at the bottom of every search results page, there is a link that says, "Dissatisfied? Help us improve". I've clicked on it once or twice, when encountering a particularly spammed keyword and they have fixed it!
I use hushmail, the OpenPGP based webmail system. They use a pretty good anti-spam system. If someone sends you encrypted or signed mail, it lets it through. (think of it as a ready-made hashcash). If they are on your whitelist (anyone you send mail to or in your address book automatically is), the mail goes through. Otherwise, the mail is held, and bounced to the sender with a link to a CAPTCHA so which will whitelist you if you pass it (ie. are probably human, not a spambot).
I looked for the "energy amplifier". It is basically an accellerator-driven fission reaction. Since Thorium is not capable of achieving a self-stustaining reaction (ie. critical mass), a stream of neutrons from an accelerator is used to sustain the reaction. The Thorium transmutes into U-233 which then produces the fission reaction. It is also nice for the capability of transmuting high half-life elements such as conventional fission spent fuel rods or weapons-grade Plutonium into elements with much shorter half-lives. As such, it looks like a win-win, producing energy from Thorium, and getting rid of wastes!
Wow, I have never seen that before! That is great! It is always cool to learn new cool shell tricks. I remember I had an epiphany when I first learned about bash's unnamed pipes as files eg:
well, that stands to reason. The commercial software environment has always favored early release rather than correctness. I wish we could have the government do it though... say what you want about nasa software development (can anyone say metric units), they do have a history of making some nice code (at an exorbitant cost per line) with something like less than one bug per million lines, or something ridiculous like that. If the government could spend the same kind of money for voting software, and of course have the source code public and auditable, I think they could make a darn decent election system.
A one shot pistol isn't going to fulfill that necessity.
I don't know if John Wilkes Booth's pistol was single shot or not, but it seems he probably thougt of himself as taking up arms against an oppressive government.
yes, snow crash was pretty cool. I liked the main character's business card. I think though, that my favorite is still Cryptonomicon, althouth Diamond Age was also really good.
actually, the emachines boot disk will let you run ghost manually, where you can select what disk or partition to image. I've used the emachines disks to recover XP on a sys that I had already partitioned with linux, etc. It is not the default behavior, but it is possible.
wow.. comparing the linux kernel to the mona lisa seems like comparing a field of engines to works of DaVinci..
This is one of the strangest analogies I have seen. Since the Mona Lisa is a work of DaVinci, it seems that you are saying the linux kernel is like a field of engines. I guess I just don't understand what that analogy means.
But in this guy's case the significance will be lost because he didn't win through any significant idea, but through a hack. As he says earlier, it's the research that counts, not the outcome.
That reminds me of another famous example of winning through a hack. When you are in an impossible situation, hack the situation!
Thanks for the link. That is a very interesting alternative to steam turbines, using the combustion directly to power the turbines with expanding gas. I wonder if a secondary steam system could still be be utilized. The application of pure chemistry in an industrial setting is quite cool. I especially like the use of pure Oxygen (cryogenically seperated, no less) to convert a dirty fuel to a semi-clean one.
It is by Caffeina alone that I set my mind in motion. By the Beans of Java, my thoughts acquire speed. The hands acquire the shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by Caffeina alone that I set my mind in motion...
- attributed to Isaac Bonewits
In fact this is how coal power plants work. The coal is ground up into a power so fine you can fall in and drown in it. The powder is blown through ducts into a combustion chamber that's basically like a huge bunsen burner using coal dust instead of gas. The heat is used to boil water driving steam turbines. The hardest (and most interesting) part of making a coal power plant is the insane ammount of pollution scrubbing superstructure required.
jp uni means a university in Japan, and pdf is icky because it is a cross-platform well defined spec that produces beautifully printed output. Oh wait...:P (just don't get the adobe plugin anywhere near any of my browsers; I'll download it, and I don't even mind viewing it with Adobe Reader or Acrobat reader, but the plugins always seem to crash any browsers I use (MSIE, Firefox, Netscape, etc))
This is a really good suggestion. I am surprised that more people haven't mentioned this. Having a white list (through squid proxy or what have you) is a pretty good idea. The only problem is as always, the human one. How do you ensure that your kids are using good passwords, not telling them to anyone, etc.
my personal favorite text-mode browser, w3m supports graphics and tabs. No javascript or dhtml support though, but it does handle frames and tables nicely.
