that is to say i'm no electrical engineer, but i wonder how much good this would do? unless scientists come up with a practical, maleable, room temperature superconductor, aren't we limited to how far we can transfer power (ala electricity). any thoughts on this?
Google deserves your nomination for Big Brother of the Year
Nominations accepted here during February 2003 only
1. Google's immortal cookie: Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038. This was at a time when federal websites were prohibited from using persistent cookies altogether. Now it's years later, and immortal cookies are commonplace among search engines; Google set the standard because no one bothered to challenge them. This cookie places a unique ID number on your hard disk. Anytime you land on a Google page, you get a Google cookie if you don't already have one. If you have one, they read and record your unique ID number.
2. Google records everything they can: For all searches they record the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing results based on your IP number. This is referred to in the industry as "IP delivery based on geolocation."
3. Google retains all data indefinitely: Google has no data retention policies. There is evidence that they are able to easily access all the user information they collect and save.
4. Google won't say why they need this data: Inquiries to Google about their privacy policies are ignored. When the New York Times (2002-11-28) asked Sergey Brin about whether Google ever gets subpoenaed for this information, he had no comment.
5. Google hires spooks: Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency. Google wants to hire more people with security clearances, so that they can peddle their corporate assets to the spooks in Washington.
6. Google's toolbar is spyware: With the advanced features enabled, Google's free toolbar for Explorer phones home with every page you surf. Yes, it reads your cookie too, and sends along the last search terms you used in the toolbar. Their privacy policy confesses this, but that's only because Alexa lost a class-action lawsuit when their toolbar did the same thing, and their privacy policy failed to explain this. Worse yet, Google's toolbar updates to new versions quietly, and without asking. This means that if you have the toolbar installed, Google essentially has complete access to your hard disk every time you phone home. Most software vendors, and even Microsoft, ask if you'd like an updated version. But not Google.
7. Google's cache copy is illegal: Judging from Ninth Circuit precedent on the application of U.S. copyright laws to the Internet, Google's cache copy appears to be illegal. The only way a webmaster can avoid having his site cached on Google is to put a "noarchive" meta in the header of every page on his site. Surfers like the cache, but webmasters don't. Many webmasters have deleted questionable material from their sites, only to discover later that the problem pages live merrily on in Google's cache. The cache copy should be "opt-in" for webmasters, not "opt-out."
8. Google is not your friend: Young, stupid script kiddies and many bloggers still think Google is "way kool," so by now Google enjoys a 75 percent monopoly for all external referrals to most websites. No webmaster can avoid seeking Google's approval these days, assuming he wants to increase traffic to his site. If he tries to take advantage of some of the known weaknesses in Google's semi-secret algorithms, he may find himself penalized by Google, and his traffic disappears. There are no detailed, published standards issued by Google, and there is no appeal process for penalized sites. Google is completely unaccountable. Most of the time they don't even answer email from webmasters.
9. Google is a privacy time bomb: With 150 million searches per day, most from outside the U.S., Google amounts to a privacy disaster waiting to happen. Those newly-commissioned data-mining bureaucrats in Washington can only dream about the sort of slick efficiency that Google has already achieved. Google deserves your nomination for corporate Big Brother of the Year.
"Mr. Jacobson said he recognized the obvious need to alter the flavour of drugs, "particularly life-saving drugs, where taste is an impediment to taking them.""
who cares about the taste if its gonna save your life?
now all the farmers can get online, read slashdot (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/ 08/1241250&mode=nested&tid=134), and learn how to farm
"As a former paratrooper I thank you kindly. Many americans (military and civilian) traded their safety and even their lives for our continued freedom."
for those times when you're relieving stress after a meeting (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/26/18352 36&mode=nested&tid=127) by playing counterstrike and need to know whos behind you.
hopefully biologists of the future will be more advanced than that. if you had ever watched the simpsons you would know that in the future everyone will have a gun that can shoot something made in the past and bring it back to life. example - bart writes his name in wet cement and the future people zap his name and are amazed at his ability to yo yo. sheesh. the simpsons will tell you the answers.
i'd have to agree with this. even though i love science and math and plan on majoring in physics or math (i'm just gonna be a freshman next year) i'd say i have a reasonable knowledge of the humanities and social sciences. i can at least have intelligent conversations with people who know much more about these things. in high school i always took the top level classes i could (ie the highest the school offered) in the humanities and was in with all the people who really like those things, but it was never the other way around. those people who truly enjoyed the humanities were never in my chem or calc classes. its true many engineers get a one dimensional education, but its also true that liberal artists also get one dimensional educations. hell, my sister, whos very smart, was studying for gre so she could go get a phd in english and she couldn't even figure out how to do fractions. something i thought people learned in fourth grade. it was kind of sad actually. people need to learn about things on the other end of the spectrum from their interests.
