Intelligence has blossomed. Evolution has spawned. SkyNet decides that the rover would work better with window wipers. I for one welcome our new robot overlords. In other news: Martian super-robots have decimated mankind and taken over the earth.
I created a cypher myself a few months back as a challenge to one of my co-workers (he gave up). I still have it and this seems like an appropriate place to post it. Here is the cyphertext.
Hints for fairness sake: 1. It is a bi-layered, nongrid cypher. 2. The input/output characterset is 41 characters, comprised of a-z (no capitals), 0-9, space, comma, period, !, and ?. (the period at the end is just a period stating the end of the sentence) 3. The plaintext is a quote from a book considered widely known (not the bible though). 4. The "quotes" at the begining and end of the cyphertext are not part of the cypher, they only show start and end.
I don't know if the third hint actually helps or not. Be assured this IS an actual cypher, not just random characters. I look forward to seeing if my fellow slashdotters can meet the challenge.
Those Bastards! They did have enough for their 17th corvettes, solid gold diamond encrusted swimming pools and harem full of supermodels after all - that FBI agent LIED to us!
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Mmmm... I wonder if they'll do the Ender's Saga series? Children of the Mind is the one I'm on right now, I've been consuming them at a rate of 3 or 4 days per book. I know they are long so there is the risk of the 'compression effect' which can screw up such great works, but maybe if they made it into one of the longer miniseries, like taken was. I can hope. And I really really do hope.
As for the Earthsea series, I loved the depth she put into the story and it's characters. I seem to be able to enjoy almost anything, so maybe my opinion doesn't really count for a lot, but I am definitely looking forward to seeing this.
Meh... A good step forward, but what I really want to hear is that fullerene clothing is being made. That would be pretty high on the holy-crap-this-is-cool scale.
For any who don't get this, read through the archives on schlockmercenary.com
My co-worker read the article and mentioned bender as well, when I read your post to him he cursed most creatively (I think he wanted to post something similar). Heh.
Yep, I've got 2 of those as well as 5 other hard drives. Space totals to just over 1TB (1030GB). Damn, if I had known this would be slashdot material I'd have submitted it as a story. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to stick to the hardcoreware.net forums.
Although the university I went to didn't go out of its way to track down those who used file sharing, they did try to clamp down on it with bandwidth limiters, prioritizing common ports and packet types. But those of us who were good enough were always able to get around it. Hopefully we'll still be good enough when they start monitoring traffic to try to catch us. But then that's what libraries and laptops are for...
...it is really hard to make one of those work, I tried to make one for an electronics project in high school but had no idea just how hard the timing was. You have to time the pulsing of each electromagnet to a specific (and different) time for each one after the projectile passes the sensors that trigger each electromagnet, and you have to calculate, accurately, the force and speed of the projectile, friction between the projectile and barrel (or whatever you use for a delivery system), even air pressure (although I never got that far because mine wouldn't go fast enough for that to matter), and that's just to begin with. It just makes my head hurt remembering it.
Lawyers need to learn that if they go after doujinshi Excel is going to go all psycho on their butts. Even her conscience is a murderer. (Yes, I know she was ordered to kill the Manga-Ka, but hey, she didn't go through with it... well, ok, so she killed him once, but she didn't do it again when the great will of the macrocosm reset the plot.)
...8 of them in the library presentation rooms of the college I work for, really fun to play with but when I looked into it to see if I could get one I found out how expensive they were, something like 100$ for the professional version (I think). Still, I would love to use one of these in combination with the 10 foot wide projection screen and Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament.
Yea, I was on Slashdot yesterday (Tuesday, dec. 11) when I saw the part about Scifi saying the film had already been pirated, I went on the Gnutella network to look for it and sure enough, there it was. Here's the cool part, I also found a copy of The Two Towers in DivX, around 740 MB, cool (yes, it was the new as-yet-unreleased-version and not an old one (I think another version was made back in 1978)).
Even if it was Osama Bin Laden, which it could be but hasn't been proven yet, how can you even think of judging an entire religion on the acts of a few fanatics? I am an American, if I choose to go on a killing spree tomorrow does that mean all Americans are psychopaths and killers? Not all people who do bad things are of one religion or nationality; I can't even comprehend what could make you think so. You are only adding to the problem, it was hate that got us into this in the first place. The hate of the terrorists, and yes, our hate as well. You strike out at a people from the protection of anonymity, at least when Hitler published he did it under his own name.
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Yea! My FST teacher told me that and I spent 3 around 3 weeks withought sucsess to figure out WHY it did that. All I ended up doing was manipulating it to give exact definitions for PI, E, and i. Like that E = (-1)^((1/i)*(1/PI)). Works on the calc in exact mode but I still can't wrap my mind around -1 to the power of anything equaling anything other than 1, -1, i or -i. Although an interesting thing about i, i^i=.20787957635076...
I believe what you said is part of the theory of cold fusion, but it doesn't apply fission or to the type of fusion we are talking about here. Proof: go to site http://ippex.pppl.gov/ABOUT_FUSION/FUSION_DOC2.HTM L it explains how fusion works.
