Even though I work in the tech industry and care about tech issues, I can't say any of those issues rank at the top of my list of critera.
We may be geeks, but we are still citizens of this country and there are a lot more policies that will affect our every day lives long before things like Net Neutrality.
First and foremost our debt and economy need to be addressed. If this country countinues to spend and borrow money, it won't matter how much you have to pay for internet access.
I personally don't like either candidate for President. Obama sounds like the better guy when you listen to him, but in the end I don't see how he plans to accomplish any of his goals without taking a very socialist stance. That is not going to work in the American economy. Like it or not but big business is our bread and butter, and choking business will hurt our Economy. Either canidate might preach about hope and bringing change, but they can't do anything personally. Congress makes our laws and policies. We don't need a president that promises change. We need a president loyal to the constitution and has the balls to rip congress a new one when it is pandering to interest groups, We need a president who will use the Justice department for its intended purpose, not as a smoke screen for questionable activities.
You still might have to wait some months for reentry, however.
The ISS can last months and even years in a semi-stable orbit without re-boosting. The ISS also has gyro's that help it shift it's gravitional gradient around in order to help keep the orbit stable. The orbit will eventually decay, yes. Each shuttle mission does clean up the ISS orbit, but the orbit wouldn't decay for a few years. It only drops around 3km per month. But that effect would be exponential as the orbit decreases.
The ISS has a bit more mass than a paper airplane.
The static pressure at that altitude is about 1 pa. The dynamic pressure of something that small and weighing only a few grams is going fairly small. A back of the eyelide calculation would suggest the paper airplane would decelerate at around.05 m/s and drop about 2 meter a year taking it some 60 years to deorbit.
No, not quite. Newton is in the pilot's seat, but he still has ~7.400 k/sec of tangent velocity along the orbital prograde vector to contend with. Yes if you throw it "down" it will move away from the ISS and towards the Earth. But all you've done is put the airplane in a slightly lower orbit than the ISS. You'd also put the ISS in a very slightly, almost imeasurable, higher orbit.
Remember that orbiting a planet is carrying a velocity that moves you tangent to the planet at a rate equal to the gravitional pull that is making you "fall" towards it. You are just falling "around" the planet.
The only way to de-orbit a body is to slow the velocity so your orbit is lowered.
Since I can't read japanese and therefore can't RTFA, I have a few questions.
The ISS Orbits the Earth at around 7.400k/s at an altitude of 365k. You can't just throw something out of the ISS and hit the Earth's atmosphere for Re-entry. If you "throw" it out of the ISS, it'll orbit, just like the ISS. In order to intersect with the Earth's atmosphere for areo-braking, you are going to need to lower he perigee of your orbit to at least 50-60k. You'll need a delta V of about 100 m/sec to do this.
What gives? Have they built an oragami retrograde rocket as well?
There are a couple of arguements to both sides. First, because of how the trademark law is set up, Ford is under obligation to at least attempt to defend its trademarks and copyrights or it loses the right to in the future. Second, Ford is going after the group for making profit, not for merely taking pictures.
The problem with the first argement is there is a previous precident with magazines. While magazines like Car and Driver and Motortrend aquire permission to publish photos of their cars there are hundreds of amateur tuner magazines out there that do not. These magazines are usually only 30-40 pages, do not have a big circulation, and are quite cheap. A LOT of the major car forums out there have them. These tuner magazines usually have member's cars, and definetly a lot of pictures of them. I used to suscribe to RX Tuner (rx7forum.com's magazine), which is a tuner magazine for rotary based vehicles. Ford owns Mazda. This is just one example, I'm sure there are plenty more that are dedicated to the Mustang and the Focus.
While some of these magazines have probably aquired permission, there must be some that have not. If Ford did not pursue these in the allotted time, it likely means they have lost the right to take legal action against a calender.
I very much doubt this would stand up in court. Of course, that said, there is not much an army of corporate lawyers can't do these days.