1: why the hell is everyone so worried about blinding people? has anyone ever seen any realistic war movie? a 9mm bullet does a hell of a lot more than blind you. and bullets and bombs don't just hit soldiers. maybe we all just play a bit too much counterstrike around here.
2: the only way something is illegal is if someone can enforce it. there is no one enforcing the geneva convention, and the us can do just about as it damn well pleases cause theres not much that can stop it (yes i am american, and this is simple fact.. the us is a superpower and it is in the drivers seat right now, deal with it)
3: this is completely off topic, but what i was wondering if there is some easy way to determine the natural frequency of an object, and then send out a wave of that same frequency, i bet that could really screw up a plane.
i'm not gonna repeat what anyone has said about eating because its all been said. i'm in decent shape and i try to eat in moderation, though i do tend to eat alot more carbs than most as i run, alot. but thats besides the point. dieting alone will not make you lose weight. you need to exercise. it doesn't matter what. anything that makes you tired. i run and lift and do other things as i feel like it, but whatever you do make sure you like it, and even more importantly, find someone to do it with. that way you don't put it off till tomorrow or do it half assed. get some good old competition in there and work out. try to find someone at about your same ability level too, that helps a lot. soon you'll get addicted to exercising and feel like crap if you dont. if i go without running for a week i feel like i'm ready to kill someone, i swear its addictive like crack. its good for you so go do it.
yea.. they can't patent a natural gene.. only one that they made in an unnatural environment. a product that they made. so its not like you have to patent your genes to be yourself. just patent a superhuman version of you grown in an unnatural condition. they said something about it in the article. reading always helps.
so this worm jumps onto your computer and puts ad software on it so you will have to wade through a million adds to read/. is this any different from kazaa already? o wait, you agreed to let kazaa do that when you clicked i agree after the eula.
this is true. honestly we really have to be able to take risks, that no one in today's society wants to take. everyone is so worried about getting blamed if something goes wrong that they are overly cautious (ever seen a little kid riding a scooter - they're covered w/ a helmet knee gaurds, elbow gaurds and full body armor.. its ridiculous). the apallo astronauts took risks, the mercury astronauts took risks, the wright bros took risks, we've got to take a risk -which means we have to be able to deal if something goes wrong.
-meh.. i don't know what i'm talking about i'm only ~17~
"It's true that these concerns aren't totally unfounded as the type of reactor that the plant uses (the Soviet-designed VVER-440) doesn't have an exemplorary track record but let's remember that while the USSR had Chernobyl [chernobyl.com], the US had Three Mile Island [tmia.com]."
eh.. if i remember correctly chernobyl actually caused a huge disaster and lots of people died as a result of it, while tmi, though it had the potential for disaster, was not disasterous. the us does have valid concerns for a little island 200 miles off its coast using a crappy reactor and presumably unsafe precautions. but i guess b/c the US is worried about what a junky dictatorship w/ a pseudocommunist ecomonomy is doing its capitalist propoganda
though i'm no fbi genius, i would gather that it was a lot harder to get info on hitler than einstein. not to protect the fbi or anything, but sometimes things aren't always as black and white as they look.
i bet one of these great pens would be easy as hell to lose. from what i gathered, they wouldn't be attached to the computer at all and would be wherever the hell my little brother thinks to lose it. pens are a relic of the past.. they aren't natural parts of people, but they worked for what we needed them to do (write on paper that is). keyboards, mice, joysticks, whatever were all designed with computers in mind.. thats like trying to make a car get pulled by a mechanical horse - just stupid.
we have smart boards at my school (carlisle hs, carlisleschools.org/chs, not that you'd ever want to visit it really) from some big grant that my school. but besides that, i have had great experience with them.. at least with the teachers who know how to use them (my physics and math teacher). they are much clearer than chalkboards, and less messy than whiteboards. the problem about low resolution doesn't really matter, because if you're sitting in the back of the room you can't see anything small anyway. imho smartboards a great thing that i can fall asleep to in class.
Slashdot Mirror
you could say so
.999...9 = x .999...9 = 9 .999...9
let
so 10x is 9.999...9
then 10x - x = 9x = 9.999...9 -
=> x = 1 =
i'm not sure how much bush sleeps, though i did read that clinton only ever slept about 4 hrs/day. so don't get so cocky.
that is to say i'm no electrical engineer, but i wonder how much good this would do? unless scientists come up with a practical, maleable, room temperature superconductor, aren't we limited to how far we can transfer power (ala electricity). any thoughts on this?