Not exactly, you said "Deuterium is a heavy isotope of hydrogen, and when its nuclei collide under this intense pressure, some of them fuse to form helium, releasing large amounts of energy.", but if only deuterium was in the plasma then only helium would be created with no energy output, it must be equal amounts deuterium and tritium to create energy, here, let me explain; nuclear energy from fission or fusion is given off in the form of neutron radiation which is absorbed by water to be converted into heat energy (it's why people say something is "hot" if it is radioactive) then to kinetic energy in the form of pressure difference from steam, that pressure drives turbines in the same way that a steam engine works.
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As I said, the technology to do this probably won't be around for many a century.
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About transporter technology, I've been thinking about the Heisenberg problem. Note: the technology to do this probably won't be around for many a century, but the theory is sound, so here it is. The problem is that when you try to figure out the location of a particle is and what it's kinetic energy and trajectory is that you end up having to bounce another particle off of it, or doing something else that will change it's position, K.E., and trajectory. Well here's my idea; every particle has mass and all mass creates a gravitational field around it; no matter how small, it is there. So what if, instead of bouncing particles off of particles, you surrounded the object you wished to transport with passive (for the most part) gravitational field sensors that would detect the mass, position, velocity and trajectory of the particles within the object that you wanted to transport. Now I say "passive (for the most part)" because to detect a gravitational field you do end up having to interact with it, however, gravity is the weakest of the four fundamental forces (gravitational, electromagnetic, strong nuclear and weak nuclear) and as such the interactions would be extraordinarily minute and the alterations to the particles position, K.E., etc... would also be minute, it would be there, but it would be manageable. Not like the alterations that would be made by a magnetic resonance imager or a scanning electron microscope, not by far. We have just dealt with the problem by real physics, not by a starfleet engineer saying the magic words "Heisenberg compensator" and not giving another nuance of explanation to the problem. Now, it would still never be used to transport a human; something as sensitive to, say, a few misplaced cells in the wall of a capillary in the brain (OOPS! aneurysm), but it could be used to transport a cargo of ore, some water, in general anything that wouldn't be dramatically affected by a few misplaced atoms, molecules or the occasional long carbon chain.
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Intelligence has blossomed. Evolution has spawned. SkyNet decides that the rover would work better with window wipers. I for one welcome our new robot overlords. In other news: Martian super-robots have decimated mankind and taken over the earth.
I created a cypher myself a few months back as a challenge to one of my co-workers (he gave up). I still have it and this seems like an appropriate place to post it. Here is the cyphertext.
n mt maxyfl7eovult4xyrhu6tma7tihllb4bebmrth8t6vu8xy3mut 3g6tma7gtp3bmvu6t8hkt3gthiihkmngbmrth8t6xy873mbg9t mavutxygf7rv"
"lngtmsntl3b6tma7t9hh6t8b9amvuklth8the6t8bklmti
Hints for fairness sake:
1. It is a bi-layered, nongrid cypher.
2. The input/output characterset is 41 characters, comprised of a-z (no capitals), 0-9, space, comma, period, !, and ?. (the period at the end is just a period stating the end of the sentence)
3. The plaintext is a quote from a book considered widely known (not the bible though).
4. The "quotes" at the begining and end of the cyphertext are not part of the cypher, they only show start and end.
I don't know if the third hint actually helps or not. Be assured this IS an actual cypher, not just random characters. I look forward to seeing if my fellow slashdotters can meet the challenge.
Those Bastards! They did have enough for their 17th corvettes, solid gold diamond encrusted swimming pools and harem full of supermodels after all - that FBI agent LIED to us!
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Mmmm... I wonder if they'll do the Ender's Saga series? Children of the Mind is the one I'm on right now, I've been consuming them at a rate of 3 or 4 days per book. I know they are long so there is the risk of the 'compression effect' which can screw up such great works, but maybe if they made it into one of the longer miniseries, like taken was. I can hope. And I really really do hope.
As for the Earthsea series, I loved the depth she put into the story and it's characters. I seem to be able to enjoy almost anything, so maybe my opinion doesn't really count for a lot, but I am definitely looking forward to seeing this.
Meh... A good step forward, but what I really want to hear is that fullerene clothing is being made. That would be pretty high on the holy-crap-this-is-cool scale. For any who don't get this, read through the archives on schlockmercenary.com
My co-worker read the article and mentioned bender as well, when I read your post to him he cursed most creatively (I think he wanted to post something similar). Heh.
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Urge to run L0pht Crack... Rising....
Just found another, VoodooPC also has one.
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http://voodoopc.com/systems/advanced.aspx?t=1&p=2
Pro-Star also seems to be taking this path.s &model_id=680
http://xtremenotebooks.com/index.php?section=spec
Damn, now this means my 8834 isn't the best laptop anymore.
Yep, I've got 2 of those as well as 5 other hard drives. Space totals to just over 1TB (1030GB). Damn, if I had known this would be slashdot material I'd have submitted it as a story. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to stick to the hardcoreware.net forums.