You'd think that, but I would disagree. So would a lot of others. It has done great things for me and increased my quality of sleep greatly. Try it for yourself, if you go insane, you have my apologies:)
I see, you are correct, I am mistaken. Thank you for that clarification. Zinc and magnesium are essential in any case and hard to find in decent quantities in regular diets. ZMA has vastly improved my dream projects:)
As a counterpoint to the beginning of your comment;I have heard people tell me that they figured how to solve problems in their sleep and woken up and carried out what they had done in their sleep to resolve it. Inversely, I have also noticed that, in general, what you focus on in your wakening hours can really effect your dreams.
Very good point. This thread has prompted to me to review my dream log. I have, apparently, had this happen as well quite a few times. Mainly finding things I have lost. I have lost something, or put something in my garage that didn't belong, and could not find it. I dream about finding it, and sure enough, sometimes where I found it in my dream is where it is.
Lately with my increased lucid dreaming, my dreams pertaining to every day life has decreased.
I still don't quite buy that this is your subconcious' way of training you for situations. If it were an evolutionary trait, we'd remember our dreams much better. As it is, dreams are but fleeting glimspes that we have to try and remember, or keep logs to jog the memory.
Also, perhaps it is not the subconcious preparing the conscious mind for events, but the conscious mind taking advantage of the subconcious'.
The poster was postulating that ZMA wasn't a vitamin. I provided evidence to show that it was a real product. What's more is that it is a product of zinc and magnesium. Two things you'll find are vitamins. Futhermore, it's not pseudo science because it's not even science to begin with. Take it. Everyone I have heard from (mainly from diet and excercise forums) that has taken ZMA has commented on it's affects on dreaming.
I'll admit that the athetlic effects of ZMA are debateable. Personally, I think it has had a positive effect on my lifting routines. Whether or not that is from increased rest, or the increase in my testosterone levels, I do not know. What I do know is that it has increased my ability to rest and recover. I know this from my dream log (which also records sleep times and morning feelings, alertness ect.) I have also had my testosterone levels checked before and after taking ZMA. They have increased. However this is not completely causal and could be explained by other factors as well, such as increased lifting activity at the same time of taking ZMA.
Either way, it's quite ironic that people refer to it as psuedo science without ever having tried it themselves.
Haha. The sexual encounters in my dreams are definetly not ones I've encountered in my life. My real life encounters are usually limited to 1 at a time! Dreams...
It is said that pineapple juice removes the bitter taste from sperm. If you take valerian root and recieve oral sex while your system is still breaking it down, you will see a very grossed out face. Ever eaten asparagus? It's like that.
It's just zinc and magnesium. You'll find those in any supplimental vitamin pill like cetrum or even flinstones. What is being debated on those sites is how well atheletes performed while taking it. Not whether or not it is useful or is "real" like the other poster suggested. If you have taken flinstones vitamins, you have basically taken ZMA. Get over it.
Look I'm all for scientific skepeticism. I preach it and practice it. But if you guys are dismissing ZMA becuase it has a fancy sounding name, then look at the ingrediant list. Look up zinc and testosterone. You'll find many reasons to suppliment your diet with zinc. You'll also find that you'll want to add copper to that as well.
Additionally I have personally noticed better gains in my excercising while taking ZMA. Better rest. Increased dreaming activity which I can plainly see with my dream logs. I have a Z or V next to my logs when I have taken either the root or ZMA. I have concluded that, for me, ZMA has improved my dream project.
Try it for yourself. It's just zinc. And magnesium.
Next thing you know getting fat from eating McDonalds will be called a placebo effect, sheesh. NEWSFLASH: DIET IMPACTS YOU LIFE.
ZMA is VITAMINS. The ingrediants are zinc, magnesium, and vitamin B. I think you'll find those are all vitamins. A suppliment composed of vitamins, is vitamins. I'm not sure why you have difficulty understanding this.
Secondly, there are many scientific studies to promote the benefits of zinc. Also magnesium. Putting them together isn't some magic formula, it's just taking them together. I also take copper and other vitamins that I don't get from my regular diet. Zinc is important to testostorone production. Without it, you WILL have lower testosterone levels. Zinc is not common in a lot of foods, so it is hard to get enough of it. So you suppliment it. It's quite simple.