To be fair though, we are by far the only country to air the show, or even the first. Check out the Wikipedia article on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for more about the history of the show.
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at the bottom of every search results page, there is a link that says, "Dissatisfied? Help us improve". I've clicked on it once or twice, when encountering a particularly spammed keyword and they have fixed it!
I use hushmail, the OpenPGP based webmail system. They use a pretty good anti-spam system. If someone sends you encrypted or signed mail, it lets it through. (think of it as a ready-made hashcash). If they are on your whitelist (anyone you send mail to or in your address book automatically is), the mail goes through. Otherwise, the mail is held, and bounced to the sender with a link to a CAPTCHA so which will whitelist you if you pass it (ie. are probably human, not a spambot).
I looked for the "energy amplifier". It is basically an accellerator-driven fission reaction. Since Thorium is not capable of achieving a self-stustaining reaction (ie. critical mass), a stream of neutrons from an accelerator is used to sustain the reaction. The Thorium transmutes into U-233 which then produces the fission reaction. It is also nice for the capability of transmuting high half-life elements such as conventional fission spent fuel rods or weapons-grade Plutonium into elements with much shorter half-lives. As such, it looks like a win-win, producing energy from Thorium, and getting rid of wastes!
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well, that stands to reason. The commercial software environment has always favored early release rather than correctness. I wish we could have the government do it though... say what you want about nasa software development (can anyone say metric units), they do have a history of making some nice code (at an exorbitant cost per line) with something like less than one bug per million lines, or something ridiculous like that. If the government could spend the same kind of money for voting software, and of course have the source code public and auditable, I think they could make a darn decent election system.
they both are quotes in english. For instance:
Bob said, "Joe said, 'I am Joe', but he was lying."
ok, makes sense to me.
awesome. That was really funny. Welcome to my friends list.
The trouble with this idea is that it basically means the rich will have weapons, and the poor will not.
yes, snow crash was pretty cool. I liked the main character's business card. I think though, that my favorite is still Cryptonomicon, althouth Diamond Age was also really good.
actually, the emachines boot disk will let you run ghost manually, where you can select what disk or partition to image. I've used the emachines disks to recover XP on a sys that I had already partitioned with linux, etc. It is not the default behavior, but it is possible.
I would have thought this was referring to Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.
Thanks for the link. That is a very interesting alternative to steam turbines, using the combustion directly to power the turbines with expanding gas. I wonder if a secondary steam system could still be be utilized. The application of pure chemistry in an industrial setting is quite cool. I especially like the use of pure Oxygen (cryogenically seperated, no less) to convert a dirty fuel to a semi-clean one.
It is by Caffeina alone
that I set my mind in motion.
By the Beans of Java,
my thoughts acquire speed.
The hands acquire the shakes,
the shakes become a warning.
It is by Caffeina alone
that I set my mind in motion...
- attributed to Isaac Bonewits
In fact this is how coal power plants work. The coal is ground up into a power so fine you can fall in and drown in it. The powder is blown through ducts into a combustion chamber that's basically like a huge bunsen burner using coal dust instead of gas. The heat is used to boil water driving steam turbines. The hardest (and most interesting) part of making a coal power plant is the insane ammount of pollution scrubbing superstructure required.
well, it basically has to do with font and resolution matching. Some PDFs look very nice on screen, not just on paper.
jp uni means a university in Japan, and pdf is icky because it is a cross-platform well defined spec that produces beautifully printed output. Oh wait... :P (just don't get the adobe plugin anywhere near any of my browsers; I'll download it, and I don't even mind viewing it with Adobe Reader or Acrobat reader, but the plugins always seem to crash any browsers I use (MSIE, Firefox, Netscape, etc))
This is a really good suggestion. I am surprised that more people haven't mentioned this. Having a white list (through squid proxy or what have you) is a pretty good idea. The only problem is as always, the human one. How do you ensure that your kids are using good passwords, not telling them to anyone, etc.
my personal favorite text-mode browser, w3m supports graphics and tabs. No javascript or dhtml support though, but it does handle frames and tables nicely.
That was an ... intruiging ... page. It left me filled with questions, and vaguely unsatisfied.