Exactly! Everyone should take care of their own privacy. What pisses me off, however, is that if you don't care about your privacy, every American thinks you must be a moron and stupid. I really couldn't care less if they have all my browsing history, including all porn sites that I visit, my present and past phone numbers, times I go to the toilet and similar... I just don't understand the American obsession with privacy; in Europe we don't have such problems. (that is why Yanks can't understand how we allow for speaking CCTVs in UK or ID cards in the rest of Europe, etc.)
Cosmology predicted that quite some time ago as myself and collaborators show in
this PRL paper from over a year ago.
And there were many other papers with similar conclusions as well... The only problem is that particle physicists never believe cosmologists!:)
Ah, very interesting. Could it be the colour - interference thingy? I remember hearing a similar story, it boiled down to the fact that if you made your screen black enough it produced less interference and things begun to work... This could explain it if clock was a big black surface and everything else was whiteish (or viceversa) and why you needed big enough clock on the right place of the desktop to make it work...
Every time ID/privacy/RFID comes up I am completelly baffled by the slashdot response. And if I write a comment they mod me down. So, please, don't do it this time, I really want to know what is behind this.
Basically, my question is, why do people bother if their personal infromation is stored in a computer somewhere? Forget about possible abuses - it seems that this is an argument that is always pulled up later, the real problem is deeper. There seem to be a deep irrational anxiety in majority of people (epecially brits and americans) about releasing their private information. Is this the case? I would like that at least someone admits it is irrational. I personally don't have a problem if a someone knows who many times I day I shit, what kind of tea I buy, what party I vote, etc. so I have real trouble comprehending this strange fear... Elaborate, but don't mod down! Plus, again, don't come with silly abuse arguments - at least in principle the system can be made secure (though UK doesn't seem to have a good track record with IT projects, but that is a different story).
I know why they don't get any science customers from my own experience. Basically, if you buy a cluster of your grant, you pay just for the hardware, everything else: electricity, cooling, network, comp support comes from the department's budget. These costs are not negligible.
If you tried to buy time from Sun, then everything goes from your budget... So, for an average scientist, who might be interested it is much cheaper to buy my own little cluster and piggyback on department's infrastructure...
I really, really like the old-school really black black-boards. When I was visiting princeton I really liked how the entire physics department is full of old blackboards in every office and on all corridors together with *do no clean* notes to inform cleaners not to clean a really cool equation you discussed with your colleague on the corridor.
I know is kind of wanky, but nothing can replace the coolness of real blackboards. I really hate that mu department has just these new white boards and that my office mate prevents me from buying one old-school blackboard for our office since he has allergy to the chalk dust...
I really don't understand what is the matter with people having trouble showing their ID... What is so special about privacy? I don't mind somebody looking at me, checking my IDs and stuff, in fact, I would be quite amused if someone installed a govt camera in my toilet...
Instead of just using the native 3D engine in the GPU, as done in games, Gelato also uses the hardware as a second floating point processor.
Does this mean that I could eventually use my GeForce to do things like matrix inversion for me?
Yes, actually it seems to be a filesystem bug... I mean, a reasonably stable filesystem - every OS has this, I am really surprised they messed this up! I wouldn't mind if it was an obscure kernel race condition or something, but filesystem!!!
Now, gcc is known to produce shit code on sparcs. I am not saying 64 is always better, but to be hones, the stuff should at least have been compiled with Sun CC, possibly with -fast and -fast64 flags...
Well, probably, the problem is, however, that all the comments are exactly the same, so it is unlikely two people would come with exactly same description... i.e. the errno.h has things like:
#define EPERM 1/* Operation not permitted */ #define ENOENT 2/* No such file or directory */ #define ESRCH 3/* No such process */ #define EINTR 4/* Interrupted system call */ #define EIO 5/* I/O error */ #define ENXIO 6/* No such device or address */ #define E2BIG 7/* Arg list too long */
etc. So if you say "arg list too long", instead of say, "too many arguments" in all comments, it is very likely that the actual.h was stolen... Not that I want to support SCO...
This guy seems to know what he is talking about...
Re:Seems like we already have a proof-of-concept
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Solar Sailing and Physics
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Yes, but for a different reason... The black side heats up more than the shiny side and it recoils molecules more... - the photon effect works the other way round but is negligible in presence of air...
The article is wrong in the sense that it treats the photons from Sun to be in the form of heat - they are not, because their velocities are not randomised - there is a net momentum radially away from the sun. Carnot's cycle assumed the thermal energy to be in the thermodynamic form, i.e. say internal KE of gas, etc... You could simply adapt this guy's argument to a bullet hitting a plank of wood and show that wood gaining motion would break carnot's law - this is not the case.
I really don't understand what is the matter with all slashdot people - I have absolutelly no problem with goverment having my ID and my biometric info, why should I? I mean, most of the arguments here go: Oh, it's obviousluy a bad idea, this info can always be abused. Now, would someone cool down and explain in plain words why are you afraid of someone having your biometric info?
Or is it yet another American phobia? (Anybody see Bowling for the Columbine?)
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That's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft.
That's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft.
It is suborbital, so the ashes will, eventually, fall back to earth. Their net energy is still negative.
