Plants are engineered to suck up arsenic from the ground. They're planted on a landfill somewhere.
Random insects come and nibble at the tree. They burrow holes in the bark. They feed on the roots. These insects ingest the arsenic you are removing, and... insert it into the ecosystem.
Birds eat the insects from the tree, concentrating the arsenic inside themselves. Mosquitoes feed on the birds. Birds of prey or, perhaps snakes, eat the birds and their eggs. Leaves from the tree are blown off by a strong storm, landing in a nearby lake, and contaminating it with arsenic.
Arsenic finds its way into the ecosystem on a macro scale, and starts wreaking havoc.
Plants are the foundation of the ecosystem. Using them to harvest toxic chemicals is a BAD IDEA. You can never keep the area completely quarantined. You can never ensure that no insects or animals will feed upon the plants as they are growing.
If this ever comes to pass, expect to see local ecosystem poisoning on a massive scale around the test sites.
I can't believe people drink that stuff. I couldn't imagine a more vile, disgusting, bitter liquid people could willingly ingest.
You should all be drinking Pepsi instead.:)
Already been done - Active Worlds
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This has already been done... Active Worlds has been around since about 1996 doing this. You build your own "town", and people can come and talk to you, full 3D and everything.
It doesn't. Someone walking through a sufficiently thick-walled corridor, or stairwell, will cause the signal levels to become innaccurate, and as a result you just might "warp" to the other side of the campus. This would work fine on an open field, with no obstacles to the radio waves, but not in a building.
People will believe what they want to believe... whether they want to believe the truth, or a comfortable lie, is up to them. You can't force truth on people, they have to want it.
That's not what the word "Republic" stands for. It is from the latin Res Publica which means Public Affair, in the context of "The running of the government is a Public Affair".
Namely, You are connecting to THEIR machine.
Mail server administrators block spam because they are using their resources, why can't these people claim the same? After all, you're using THEIR resources, shouldnt they have the right to send any data on a connection that YOU initiated?
No.
If I open cnn.com, I know what to expect when I get there, news. If my little sister tries to open up Britney Spears' webpage for info on Britney Spears, and lands in this guy's javascript porn-ad trap, not only is it a federal crime (she's 8 years old), but my little sister did not initiate the connection expecting the deluge of porn advertisements.
By the same token, Microsoft doesn't have the right to wipe my linux partition every time I visit their update site to patch winME.
Re:doing the same to other movies?
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What I'd like to know is, why are they editing the WTC towers out in the first place? Are they now going to go through geography or tourism books and retroactively edit out the towers from them, too?
Where does it end? It's editorial abuse. I find it a perversion of the 9/11 incident, and the people who died there, that someone thinks that all photographic memory in pop media should be wiped of any trace of its former existence. And what excuse do they offer up for doing it?
I really wish I had known you'd post a reply to this article.
Because then I would have known not to read the comments. As it stands, I read and suffered yet another Katz bashing.
Is that cool to do these days? Do you get a cheque in the mail every time you rag on Katz for posting to Slashdot, with no other reason than because he's Jon Katz?
Please stop, because it's really getting tiresome.
Searched pages from slashdot.org for scary OR scared OR frightening . Results 1 - 10 of about 4,150. Search took 0.07 seconds
That's 4,150 stories, with scared, scary, or frightening occuring multiple times in multiple posts on the same page.
What a bunch of fucking cowards, grow a backbone already.
Guess what, if life scares you that much, go back to bed. There's worse to come, and if CD copy protection or a broadband company filing for chapter 11 is so terrifying, I shudder to think of how much of your monthly budget is going to be spent on Depends diapers as you grow up and get a bigger taste of the 'real world'.
You stole this from Time Magazine. Mod that down.
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Or if you're lazy and want a quote from the article:
"But a series of remarkable discoveries announced in quick succession starting this spring has gone a long way toward settling the question once and for all. Scientists who were betting on a Big Crunch liked to quote the poet Robert Frost: "Some say the world will end in fire,/ some say in ice./ From what I've tasted of desire/ I hold with those who favor fire." Those in the other camp preferred T.S. Eliot: "This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper." Now, using observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in New Mexico, the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope, the mammoth Keck Telescope in Hawaii and sensitive radio detectors in Antarctica, the verdict is in: T.S. Eliot wins."
