I wish ther was a way to make people read the article before posting. Or at least increase the odds. Maybe they need to click on the link in order to post. Yeah, easy to get around but if it would increase the odds, it would be worth it.
Well, decent summaries would help. But the odds of rejection are high at Slashdot, so most people don't put any effort into summaries.
People have proposed building merely tall (a few miles) towers to generate electricity. Given an elevator-sized structure, you'd think the static charge ought to be great enough to power the vehicle.
Interesting! Walter E. Williams has calculated that the US Congress should be up to about 3500 people by now, proportional to historical judgement about how many people a legislator can represent (this has anti-corruption themes behind it).
thanks for the pointer. If the Wikipedia article is correct, the big problem seems to be his requirement that any sub-set of elections should turn out the same as the whole election if considered separately. I'm not sure that's a sensible expectation in a real election.
I actually spent quite a bit of time looking into this recently and finally discovered that the HAM community has already got this figured out - the Powerpole connector.
I'm going to convert our automobiles over shortly, make or buy a few adapters in case we ever need to get a rental. I'm so sick of buying these 12V outlet multipliers that keep failing, popping out, etc. One saved traffic ticket from the RADAR detector not creeping out of contact and the project is paid for.
Anybody have a good reference for installing a new circuit in a car?
See also "book-smart" v. "street-smart", INT v. WIS (in D&D et al.), and the role of irrational thinking in decision processes [slashdot.org].
I hate to say it, but the Slashdot axis of Interesting, Informative, Insightful isn't a bad model.
Informative can map to "book-smart", Insightful to "street-smart", but there's also the cross-cutting, "hrm, that's a way to look at the problem I hadn't previously considered," aspect of Interesting that's key to a fine intellect.
this is exactly right, the numbers come up here in NH each time the nanny staters get their panties in a bunch about seeing somebody doing something dangerous.
IIRC, the cost difference per accident is about $125,000. There are also many fewer organ donors since helmets became popular. In the ER, they called them "donor-cycles".
At a minimum it gets you hotel and car rental discounts, which are especially nice if you're an otherwise unaffiliated small-business owner.
Honestly, I thought Mensa was a "Look at me, I'm smart" club for assholes. Then I met more and more Mensans in service clubs and organizations, and found that many of them had connected through Mensa to accomplish other good things, so I thought maybe it was worth joining.
There are still people who are really into the word puzzles, which I haven't enjoyed since I was an tween. And there seems to be an unusual focus on getting really drunk, but I tend to associate more with the Mensans who are working on large societal problems as their challenge instead.
I suppose it's what you make of it, and there needs to be a sizeable enough group in your area for it to make sense for you to meet the right people. There are some other clubs that are more exclusive, higher out on the standard deviations, but they have so few members they didn't seem worthwhile to investigate.
I have this novel idea that we should follow the KISS principle. Take a piece of paper. Circle your guy. Toss it into a box. Count the ballots by hand. Keep. It. Simple.
That's how my town does it - each volunteer counts 100-200 ballots. It's not a hard ratio to achieve in any way. On average, each citizen would only have to volunteer once per hundred elections, not bad.
It is, however, second best. There's no stopping an organized gang from switching out the ballot box like Chaum's system does.
Still, on a cost/benefit basis there's alot going to KISS.
Now, can I start a flamewar about our system being inferior to Condorcet methods, please?
That car had a similar mechanism where you couldn't shift past neutral without pulling the lever towards you.
On mine ('96), anyway, you have to pull the lever to get it to shift in any direction, and then you get P to L, with poor indexing and short spacing between them.
My Subaru has it on the floor and I'm a pretty involved shifter with it - lots of hills here and I like to save the brakes and up the mileage (a quarter of my ride to work is low-speed down-hill). With the truck I just put it in D and leave it alone unless I'm pulling a big load, then I'm just really really careful not to grind it.
Turning off the engine should basically be a last resort to be used only if the transmission won't go to neutral. You're probably out a few grand if your car is fucked this badly.
Eh? Stopping an engine at speed won't cause a few grand in damage. Did I misunderstand?
Not that I ever used it to generate a completely new SID, but what I did find it invaluable for was to set a machine's SID back to its old value after a re-install. This did away with the need to change the ownership on all of the user's files still on the hard drive and meant that most of the time their user profile would just keep on working as if nothing had changed.
So, if you clone them all with the same SID you'd be better off, right?
heh, that was going to be my response as well. Besides proving it to be real, it prevents 'the dealer' from just papering over the issue on an ad-hoc basis.
