Meh, from the cars available in the ancient Test Drive III game, the Maserati was a real dog. The Lamborghini or even the Chevy prototype sports car was cheaper and faster... and the money didn't even matter in the game:-P
Are health and justice. Without a method of law and justice, there's anarchy. And a civilization can't exist in an anarchy (well, not a big one anyway, and certainly not a world player).
Hey, anarchy might not be the best form of government, but it's better than no government at all!;-)
And there is no justice, but social justice. There's not really anything completely logical right or wrong, or fair or unfair, just some increasingly formal system of mob rule by whatever mob is in power. The best you can do is just try to fit in with the mob, and maybe push the envelope in whatever direction the balance of power allows.
The thing with healthcare is that hospitals don't really turn away people from the emergency room. So it could be cheaper for everyone to take that ounce of preventative maintenance to keep themselves out of the expensive emergency care when they let a chronic condition go unchecked.
I think the U.S. is actually doing pretty well with regards to shelter & infrastructure (at least in populated areas). As to the rest, there's that old saying "health before wealth". Invest in getting your population healthy and well-educated, and the wealth will follow. But I suppose that depends on whether you see people as a resource or a liability.
My only regret is that the only people who might actually want to invest in 0.03% faster neutrino communication technology are HF traders, so they can shave another 60ns or so advantage from their competitors:-/
But who knows, maybe the galaxy is filled with neutrino-based communications we haven't been tuned into, and someday SETI will pick up their messages of "sell! sell!"
Wow, submitter is doing it wrong. It has got to be *much* easier to change phone dialpads than computer/calculator dialpads.
speed dial
smartphones have software dial pads (there must be an app for that, or hack the build in dial pad in the ROM)
smartphones can copy & paste phone numbers
google voice can connect your call from the PC, etc, so you never have to dial
OCR of a picture of a written phone number & autodial (pretty sure there's an app or three for that as well)
The random public phone you encounter would be slow, but how often does that happen? I mean, maybe a little more often than when you're forced to use someone else's calculator (like, say, during an engineering exam?) but still...
Hey, as long as this doesn't end up affecting the cost of Samsung LCDs / RAM / HDDs, I'm actually totally OK with watching this patent war play out from the sidelines./grabs popcorn
Yeah, I think zip and rar files are a little more flexible than, say, tar.gz, since there are still some partial recovery options you can do to extract as many files as you can. With tar.gz, you pretty much lose everything after the corrupted data.
But I suppose what subby really wants is some magical software that will read the archive checksum, then try all permutations of possible values that could fill the corrupted portion and satisfy that checksum, until he can reconstruct the original zipfile.
But he probably really wants to just convince someone that there's CP on it so they'll pay the $1000 or so to do the forensic magnetic scan and reconstruction of the disk surface.
I think the point is that with the bug bounties, researchers are busy creating new classes of bugs and 'sploits, and turning them in for the bounty. Instead of being lazy and not creating new types of 'sploits, or worse, stumbling across bugs and selling them to the botnets instead.
The point is, it's better that the security researchers are finding and disclosing more new types of attacks thanks to the bug bounties. If they weren't finding new 'sploits, it doesn't mean they're not there.
The rat analogy breaks down, since it's not really better for them to be breeding rats, than, say, digging deeper to find underground breeding colonies in sewers or something. Unless they have some sort of awesome recipe for rats. But that wasn't the intent of the rat bounty.
Yay, a thread where I can finally whine about the flakiness of the microUSB connector and not get modded down!
microUSB is supposed to have been designed for ~4x more cycles than miniUSB. But I don't believe it. I can barely keep it attached to my phone once continually enough to maintain charging, unless I arrange it so the wire torques the connector down instead of up. Lots of fun to try to do while driving.
Also, it was designed so the moving parts that clip it together are in the cable instead of the phone. So ostensibly if something breaks, you'll more likely be able to fix it by buying a new cable. Which are much more expensive now, whee! $$
I'm deeply saddened that I can't get my kids to watch either.
