If i had a grudge against humans, or a certain set of humans, or something really stupid like that and I wanted to do something that will get me remembered, for whatever reason, in the history of man, I'd do some crap just like this. Make up a "manifesto" of probably gibberish, encyrpted and whatnot, so peeps would spend many hours of discussion and get me remembered.
That's sort of what Dexter did, though his motivation was to mess with the investigators.
Then again, Dexter is a fictional character...
This guy probably is deluded enough to believe he was doing the world a favour, and that the world would see his writings as a sensible "way forward" now that he has set the ball in motion.
I'm sure it's perfectly sensible in his mind, if only everyone else would just listen to him.
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I have had to deal with a family member who was eventually hospitalized with Delusional Disorder.
Lemme tell you, they can be absolutely convinced that they alone know the truth of things, and that pretty much any action is reasonable to get the rest of the world to see things "for what they really are"
It's damn scary watching it happen to someone you know. I hope none of you have to experience it first hand.
It sounds like they have chosen a reasonable venue for torture testing their new tech.
It'll be interesting to see how long their shiny new system survives in the "most hostile wireless networking environment on the planet"
Ok let me get this straight.
You want to build a tower that's 2600 ft tall (that's about 1/2 a mile up in the air) when the tallest skyscraper comes in at a whopping 2700 ft tall (by comparison the empire state building is 1250ft tall). You want to then put a few hundred tons of turbine equipment on top
Nope.
The turbines go at the bottom.
The same volume of air rising thru the column is available at the bottom as it is at the middle or top, so why do things the hard way?
And the temperature differential just has to exist to get a draft, It doesn't have to be a constant gradient over the entire height of the column of air. Have you never lit a fireplace with a tall (1-2 stories) chimney? To get the draft started, you just have to hold a flame in the base of the chimney for less than a minute. It doesn't take much of a temperature difference to get the air moving.
It scales up pretty well, too.
The office building I'm in has a glass atrium on the ground floor. If the roof hatch is open by maintenance workers (18 floors above), the draft thru the building (and up the elevator shaft and/or stairwells) is strong enough that half of the employees aren't strong enough to open the front door.
It's... an... experiment. To see if it's feasible.
At least someone gets it.
Also, how come the naysayers always want to put all the country's future energy eggs into one basket?
- Fusion is great, assuming it can be built.
- Fission is proven, and the newest designs significantly reduce many of the problems with the older designs. But it still has political problems.
- Hydroelectric is renewable, and fairly clean, assuming proper planning and site preparation is done.
- Biofuels (especially if sourced from by-products and waste) also work well to replace fossil fuels in many applications.
- Solar and wind are coming along in efficiency, but could be much better with improvements in energy storage. (the wind and sun aren't always present 24/7)
Why build only one?
Diversification. It works. It's always good to have a "plan B" (and "C") for when something unforeseen happens.
We (the rest of the world) really don't care. We already do not use backup services or cloud services based in the US because of your government. There are lots of alternatives. Soon we won't use DNS with US based roots.
At some point only US citizens will be hampered, held back, and harassed by their funny little leaders and their funny little laws.
Unfortunately, some of our politicians (Like the current Canadian Prime Minister) seem to think that we will be a so much better country if we simply do every stupid thing that the American government has already done, no matter if it actually worked. "it's an American idea, it has to be good for us".
I fear the next 4 years.
That will work until Ubuntu upgrades the kernel, which messes up the Grub, which makes Ubuntu inaccessible.
Really??
I have a Ububtu via WUBI installation that's been happily running since 9.04. I've even upgraded to 9.10 and it's currently at 10.04.
There have been a couple of kernel upgrades during that time. All upgrades, not re-installs.
Still stable.
And slowly winning over the family (well, the wife. Both kids took to it like ducks to water)
So if everything is already illegal, and everyone is already guilty of something, then it doesn't really matter what I do. They'll arrest me when they decide it's my time.
You have a PC. Why not just get a 100 ft HDMI cable? You could probably get one of those for less than the cost of a standalone box, even if you did buy local (foolhardy as it is).