I have noticed increased rest and sleep when taking ZMA. I have noticed it's benefits on my lucid dreaming study. Try it for yourself before you dismiss it. There are plenty of scientific studies using proper control method testing about ZMA. What's more is it's just zinc and magnesium, something your body needs. That's a fact, so quit trolling.
Isn't the placebo effect amazing? It can even convince you that a vitamin that science has never heard of exists.
What are you referring to? Honestly, are you that out of touch that you've never heard of zinc, or magnesium? Or that you can combine both into a convient little pill? Are you that bad at the internet that you can't type 3 letters into a search engine?
The scientific uses of ZMA are well documented, thank you very much.
It is really not a lot of effort. Google lucid dreaming for a lot of links. Aside from the initial research, which shouldn't take you more than 30 minutes, it's no work at all if you go the self hypnosis route. I tried the meditation route at the same time I tried the self hypnosis route. Self hypnosis being asking yourself "Am I awake or dreaming" throughout the day. Since the self hypnosis worked so well and so quickly for me, I can't say how sucessful the meditation methods are.
All I do know is that it's very little effort for something I consider to be the best part of my life. Lucid dreaming and keeping a dream log is far more entertaining than any game or any TV show. It's also very educational.
Granted, one of the other keys to proper sleep and dreams is excercise and a good diet. Something the slashdot community might think of as "work", but not excercising and eating poorly is just like installing bloatware and spyware on your computer system. If your brain is your computer, you might as well keep it in tip top working condition. And that starts with the body. "But I feel fine and think fine", you might say. Well that might be, but you'd probably think even clearer and have more focus if you exercise and eat right, subsequently sleeping even better. I know diet and excercise changed my life, not just physically but mentally. I really don't even care about the physical benefits, but they are a nice side effect. However my mental focus has increased more than I can even quantize since I started eating right, excercising, and sleeping properly. I've always been a geek. I always did well in school, played a mean game of quake, did well with puzzles and other mind games. But now with a clearer mind and more focus. I do even better. My short and long term memory are vastly improved. My days appear to go slower, as I am more aware. I remember details better.
Interesting concept, but wouldn't modern dreams have adapted to modern problems by now? I also thought (perhaps incorrectly) that the flight or fight response was mostly subconscious. So would "dream training" even help you in those situations?
I would personally think dreams are more hormonal than that. A while back I began taking a vitamin supplement of zinc and magnesium (ZMA). A side effect of this vitamin combo is vivid dreaming. You notice right away that your dreams are more lucid, and you remember more of them. Right away I noticed that my dreams were very violent or sexually oriented. Now this vitamin supplement increases testosterone production as well (when combined with exercise). So I'm not quite sure if my violent/sexual dreams increased as a result of testosterone production, or that I was already having these dreams, and my memory/frequency of them was improved. I happen to think it is the latter because you notice the dreams on the first night of taking the vitamins.
Either way, my dreams include fights, wars, sexual encounters, robberies, and all sorts of crazy behavior that just simply doesn't apply to my life. If dreams were a virtual reality training program, I wonder why they haven't adapted to train me for my real world problems that need solving. Not robbing a bank Heat style (a rather lucid dream I had the other night).
I suppose the socially embarrassing dreams such as arriving to work naked might be a counter-point, but I just don't buy it.
On that related note if anyone is interested in lucid dreaming, I highly recommend it. Google around for some quick guides. It's not very hard and requires very small amounts of simple self-hypnosis to start. Simply thinking of the question during your waking hours over and over again "Am I awake or am I dreaming" was enough for me to start asking myself that question while I was dreaming after a week. Once this question appears in your dreams and you recognize it enough to answer "dreaming", you can have lots of fun with lucid dreaming.
I highly recommend the vitamin ZMA (Zinc Magnesium Aspartame) combined with valerian root* 30 minutes before bed. Also keep a dream log for maximum enjoyment. Lucid dreaming can be a lot of fun. Trying to get to know your own subconscious is a real challenge and it never gets boring.
