So what are the consequences? Well, if there is no genetic testing by insurance companies then there will be no insurance industry, because insurance is all about probability, and when as far as the customer is concerned there is no uncertainty, but as far as the company is concerned there is, and insurance agreement is unattainable, and even redundant completely anyway.
I work for an insurance company. Insurance is gambling, and insurance companies are the house. No insurance industry in the furture? You obviously have no idea of what you're talking about. The insurance industry does SO well that the government makes laws to make sure they don't make too much money!
I find it morally grotesque that someone will go to the hospital in need, and be turned away because they don't have the money or insurance.
Wow! Where does that happen? Not here, in fact, that's why the government passed the motorcycle helmet law. They said the bikers with bashed in heads were showing up in emergency rooms and they had no insurance or money. The federal government steps in at that point and pays the hospital to treat the guy.
THAT'S why laws that are restricting our freedom are being passed, because the government is assuming responsibility for us.
And a national heath care program would give them even MORE responsibility. Imagine all the garbage "Behavior modifying" laws they'd cram down our throats if we made them ultimately responsible for our health.
The best system is to look out for yourself. You can buy insurance, you can pay cash, you can ignore the problem until you die. It's your own choice.
After things settle down, the suits will look at how profitable it is to own a dinky ISP out in the middle of nowhere. And then sell it back to some Mom and Pop.
"The world is then populated by 'inanimate' players - competing for the 'game resources' very ruthlessly (they are doing nothing *except* this). They would run around the game world, appearing to be 'piloted' until you tried to interact - only to be disappointed. You would eventually stop interacting."
Nonsense. This is just another solvable problem. I'd make it so that when players are logged out the 'Avatar' you see becomes monochrome. When logged in it becomes fully 24 bit color.
With the security requirments and beauracratic hoops you have to jump though, it's probably impossible for them to hire good software people.
By the time manage to find anyone who passes security clearance, is willing to work for government pay, and was willing to wait around for 2 years as they check his background, the project would be over with.
Should be interesting, to say the least.
Later
ErikZ
Re:built one in high school (aroound 1991)...
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Although the link has already been slashdotted, what you're talking about is a coil gun, not a rail gun.
The limitations of a coil gun is the speed of the switches that activate the coils. After the object attains a certain speed, the coils can't turn on fast enough to accellerate it any more.
The rail gun is a different beast. It's therotical max speed is the speed of light. The object accelerates along the entire length of the rails. The US Navy has been looking into these to improve on their ship mounted guns. Using a demo mounted to a table, (Under the table was solid capacitor) they were able to fire an object with incredible force, they calculated it would of gone two miles.
I've been looking into this, wondering if it could be used as an alternate way to move things into space. It seems that the best way to for a railgun to be used in that capacity would be as the inital boost, then use rocket engines to handle the rest of the flight. Otherwise, you're dealing with a VERY long railgun with EXTREME accelleration speeds.
Ah, the link has come up. Yes, that's a railgun.
It's difficult to find good links on this. The only people working on them are either government research labs, or weapons companies working for the government.
A company developing a railgun for the Army. Prototype shown.
http://www.uniteddefense.com/markets/defense/com ba t/vehicle/systems/advanced/emtech/index.htm
Pages on the theory behind it.
http://iml.umkc.edu/physics/sps/railgun/railgun. ht ml
http://www.cmn.net/~molly/railguns.html
Damn, half of my saved links on this have gone dead. I've got to start saving web pages.
Thank you. I'm seeing WAY too many 'Holier than thou' posts here. I have some UNIX experence, but no job experence. I'm just getting out of college, and even though I have real work experence under my belt it's impossible for me to find a Linux/Unix entry level job.
Once I finish my internship and find something to pay the bills, I'm going to seriously look into something like linuxgruven because there's no other way for me to get the experence.
And before everyone start jumping up and shouting "You can train yourself at home on your own box!" Well I've got my own box, two of them with linux on it in fact. But trying to get it to do ANYTHING I want has been an excersise in futility.
So if anyone out there can tell me about an entry level unix position I'd appreciate it.
You have to manage resources, conduct reseach, hire and trin people, outfit your squads to maximum effect and have a good grasp of tactics.
The combat portion of the game is turn based so 'twitch' gamers won't have an edge and the time spent out of combat can be slowed down to give yourself time to think.
I read somewhere that the USAF used this game as a test also.
The biggest reason in my mind not to allow people to sell their items on Ebay is this: It would be fully possible to start a company, employing people to 'camp' at sites where the rare items are.
Real players would be locked out from ever having a chance of getting an item normally. Even if there was no organized Corp, as soon as people started finding out you could make money doing this, the game would be ruined.
You don't own squat about your character. That's why I stopped playing months ago. Too much time invested in a lot of nothing.
"The only upside is the number of incredibly beautiful young women willing to do anything to snag a foreigner in the hopes of a better life, and that gets tiring after about a week."
[Sarcasm]
Oh you poor thing, you must be exausted!
[/Sarcasm]
They pulled off a hack that consisted of technical and social engineering. And it worked perfectly. This is a great beginning to "Greatest Hacks of the century"
They guys who actually hack DirectTV are probably fascinated by this, and are examining everything the best that they can. Joe Sixpack who bought the illegal device is probably pissed off and out of luck.