Well, they like the Clone Wars CGI/cartoon, but I don't think that counts.
Where have I gone wrong?!
(OTOH, the son developed an early interest in astronomy from watching the Titanic II get sucked into a black hole in Futurama, but had to cut him off of that because of most of the other age-inappropriate content:-/ )
Heh. I'm still using an ancient Linksys WRT54Gv4 paired up with some D-Link 5-port Gb switch. The simple layer-2 D-Link stuff works fine, and the Linksys, running the Tomato firmware, is quite configurable and keeps up with my 25Mbps FiOS uplink (the previous HyperWRT firmware only went up to 20Mbps) and does better with torrents than the somewhat high-end Actiontec router that came from Verizon.
But this ask slashdot is relevant to my interests, since someday I'd like to be at least marginally aware when something might finally provide a somewhat substantial improvement to my current setup and worth the upgrade cost:P
Also, since I'm lazy and the places where I work often don't have enough bags/ties to go around, I just use an abbreviated version of the Monkey's fist sailor's knot:
I stop around 1:00 and just tuck a loop of the remaining loose end into one of the holes. Then the cable just sits in a somewhat tight bundle (without kinking or exceeding the minimum bend radius too much), and they don't get tangled with each other. It's pretty quick, and no tools are required.
Even better, to undo, I just pull the two ends apart and it unspools pretty nicely. If I want it to "lock", I could feed the cable through the two holes once or twice, though.
Best part is that I can just grab the middle of an overlength cable and wrap it up like this without having to unplug it at either end. And it's pretty difficult for someone else to come along later and run another cable tangled through one of these things, unlike what happens with other slack loops I've seen.
For unused cables that you keep in a drawer, use zip-lock plastic bags to keep them separated.
Heh, after lusting after the $40 Lego organizer shelf for decades, I finally broke down and sorted them all into cheap zip-lock bags... and it was awesome!!!
But then a few months later I finally gave my Lego collection to my kids, and now they're all over the place again.
Ech, zip ties are evil, if you ever have to actually maintain anything. And the doofuses that overtighten zipties do actual damage... good luck isolating that.
FUCK! Something awesome finally happens across town today, and I just find out about it now?! My day has been WASTED... like all those people who were at the UMCP game today causing all that traffic.
At least I was around the last time something awesome happened in this area, when a fully outfitted DeLorean from Back to the Future complete with a Mr. Fusion passed me on the I-270 spur...
Yeah, and we might even be able to visit Libya as tourists someday before we're able to visit Iraq / Afghanistan... Hopefully cheap wars are the wars of the future!
Huh? Maybe I'm forgetting my freshman chemistry, but the energy coming from the sun is mostly heat, so if we retain more heat (with greenhouse gases), but compensate for it by reflecting more energy from the sun, doesn't that result in the same entropy?
Plants don't photosynthesize heat, they need that electromagnetic radiation that's being reflected back out to space, You can't really do much with thermal heat, unless you also have a cold place so you can run some sort of engine off of the temperature gradient. But then after that the hot place is less hot, the cold place is less cold, and you come closer to heat death. So we should maybe sort of be a little bit worried about the ice caps melting, because then we won't have so many cold areas to drive our winds. But that doesn't really matter since wind energy doesn't really convert CO2 back into O2 either.
So the point is, other than geothermal, just about all of our energy comes from the Sun, either directly (via photovoltaic cells) or indirectly (via wind, hydro, or compressed decayed plant matter). And if we're going to counteract the negative side effects of our excess energy consumption by further reducing the amount of energy that reaches the planet (sure, just by "a few percent", but that's HUGE!) that doesn't seem like a good long term solution... quite the opposite of the advanced race that would be building Dyson spheres or something to sate their energy demands.