*Valerian root has very very pungent odor that can make your breath smell for hours after you take it. It sits in your stomach and seems to work its way up, no matter how clean your mouth is. It also has the reverse effect of pineapple juice, if you catch my drift. Thankfully ZMA on it's own is enough to enhance your dreams. Valerian root does provide that extra kick, so it's good to try now and again. Just do your SO a break and only use it sparingly.
In a related story in Caveman Weekly, Torg, The Cheif Smartguy, for clan *Grunt* asks: OOGA BOOGA Should we go outside the cave or stay inside? OOGA OOGA!
There is a simple, albiet unscientific, explanation for the perception of time slowing. Anyone who has ever had an intense moment, be it sports, a fight, a car accident, whatever will experience this
It isn't your time perception perse, but it is all about the recall of the event. If you're sitting in a boring meeting, your concentration fades in and out. You start thinking about what you are going to do after, or how boring the meeting is.
However, in extreme moments that get your senses honed and your concentration fine tuned, you pay precise attention to things. You notice more little things instead of broader movements. Think of it like turning up the FPS on a video game. Instead of recalling choppy movements because your attention was divided, you now notice details.
I recall an accident I once had. I noticed the expression of suprise on the lady's face as she finally notices my car is in her way and she should have stopped. I remembered how the front of the car slamed into mine and how my perception was changed in an instant by shattering glass, I remember hearing (but not seeing) a loud airbag deploy and my facing hitting it. All of that was over in less than a second, but my recolection of it seems much longer because I was devoting 100% of my attention to it.
In the moment however, things happen very quickly. The perceieved time in the moment doesn't change if you ask me. Reactions are still the same. But by paying more attention to it, my recolection of the event did change.
The expirment in this regard is flawed. They should not have sped the nubmers up to beyond what the humans could see. If I was running the expirment I would display random images that the person should have to remember. See if they remember more images while falling or some other control. Either way if the numbers are displayed to fast for the human eye to process, there will be no recolection.
but what's so hard about implementing passphrases instead of passwords?
I agree with you, but the problem for the average user is that they are not touch typers. They are constantly looking at the keyboard and screen to confirm what they have typed. As the length of the password increases, the odds that a typing error is going to be made also goes up. As passwords are blocked out, it would be very frusterating to a person who has to look at the screen to confirm what they have typed and backspaces often. This gets worse if you are trying to login to a domain with strict policies, I.E. most large companies. If you make too many mistakes trying to login, your account is locked.
Maybe universal CCTV is the answer. If your entire life is recorded, then criminal charges will be easier to determine.
Given the context of your post (which I did not quote) I realize this statement was probably tongue in cheek, but I felt the need to respond anyway.
CCTV systems are used to investigate crimes. But they rarely actually catch the criminal act themselves. Instead it's used to connect people, places, and times. Would you like to be linked to criminal activity just because you happened to be in two wrong places at the wrong times? If a linked crime happens in 2 areas, the probability goes up that all the people recorded in that area are suspects. This also increases your probability to be charged with a crime you did not convict. Even if you are acquitted in the end, the mere charge of a crime in today's societies comes with negative consequences. Even if you are proven innocent, you suffer reputation damages, probably wife and kids, and most assuredly your job.
Yeah, but since it's been proven that even established forensic tests aren't necessarily reliable, why should anyone believe you?" how am I supposed to not have reasonable doubt about the forensic evidence now?
You have nothing to worry about. That type of thinking (logicical) will exclude you from ever being selected as a juror. Unless you fiegn complete ignorance in the selection process, that is.
That is what I see as the single biggest flaw with the American legal system. We are supposed to be judged by our peers, but I wouldn't consider any modern jury to be made up of my peers. They are selected based on their ignorance of the topic involved. Prosecutors want blank slates to trick with fancy sounding testimony. Defenders want considerate and empathetic people. In any case involving race, both sides will seek to fill a quota of a certain demographic.