Being that this is a Pious, I'd assume that it'd be easy to re-program? I have to admit, I must not understand how these kinds of cars are programmed to not test boundary conditions. Here, fellas, tell me why this is crazy:
if (command == ACCELERATE) {
if (car.speed > 10 && car.brake > 0) {
continue;
}
car.accelerate(1); }
Or do we have these checks but maybe some sort of controller here that's gone off the reservation and eventually gets reset by a watchdog?
Automatics are specifically designed so you can just hit the shifter and it will pop into neutral and stop before it hits park or reverse.
Good on-the-floor ones are. Toyotas are in this category. GM's with shift on-the-wheel will let you do stupid things. My plow truck goes 'crunch' a bit too frequently.
Pain can be nasty but if you know it's not harming you and it's not going to last, then why not do it?
If the pain is severe enough there are permanent brain changes associated with it. The Army medical research is now recommending all patients receive spinal blocks in addition to anaesthesia before major surgery.
Of course, if you run a maintained version of any Enterprise Linux I'd put good bets down that they'll be patched shortly. If you spun your own distro, then you made the choice to maintain it yourself anyway.
Well said. Back when vmsplice was a big issue, a client with an app tightly coupled to an abandoned distro had my company fix their kernel for them. It was a pretty trivial patch - with some testing and QA I think it was pretty close to the $400 mark you mentioned for a half dozen machines to get patched, and that bought them nearly a year to get everything up on CentOS 5. I'd not recommend the approach, but SMB's don't get to dictate a march - when a lead developer moves/passes on unexpectedly suddenly the best laid plans need to change.
There's a distinction in the English system between "mala prohibita" and "mala in se". The first is laws like 'smoking a joint is wrong'. The second is 'killing your neighbor is wrong'. The second were the laws that made Common Law.
When the phrase "ignorance of the law is no defence" was coined it referred to "in se" crime, and I can't find the original quote at the moment (somebody give me a link here), but it went on to explain that nobody could possibly be expected to know all of the prohibita law (which is several orders of magnitude more difficult today).
Of course, criminalizing everyone is a very useful tool for the tyrant, which may be the real appeal of this treaty.
layer upon layer of abstraction and interpretation stacked tall and high
yes, especially how well each layer optimizes. There was a good article by a KDE dev a few months ago lamenting that KDE rarely ever runs with the acceleration it's capable of due to what's assumed and what's implemented at each layer.
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I wish ther was a way to make people read the article before posting. Or at least increase the odds. Maybe they need to click on the link in order to post. Yeah, easy to get around but if it would increase the odds, it would be worth it.
Well, decent summaries would help. But the odds of rejection are high at Slashdot, so most people don't put any effort into summaries.
People have proposed building merely tall (a few miles) towers to generate electricity. Given an elevator-sized structure, you'd think the static charge ought to be great enough to power the vehicle.
Interesting! Walter E. Williams has calculated that the US Congress should be up to about 3500 people by now, proportional to historical judgement about how many people a legislator can represent (this has anti-corruption themes behind it).
Arrows Theorem.
thanks for the pointer. If the Wikipedia article is correct, the big problem seems to be his requirement that any sub-set of elections should turn out the same as the whole election if considered separately. I'm not sure that's a sensible expectation in a real election.
I actually spent quite a bit of time looking into this recently and finally discovered that the HAM community has already got this figured out - the Powerpole connector.
I'm going to convert our automobiles over shortly, make or buy a few adapters in case we ever need to get a rental. I'm so sick of buying these 12V outlet multipliers that keep failing, popping out, etc. One saved traffic ticket from the RADAR detector not creeping out of contact and the project is paid for.
Anybody have a good reference for installing a new circuit in a car?
See also "book-smart" v. "street-smart", INT v. WIS (in D&D et al.), and the role of irrational thinking in decision processes [slashdot.org].
I hate to say it, but the Slashdot axis of Interesting, Informative, Insightful isn't a bad model.
Informative can map to "book-smart", Insightful to "street-smart", but there's also the cross-cutting, "hrm, that's a way to look at the problem I hadn't previously considered," aspect of Interesting that's key to a fine intellect.
this is exactly right, the numbers come up here in NH each time the nanny staters get their panties in a bunch about seeing somebody doing something dangerous.
IIRC, the cost difference per accident is about $125,000. There are also many fewer organ donors since helmets became popular. In the ER, they called them "donor-cycles".
Honestly, it gets' you NOTHING in the real world.
At a minimum it gets you hotel and car rental discounts, which are especially nice if you're an otherwise unaffiliated small-business owner.
Honestly, I thought Mensa was a "Look at me, I'm smart" club for assholes. Then I met more and more Mensans in service clubs and organizations, and found that many of them had connected through Mensa to accomplish other good things, so I thought maybe it was worth joining.