Personally, I'm not terribly worried about global warming (I'm still not investing in real estate in low-lying coastal areas, though:P ). CO2 isn't a terrible thing, compared to reactive, corrosive gases like, say, oxygen. CO2 just happened to be a great indicator that you were creating energy by burning something, probably something nonrenewable, and alternative energy sources we were interested in developing would not generate excess CO2. It was a brilliant way for Gore to boil down a whole bunch of ecology system issues down to one simple metric that Wall Street could be convinced to give a damn about. Unfortunately, he also felt the need to vilify it directly with the whole global warming bit.
But anyway, I am an environmentalist, and that's about giving back what you take from. Vegetation will balance things out. And that's sort of the whole idea of the cap-n-trade program... if you give back what you take in the form of carbon offsets (i.e. planting trees), you can consume more.
Word... offsetting global warming by global dimming doesn't sound all that great of a deal.
That's trading useful energy (sunlight reflected back to space by aerosol pollution) for useless energy (more heat energy retained by greenhouse gases). The temperature might end up being the same, but the the entropy is higher.
Not an ideal way of saving the planet:-P It's bad enough that we're burning up all the fossil fuels stored from the solar energy collected by plants over the eons, but then there will be less solar energy to be absorbed and stored by plants for, uh, distant future fossil fuel production:-D But hey, it's a nice way to stick it to those people who invested in solar cells!
There are studies showing that the limiting factor for vegetative mass growth in the rain forest is not rain (plenty of water there) but sunlight. So less sunlight reaching the Earth will probably translate to less vegetative biomass to offset CO2 emissions. It's probably all written there in the geology of Venus if we bothered to dig;-D
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Meh, from the cars available in the ancient Test Drive III game, the Maserati was a real dog. The Lamborghini or even the Chevy prototype sports car was cheaper and faster... and the money didn't even matter in the game :-P
Are health and justice.
Without a method of law and justice, there's anarchy. And a civilization can't exist in an anarchy (well, not a big one anyway, and certainly not a world player).
Hey, anarchy might not be the best form of government, but it's better than no government at all! ;-)
And there is no justice, but social justice. There's not really anything completely logical right or wrong, or fair or unfair, just some increasingly formal system of mob rule by whatever mob is in power. The best you can do is just try to fit in with the mob, and maybe push the envelope in whatever direction the balance of power allows.
Hmm, interesting.
The thing with healthcare is that hospitals don't really turn away people from the emergency room. So it could be cheaper for everyone to take that ounce of preventative maintenance to keep themselves out of the expensive emergency care when they let a chronic condition go unchecked.
I think the U.S. is actually doing pretty well with regards to shelter & infrastructure (at least in populated areas). As to the rest, there's that old saying "health before wealth". Invest in getting your population healthy and well-educated, and the wealth will follow. But I suppose that depends on whether you see people as a resource or a liability.
Yeah, pretty much.... l learned it as "Four or Five Letter Acronyms". Acronymizing the "or" is, of course, optional.
My only regret is that the only people who might actually want to invest in 0.03% faster neutrino communication technology are HF traders, so they can shave another 60ns or so advantage from their competitors :-/
But who knows, maybe the galaxy is filled with neutrino-based communications we haven't been tuned into, and someday SETI will pick up their messages of "sell! sell!"
Ha, wait until you have to brush up on your FFLAs
Wow, submitter is doing it wrong. It has got to be *much* easier to change phone dialpads than computer/calculator dialpads.
The random public phone you encounter would be slow, but how often does that happen? I mean, maybe a little more often than when you're forced to use someone else's calculator (like, say, during an engineering exam?) but still...
Hey, as long as this doesn't end up affecting the cost of Samsung LCDs / RAM / HDDs, I'm actually totally OK with watching this patent war play out from the sidelines. /grabs popcorn
Yeah, I think zip and rar files are a little more flexible than, say, tar.gz, since there are still some partial recovery options you can do to extract as many files as you can. With tar.gz, you pretty much lose everything after the corrupted data.
