I've always wondered how the tunnel borers track position precisely when they are underground. GPS depends on adequate reception of satellite signals, which you do NOT get underground. Inertial navigation systems? But those usually need to be refreshed from calibration sources.
I've concluded it's all done by reference to gnomes.
The best part will be when he breaks the time barrier and lands in 1956. At that point, a farmer will shoot him then shout "I got myself a Russky. Martha, call the sheriff!"
Personal nudity always gets attention and wakes up sleepy audiences, as do firearms. The downside is, after they've all run screaming from the room there's no one left to listen except the guy who had fallen asleep. You can handle that by standing in front of him and shaking him gently.
I do self-track certain things that are very useful. I keep two logs: 1) concepts log 2) information flow log, and one moderate sized list.
The concepts log records interesting or useful concepts as I encounter then, so I do not have the situation of sitting there wondering where was that discussion of how to do XYZ I'd read six months ago.
The information flow log is a raw stream of ideas and information locations (sites, books, articles)
As a side matter, I keep a list of things I do not know but need to learn. Richard Feynman kept one and it helped him spot holes in his models or domain knowledge.
There's a fourth area where I keep things, and that is a series of 'Library' drives with a large number of directories, one for each area of learning I track, and I copy material into it when I run across it. Thus I can immediately find where I have information on, for example, certain topics in AI, physics, tax law, etc. There is one drive for science, one for technology, one for humanities and more. I use these daily to find things I might have run across years ago.
Mr. Saul Zaentz has a long history of being a dick. Zaentz sued Creedence Clearwater's John Fogerty for plagiarizing himself (!) asking $140 million in damages, and lost.
Zaentz's perception is that he owns the 'brand' Hobbit, although he only owns screen rights.
In the early 1990s Go Corporation had created the PenPoint operating system and a 386-based rectangular tablet. I worked with people at Slate, a company in the same Foster City building as Go. Slate made application software to run under PenPoint.
Go had a working, functioning tablet back then. I used one. It was thrilling to be able to do things on its touch screen. Long before the iPad. Knight Ridder had nothing but a mockup; Go had real working hardware and software.
Unfortunately, what happened was Microsoft conned Go, got them to 'open the kimono', and proceeded to screw them royally by pre-announcing Pen for Windows. They did not have a working product, Go did, but MS killed them in the market by lying. If it were not for that treachery, we would have had tablets two decades ago.
The 386-based machines could not have supported video, but they were good text and graphics apps. This was of course long before WiFi too.
I will always regret that day that I caused a nuclear holocaust because my cell phone jammer cut off the President's phone while he was assuring Russia we were not attacked them, it was only meteors. I will have the deaths of 50 million people on my head forever. However, at least I still don't have to listen to assholes shouting in my ear while I'm stuck on this bus. It was worth it.
It is too bad, because no country or entity truly has dominion over acts occurring outside its borders or over cultural precepts (i.e laws or even religious beliefs) . For example, the Vatican has no right to declare abortions outside of Italy to be globally prosecutable violations of its rules. The state of California can't tell people in Delaware that they can't buy 100 watt light bulbs because they are illegal in Calfornia.
So, any country can declare a global legal jurisdiction, and pass laws directing everyone on the planet to comply? Or only those countries with very large militaries, indicating that might not only makes right, but assures authority over legal matters outside the nation's boundaries.
1. I feel secure knowing all unmanned bombers' code is totally bug-free. 2. And no unmanned drone bomber carrying nukes will EVER get hijacked. I mean, look how secure our other drones are. 3. On an unmanned bomber, who sets up the nuke unlock code? If it gets done over an encrypted radio link how can they guarantee the link won't be jammed? 4. Which tastes better: Zero Coke, Pepsi Lo-Cesium, or Slurm Cola?
Why yes. Any picture that includes a guy in a refrigerator surviving a nuclear explosion deserves to win best sci-fi category for totally implausible rank stupidity.
I think that at this point they ought to establish two different links using different technologies, for the data, in parallel, if they can. There they'll be able to say "Oh. now we're not sure which one is correct.":)
I believe Wizard Tim would say "Three links, I say three. No more and no less is the number." And something about swallows, coconuts, and neutrinos.
I truly appreciate the way you have distorted an opposition to brainwashing kids into obedience to the corporate state and police state, and turned it into a one-sided rant about feces through several posts. No obsession there at all!
Parents need to guide their children to respect others, and to think and get along. That's expected as a duty of parenthood. Conditioning children to obey all authority blindly however, is not. I'm sure ardent Republicans who worship authority and the corporation think otherwise, but so what?
"you are probably just being a jerk," A lovely choice of words, noted.
In my ignorant rant I didn't both to differentiate between the practices of telling normal kids not to smear feces on the walls, and that of not conditioning them to be good corporate workers and obedient police state followers, because I didn't anticipate other people on Slashdot would be so stupid as to not know the difference. I thank you for enlightening me that there are such people.
