I've got kids who are about the same age I was when I first saw Star Trek. I'm introducing them. Does that count?
My strategy is just to watch TOS, so far we've seen 4 episodes and they are popular with all the kids except one who is freaked out by Spock's ears. I think I'll wait a few months and see if he gets over that.
Centrifuges can't cause a catastrophe, other than of the "oh shit my centrifuge just came apart and shredded my lab" kind. There is not a nuclear chain reaction to go out of control here.
Separate pair of glasses that are monofocals. When you are sitting at your desk you only need to see the display, and the glasses can be optimally tuned for this. You just put the bifocals on the desk and pick up the reading glasses when you sit down, and switch when you stand up.
If you don't want to buy the $5 pair at Walgreens I'm sure your optician will be happy to sell you a $200 pair that is exactly right for you.
I loved DD-WRT, and was saddened to see this exploit and the controversy. The exploit is definitely worth jumping ship for, and it took me 40 minutes to install tomato and get my configuration right. And that's only because I'm drunk.
Not true. If someone in a forum you visit adds to their post and you read it, your box is owned. Remote access not required, password access not required. It's a bad vulnerability.
Wait- are you saying that spammers won't violate the GPL? How will that help?
haxx0r: "Here's software to clean your computer!" suxx0r: "Cool, thanks! Wait, where can I find the source for this?" haxx0r: "http://fake.source.example.com/" suxx0r: "Awesome! I just read every line of source and I can verify it has no security problems!" suxx0r: [gets 0wned]
Simple. It has to be an actual, physical machine. Not a virtual machine.
So let me get this straight. A machine I design in CAD is not patentable. However, if I hook up a 3D printer and print my CAD machine to a real machine, I can patent it? How does that make sense?
If you're too ashamed of your platform to name it when you're posting anonymously on Slashdot, then you should switch to something you wouldn't be ashamed of naming.
By the time we reach 100 letters, there are already more possibilities than there are atoms in a vat of 26^100 atoms.
Wow. Some less creative writers might say "there are more possibilities than there are atoms in the observable universe" or "more possibilities than there are protons in the known universe" or some other colorful metaphor. He goes straight for the "more possibilities than there are possibilities in a vat of 26^100 possibilities". Pure genius.
TPS-true potato seed-is harvested from the berries that grow among the foliage of potato plants. An average plant produces dozens of berries, each of which contains hundreds of tiny seeds. Similar in appearance to tomato seed, TPS is usually sown in seedbeds three or four weeks prior to the potato planting season. The plants in the beds produce small tubers, sometimes called tuberlets, which farmers plant in the field much as they would conventional seed tubers.
This practice sidesteps much of the drudgery involved in handling heavy seed tube[r]s, provides farmers with vigorous disease-free seed, and eliminates the need to store part of the previous year's crop for following year's planting. Many of the production problems that potato farmers experience result from the deterioration of the seed tubers they save for planting, storing them for eight to nine months in inadequate storage facilities.
Matter is composed of atoms. When you tug on a piece of wire, you pull some of the atoms away. These are connected to others by electromagnetic bonds, and so the speed of the signal along the wire will be the speed of light.
What you are describing is the propagation of a pressure wave in the material. Pressure waves are also called "sound", and travel at the speed of sound which is orders of magnitude slower than the speed of light.
Imagine the wire is a long rod - you hit one end with a hammer, and the other end doesn't make a sound (or move at all) until the sound wave gets there.
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I've got kids who are about the same age I was when I first saw Star Trek. I'm introducing them. Does that count?
My strategy is just to watch TOS, so far we've seen 4 episodes and they are popular with all the kids except one who is freaked out by Spock's ears. I think I'll wait a few months and see if he gets over that.
Centrifuges can't cause a catastrophe, other than of the "oh shit my centrifuge just came apart and shredded my lab" kind. There is not a nuclear chain reaction to go out of control here.
Ernie Ball also went totally Microsoft free after the BSA screwed them for $100,000:
http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html
They can't be serious. Leading experts agree they must first build a SpaceshipFactoryProvider.
Committed:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421316/
Cooking recipes can be patented. Copyright != patent.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/update-on-china.html
Waste of time, really. All you have to do to get a BoingBoing post taken down is to somehow link the story to the words "Violet Blue."
He took it right in the ass. It was beautiful.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1554227
There is only so much Congress can do to effect change in Canada...
Separate pair of glasses that are monofocals. When you are sitting at your desk you only need to see the display, and the glasses can be optimally tuned for this. You just put the bifocals on the desk and pick up the reading glasses when you sit down, and switch when you stand up.
If you don't want to buy the $5 pair at Walgreens I'm sure your optician will be happy to sell you a $200 pair that is exactly right for you.
I loved DD-WRT, and was saddened to see this exploit and the controversy. The exploit is definitely worth jumping ship for, and it took me 40 minutes to install tomato and get my configuration right. And that's only because I'm drunk.
Not true. If someone in a forum you visit adds to their post and you read it, your box is owned. Remote access not required, password access not required. It's a bad vulnerability.
Wait- are you saying that spammers won't violate the GPL? How will that help?
haxx0r: "Here's software to clean your computer!"
suxx0r: "Cool, thanks! Wait, where can I find the source for this?"
haxx0r: "http://fake.source.example.com/"
suxx0r: "Awesome! I just read every line of source and I can verify it has no security problems!"
suxx0r: [gets 0wned]
So let me get this straight. A machine I design in CAD is not patentable. However, if I hook up a 3D printer and print my CAD machine to a real machine, I can patent it? How does that make sense?
You can keep track of the LHC status by subscribing to the feed here:
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
Make sure it's a non-ferrous crowbar.
If you're too ashamed of your platform to name it when you're posting anonymously on Slashdot, then you should switch to something you wouldn't be ashamed of naming.
Congratulations on winning the auction! Here is your property tax bill for 1% of ONE HUNDRED BILLION TRILLION ZOMG BBQ DOLLARS.
http://www.growseed.org/potato-breeding.html
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What you are describing is the propagation of a pressure wave in the material. Pressure waves are also called "sound", and travel at the speed of sound which is orders of magnitude slower than the speed of light.
Imagine the wire is a long rod - you hit one end with a hammer, and the other end doesn't make a sound (or move at all) until the sound wave gets there.
You're absolutely right, there are no casinos in San Francisco. You have to travel over 6 miles to get to the nearest casino.
Cingular and T-Mobile at least have prepaid plans, and you can just buy a SIM card on ebay and plug it in to any unlocked phone.
I'm doing this, and the minimum cost is quite low - on T-Mobile it's $100 for 1 YEAR (1000 minutes).