Nothing is unreasonable when you tell your customers they can pick any 2 items from the following list:
You can have it fast.
You can have it cheap.
You can have it reliable.
If they want it in 48 hours, you should explain what that would cost.
If you want to streamline your process for patch deployment, I highly suggest you apply some six sigma or equivlant business process improvement strategy to it. Asking Slashdot is going to be counter productive. Your application is very different from anyone else's. Industry standard turn around time for software for a toaster is not going to be useful to you.
In other words, either you are working effeciently, or you aren't. It's that simple. If you aren't, fix the problems with your process. If you are, charge the customer what it would cost you to meet their needs.
To all the posters saying this would be too difficult to monitor and analyze:
No it wouldn't. It's called sampling. Red flags and segmenting certain layers and patterns. You don't have to store a fraction of the traffic data to analyze it and store what you need.
I won't say what I do, but I do it for a fortune 50 company, and I personally analyze an obscene amount of internet traffic. I do all this with a few servers and a workstation. Now I can honestly I say I have probably analyzed.5% of the internet's traffic (doesn't sound like much, but it is). With the differnet software we use and the relatively small amounts of hardware we use, I can easily imagine scaling that to 100% without too much problems. You'd need a lot more people, better alogorithms, and much more processing and storage space. But it's definitely possible.
And you don't even need to do 100%. As I pointed out before, you can segment your data and sample it for what you are looking for. Or data mine samples if you don't know what you are looking for. Find the flags you want, and apply that accross the whole traffic spectrum.
Pretty scary. Allthough my first thought is that this is used for counter-terrorism activities, I can't help but think that's instead used for political purposes as well. Who knows. Big brother indeed.
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No big deal. Just add some ammonia lock to the ocean. Works on my aquariums!
We may be geeks, but we are still citizens of this country and there are a lot more policies that will affect our every day lives long before things like Net Neutrality.
First and foremost our debt and economy need to be addressed. If this country countinues to spend and borrow money, it won't matter how much you have to pay for internet access.
I personally don't like either candidate for President. Obama sounds like the better guy when you listen to him, but in the end I don't see how he plans to accomplish any of his goals without taking a very socialist stance. That is not going to work in the American economy. Like it or not but big business is our bread and butter, and choking business will hurt our Economy. Either canidate might preach about hope and bringing change, but they can't do anything personally. Congress makes our laws and policies. We don't need a president that promises change. We need a president loyal to the constitution and has the balls to rip congress a new one when it is pandering to interest groups, We need a president who will use the Justice department for its intended purpose, not as a smoke screen for questionable activities.
The ISS has a bit more mass than a paper airplane.
The static pressure at that altitude is about 1 pa. The dynamic pressure of something that small and weighing only a few grams is going fairly small. A back of the eyelide calculation would suggest the paper airplane would decelerate at around .05 m/s and drop about 2 meter a year taking it some 60 years to deorbit.
Remember that orbiting a planet is carrying a velocity that moves you tangent to the planet at a rate equal to the gravitional pull that is making you "fall" towards it. You are just falling "around" the planet.
The only way to de-orbit a body is to slow the velocity so your orbit is lowered.
The ISS Orbits the Earth at around 7.400k/s at an altitude of 365k. You can't just throw something out of the ISS and hit the Earth's atmosphere for Re-entry. If you "throw" it out of the ISS, it'll orbit, just like the ISS. In order to intersect with the Earth's atmosphere for areo-braking, you are going to need to lower he perigee of your orbit to at least 50-60k. You'll need a delta V of about 100 m/sec to do this.
What gives? Have they built an oragami retrograde rocket as well?
The problem with the first argement is there is a previous precident with magazines. While magazines like Car and Driver and Motortrend aquire permission to publish photos of their cars there are hundreds of amateur tuner magazines out there that do not. These magazines are usually only 30-40 pages, do not have a big circulation, and are quite cheap. A LOT of the major car forums out there have them. These tuner magazines usually have member's cars, and definetly a lot of pictures of them. I used to suscribe to RX Tuner (rx7forum.com's magazine), which is a tuner magazine for rotary based vehicles. Ford owns Mazda. This is just one example, I'm sure there are plenty more that are dedicated to the Mustang and the Focus.