Although the university I went to didn't go out of its way to track down those who used file sharing, they did try to clamp down on it with bandwidth limiters, prioritizing common ports and packet types. But those of us who were good enough were always able to get around it. Hopefully we'll still be good enough when they start monitoring traffic to try to catch us. But then that's what libraries and laptops are for...
...it is really hard to make one of those work, I tried to make one for an electronics project in high school but had no idea just how hard the timing was. You have to time the pulsing of each electromagnet to a specific (and different) time for each one after the projectile passes the sensors that trigger each electromagnet, and you have to calculate, accurately, the force and speed of the projectile, friction between the projectile and barrel (or whatever you use for a delivery system), even air pressure (although I never got that far because mine wouldn't go fast enough for that to matter), and that's just to begin with. It just makes my head hurt remembering it.
Lawyers need to learn that if they go after doujinshi Excel is going to go all psycho on their butts. Even her conscience is a murderer. (Yes, I know she was ordered to kill the Manga-Ka, but hey, she didn't go through with it... well, ok, so she killed him once, but she didn't do it again when the great will of the macrocosm reset the plot.)
...8 of them in the library presentation rooms of the college I work for, really fun to play with but when I looked into it to see if I could get one I found out how expensive they were, something like 100$ for the professional version (I think). Still, I would love to use one of these in combination with the 10 foot wide projection screen and Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament.
Yea, I was on Slashdot yesterday (Tuesday, dec. 11) when I saw the part about Scifi saying the film had already been pirated, I went on the Gnutella network to look for it and sure enough, there it was. Here's the cool part, I also found a copy of The Two Towers in DivX, around 740 MB, cool (yes, it was the new as-yet-unreleased-version and not an old one (I think another version was made back in 1978)).
Oops, it seems the post I was replying to is gone, needless to say it was just spouting hate at Muslims.
Even if it was Osama Bin Laden, which it could be but hasn't been proven yet, how can you even think of judging an entire religion on the acts of a few fanatics? I am an American, if I choose to go on a killing spree tomorrow does that mean all Americans are psychopaths and killers? Not all people who do bad things are of one religion or nationality; I can't even comprehend what could make you think so. You are only adding to the problem, it was hate that got us into this in the first place. The hate of the terrorists, and yes, our hate as well. You strike out at a people from the protection of anonymity, at least when Hitler published he did it under his own name.
Yea! My FST teacher told me that and I spent 3 around 3 weeks withought sucsess to figure out WHY it did that. All I ended up doing was manipulating it to give exact definitions for PI, E, and i. Like that E = (-1)^((1/i)*(1/PI)). Works on the calc in exact mode but I still can't wrap my mind around -1 to the power of anything equaling anything other than 1, -1, i or -i. Although an interesting thing about i, i^i=.20787957635076...
I believe what you said is part of the theory of cold fusion, but it doesn't apply fission or to the type of fusion we are talking about here. Proof: go to site http://ippex.pppl.gov/ABOUT_FUSION/FUSION_DOC2.HTM L it explains how fusion works.
Not exactly, you said "Deuterium is a heavy isotope of hydrogen, and when its nuclei collide under this intense pressure, some of them fuse to form helium, releasing large amounts of energy.", but if only deuterium was in the plasma then only helium would be created with no energy output, it must be equal amounts deuterium and tritium to create energy, here, let me explain; nuclear energy from fission or fusion is given off in the form of neutron radiation which is absorbed by water to be converted into heat energy (it's why people say something is "hot" if it is radioactive) then to kinetic energy in the form of pressure difference from steam, that pressure drives turbines in the same way that a steam engine works.
As I said, the technology to do this probably won't be around for many a century.
About transporter technology, I've been thinking about the Heisenberg problem. Note: the technology to do this probably won't be around for many a century, but the theory is sound, so here it is. The problem is that when you try to figure out the location of a particle is and what it's kinetic energy and trajectory is that you end up having to bounce another particle off of it, or doing something else that will change it's position, K.E., and trajectory. Well here's my idea; every particle has mass and all mass creates a gravitational field around it; no matter how small, it is there. So what if, instead of bouncing particles off of particles, you surrounded the object you wished to transport with passive (for the most part) gravitational field sensors that would detect the mass, position, velocity and trajectory of the particles within the object that you wanted to transport. Now I say "passive (for the most part)" because to detect a gravitational field you do end up having to interact with it, however, gravity is the weakest of the four fundamental forces (gravitational, electromagnetic, strong nuclear and weak nuclear) and as such the interactions would be extraordinarily minute and the alterations to the particles position, K.E., etc... would also be minute, it would be there, but it would be manageable. Not like the alterations that would be made by a magnetic resonance imager or a scanning electron microscope, not by far. We have just dealt with the problem by real physics, not by a starfleet engineer saying the magic words "Heisenberg compensator" and not giving another nuance of explanation to the problem. Now, it would still never be used to transport a human; something as sensitive to, say, a few misplaced cells in the wall of a capillary in the brain (OOPS! aneurysm), but it could be used to transport a cargo of ore, some water, in general anything that wouldn't be dramatically affected by a few misplaced atoms, molecules or the occasional long carbon chain.