Google deserves your nomination
for Big Brother of the Year
Nominations accepted here during February 2003 only
1. Google's immortal cookie:
Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038. This was at a time when federal websites were prohibited from using persistent cookies altogether. Now it's years later, and immortal cookies are commonplace among search engines; Google set the standard because no one bothered to challenge them. This cookie places a unique ID number on your hard disk. Anytime you land on a Google page, you get a Google cookie if you don't already have one. If you have one, they read and record your unique ID number.
2. Google records everything they can:
For all searches they record the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing results based on your IP number. This is referred to in the industry as "IP delivery based on geolocation."
3. Google retains all data indefinitely:
Google has no data retention policies. There is evidence that they are able to easily access all the user information they collect and save.
4. Google won't say why they need this data:
Inquiries to Google about their privacy policies are ignored. When the New York Times (2002-11-28) asked Sergey Brin about whether Google ever gets subpoenaed for this information, he had no comment.
5. Google hires spooks:
Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency. Google wants to hire more people with security clearances, so that they can peddle their corporate assets to the spooks in Washington.
6. Google's toolbar is spyware:
With the advanced features enabled, Google's free toolbar for Explorer phones home with every page you surf. Yes, it reads your cookie too, and sends along the last search terms you used in the toolbar. Their privacy policy confesses this, but that's only because Alexa lost a class-action lawsuit when their toolbar did the same thing, and their privacy policy failed to explain this. Worse yet, Google's toolbar updates to new versions quietly, and without asking. This means that if you have the toolbar installed, Google essentially has complete access to your hard disk every time you phone home. Most software vendors, and even Microsoft, ask if you'd like an updated version. But not Google.
7. Google's cache copy is illegal:
Judging from Ninth Circuit precedent on the application of U.S. copyright laws to the Internet, Google's cache copy appears to be illegal. The only way a webmaster can avoid having his site cached on Google is to put a "noarchive" meta in the header of every page on his site. Surfers like the cache, but webmasters don't. Many webmasters have deleted questionable material from their sites, only to discover later that the problem pages live merrily on in Google's cache. The cache copy should be "opt-in" for webmasters, not "opt-out."
8. Google is not your friend:
Young, stupid script kiddies and many bloggers still think Google is "way kool," so by now Google enjoys a 75 percent monopoly for all external referrals to most websites. No webmaster can avoid seeking Google's approval these days, assuming he wants to increase traffic to his site. If he tries to take advantage of some of the known weaknesses in Google's semi-secret algorithms, he may find himself penalized by Google, and his traffic disappears. There are no detailed, published standards issued by Google, and there is no appeal process for penalized sites. Google is completely unaccountable. Most of the time they don't even answer email from webmasters.
9. Google is a privacy time bomb:
With 150 million searches per day, most from outside the U.S., Google amounts to a privacy disaster waiting to happen. Those newly-commissioned data-mining bureaucrats in Washington can only dream about the sort of slick efficiency that Google has already achieved. Google deserves your nomination for corporate Big Brother of the Year.
Google Watch home page
"Mr. Jacobson said he recognized the obvious need to alter the flavour of drugs, "particularly life-saving drugs, where taste is an impediment to taking them.""
who cares about the taste if its gonna save your life?
this exact headline was on like a day ago..
or maybe i've just been sitting here for five minutes and its seemed like a day
please tell me that you typed this with dvorak. cause if you misspelled qwerty on a qwerty keyboard..
now all the farmers can get online, read slashdot (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/ 08/1241250&mode=nested&tid=134), and learn how to farm
"As a former paratrooper I thank you kindly. Many americans (military and civilian) traded their safety and even their lives for our continued freedom."
HOOAH
for those times when you're relieving stress after a meeting (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/26/18352 36&mode=nested&tid=127) by playing counterstrike and need to know whos behind you.
hopefully biologists of the future will be more advanced than that. if you had ever watched the simpsons you would know that in the future everyone will have a gun that can shoot something made in the past and bring it back to life. example - bart writes his name in wet cement and the future people zap his name and are amazed at his ability to yo yo. sheesh. the simpsons will tell you the answers.
i'd have to agree with this. even though i love science and math and plan on majoring in physics or math (i'm just gonna be a freshman next year) i'd say i have a reasonable knowledge of the humanities and social sciences. i can at least have intelligent conversations with people who know much more about these things. in high school i always took the top level classes i could (ie the highest the school offered) in the humanities and was in with all the people who really like those things, but it was never the other way around. those people who truly enjoyed the humanities were never in my chem or calc classes. its true many engineers get a one dimensional education, but its also true that liberal artists also get one dimensional educations. hell, my sister, whos very smart, was studying for gre so she could go get a phd in english and she couldn't even figure out how to do fractions. something i thought people learned in fourth grade. it was kind of sad actually. people need to learn about things on the other end of the spectrum from their interests.
this was in my local newspaper months ago... the same paper that has the headline: "man arrested for stealing underwear." seriously.