1) my TV is pre-HDMI
2) Netflix doesn't work with Linux computers
3) the wife can handle a simple set-top box and straightforward remote. Having to use a full keyboard, or a wireless mouse to watch TV is not in the cards.
What do you do when you happen to have friends over at your place and you all want to get your game on?
Hasn't been an issue for at least a couple of decades.
The last times people were over, the dart board and pool table did get a workout. The computer served only as a jukebox.
I expect sales of streaming media players to remain strong for the next few years until new game systems are released and sales will eventually taper off and cease when the game systems become cheaper than the media players.
Assuming someone actually wants a new gaming console.
I don't have a personal need for a game console. When I want to get my game on, I prefer to use my PC.
I'm happy with a standalone streaming player. Or at least I will be when the WD-TV live and Netflix.ca get it together and start co-operating.
Indeed. I am planning on replacing my home router this summer, and I was doing a bit of looking for recommendations for an off-the-shelf box. Seems there aren't any (or at least none that anyone is willing to recommend).
Most of the suggestions are "get a Linksys and flash it with DD-WRT".
Which is fine for most of us here, but ain't no way 99.999% of home internet users will ever try that. Nor should they have to.
The first chapter is on Asterisk. Don't get me wrong, Asterisk has done a lot of good for the open source community, but I shudder to think that anyone would use it as an example of good development
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As a result, they repeat one another's mistakes rather than building on one another's successes
One can learn from another's mistakes as well as from their successes.
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If i had a grudge against humans, or a certain set of humans, or something really stupid like that and I wanted to do something that will get me remembered, for whatever reason, in the history of man, I'd do some crap just like this. Make up a "manifesto" of probably gibberish, encyrpted and whatnot, so peeps would spend many hours of discussion and get me remembered.
That's sort of what Dexter did, though his motivation was to mess with the investigators.
Then again, Dexter is a fictional character...
This guy probably is deluded enough to believe he was doing the world a favour, and that the world would see his writings as a sensible "way forward" now that he has set the ball in motion.
I'm sure it's perfectly sensible in his mind, if only everyone else would just listen to him.
----
I have had to deal with a family member who was eventually hospitalized with Delusional Disorder.
Lemme tell you, they can be absolutely convinced that they alone know the truth of things, and that pretty much any action is reasonable to get the rest of the world to see things "for what they really are"
It's damn scary watching it happen to someone you know. I hope none of you have to experience it first hand.
It sounds like they have chosen a reasonable venue for torture testing their new tech.
It'll be interesting to see how long their shiny new system survives in the "most hostile wireless networking environment on the planet"
People are shocked to see that standard PLCs are used in a wide range of industrial control applications.
It's almost like they were designed for being used in a wide variety of applications.
Ok let me get this straight. You want to build a tower that's 2600 ft tall (that's about 1/2 a mile up in the air) when the tallest skyscraper comes in at a whopping 2700 ft tall (by comparison the empire state building is 1250ft tall). You want to then put a few hundred tons of turbine equipment on top
Nope.
The turbines go at the bottom.
The same volume of air rising thru the column is available at the bottom as it is at the middle or top, so why do things the hard way?
And the temperature differential just has to exist to get a draft, It doesn't have to be a constant gradient over the entire height of the column of air.
Have you never lit a fireplace with a tall (1-2 stories) chimney? To get the draft started, you just have to hold a flame in the base of the chimney for less than a minute. It doesn't take much of a temperature difference to get the air moving.
It scales up pretty well, too.
The office building I'm in has a glass atrium on the ground floor. If the roof hatch is open by maintenance workers (18 floors above), the draft thru the building (and up the elevator shaft and/or stairwells) is strong enough that half of the employees aren't strong enough to open the front door.
Here's the cahched version for those who can't get in for some reason.
It's... an... experiment. To see if it's feasible.
At least someone gets it.
Also, how come the naysayers always want to put all the country's future energy eggs into one basket?
- Fusion is great, assuming it can be built.
- Fission is proven, and the newest designs significantly reduce many of the problems with the older designs. But it still has political problems.
- Hydroelectric is renewable, and fairly clean, assuming proper planning and site preparation is done.