But I suppose what subby really wants is some magical software that will read the archive checksum, then try all permutations of possible values that could fill the corrupted portion and satisfy that checksum, until he can reconstruct the original zipfile.
But he probably really wants to just convince someone that there's CP on it so they'll pay the $1000 or so to do the forensic magnetic scan and reconstruction of the disk surface.
Where is BadAnalogyGuy when you need him?
I think the point is that with the bug bounties, researchers are busy creating new classes of bugs and 'sploits, and turning them in for the bounty. Instead of being lazy and not creating new types of 'sploits, or worse, stumbling across bugs and selling them to the botnets instead.
The point is, it's better that the security researchers are finding and disclosing more new types of attacks thanks to the bug bounties. If they weren't finding new 'sploits, it doesn't mean they're not there.
The rat analogy breaks down, since it's not really better for them to be breeding rats, than, say, digging deeper to find underground breeding colonies in sewers or something. Unless they have some sort of awesome recipe for rats. But that wasn't the intent of the rat bounty.
Yay, a thread where I can finally whine about the flakiness of the microUSB connector and not get modded down!
microUSB is supposed to have been designed for ~4x more cycles than miniUSB. But I don't believe it. I can barely keep it attached to my phone once continually enough to maintain charging, unless I arrange it so the wire torques the connector down instead of up. Lots of fun to try to do while driving.
Also, it was designed so the moving parts that clip it together are in the cable instead of the phone. So ostensibly if something breaks, you'll more likely be able to fix it by buying a new cable. Which are much more expensive now, whee! $$
I'm deeply saddened that I can't get my kids to watch either.
Well, they like the Clone Wars CGI/cartoon, but I don't think that counts.
Where have I gone wrong?!
(OTOH, the son developed an early interest in astronomy from watching the Titanic II get sucked into a black hole in Futurama, but had to cut him off of that because of most of the other age-inappropriate content :-/ )
Amen! Let's get the boys and girls together and have a laying of hands!
(which I think had been scientifically proven to have some kind of beneficial relaxation effect [citation needed])
Heh. I'm still using an ancient Linksys WRT54Gv4 paired up with some D-Link 5-port Gb switch. The simple layer-2 D-Link stuff works fine, and the Linksys, running the Tomato firmware, is quite configurable and keeps up with my 25Mbps FiOS uplink (the previous HyperWRT firmware only went up to 20Mbps) and does better with torrents than the somewhat high-end Actiontec router that came from Verizon.
But this ask slashdot is relevant to my interests, since someday I'd like to be at least marginally aware when something might finally provide a somewhat substantial improvement to my current setup and worth the upgrade cost :P
Also, since I'm lazy and the places where I work often don't have enough bags/ties to go around, I just use an abbreviated version of the Monkey's fist sailor's knot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXdHcH3FRcM
I stop around 1:00 and just tuck a loop of the remaining loose end into one of the holes. Then the cable just sits in a somewhat tight bundle (without kinking or exceeding the minimum bend radius too much), and they don't get tangled with each other. It's pretty quick, and no tools are required.
Even better, to undo, I just pull the two ends apart and it unspools pretty nicely. If I want it to "lock", I could feed the cable through the two holes once or twice, though.
Best part is that I can just grab the middle of an overlength cable and wrap it up like this without having to unplug it at either end. And it's pretty difficult for someone else to come along later and run another cable tangled through one of these things, unlike what happens with other slack loops I've seen.
For unused cables that you keep in a drawer, use zip-lock plastic bags to keep them separated.
Heh, after lusting after the $40 Lego organizer shelf for decades, I finally broke down and sorted them all into cheap zip-lock bags... and it was awesome!!!
But then a few months later I finally gave my Lego collection to my kids, and now they're all over the place again.
meh, it's OK if have a rubber speedbump over the cable too. Bonus points if you have a rug pattern that hides the bump so people go tripping.