Freenet doesn't work exactly as you've said. It *could*, and probably will in the future, though. The problem with Freenet is, since anonymity is the main goal, it's not easy (probably impossible) to search for files within it. Files are inserted into the freenet (Think of Freenet as a black box, in which is a network of hundreds of computers, with hard drives, and your data gets propogated among them), are encrypted, and are spread around as they are accessed. Thus, popular files get propogated around more, are easier to find (since they are on more nodes), etc.
The thing is, there is no central database from which to serve a search engine. Finding files in freenet right now relies on date-keyed webpages like Snarfoo, which maintain keylists (updated daily). Keys are what you might call links to files. Files are indexed on nodes by key, and you need to know the key to access the file. People submit their keys (which can be plain text, or CRCs of the files), and they are added into the list.
The thing about freenet is, although an illegal file may end up on your drive, they are all encrypted (you need to know its key to decrypt it), and since a request over the network for the file propogates that file among the nodes, there is no way to prove that the act of someone else requesting an illegal file didn't put it onto your drive, which would amount to entrapment if, for example, the RIAA started requesting mp3 keys. Their search would have gone to your node, and onto other nodes, the file would eventually be found, and then sent to the person requesting it. The act of accessing a file makes it propogate among nodes in that chain, as it tries to find it (if the search is successful).
This means they could (and probably did) have that file put onto your node by requesting it.
The mp3 model relies on catalogs of mp3s being made on the freenet itself, with users submitting mp3 keys that they insert into the freenet. This of course if voluntary, and anonymous (unless of course you also submit your name to the key engine maintainer). You, by being on freenet, would eventually, through propogation, start serving files like mp3s which, again, could be illegal to do: but the thing is, you don't know the file is there, and no one can prove that they didn't end up having the file propogated there by requesting it in the first place. Thus the anonymity.
Since you can't replace files on freenet (the current system is to update daily, with one webpage having a redirect link to a subdirectory (being the current date, usually) with the current webpage inside), and you can't search for them, key search engines are the only way to do it currently.
There is a project going on named Espra (www.espra.net), which aims to be a freenet version of Napster, admittedly with a poor choice of mascot (go see yourself). It's basically a front-end for the freenet requesting/inputting utilities, and the date-based updating key engine searcher. It's in beta now (actually alpha, since the damn thing doesn't work), and last I heard the catalog system was written in Visual Basic, so make your own judgements on this one.
Lastly, there is the problem of needing to know the key of the key search engine itself. This is usually surmounted by the fact that the freenet client comes with a link to GJ's webpage to get you started out. From there is a link to Snarfoo (a freenet slashdot takeoff), and from there to key search engines.
http://localhost:8080/MSK@SSK@enI8YFo3gj8UVh-Au0 Hp KMftf6QQAgE/homepage// -- GJ's webpage on Freenet (You need to have freenet installed to view this...)
Something I always wanted to do, living in northeastern Quebec, and it being somewhat cold up here most of the year, was hook up some air hose to my window from my computer case, and an air filter w/fan, and cool down my CPU in that manner.
No fancy peltier pumps or uber-huge heatsinks with 1000cfpm fans, just really, really cold air from outside, for maybe $10 in hose and a small fan.
Saves on power, too. Now if there were a good, cheap way to catch some of that cold air for the summer (when it is really hot, oddly enough), I'd be set.
Is he working out of one of those diploma mills? This could be (and has been done) by any idiot with an ipmasq box and a DNS server, or even with a port forwarder.
This isn't a "revolutionary" way to keep ipv4 decay at bay. It's not even a very good idea. It's just someone's attempt to market a business model as a real solution.
When I first started reading, I figured this might be a good idea, a real solution. Now after having read it, I see it's just an excuse to setup a bunch of relays on the net, and charge idiots for a service which they don't know how to provide themselves.
I'm ashamed to think Slashdot has resorted to advertising, and espectially advertising something this obvious as innovative.
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Ah, thank you.
Question... why would making a "sea wall" be illegal?
Plants are engineered to suck up arsenic from the ground. They're planted on a landfill somewhere.
Random insects come and nibble at the tree. They burrow holes in the bark. They feed on the roots. These insects ingest the arsenic you are removing, and... insert it into the ecosystem.