While some of these magazines have probably aquired permission, there must be some that have not. If Ford did not pursue these in the allotted time, it likely means they have lost the right to take legal action against a calender.
I very much doubt this would stand up in court. Of course, that said, there is not much an army of corporate lawyers can't do these days.
You'd think that, but I would disagree. So would a lot of others. It has done great things for me and increased my quality of sleep greatly. Try it for yourself, if you go insane, you have my apologies :)
I see, you are correct, I am mistaken. Thank you for that clarification. Zinc and magnesium are essential in any case and hard to find in decent quantities in regular diets. ZMA has vastly improved my dream projects :)
Very good point. This thread has prompted to me to review my dream log. I have, apparently, had this happen as well quite a few times. Mainly finding things I have lost. I have lost something, or put something in my garage that didn't belong, and could not find it. I dream about finding it, and sure enough, sometimes where I found it in my dream is where it is.
Lately with my increased lucid dreaming, my dreams pertaining to every day life has decreased.
I still don't quite buy that this is your subconcious' way of training you for situations. If it were an evolutionary trait, we'd remember our dreams much better. As it is, dreams are but fleeting glimspes that we have to try and remember, or keep logs to jog the memory.
Also, perhaps it is not the subconcious preparing the conscious mind for events, but the conscious mind taking advantage of the subconcious'.
I'll admit that the athetlic effects of ZMA are debateable. Personally, I think it has had a positive effect on my lifting routines. Whether or not that is from increased rest, or the increase in my testosterone levels, I do not know. What I do know is that it has increased my ability to rest and recover. I know this from my dream log (which also records sleep times and morning feelings, alertness ect.) I have also had my testosterone levels checked before and after taking ZMA. They have increased. However this is not completely causal and could be explained by other factors as well, such as increased lifting activity at the same time of taking ZMA.
Either way, it's quite ironic that people refer to it as psuedo science without ever having tried it themselves.
It is said that pineapple juice removes the bitter taste from sperm. If you take valerian root and recieve oral sex while your system is still breaking it down, you will see a very grossed out face. Ever eaten asparagus? It's like that.
Look I'm all for scientific skepeticism. I preach it and practice it. But if you guys are dismissing ZMA becuase it has a fancy sounding name, then look at the ingrediant list. Look up zinc and testosterone. You'll find many reasons to suppliment your diet with zinc. You'll also find that you'll want to add copper to that as well.
Additionally I have personally noticed better gains in my excercising while taking ZMA. Better rest. Increased dreaming activity which I can plainly see with my dream logs. I have a Z or V next to my logs when I have taken either the root or ZMA. I have concluded that, for me, ZMA has improved my dream project.
Try it for yourself. It's just zinc. And magnesium.
Next thing you know getting fat from eating McDonalds will be called a placebo effect, sheesh. NEWSFLASH: DIET IMPACTS YOU LIFE.
Secondly, there are many scientific studies to promote the benefits of zinc. Also magnesium. Putting them together isn't some magic formula, it's just taking them together. I also take copper and other vitamins that I don't get from my regular diet. Zinc is important to testostorone production. Without it, you WILL have lower testosterone levels. Zinc is not common in a lot of foods, so it is hard to get enough of it. So you suppliment it. It's quite simple.
I have noticed increased rest and sleep when taking ZMA. I have noticed it's benefits on my lucid dreaming study. Try it for yourself before you dismiss it. There are plenty of scientific studies using proper control method testing about ZMA. What's more is it's just zinc and magnesium, something your body needs. That's a fact, so quit trolling.
What are you referring to? Honestly, are you that out of touch that you've never heard of zinc, or magnesium? Or that you can combine both into a convient little pill? Are you that bad at the internet that you can't type 3 letters into a search engine?
