From the sounds of it the writer of the article might be blowing this out of proportion. All they did is built a machine to the specifications of the physicist who claimed to have achieved results years ago but no one was able to publicly replicated his results (and the set up had to be exactly right so even if he's right it still might not work!). Also I pulled this quote from the article, The Podkletnov effect suggests it may be possible to effectively reduce the mass of the ship, thereby reducing the overall energy needed for acceleration. Gravity has NOTHING to do with mass, anyone who took high school physics should be able to tell you that. I also have doubts if this could be used to help propel a ship out of the atmosphere. If this really worked this could be used as the basis of a perpetual motion device. Piston floats up, falls down, infinite energy. Going by the law of conservation of energy if this does reduce the effect of gravity I strongly suspect the amount of energy needed to maintain the effect will be at least equal to or greater than the potential energy difference of the material affected. The writer is obviously ill informed and I wouldn't put too much veracity in this claim. Sorry people:(
I was a long time apple user and loved the OS. However I'm now typing this in on an Athalon running XP and Redhat 7.2. The primary reason I made the switch is price, it would have cost me an arm and a leg to get anything other than an iMac which had too small a monitor (the component that couldn't be upgraded without buying an external one). I never considered the "lack" of applications although windows people always bugged me about it, I don't see the advantage in having 50x as many games as you could possibly play as opposed to 10x. I also found 8.1 fairly slow in relation to Wintels from the same year, and also fairly buggy (though not as buggy as ME on my new machine). My parents are getting a new iMac (it should be arrieving any day now...) and I'm looking forward to looking at OS X.
"However, Scientology was on such shaky grounds, that they settled with us out of court. They promised not to hold us responsible for the user's website, and in return we would give out the user's name and address so they could sue him. With the user's voluntary consent we provided Scientology with his name and address, thereby relieving Xtended Internet from its conflict between privacy laws and blocking a possible lawsuit from happening."
Jack Valenti, 15503 Ventura Blvd. Encino, California 91436 (818) 995-6600 (Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA))
As has already been said it was the default XP theme that is unspeakably ugly. After I installed it (free upgrade) I was able to work for about 5 min before I changed it to classic theme because couldn't stand the colours. Later on I changed it to their silver theme, shrunk the menu bars a bit and have been almost as happy as with my old mac.
Do you mean, Associating Tesla with the Tunguska event comes close to putting the inventor's power transmission idea in the same speculative category as ancient astronauts.
The article is quite an interesting read although it kind of takes off and begins to sound like a mad scientist conspiracy theory after that point but they do raise some interesting points (or at least give some interesting history).
Simple, hire a bunch of oil rig hands and send them up into space after a few days training and give them lots of really high tech toys and let them try to drill a hole in the asteroid and drop a nuke into it.
"Hmmm, if I feed it garbage inputs maybe it will crash and I can escape." It's brilliant, after you've talked nonsence for long enough just tell the jury to find you innocent. He's trying to exploit a buffer overflow!!
But on that point Steve Mann now has an excuse to get one heck of a new toy!!
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But that does bring up what I think would be an advantage to a system like this in that the bad guy doesn't have to know when you're getting your message and and is able to intercept it. If you can only recognize the message after dycrypting it than you can make it by having scheduled messages sent and only you and your partner know when and where they are. The bad guy is left with his special decoder ring and about a zillion random letters.
Most of the passwords I use are in fact quite weak. Why? Because I don't really care if someone hacks into my spam account and if there is no one I know who would have the patience or know how to hack into the Linux partition I have. The fact is that the vast majority people don't have the ability to crack even the simplest of passwords (with the exception of "password"), and any one who does has a lot better things to do than screw around with some of my accounts. True the important passwords I have are still strong (I don't want someone breaking into my university account) but feel free to screw around with my hotmail account.
So will you buy it when you see it? No, I didn't think so. The fact is that publicity isn't always good. It's just so hard to get bad publicity that I think that they forgot it was possible. True the article came embarassingly close to a promo for the game to make me wonder but I suspect the majority of the people who clicked on the link and smart and determined enough to take this into consideration the next time they see an Acclaim game on the shelf. I think in this case this incident could hurt the company more than it helps them. Then again you never know, I could just be overestimating humanity again.
It seems as if M$'s motion might have backfired a bit. I wonder if this latest development might lead to the 25 backing the 9 in some other areas as well, they've just shown that they finally have the gonads to stand up to the beast.
I see your point but the problem is "cable internet companies from having to share their lines to competition." The area of the service they are regulating here is entirly communicative. If they told the cable companies not to offer cable service to competing cable companies you'd have a point. However, here the fact that the primary use of the lines is information oriented (TV) is trivial. All I can derive from this is the government apparently considers the internet to be an information service and phone calls are the only reason the baby bells have to share. This stance of the internet being primarly as information service is in contradiction to even AOL adds.
As reported three previous times, Well at least they're taking a proactive approach to repeat stories now! (and Yes I know that this article with the EFF thing is new but c'mon, can't you just pretend:)
I love the speed! I love the tabbed browsing! I love the interface! I love not using IE! I love disabling pop-up windows! Just one thing... It must know I love it, because whenever I tell it to stay down for a minute it just keeps popping right back up!!!
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From the sounds of it the writer of the article might be blowing this out of proportion. All they did is built a machine to the specifications of the physicist who claimed to have achieved results years ago but no one was able to publicly replicated his results (and the set up had to be exactly right so even if he's right it still might not work!). Also I pulled this quote from the article,
The Podkletnov effect suggests it may be possible to effectively reduce the mass of the ship, thereby reducing the overall energy needed for acceleration.