Birds eat the insects from the tree, concentrating the arsenic inside themselves. Mosquitoes feed on the birds. Birds of prey or, perhaps snakes, eat the birds and their eggs. Leaves from the tree are blown off by a strong storm, landing in a nearby lake, and contaminating it with arsenic.
Arsenic finds its way into the ecosystem on a macro scale, and starts wreaking havoc.
Plants are the foundation of the ecosystem. Using them to harvest toxic chemicals is a BAD IDEA. You can never keep the area completely quarantined. You can never ensure that no insects or animals will feed upon the plants as they are growing.
If this ever comes to pass, expect to see local ecosystem poisoning on a massive scale around the test sites.
Enjoy.
Only drunken programmers could explain some of their most recently discovered bugs.
Perhaps they should invest in some breathalyzers instead.
I can't believe people drink that stuff. I couldn't imagine a more vile, disgusting, bitter liquid people could willingly ingest.
:)
You should all be drinking Pepsi instead.
This has already been done... Active Worlds has been around since about 1996 doing this. You build your own "town", and people can come and talk to you, full 3D and everything.
Active Worlds
It doesn't. Someone walking through a sufficiently thick-walled corridor, or stairwell, will cause the signal levels to become innaccurate, and as a result you just might "warp" to the other side of the campus. This would work fine on an open field, with no obstacles to the radio waves, but not in a building.
Nice hack, but it's no substitute for GPS, sorry.
The MPAA is petitioning the Senate for emergency powers to combat a threat to the livelyhood of the republic.
Where have I heard that before...
People will believe what they want to believe... whether they want to believe the truth, or a comfortable lie, is up to them. You can't force truth on people, they have to want it.
Is our privacy important enough to justify further complicating the web?
That's going to be answered by different people, of course, but that's what it boils down to.
That's not what the word "Republic" stands for. It is from the latin Res Publica which means Public Affair, in the context of "The running of the government is a Public Affair".
Namely, You are connecting to THEIR machine.
Mail server administrators block spam because they are using their resources, why can't these people claim the same? After all, you're using THEIR resources, shouldnt they have the right to send any data on a connection that YOU initiated?
No.
If I open cnn.com, I know what to expect when I get there, news. If my little sister tries to open up Britney Spears' webpage for info on Britney Spears, and lands in this guy's javascript porn-ad trap, not only is it a federal crime (she's 8 years old), but my little sister did not initiate the connection expecting the deluge of porn advertisements.
By the same token, Microsoft doesn't have the right to wipe my linux partition every time I visit their update site to patch winME.
What I'd like to know is, why are they editing the WTC towers out in the first place? Are they now going to go through geography or tourism books and retroactively edit out the towers from them, too?
Where does it end? It's editorial abuse. I find it a perversion of the 9/11 incident, and the people who died there, that someone thinks that all photographic memory in pop media should be wiped of any trace of its former existence. And what excuse do they offer up for doing it?
"It might hurt someone's feelings."
What a cop-out.
I really wish I had known you'd post a reply to this article.
Because then I would have known not to read the comments. As it stands, I read and suffered yet another Katz bashing.
Is that cool to do these days? Do you get a cheque in the mail every time you rag on Katz for posting to Slashdot, with no other reason than because he's Jon Katz?
Please stop, because it's really getting tiresome.
Did a google search:
Searched pages from slashdot.org for scary OR scared OR frightening . Results 1 - 10 of about 4,150. Search took 0.07 seconds
That's 4,150 stories, with scared, scary, or frightening occuring multiple times in multiple posts on the same page.
What a bunch of fucking cowards, grow a backbone already.
Guess what, if life scares you that much, go back to bed. There's worse to come, and if CD copy protection or a broadband company filing for chapter 11 is so terrifying, I shudder to think of how much of your monthly budget is going to be spent on Depends diapers as you grow up and get a bigger taste of the 'real world'.
Link is here: Plagarized Article
Or if you're lazy and want a quote from the article:
"But a series of remarkable discoveries announced in quick succession starting this spring has gone a long way toward settling the question once and for all. Scientists who were betting on a Big Crunch liked to quote the poet Robert Frost: "Some say the world will end in fire,/ some say in ice./ From what I've tasted of desire/ I hold with those who favor fire." Those in the other camp preferred T.S. Eliot: "This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper." Now, using observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in New Mexico, the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope, the mammoth Keck Telescope in Hawaii and sensitive radio detectors in Antarctica, the verdict is in: T.S. Eliot wins."