The scientific uses of ZMA are well documented, thank you very much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMA_(supplement) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ZMA http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=zinc+magnesium+aspertate
Digg called, they want you back.
All I do know is that it's very little effort for something I consider to be the best part of my life. Lucid dreaming and keeping a dream log is far more entertaining than any game or any TV show. It's also very educational.
Granted, one of the other keys to proper sleep and dreams is excercise and a good diet. Something the slashdot community might think of as "work", but not excercising and eating poorly is just like installing bloatware and spyware on your computer system. If your brain is your computer, you might as well keep it in tip top working condition. And that starts with the body. "But I feel fine and think fine", you might say. Well that might be, but you'd probably think even clearer and have more focus if you exercise and eat right, subsequently sleeping even better. I know diet and excercise changed my life, not just physically but mentally. I really don't even care about the physical benefits, but they are a nice side effect. However my mental focus has increased more than I can even quantize since I started eating right, excercising, and sleeping properly. I've always been a geek. I always did well in school, played a mean game of quake, did well with puzzles and other mind games. But now with a clearer mind and more focus. I do even better. My short and long term memory are vastly improved. My days appear to go slower, as I am more aware. I remember details better.
Hack your life.
I would personally think dreams are more hormonal than that. A while back I began taking a vitamin supplement of zinc and magnesium (ZMA). A side effect of this vitamin combo is vivid dreaming. You notice right away that your dreams are more lucid, and you remember more of them. Right away I noticed that my dreams were very violent or sexually oriented. Now this vitamin supplement increases testosterone production as well (when combined with exercise). So I'm not quite sure if my violent/sexual dreams increased as a result of testosterone production, or that I was already having these dreams, and my memory/frequency of them was improved. I happen to think it is the latter because you notice the dreams on the first night of taking the vitamins.
Either way, my dreams include fights, wars, sexual encounters, robberies, and all sorts of crazy behavior that just simply doesn't apply to my life. If dreams were a virtual reality training program, I wonder why they haven't adapted to train me for my real world problems that need solving. Not robbing a bank Heat style (a rather lucid dream I had the other night).
I suppose the socially embarrassing dreams such as arriving to work naked might be a counter-point, but I just don't buy it.
On that related note if anyone is interested in lucid dreaming, I highly recommend it. Google around for some quick guides. It's not very hard and requires very small amounts of simple self-hypnosis to start. Simply thinking of the question during your waking hours over and over again "Am I awake or am I dreaming" was enough for me to start asking myself that question while I was dreaming after a week. Once this question appears in your dreams and you recognize it enough to answer "dreaming", you can have lots of fun with lucid dreaming.
I highly recommend the vitamin ZMA (Zinc Magnesium Aspartame) combined with valerian root* 30 minutes before bed. Also keep a dream log for maximum enjoyment. Lucid dreaming can be a lot of fun. Trying to get to know your own subconscious is a real challenge and it never gets boring.
*Valerian root has very very pungent odor that can make your breath smell for hours after you take it. It sits in your stomach and seems to work its way up, no matter how clean your mouth is. It also has the reverse effect of pineapple juice, if you catch my drift. Thankfully ZMA on it's own is enough to enhance your dreams. Valerian root does provide that extra kick, so it's good to try now and again. Just do your SO a break and only use it sparingly.
Pfft. Real men use depleted Uranium. Me? I go one step even further. My wedding band is made from Plutonium.
In a related story in Caveman Weekly, Torg, The Cheif Smartguy, for clan *Grunt* asks: OOGA BOOGA Should we go outside the cave or stay inside? OOGA OOGA!
... Before these young impressionable kids are turned into trained killers!
It isn't your time perception perse, but it is all about the recall of the event. If you're sitting in a boring meeting, your concentration fades in and out. You start thinking about what you are going to do after, or how boring the meeting is.
