take decades.
while our primary sources of energy are running out
Just cleaning up our light-water reactor waste (which we cannot leave around for 300,000 years) can power the Earth's advancing societies for a century.
There are much better reasons to go for low-power computing, portability and economics chief among them.
And because they are a credit union, you can't call them on Saturday, either. We could not unlock the ATM card until Tuesday morning, so they completely ruined our entire holiday over a $10 overdraft that was immediately fixed. F*ck credit unions.
You're making a composition error here. These are policies of a particular credit union, not all credit unions.
I happen to us a local bank with Saturday morning hours. I can't see the advantage of a big bank. On a 6-sigma trip I might rack up $20 in ATM fees. That's so insignificant compared with bad service at a bank.
That is what WikiLeaks was doing before they started begging for money for the past 3 months.
Wikileaks used to be cool. They'd post stuff about government abuses, chicanery that corporations were doing to screw the customers and/or the public, etc.
Then at some point they adopted a "no more secrets" manta that would make Ben Kingsley proud. They started posting random copyrighted stuff that wasn't publicly available, private groups' passwords, etc. That's not a mission I'd donate to, I'm not in the "no more privacy" camp at all.
So, does this manual that Cryptome put up reveal any dark secrets, or is the complaint justified here? I wouldn't bet either way without reading it.
A computer program that can generate music doesn't scare me.
Not everybody is so secure. There's an infamous story from the late 80's where a previous similar effort was presented at a music conference. Most of the crowd was very impressed with the computer-composed music, but not all.
After the Q&A, a man walked up to the presenter and said, "are you Mr. So-and-so who developed this composition tool?" "Well, yes," he said, and at that, the man cold-cocked him, and shouted, "YOU'VE KILLED MUSIC!"
The best piece of un-supported regulation out there is the "Competition in Currency Act" which removes illegalities from competing currencies in the US. What, are they afraid of a little competition?:)
But just because the USA is too corrupt to do proper regulation doesn't mean the whole idea is a failure. The Europeans have no problem having proper regulation while also having strong economies (Germany is the world's leading exporter by value).
Yet, look at what's happening in Greece and (maybe) Portugal. Yes, the Germans also own the most gold per capita, IIRC, they're on the prudent side of the spectrum.
A well-designed system is resilient against corruption. Any system that depends on the good will of man is destined to fail, be it sooner or later.
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Fortunately no one was hurt but it could have been tragic news. Most of the planet is reasonably uninhabited
I don't know about this Delta, but some of the rockets we send up are hydrazine powered. It can take a year for somebody to die from casual hydrazine hydrate contact.
I wonder if these rocket sections are appropriately marked with skulls and crossbones, or such markings could even be seen upon landing. Or even if any of the toxins we employ can survive re-entry.
If something fell out of space near me I'd be sorely tempted to check it out - we can't expect most of the world's population to understand that's not always a good idea.
So? Many older analog televisions took up to 10 seconds to "boot", because thats how long it took to warm up the cathode ray tube.
My grandparents had an early color set that was nearly a minute. But, so what, 5 seconds, a minute, go take a pee and get a snack.
1-second embedded linux is very significant because some vendors use proprietary OS stacks because they boot faster.
I thought it was because the brain was mixing up short-term and long-term memories, putting things you just experienced into the "long-term" area.
There are a bunch of theories out there, it sounds like maybe you're thinking of the one about memory and familiarity processing getting switched? Spooling short-term memory to long-term is getting understood, and I don't think it can happen in a split-second manner.
Even CorelCache and MirrorDot have the 404 page. :)
Google's cache has the text, and it's all in TFS.
Here's the product page, quad-band. Google Shopping says these are $1200.
I'll buy one just as soon as they come with a Microvision display.
Kind of suspect, doesn't it? How can you be so certain? You can't ... because
If I were studying this as a personal philosophical reflection, then sure, but we use science to avoid that kind of problem.
If it were merely my brain remapping what I thought was going to happen, then I couldn't already have my phone out, could I? Therefore, it's more than merely an illusion.
Randi's got a million dollars for you if you can demonstrate this.
Or maybe it's a coincidence?
There is no past, there is no future, there is only the present.
absolute metaphysical certitude?
It seems like it is just on the tip of the tounge, but just out of reach. Has anyone been able to announce a reasonaby random event before it happened while experiencing a deja vu? Something like "Bob will walk in though that door now" or "Bob is going to spill his drink".
No, they can't because it's an illusion. Your brain gets into a tight sensing/remembering loop for a short time, so it seems like you're recalling stuff that just happened, but it's the other way around. You're not used to that, so it's confusing and easily misinterpreted.
There's no more reason to be embarrassed by this than being fooled by optical illusions (happening in your visual cortex, not your eye in many instances) - our brains aren't perfect arbiters of the physical world, they interpolate quite a bit, so occasionally they get tripped up. This imperfection lets us laugh at Penn & Teller - it's all good.
Besides, we already know that memories are chemically encoded, so the only way to have memories of the future is magically putting chemical patterns in your brain. And between 'magic' and 'brain fart' - well, apply Occam's Razor.