Ech, zip ties are evil, if you ever have to actually maintain anything. And the doofuses that overtighten zipties do actual damage... good luck isolating that.
velcro all the way.
FUCK! Something awesome finally happens across town today, and I just find out about it now?! My day has been WASTED... like all those people who were at the UMCP game today causing all that traffic.
At least I was around the last time something awesome happened in this area, when a fully outfitted DeLorean from Back to the Future complete with a Mr. Fusion passed me on the I-270 spur...
Hmm, I already thought Borderlands was pretty lame, but the goings-on in our real borderlands make the game seem downright tame.
Hey, are we fighting wars for peace, or are we fighting wars to DESTROY ALL HUMANS!?
I say, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
But I'm an optimist like that :-P
Yeah, and we might even be able to visit Libya as tourists someday before we're able to visit Iraq / Afghanistan... Hopefully cheap wars are the wars of the future!
Huh? Maybe I'm forgetting my freshman chemistry, but the energy coming from the sun is mostly heat, so if we retain more heat (with greenhouse gases), but compensate for it by reflecting more energy from the sun, doesn't that result in the same entropy?
Plants don't photosynthesize heat, they need that electromagnetic radiation that's being reflected back out to space, You can't really do much with thermal heat, unless you also have a cold place so you can run some sort of engine off of the temperature gradient. But then after that the hot place is less hot, the cold place is less cold, and you come closer to heat death. So we should maybe sort of be a little bit worried about the ice caps melting, because then we won't have so many cold areas to drive our winds. But that doesn't really matter since wind energy doesn't really convert CO2 back into O2 either.
So the point is, other than geothermal, just about all of our energy comes from the Sun, either directly (via photovoltaic cells) or indirectly (via wind, hydro, or compressed decayed plant matter). And if we're going to counteract the negative side effects of our excess energy consumption by further reducing the amount of energy that reaches the planet (sure, just by "a few percent", but that's HUGE!) that doesn't seem like a good long term solution... quite the opposite of the advanced race that would be building Dyson spheres or something to sate their energy demands.
Personally, I'm not terribly worried about global warming (I'm still not investing in real estate in low-lying coastal areas, though :P ). CO2 isn't a terrible thing, compared to reactive, corrosive gases like, say, oxygen. CO2 just happened to be a great indicator that you were creating energy by burning something, probably something nonrenewable, and alternative energy sources we were interested in developing would not generate excess CO2. It was a brilliant way for Gore to boil down a whole bunch of ecology system issues down to one simple metric that Wall Street could be convinced to give a damn about. Unfortunately, he also felt the need to vilify it directly with the whole global warming bit.
But anyway, I am an environmentalist, and that's about giving back what you take from. Vegetation will balance things out. And that's sort of the whole idea of the cap-n-trade program... if you give back what you take in the form of carbon offsets (i.e. planting trees), you can consume more.
Hmm, the SRBs are removable... Maybe you're on to something here... all we need to do is slap a few F-1 engines to the bottom of the fuel tank?
Word... offsetting global warming by global dimming doesn't sound all that great of a deal.
That's trading useful energy (sunlight reflected back to space by aerosol pollution) for useless energy (more heat energy retained by greenhouse gases). The temperature might end up being the same, but the the entropy is higher.
Not an ideal way of saving the planet :-P It's bad enough that we're burning up all the fossil fuels stored from the solar energy collected by plants over the eons, but then there will be less solar energy to be absorbed and stored by plants for, uh, distant future fossil fuel production :-D But hey, it's a nice way to stick it to those people who invested in solar cells!
There are studies showing that the limiting factor for vegetative mass growth in the rain forest is not rain (plenty of water there) but sunlight. So less sunlight reaching the Earth will probably translate to less vegetative biomass to offset CO2 emissions. It's probably all written there in the geology of Venus if we bothered to dig ;-D