"my what do they teach in schools these days?"
or something along that line
1: why the hell is everyone so worried about blinding people? has anyone ever seen any realistic war movie? a 9mm bullet does a hell of a lot more than blind you. and bullets and bombs don't just hit soldiers. maybe we all just play a bit too much counterstrike around here.
2: the only way something is illegal is if someone can enforce it. there is no one enforcing the geneva convention, and the us can do just about as it damn well pleases cause theres not much that can stop it (yes i am american, and this is simple fact.. the us is a superpower and it is in the drivers seat right now, deal with it)
3: this is completely off topic, but what i was wondering if there is some easy way to determine the natural frequency of an object, and then send out a wave of that same frequency, i bet that could really screw up a plane.
i'm done here.
i'm not gonna repeat what anyone has said about eating because its all been said. i'm in decent shape and i try to eat in moderation, though i do tend to eat alot more carbs than most as i run, alot. but thats besides the point. dieting alone will not make you lose weight. you need to exercise. it doesn't matter what. anything that makes you tired. i run and lift and do other things as i feel like it, but whatever you do make sure you like it, and even more importantly, find someone to do it with. that way you don't put it off till tomorrow or do it half assed. get some good old competition in there and work out. try to find someone at about your same ability level too, that helps a lot. soon you'll get addicted to exercising and feel like crap if you dont. if i go without running for a week i feel like i'm ready to kill someone, i swear its addictive like crack. its good for you so go do it.
yea.. they can't patent a natural gene.. only one that they made in an unnatural environment. a product that they made. so its not like you have to patent your genes to be yourself. just patent a superhuman version of you grown in an unnatural condition. they said something about it in the article. reading always helps.
so this worm jumps onto your computer and puts ad software on it so you will have to wade through a million adds to read /. is this any different from kazaa already? o wait, you agreed to let kazaa do that when you clicked i agree after the eula.
meh
i'm defecting
this is true. honestly we really have to be able to take risks, that no one in today's society wants to take. everyone is so worried about getting blamed if something goes wrong that they are overly cautious (ever seen a little kid riding a scooter - they're covered w/ a helmet knee gaurds, elbow gaurds and full body armor.. its ridiculous). the apallo astronauts took risks, the mercury astronauts took risks, the wright bros took risks, we've got to take a risk -which means we have to be able to deal if something goes wrong.
-meh.. i don't know what i'm talking about i'm only ~17~
"It's true that these concerns aren't totally unfounded as the type of reactor that the plant uses (the Soviet-designed VVER-440) doesn't have an exemplorary track record but let's remember that while the USSR had Chernobyl [chernobyl.com], the US had Three Mile Island [tmia.com]."
eh.. if i remember correctly chernobyl actually caused a huge disaster and lots of people died as a result of it, while tmi, though it had the potential for disaster, was not disasterous. the us does have valid concerns for a little island 200 miles off its coast using a crappy reactor and presumably unsafe precautions. but i guess b/c the US is worried about what a junky dictatorship w/ a pseudocommunist ecomonomy is doing its capitalist propoganda
though i'm no fbi genius, i would gather that it was a lot harder to get info on hitler than einstein. not to protect the fbi or anything, but sometimes things aren't always as black and white as they look.
this is completely off topic, but, i just recently upgraded to winamp 2.8 and it includes the .ogg plugin. it just made me happy.
i bet one of these great pens would be easy as hell to lose. from what i gathered, they wouldn't be attached to the computer at all and would be wherever the hell my little brother thinks to lose it. pens are a relic of the past.. they aren't natural parts of people, but they worked for what we needed them to do (write on paper that is). keyboards, mice, joysticks, whatever were all designed with computers in mind.. thats like trying to make a car get pulled by a mechanical horse - just stupid.
we have smart boards at my school (carlisle hs, carlisleschools.org/chs, not that you'd ever want to visit it really) from some big grant that my school. but besides that, i have had great experience with them.. at least with the teachers who know how to use them (my physics and math teacher). they are much clearer than chalkboards, and less messy than whiteboards. the problem about low resolution doesn't really matter, because if you're sitting in the back of the room you can't see anything small anyway. imho smartboards a great thing that i can fall asleep to in class.