Happily the TEDx program has spawned literally hundreds of independent TED events that charge $100 or less for admission.
Happily you can go to a LUG meeting in a thousand places every month, almost always for free, and learn something neat and engaging about technology.
Come on by DLSLUG on Thursday if you're near New Hampshire, James Murdza is presenting the Awesome window manager, some kind of GUI you customize with Lua scripts. Free, of course.
If you want the bigger-picture philosophical discussions, you'll have to come to the pre-meeting dinner and beer drinking event.
And we don't have the highly impersonal barrier of 1500 attendees. :)
TED puts out some great prezos, but let's not pretend it's not price rationed. If there's such a big waiting list they're throwing away money by not raising the price further.
and you know if it can denature proteins.
yeah, but there seems to be something else going on, some effect on DNA. There was that one study about the 1800MHz DNA breakage, the one about the protein expression in skin cells, and the one about a protective effect against Alzheimers in mice. And those are just a few I happen to recall.
While you're right about non-ionizing radiation, we want to be careful not to say, "this isn't gamma radiation, so it has no effects".
I mean that was a well-reasoned, even-keeled reply in a Microsoft article. Are you sure you're supposed to be on slashdot?
Dude, it's fine, he gave NetSol a proper harshing. If Microsoft props had to be part of the effort, it's still copasetic.
That doesn't make any sense. If you are performing some illegal activity then Microsoft (or anyone else) is fully within their rights to cooperate with law enforcement in tracking you down (assuming there is a warrant, of course). That is not abuse; that is the way the system should work. If you have a problem with the law then get the law changed; don't cry about it being enforced.
A lower law says it's illegal, a higher law says the lower law is illegal. Getting that lower law overturned can take decades.
Your credibility as a reference was lost when you fail to expand the ARM chip acronym correctly.
Hey, on Slashdot old school is acceptable.
while our primary sources of energy are running out
Just cleaning up our light-water reactor waste (which we cannot leave around for 300,000 years) can power the Earth's advancing societies for a century.
There are much better reasons to go for low-power computing, portability and economics chief among them.
And because they are a credit union, you can't call them on Saturday, either. We could not unlock the ATM card until Tuesday morning, so they completely ruined our entire holiday over a $10 overdraft that was immediately fixed. F*ck credit unions.
You're making a composition error here. These are policies of a particular credit union, not all credit unions.
I happen to us a local bank with Saturday morning hours. I can't see the advantage of a big bank. On a 6-sigma trip I might rack up $20 in ATM fees. That's so insignificant compared with bad service at a bank.
I read that and think, 'build it once, and support it forever.'
Raise your prices until it makes you happy or you can hire it out.
It's fun renaming people's hotspots when they leave them open and defaulted. I renamed my libtard neighbor's wifi "FOBAMA".
Maybe he thought he could trust his neighbors. Apparently he was right until you proved him wrong. He's not getting the major negative light here.
What happens when we have the ability to generate as much music of a particular style as we want?
Somebody does an open-source implementation, and then small filmmakers can afford to have decent sound-tracks.
That is what WikiLeaks was doing before they started begging for money for the past 3 months.
Wikileaks used to be cool. They'd post stuff about government abuses, chicanery that corporations were doing to screw the customers and/or the public, etc.
Then at some point they adopted a "no more secrets" manta that would make Ben Kingsley proud. They started posting random copyrighted stuff that wasn't publicly available, private groups' passwords, etc. That's not a mission I'd donate to, I'm not in the "no more privacy" camp at all.
So, does this manual that Cryptome put up reveal any dark secrets, or is the complaint justified here? I wouldn't bet either way without reading it.
Should I be using a different registrar for cheap domain registration? Who is cheaper?
Are you squatting on domains? If so, stop that. If not you can afford the $15/yr that a reliable/competent outfit like DynDNS will charge.
Okay haha why is there Gamecube support?
$35 Linux box that can use an old TV for a display? I've got my C=64 envy on.
I suspect that many of the later Trek series were written by similar software algorithms.
Yeah, it's called the Bergman-Braga MadLibs Completion algorithm.
A computer program that can generate music doesn't scare me.
Not everybody is so secure. There's an infamous story from the late 80's where a previous similar effort was presented at a music conference. Most of the crowd was very impressed with the computer-composed music, but not all.
After the Q&A, a man walked up to the presenter and said, "are you Mr. So-and-so who developed this composition tool?" "Well, yes," he said, and at that, the man cold-cocked him, and shouted, "YOU'VE KILLED MUSIC!"
The best piece of un-supported regulation out there is the "Competition in Currency Act" which removes illegalities from competing currencies in the US. What, are they afraid of a little competition? :)
But just because the USA is too corrupt to do proper regulation doesn't mean the whole idea is a failure. The Europeans have no problem having proper regulation while also having strong economies (Germany is the world's leading exporter by value).
Yet, look at what's happening in Greece and (maybe) Portugal. Yes, the Germans also own the most gold per capita, IIRC, they're on the prudent side of the spectrum.
A well-designed system is resilient against corruption. Any system that depends on the good will of man is destined to fail, be it sooner or later.