However, in extreme moments that get your senses honed and your concentration fine tuned, you pay precise attention to things. You notice more little things instead of broader movements. Think of it like turning up the FPS on a video game. Instead of recalling choppy movements because your attention was divided, you now notice details. I recall an accident I once had. I noticed the expression of suprise on the lady's face as she finally notices my car is in her way and she should have stopped. I remembered how the front of the car slamed into mine and how my perception was changed in an instant by shattering glass, I remember hearing (but not seeing) a loud airbag deploy and my facing hitting it. All of that was over in less than a second, but my recolection of it seems much longer because I was devoting 100% of my attention to it. In the moment however, things happen very quickly. The perceieved time in the moment doesn't change if you ask me. Reactions are still the same. But by paying more attention to it, my recolection of the event did change. The expirment in this regard is flawed. They should not have sped the nubmers up to beyond what the humans could see. If I was running the expirment I would display random images that the person should have to remember. See if they remember more images while falling or some other control. Either way if the numbers are displayed to fast for the human eye to process, there will be no recolection.
I agree with you, but the problem for the average user is that they are not touch typers. They are constantly looking at the keyboard and screen to confirm what they have typed. As the length of the password increases, the odds that a typing error is going to be made also goes up. As passwords are blocked out, it would be very frusterating to a person who has to look at the screen to confirm what they have typed and backspaces often. This gets worse if you are trying to login to a domain with strict policies, I.E. most large companies. If you make too many mistakes trying to login, your account is locked.
Given the context of your post (which I did not quote) I realize this statement was probably tongue in cheek, but I felt the need to respond anyway.
CCTV systems are used to investigate crimes. But they rarely actually catch the criminal act themselves. Instead it's used to connect people, places, and times. Would you like to be linked to criminal activity just because you happened to be in two wrong places at the wrong times? If a linked crime happens in 2 areas, the probability goes up that all the people recorded in that area are suspects. This also increases your probability to be charged with a crime you did not convict. Even if you are acquitted in the end, the mere charge of a crime in today's societies comes with negative consequences. Even if you are proven innocent, you suffer reputation damages, probably wife and kids, and most assuredly your job.
You have nothing to worry about. That type of thinking (logicical) will exclude you from ever being selected as a juror. Unless you fiegn complete ignorance in the selection process, that is.
That is what I see as the single biggest flaw with the American legal system. We are supposed to be judged by our peers, but I wouldn't consider any modern jury to be made up of my peers. They are selected based on their ignorance of the topic involved. Prosecutors want blank slates to trick with fancy sounding testimony. Defenders want considerate and empathetic people. In any case involving race, both sides will seek to fill a quota of a certain demographic.
Judged by your peers? Not very likely.
You can have it fast.
You can have it cheap.
You can have it reliable.
If they want it in 48 hours, you should explain what that would cost.
If you want to streamline your process for patch deployment, I highly suggest you apply some six sigma or equivlant business process improvement strategy to it. Asking Slashdot is going to be counter productive. Your application is very different from anyone else's. Industry standard turn around time for software for a toaster is not going to be useful to you.
In other words, either you are working effeciently, or you aren't. It's that simple. If you aren't, fix the problems with your process. If you are, charge the customer what it would cost you to meet their needs.
No it wouldn't. It's called sampling. Red flags and segmenting certain layers and patterns. You don't have to store a fraction of the traffic data to analyze it and store what you need.
I won't say what I do, but I do it for a fortune 50 company, and I personally analyze an obscene amount of internet traffic. I do all this with a few servers and a workstation. Now I can honestly I say I have probably analyzed .5% of the internet's traffic (doesn't sound like much, but it is). With the differnet software we use and the relatively small amounts of hardware we use, I can easily imagine scaling that to 100% without too much problems. You'd need a lot more people, better alogorithms, and much more processing and storage space. But it's definitely possible.
And you don't even need to do 100%. As I pointed out before, you can segment your data and sample it for what you are looking for. Or data mine samples if you don't know what you are looking for. Find the flags you want, and apply that accross the whole traffic spectrum.
Pretty scary. Allthough my first thought is that this is used for counter-terrorism activities, I can't help but think that's instead used for political purposes as well. Who knows. Big brother indeed.