- Biofuels (especially if sourced from by-products and waste) also work well to replace fossil fuels in many applications.
- Solar and wind are coming along in efficiency, but could be much better with improvements in energy storage. (the wind and sun aren't always present 24/7)
Why build only one?
Diversification. It works.
It's always good to have a "plan B" (and "C") for when something unforeseen happens.
Sure, today I don't have mod points..
+1 Reading Comprehension for you, anonymous sir
Nothing could possibly get done without the techies around to make it happen.
You're starting to sound a lot like the functionalist movement from Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll"
We (the rest of the world) really don't care. We already do not use backup services or cloud services based in the US because of your government. There are lots of alternatives. Soon we won't use DNS with US based roots. At some point only US citizens will be hampered, held back, and harassed by their funny little leaders and their funny little laws.
Unfortunately, some of our politicians (Like the current Canadian Prime Minister) seem to think that we will be a so much better country if we simply do every stupid thing that the American government has already done, no matter if it actually worked. "it's an American idea, it has to be good for us".
I fear the next 4 years.
That will work until Ubuntu upgrades the kernel, which messes up the Grub, which makes Ubuntu inaccessible.
Really??
I have a Ububtu via WUBI installation that's been happily running since 9.04. I've even upgraded to 9.10 and it's currently at 10.04.
There have been a couple of kernel upgrades during that time.
All upgrades, not re-installs.
Still stable.
And slowly winning over the family (well, the wife. Both kids took to it like ducks to water)
Rogers (major cable ISP in Ontario) doesn't even have their own customer mail accounts any more. They contract it to Yahoo, the last time I checked.
But I only had implied verbal consent.
/Homer
Ha! take that!
I used to have to drag one of these around for work. And I was mightily envied by the other geeks of the time.
And neither have they cared about us.
(repeat for every country in the world that isn't the USA)
a bicycle might go just as fast, and use significantly less gasoline... i.e. none.
My bicycle does even better...
It emits gas.
At least when I'm riding it.
this controller is one of the first we've ever seen that sits on the floor
In reality, it seems that the strongest, or loudest debater wins out, not the best argument, or the best idea.
Being the most effective persuader often has no correlation to being the most correct.
And, now will the electorate be asked what source they do want to get power from, or will that be let up to someone else to figure out?
So if everything is already illegal, and everyone is already guilty of something, then it doesn't really matter what I do. They'll arrest me when they decide it's my time.
Meanwhile, I can do whatever I want.
Cue Bart Simpson laugh...
You have a PC. Why not just get a 100 ft HDMI cable? You could probably get one of those for less than the cost of a standalone box, even if you did buy local (foolhardy as it is).
1) my TV is pre-HDMI
2) Netflix doesn't work with Linux computers
3) the wife can handle a simple set-top box and straightforward remote. Having to use a full keyboard, or a wireless mouse to watch TV is not in the cards.
Thank you for that.
I guess I know what I'm doing tonight...
What do you do when you happen to have friends over at your place and you all want to get your game on?
Hasn't been an issue for at least a couple of decades.
The last times people were over, the dart board and pool table did get a workout. The computer served only as a jukebox.
I expect sales of streaming media players to remain strong for the next few years until new game systems are released and sales will eventually taper off and cease when the game systems become cheaper than the media players.
Assuming someone actually wants a new gaming console.
I don't have a personal need for a game console. When I want to get my game on, I prefer to use my PC.
I'm happy with a standalone streaming player. Or at least I will be when the WD-TV live and Netflix.ca get it together and start co-operating.
Indeed. I am planning on replacing my home router this summer, and I was doing a bit of looking for recommendations for an off-the-shelf box.
Seems there aren't any (or at least none that anyone is willing to recommend).
Most of the suggestions are "get a Linksys and flash it with DD-WRT".
Which is fine for most of us here, but ain't no way 99.999% of home internet users will ever try that.
Nor should they have to.
The first chapter is on Asterisk. Don't get me wrong, Asterisk has done a lot of good for the open source community, but I shudder to think that anyone would use it as an example of good development
FTFA:
As a result, they repeat one another's mistakes rather than building on one another's successes
One can learn from another's mistakes as well as from their successes.