There are still people who are really into the word puzzles, which I haven't enjoyed since I was an tween. And there seems to be an unusual focus on getting really drunk, but I tend to associate more with the Mensans who are working on large societal problems as their challenge instead.
I suppose it's what you make of it, and there needs to be a sizeable enough group in your area for it to make sense for you to meet the right people. There are some other clubs that are more exclusive, higher out on the standard deviations, but they have so few members they didn't seem worthwhile to investigate.
Well, the Canada plug is better than the U.S.A. plug!
Somehow those flappy-pronged plugs just never seemed right.
I kid, I kid, have a Molson, eh?
I have this novel idea that we should follow the KISS principle. Take a piece of paper. Circle your guy. Toss it into a box. Count the ballots by hand. Keep. It. Simple.
That's how my town does it - each volunteer counts 100-200 ballots. It's not a hard ratio to achieve in any way. On average, each citizen would only have to volunteer once per hundred elections, not bad.
It is, however, second best. There's no stopping an organized gang from switching out the ballot box like Chaum's system does.
Still, on a cost/benefit basis there's alot going to KISS.
Now, can I start a flamewar about our system being inferior to Condorcet methods, please?
That car had a similar mechanism where you couldn't shift past neutral without pulling the lever towards you.
On mine ('96), anyway, you have to pull the lever to get it to shift in any direction, and then you get P to L, with poor indexing and short spacing between them.
My Subaru has it on the floor and I'm a pretty involved shifter with it - lots of hills here and I like to save the brakes and up the mileage (a quarter of my ride to work is low-speed down-hill). With the truck I just put it in D and leave it alone unless I'm pulling a big load, then I'm just really really careful not to grind it.
Eh? Stopping an engine at speed won't cause a few grand in damage. Did I misunderstand?
So, if you clone them all with the same SID you'd be better off, right?
heh, that was going to be my response as well. Besides proving it to be real, it prevents 'the dealer' from just papering over the issue on an ad-hoc basis.
Being that this is a Pious, I'd assume that it'd be easy to re-program? I have to admit, I must not understand how these kinds of cars are programmed to not test boundary conditions. Here, fellas, tell me why this is crazy:
if (command == ACCELERATE) {
if (car.speed > 10 && car.brake > 0) {
continue;
}
car.accelerate(1);
}
Or do we have these checks but maybe some sort of controller here that's gone off the reservation and eventually gets reset by a watchdog?
Good on-the-floor ones are. Toyotas are in this category. GM's with shift on-the-wheel will let you do stupid things. My plow truck goes 'crunch' a bit too frequently.
If the pain is severe enough there are permanent brain changes associated with it. The Army medical research is now recommending all patients receive spinal blocks in addition to anaesthesia before major surgery.
I thought people were undergoing surgery with acupuncture instead of anaesthetic and this was the described mechanism?
Well said. Back when vmsplice was a big issue, a client with an app tightly coupled to an abandoned distro had my company fix their kernel for them. It was a pretty trivial patch - with some testing and QA I think it was pretty close to the $400 mark you mentioned for a half dozen machines to get patched, and that bought them nearly a year to get everything up on CentOS 5. I'd not recommend the approach, but SMB's don't get to dictate a march - when a lead developer moves/passes on unexpectedly suddenly the best laid plans need to change.
that's gold.
There's a distinction in the English system between "mala prohibita" and "mala in se". The first is laws like 'smoking a joint is wrong'. The second is 'killing your neighbor is wrong'. The second were the laws that made Common Law.
When the phrase "ignorance of the law is no defence" was coined it referred to "in se" crime, and I can't find the original quote at the moment (somebody give me a link here), but it went on to explain that nobody could possibly be expected to know all of the prohibita law (which is several orders of magnitude more difficult today).
Of course, criminalizing everyone is a very useful tool for the tyrant, which may be the real appeal of this treaty.
So 8/10 viruses don't require administrator permissions and conform to Windows development standards.
Hey, so just install your apps on the D: drive and none of the viruses will work!
Xerox was paid $17.6M in Apple stock for the visits. Just saying...
That's one transposition away from "Millions of Dollars".
It didn't handle an unexpected reboot in the middle of the upgrade gracefully, but I don't know any consumer OS that reliably does.
To split hairs, StormOS would probably be fine, but it's well-understood that Linux doesn't yet have the resources for this (btrfs is on-order).
layer upon layer of abstraction and interpretation stacked tall and high
yes, especially how well each layer optimizes. There was a good article by a KDE dev a few months ago lamenting that KDE rarely ever runs with the acceleration it's capable of due to what's assumed and what's implemented at each layer.
Protecting against damage isn't the usual reason for buying a Toughbook, it's availability.