Clearly you've never seen the movie "Attack of the Assault-Rifle Carrying Tomatoes" nor the sequel "Texas Corn with Chainsaws Massacre", where carnivorous GMO plants acquire gripper tendrils. In the planned third part of the trilogy, "Cucumbers with Glocks", girls wearing very little are terrorized by hostile mutant vegetables but in the end are saved by guys driving '56 Chevys. In glorious black and white with mono sound track.
What an excellent new way to make money: 1. Lure parents into putting kids in these schools. 2. impose easily breakable rules on the kids and charge them for breaking the rules. Complaints or no payment? Out! 3. PROFIT!!!
"education entrepreneurs.." = vultures "who are transforming public education"... into private profit centers. What do you want to bet the schools contain advertising and junk-food laden cafeterias and pricy vending machines.
Probable future rules and fines: 1. Downloading. Action handed off to RIAA. 2. Questioning the establishment: expulsion 3. Not buying Microsoft or Koch Bros products: death or worse.
What kind of school conditions kids to become fearful of making mistakes, by attaching monetary punishment to errors? This is conditioning to obey authority. That doesn't properly belong in legitimate academia. Unless these are schools for truants or reform schools, this is egregious. And even then.
Their intended product interferes with GPS, and they intend to sue the victim and the government. I hope these SOBs get crushed in court. GPS is critical these days for so many things in the infrastructure, as well as being needed by the military. Lightspeed's network would interfere with GPS used by commercial and military aerial navigation. If these clowns think they have priority over that, they deserve to lose all their investment.
I went to a science and technology school that had an honor system, and not a ghetto university. We respected each other, whether graduate or undergraduate. Perhaps you should go back to Digg or 4chan where your background and level of intelligence are more appropriate?
Seems like a douche move rather than a fair one. A university is a place of somewhat more trust in others than the outside, because in academia you share knowledge with others, the spirit is a bit different, you don't take others' tools.
Taking advantage of that to run a test of whether it's easy to steal laptops is not entirely ethical.
Not to say that people shouldn't be careful, but exploiting them isn't cool either.
When I was in school, someone hacked my student account and framed me for downloading and piracy. I didn't have to go to court, but if I ever found out who did it, I'd gladly have caused them serious injury.
I tried silicone hydrogels and they were worse for my eyes than normal ones. I wore Focus lenses (loved them) for 7 years until they discontinued the brand; my opto then tried me on various modern silicon types and they all dried my eyes out and felt like Saran Wrap. Felt like my eyes were not getting enough oxygen, too.
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I've always wondered how the tunnel borers track position precisely when they are underground. GPS depends on adequate reception of satellite signals, which you do NOT get underground. Inertial navigation systems? But those usually need to be refreshed from calibration sources.
I've concluded it's all done by reference to gnomes.
The best part will be when he breaks the time barrier and lands in 1956. At that point, a farmer will shoot him then shout "I got myself a Russky. Martha, call the sheriff!"
Personal nudity always gets attention and wakes up sleepy audiences, as do firearms. The downside is, after they've all run screaming from the room there's no one left to listen except the guy who had fallen asleep. You can handle that by standing in front of him and shaking him gently.
I THOUGHT there was something suspicious about that Kia with hair.
I have no mod points but you get an honorary one anyway.
I do self-track certain things that are very useful. I keep two logs: 1) concepts log 2) information flow log, and one moderate sized list.
The concepts log records interesting or useful concepts as I encounter then, so I do not have the situation of sitting there wondering where was that discussion of how to do XYZ I'd read six months ago.
The information flow log is a raw stream of ideas and information locations (sites, books, articles)
As a side matter, I keep a list of things I do not know but need to learn. Richard Feynman kept one and it helped him spot holes in his models or domain knowledge.
There's a fourth area where I keep things, and that is a series of 'Library' drives with a large number of directories, one for each area of learning I track, and I copy material into it when I run across it. Thus I can immediately find where I have information on, for example, certain topics in AI, physics, tax law, etc. There is one drive for science, one for technology, one for humanities and more. I use these daily to find things I might have run across years ago.
Mr. Saul Zaentz has a long history of being a dick. Zaentz sued Creedence Clearwater's John Fogerty for plagiarizing himself (!) asking $140 million in damages, and lost.
Zaentz's perception is that he owns the 'brand' Hobbit, although he only owns screen rights.
In the early 1990s Go Corporation had created the PenPoint operating system and a 386-based rectangular tablet. I worked with people at Slate, a company in the same Foster City building as Go. Slate made application software to run under PenPoint.
Go had a working, functioning tablet back then. I used one. It was thrilling to be able to do things on its touch screen. Long before the iPad. Knight Ridder had nothing but a mockup; Go had real working hardware and software.
Unfortunately, what happened was Microsoft conned Go, got them to 'open the kimono', and proceeded to screw them royally by pre-announcing Pen for Windows. They did not have a working product, Go did, but MS killed them in the market by lying. If it were not for that treachery, we would have had tablets two decades ago.
The 386-based machines could not have supported video, but they were good text and graphics apps. This was of course long before WiFi too.
If the colonists don't surrender, we'll just cut off their oxygen. Including the three-breasted mutant hookers.