Gravity has NOTHING to do with mass, anyone who took high school physics should be able to tell you that. I also have doubts if this could be used to help propel a ship out of the atmosphere. If this really worked this could be used as the basis of a perpetual motion device. Piston floats up, falls down, infinite energy. Going by the law of conservation of energy if this does reduce the effect of gravity I strongly suspect the amount of energy needed to maintain the effect will be at least equal to or greater than the potential energy difference of the material affected. The writer is obviously ill informed and I wouldn't put too much veracity in this claim. Sorry people:(
So I made a stupid spelling mistake, so flame me.
I was a long time apple user and loved the OS. However I'm now typing this in on an Athalon running XP and Redhat 7.2. The primary reason I made the switch is price, it would have cost me an arm and a leg to get anything other than an iMac which had too small a monitor (the component that couldn't be upgraded without buying an external one). I never considered the "lack" of applications although windows people always bugged me about it, I don't see the advantage in having 50x as many games as you could possibly play as opposed to 10x. I also found 8.1 fairly slow in relation to Wintels from the same year, and also fairly buggy (though not as buggy as ME on my new machine). My parents are getting a new iMac (it should be arrieving any day now...) and I'm looking forward to looking at OS X.
On that point has the US successfully push through any gun control legislation?
Maybe our new slogan should be,
"Software doesn't steal digital content, people steal digital content."
Beating the Spam Merchants
Good, you find the Spam Merchants and I'll find my bat!!
"However, Scientology was on such shaky grounds, that they settled with us out of court. They promised not to hold us responsible for the user's website, and in return we would give out the user's name and address so they could sue him. With the user's voluntary consent we provided Scientology with his name and address, thereby relieving Xtended Internet from its conflict between privacy laws and blocking a possible lawsuit from happening."
Jack Valenti,
15503 Ventura Blvd.
Encino, California 91436
(818) 995-6600
(Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA))
And you thought a cat on a HOT sidewalk was funny!
As has already been said it was the default XP theme that is unspeakably ugly. After I installed it (free upgrade) I was able to work for about 5 min before I changed it to classic theme because couldn't stand the colours. Later on I changed it to their silver theme, shrunk the menu bars a bit and have been almost as happy as with my old mac.
Do you mean,
Associating Tesla with the Tunguska event comes close to putting the inventor's power transmission idea in the same speculative category as ancient astronauts.
The article is quite an interesting read although it kind of takes off and begins to sound like a mad scientist conspiracy theory after that point but they do raise some interesting points (or at least give some interesting history).
Simple, hire a bunch of oil rig hands and send them up into space after a few days training and give them lots of really high tech toys and let them try to drill a hole in the asteroid and drop a nuke into it.
I'm appalled! Imagine someone posting something that isn't completely original on slashdot!!
"Hmmm, if I feed it garbage inputs maybe it will crash and I can escape."
It's brilliant, after you've talked nonsence for long enough just tell the jury to find you innocent. He's trying to exploit a buffer overflow!!
Imagine having a beowulf cluster of these shooting at one of your eyes!!
Wait a second...
Ok. Maybe that's not such a good idea after all.
But on that point Steve Mann now has an excuse to get one heck of a new toy!!
But that does bring up what I think would be an advantage to a system like this in that the bad guy doesn't have to know when you're getting your message and and is able to intercept it. If you can only recognize the message after dycrypting it than you can make it by having scheduled messages sent and only you and your partner know when and where they are. The bad guy is left with his special decoder ring and about a zillion random letters.
I wish they would limit it at home too so I would get some work done because I wouldn't spend so much time on /. !!
"Paint Youself An Athalon MP"
I thought this story was going to give me an idea for a costume party!!
Most of the passwords I use are in fact quite weak. Why? Because I don't really care if someone hacks into my spam account and if there is no one I know who would have the patience or know how to hack into the Linux partition I have. The fact is that the vast majority people don't have the ability to crack even the simplest of passwords (with the exception of "password"), and any one who does has a lot better things to do than screw around with some of my accounts. True the important passwords I have are still strong (I don't want someone breaking into my university account) but feel free to screw around with my hotmail account.
I didn't think it was possible but I guess you can get lower than spammers!! I think we may have a late entry for the 101 Dumbest Moments In Business!
So will you buy it when you see it?
No, I didn't think so.
The fact is that publicity isn't always good. It's just so hard to get bad publicity that I think that they forgot it was possible. True the article came embarassingly close to a promo for the game to make me wonder but I suspect the majority of the people who clicked on the link and smart and determined enough to take this into consideration the next time they see an Acclaim game on the shelf. I think in this case this incident could hurt the company more than it helps them. Then again you never know, I could just be overestimating humanity again.
It seems as if M$'s motion might have backfired a bit. I wonder if this latest development might lead to the 25 backing the 9 in some other areas as well, they've just shown that they finally have the gonads to stand up to the beast.
Maybe he's a masochist.
I see your point but the problem is " cable internet companies from having to share their lines to competition."
The area of the service they are regulating here is entirly communicative. If they told the cable companies not to offer cable service to competing cable companies you'd have a point. However, here the fact that the primary use of the lines is information oriented (TV) is trivial. All I can derive from this is the government apparently considers the internet to be an information service and phone calls are the only reason the baby bells have to share. This stance of the internet being primarly as information service is in contradiction to even AOL adds.
As reported three previous times,
Well at least they're taking a proactive approach to repeat stories now! (and Yes I know that this article with the EFF thing is new but c'mon, can't you just pretend:)
I love the speed!
I love the tabbed browsing!
I love the interface!
I love not using IE!
I love disabling pop-up windows!
Just one thing...
It must know I love it, because whenever I tell it to stay down for a minute it just keeps popping right back up!!!