Plagarist.
Freenet doesn't work exactly as you've said. It *could*, and probably will in the future, though. The problem with Freenet is, since anonymity is the main goal, it's not easy (probably impossible) to search for files within it. Files are inserted into the freenet (Think of Freenet as a black box, in which is a network of hundreds of computers, with hard drives, and your data gets propogated among them), are encrypted, and are spread around as they are accessed. Thus, popular files get propogated around more, are easier to find (since they are on more nodes), etc.
0 Hp KMftf6QQAgE/homepage// -- GJ's webpage on Freenet (You need to have freenet installed to view this...)
R Pr ClUepi4QAgE/snarfoo// -- Snarfoo.
The thing is, there is no central database from which to serve a search engine. Finding files in freenet right now relies on date-keyed webpages like Snarfoo, which maintain keylists (updated daily). Keys are what you might call links to files. Files are indexed on nodes by key, and you need to know the key to access the file. People submit their keys (which can be plain text, or CRCs of the files), and they are added into the list.
The thing about freenet is, although an illegal file may end up on your drive, they are all encrypted (you need to know its key to decrypt it), and since a request over the network for the file propogates that file among the nodes, there is no way to prove that the act of someone else requesting an illegal file didn't put it onto your drive, which would amount to entrapment if, for example, the RIAA started requesting mp3 keys. Their search would have gone to your node, and onto other nodes, the file would eventually be found, and then sent to the person requesting it. The act of accessing a file makes it propogate among nodes in that chain, as it tries to find it (if the search is successful).
This means they could (and probably did) have that file put onto your node by requesting it.
The mp3 model relies on catalogs of mp3s being made on the freenet itself, with users submitting mp3 keys that they insert into the freenet. This of course if voluntary, and anonymous (unless of course you also submit your name to the key engine maintainer). You, by being on freenet, would eventually, through propogation, start serving files like mp3s which, again, could be illegal to do: but the thing is, you don't know the file is there, and no one can prove that they didn't end up having the file propogated there by requesting it in the first place. Thus the anonymity.
Since you can't replace files on freenet (the current system is to update daily, with one webpage having a redirect link to a subdirectory (being the current date, usually) with the current webpage inside), and you can't search for them, key search engines are the only way to do it currently.
There is a project going on named Espra (www.espra.net), which aims to be a freenet version of Napster, admittedly with a poor choice of mascot (go see yourself). It's basically a front-end for the freenet requesting/inputting utilities, and the date-based updating key engine searcher. It's in beta now (actually alpha, since the damn thing doesn't work), and last I heard the catalog system was written in Visual Basic, so make your own judgements on this one.
Lastly, there is the problem of needing to know the key of the key search engine itself. This is usually surmounted by the fact that the freenet client comes with a link to GJ's webpage to get you started out. From there is a link to Snarfoo (a freenet slashdot takeoff), and from there to key search engines.
Lastly, here are a few links to get you started.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenet -- Freenet homepage.
http://localhost:8080/MSK@SSK@enI8YFo3gj8UVh-Au
http://localhost:8080/MSK@SSK@p0EFqjmDioSqKmYYO
Lastly, Freenet can be slow, and it can take a minute to find the page you are looking for. So be patient.
Something I always wanted to do, living in northeastern Quebec, and it being somewhat cold up here most of the year, was hook up some air hose to my window from my computer case, and an air filter w/fan, and cool down my CPU in that manner. No fancy peltier pumps or uber-huge heatsinks with 1000cfpm fans, just really, really cold air from outside, for maybe $10 in hose and a small fan. Saves on power, too. Now if there were a good, cheap way to catch some of that cold air for the summer (when it is really hot, oddly enough), I'd be set.
Is he working out of one of those diploma mills? This could be (and has been done) by any idiot with an ipmasq box and a DNS server, or even with a port forwarder.
This isn't a "revolutionary" way to keep ipv4 decay at bay. It's not even a very good idea. It's just someone's attempt to market a business model as a real solution.
When I first started reading, I figured this might be a good idea, a real solution. Now after having read it, I see it's just an excuse to setup a bunch of relays on the net, and charge idiots for a service which they don't know how to provide themselves.
I'm ashamed to think Slashdot has resorted to advertising, and espectially advertising something this obvious as innovative.