Exactly! Everyone should take care of their own privacy. What pisses me off, however, is that if you don't care about your privacy, every American thinks you must be a moron and stupid. I really couldn't care less if they have all my browsing history, including all porn sites that I visit, my present and past phone numbers, times I go to the toilet and similar... I just don't understand the American obsession with privacy; in Europe we don't have such problems. (that is why Yanks can't understand how we allow for speaking CCTVs in UK or ID cards in the rest of Europe, etc.)
http://xkcd.com/c244.html
Cosmology predicted that quite some time ago as myself and collaborators show in this PRL paper from over a year ago. And there were many other papers with similar conclusions as well... The only problem is that particle physicists never believe cosmologists! :)
Can't he sue them? Surely they are appropriating something that is clearly not theirs?
Ah, very interesting. Could it be the colour - interference thingy? I remember hearing a similar story, it boiled down to the fact that if you made your screen black enough it produced less interference and things begun to work... This could explain it if clock was a big black surface and everything else was whiteish (or viceversa) and why you needed big enough clock on the right place of the desktop to make it work...
Every time ID/privacy/RFID comes up I am completelly baffled by the slashdot response. And if I write a comment they mod me down. So, please, don't do it this time, I really want to know what is behind this.
Basically, my question is, why do people bother if their personal infromation is stored in a computer somewhere? Forget about possible abuses - it seems that this is an argument that is always pulled up later, the real problem is deeper. There seem to be a deep irrational anxiety in majority of people (epecially brits and americans) about releasing their private information. Is this the case? I would like that at least someone admits it is irrational. I personally don't have a problem if a someone knows who many times I day I shit, what kind of tea I buy, what party I vote, etc. so I have real trouble comprehending this strange fear... Elaborate, but don't mod down! Plus, again, don't come with silly abuse arguments - at least in principle the system can be made secure (though UK doesn't seem to have a good track record with IT projects, but that is a different story).
Mac users love the OS, I don't know of on Machead friend who would ever run XP, even under penalty of death.
Well, come on, when confronted with the prospect of dying, even the most hard-core mac fan would run windows...
I know why they don't get any science customers from my own experience. Basically, if you buy a cluster of your grant, you pay just for the hardware, everything else: electricity, cooling, network, comp support comes from the department's budget. These costs are not negligible.
If you tried to buy time from Sun, then everything goes from your budget... So, for an average scientist, who might be interested it is much cheaper to buy my own little cluster and piggyback on department's infrastructure...
I really, really like the old-school really black black-boards. When I was visiting princeton I really liked how the entire physics department is full of old blackboards in every office and on all corridors together with *do no clean* notes to inform cleaners not to clean a really cool equation you discussed with your colleague on the corridor.
I know is kind of wanky, but nothing can replace the coolness of real blackboards. I really hate that mu department has just these new white boards and that my office mate prevents me from buying one old-school blackboard for our office since he has allergy to the chalk dust...
It was clearly speeding towards their position.
Yes, clearly!
The driver was not paying attention.
No attention whatsoever!
He had a spotlight and a laser pointer shined on them.
That must be an absolute truth!
They supposedly had the windows down in the car to hear for threats.
No, man, not supposedly. They had the windows down!!
And I am fucking donald duck.
I really don't understand what is the matter with people having trouble showing their ID... What is so special about privacy? I don't mind somebody looking at me, checking my IDs and stuff, in fact, I would be quite amused if someone installed a govt camera in my toilet...
Instead of just using the native 3D engine in the GPU, as done in games, Gelato also uses the hardware as a second floating point processor.
Does this mean that I could eventually use my GeForce to do things like matrix inversion for me?
Yes, actually it seems to be a filesystem bug... I mean, a reasonably stable filesystem - every OS has this, I am really surprised they messed this up! I wouldn't mind if it was an obscure kernel race condition or something, but filesystem!!!
Now, gcc is known to produce shit code on sparcs. I am not saying 64 is always better, but to be hones, the stuff should at least have been compiled with Sun CC, possibly with -fast and -fast64 flags...
Well, probably, the problem is, however, that all the comments are exactly the same, so it is unlikely two people would come with exactly same description... i.e. the errno.h has things like:
/* Operation not permitted */ /* No such file or directory */ /* No such process */ /* Interrupted system call */ /* I/O error */ /* No such device or address */ /* Arg list too long */
.h was stolen... Not that I want to support SCO...
#define EPERM 1
#define ENOENT 2
#define ESRCH 3
#define EINTR 4
#define EIO 5
#define ENXIO 6
#define E2BIG 7
etc. So if you say "arg list too long", instead of say, "too many arguments" in all comments, it is very likely that the actual
The article is plainly wrong - it is bound to be just an innovative display, although can't get google to say anything more informative.
I have very bad experience with Portland compiler; I wonder what the results would have been if they had used Intel Fortran Compiler....
This guy seems to know what he is talking about...
Yes, but for a different reason... The black side heats up more than the shiny side and it recoils molecules more... - the photon effect works the other way round but is negligible in presence of air...
The article is wrong in the sense that it treats the photons from Sun to be in the form of heat - they are not, because their velocities are not randomised - there is a net momentum radially away from the sun. Carnot's cycle assumed the thermal energy to be in the thermodynamic form, i.e. say internal KE of gas, etc... You could simply adapt this guy's argument to a bullet hitting a plank of wood and show that wood gaining motion would break carnot's law - this is not the case.
I really don't understand what is the matter with all slashdot people - I have absolutelly no problem with goverment having my ID and my biometric info, why should I? I mean, most of the arguments here go: Oh, it's obviousluy a bad idea, this info can always be abused. Now, would someone cool down and explain in plain words why are you afraid of someone having your biometric info?
Or is it yet another American phobia? (Anybody see Bowling for the Columbine?)
... you would automatically help the investigators by telling them when exactly have you died....