I will always regret that day that I caused a nuclear holocaust because my cell phone jammer cut off the President's phone while he was assuring Russia we were not attacked them, it was only meteors. I will have the deaths of 50 million people on my head forever. However, at least I still don't have to listen to assholes shouting in my ear while I'm stuck on this bus. It was worth it.
It is too bad, because no country or entity truly has dominion over acts occurring outside its borders or over cultural precepts (i.e laws or even religious beliefs) . For example, the Vatican has no right to declare abortions outside of Italy to be globally prosecutable violations of its rules. The state of California can't tell people in Delaware that they can't buy 100 watt light bulbs because they are illegal in Calfornia.
So, any country can declare a global legal jurisdiction, and pass laws directing everyone on the planet to comply? Or only those countries with very large militaries, indicating that might not only makes right, but assures authority over legal matters outside the nation's boundaries.
I don't think so, fascist state.
1. I feel secure knowing all unmanned bombers' code is totally bug-free.
2. And no unmanned drone bomber carrying nukes will EVER get hijacked. I mean, look how secure our other drones are.
3. On an unmanned bomber, who sets up the nuke unlock code? If it gets done over an encrypted radio link how can they guarantee the link won't be jammed?
4. Which tastes better: Zero Coke, Pepsi Lo-Cesium, or Slurm Cola?
Why yes. Any picture that includes a guy in a refrigerator surviving a nuclear explosion deserves to win best sci-fi category for totally implausible rank stupidity.
I may be a little biased here...
I think that at this point they ought to establish two different links using different technologies, for the data, in parallel, if they can. There they'll be able to say "Oh. now we're not sure which one is correct." :)
I believe Wizard Tim would say "Three links, I say three. No more and no less is the number." And something about swallows, coconuts, and neutrinos.
...although it will taste just awful afterward unless drunk off Salma Hayek's foot (obligatory From Dusk Til Dawn reference).
I truly appreciate the way you have distorted an opposition to brainwashing kids into obedience to the corporate state and police state, and turned it into a one-sided rant about feces through several posts. No obsession there at all!
Parents need to guide their children to respect others, and to think and get along. That's expected as a duty of parenthood. Conditioning children to obey all authority blindly however, is not. I'm sure ardent Republicans who worship authority and the corporation think otherwise, but so what?
"you are probably just being a jerk," A lovely choice of words, noted.
In my ignorant rant I didn't both to differentiate between the practices of telling normal kids not to smear feces on the walls, and that of not conditioning them to be good corporate workers and obedient police state followers, because I didn't anticipate other people on Slashdot would be so stupid as to not know the difference. I thank you for enlightening me that there are such people.
Clearly you've never seen the movie "Attack of the Assault-Rifle Carrying Tomatoes" nor the sequel "Texas Corn with Chainsaws Massacre", where carnivorous GMO plants acquire gripper tendrils. In the planned third part of the trilogy, "Cucumbers with Glocks", girls wearing very little are terrorized by hostile mutant vegetables but in the end are saved by guys driving '56 Chevys. In glorious black and white with mono sound track.
What an excellent new way to make money:
1. Lure parents into putting kids in these schools.
2. impose easily breakable rules on the kids and charge them for breaking the rules. Complaints or no payment? Out!
3. PROFIT!!!
"education entrepreneurs.." = vultures ... into private profit centers. What do you want to bet the schools contain advertising and junk-food laden cafeterias and pricy vending machines.
"who are transforming public education"
Probable future rules and fines:
1. Downloading. Action handed off to RIAA.
2. Questioning the establishment: expulsion
3. Not buying Microsoft or Koch Bros products: death or worse.
What kind of school conditions kids to become fearful of making mistakes, by attaching monetary punishment to errors? This is conditioning to obey authority. That doesn't properly belong in legitimate academia. Unless these are schools for truants or reform schools, this is egregious. And even then.
Their intended product interferes with GPS, and they intend to sue the victim and the government. I hope these SOBs get crushed in court. GPS is critical these days for so many things in the infrastructure, as well as being needed by the military. Lightspeed's network would interfere with GPS used by commercial and military aerial navigation. If these clowns think they have priority over that, they deserve to lose all their investment.
Well, this ia a good argument for encrypted communications.
I went to a science and technology school that had an honor system, and not a ghetto university. We respected each other, whether graduate or undergraduate. Perhaps you should go back to Digg or 4chan where your background and level of intelligence are more appropriate?
Seems like a douche move rather than a fair one. A university is a place of somewhat more trust in others than the outside, because in academia you share knowledge with others, the spirit is a bit different, you don't take others' tools.
Taking advantage of that to run a test of whether it's easy to steal laptops is not entirely ethical.
Not to say that people shouldn't be careful, but exploiting them isn't cool either.
When I was in school, someone hacked my student account and framed me for downloading and piracy. I didn't have to go to court, but if I ever found out who did it, I'd gladly have caused them serious injury.
I tried silicone hydrogels and they were worse for my eyes than normal ones. I wore Focus lenses (loved them) for 7 years until they discontinued the brand; my opto then tried me on various modern silicon types and they all dried my eyes out and felt like Saran Wrap. Felt like my eyes were not getting enough oxygen, too.