"Violating this agreement and acting as if you own the work and all rights therein is, at the core, the same thing as stealing. "
Actually, it more like Violating the Agreement. The "Thing" is being used in a way the owner of the copyright doesn't want. Hard to enforce on individuals, easy against big business.
Slashdot Mirror
Sign in future store.
"Returns void on merchandise with burned out tags."
Wonderful, in 40 years anyone can write MIT on a microscopic bit of nothing.
The technology will become really cheap only if a lot people want to buy it.
Later
Erik Z
I agree with the previous poster.
I knew a guy who was mentally damaged, but if he took two classes a semester, he got straight A's.
I knew a girl who got a 12 on the ACT. A 12!!! She was also getting straight A's. How? She literally spent all of her days in her room studying.
Both of these people are in college, and their GPAs blow mine out of the water. Quickness of the mind helps, but perserverance helps far more.
Later
ErikZ
Good lord! Where are we going to jail 10 million people for the next 15 years?
Even if we had the space, you have any idea how much that's going to cost?
Can you say 'Instant tax increase?'
That's why laws are adjusted when enough people want them changed. All this needs is those 10 million people to actually DO somthing.
Later,
ErikZ
So what are the consequences? Well, if there is no genetic testing by insurance companies then there will be no insurance industry, because insurance is all about probability, and when as far as the customer is concerned there is no uncertainty, but as far as the company is concerned there is, and insurance agreement is unattainable, and even redundant completely anyway.
I work for an insurance company. Insurance is gambling, and insurance companies are the house. No insurance industry in the furture? You obviously have no idea of what you're talking about. The insurance industry does SO well that the government makes laws to make sure they don't make too much money!
Later
Erik Z
I find it morally grotesque that someone will go to the hospital in need, and be turned away because they don't have the money or insurance.
Wow! Where does that happen? Not here, in fact, that's why the government passed the motorcycle helmet law. They said the bikers with bashed in heads were showing up in emergency rooms and they had no insurance or money. The federal government steps in at that point and pays the hospital to treat the guy.
THAT'S why laws that are restricting our freedom are being passed, because the government is assuming responsibility for us.
And a national heath care program would give them even MORE responsibility. Imagine all the garbage "Behavior modifying" laws they'd cram down our throats if we made them ultimately responsible for our health.
The best system is to look out for yourself. You can buy insurance, you can pay cash, you can ignore the problem until you die. It's your own choice.
Later,
ErikZ
Are you going to whine like this every time some scientific advancement happens that doesn't meet your approval?
After things settle down, the suits will look at how profitable it is to own a dinky ISP out in the middle of nowhere. And then sell it back to some Mom and Pop.
"The world is then populated by 'inanimate' players - competing for the 'game resources' very ruthlessly (they are doing nothing *except* this). They would run around the game world, appearing to be 'piloted' until you tried to interact - only to be disappointed. You would eventually stop interacting."
Nonsense. This is just another solvable problem. I'd make it so that when players are logged out the 'Avatar' you see becomes monochrome. When logged in it becomes fully 24 bit color.
Later
ErikZ
With the security requirments and beauracratic hoops you have to jump though, it's probably impossible for them to hire good software people.
By the time manage to find anyone who passes security clearance, is willing to work for government pay, and was willing to wait around for 2 years as they check his background, the project would be over with.
Should be interesting, to say the least.
Later
ErikZ
Although the link has already been slashdotted, what you're talking about is a coil gun, not a rail gun.
m ba t/vehicle/systems/advanced/emtech/index.htm
. ht ml
The limitations of a coil gun is the speed of the switches that activate the coils. After the object attains a certain speed, the coils can't turn on fast enough to accellerate it any more.
The rail gun is a different beast. It's therotical max speed is the speed of light. The object accelerates along the entire length of the rails. The US Navy has been looking into these to improve on their ship mounted guns. Using a demo mounted to a table, (Under the table was solid capacitor) they were able to fire an object with incredible force, they calculated it would of gone two miles.
I've been looking into this, wondering if it could be used as an alternate way to move things into space. It seems that the best way to for a railgun to be used in that capacity would be as the inital boost, then use rocket engines to handle the rest of the flight. Otherwise, you're dealing with a VERY long railgun with EXTREME accelleration speeds.
Ah, the link has come up. Yes, that's a railgun.
It's difficult to find good links on this. The only people working on them are either government research labs, or weapons companies working for the government.
A company developing a railgun for the Army. Prototype shown.
http://www.uniteddefense.com/markets/defense/co
Pages on the theory behind it.
http://iml.umkc.edu/physics/sps/railgun/railgun
http://www.cmn.net/~molly/railguns.html
Damn, half of my saved links on this have gone dead. I've got to start saving web pages.
Later,
ErikZ
Maybe, just maybe, they'd start looking at the laws differently and redesign them.
After all, who needs a posted speed limit if your car automaticly obeys it?
And if the area is too slow, you should be able to round up a bunch of locals and go have it changed.
Later
ErikZ
Sorry, your last 5 posts within the past two weeks are all on this subject.
Also, you have to admit, if they were questionable before, this 'Placing favorable posts' bit is seriously unethical.
Now any real supporters will be automaticlly considered illigit.
Just from THESE ACTIONS ALONE you guys now seem like a scam operation.
Later
ErikZ
Neither of your web pages work, you have no email addess and you've only posted once in the past two weeks.
Looks like another plant to me.
Stuff like this makes me miss our regular trolls.
Actually, it's not a troll, this is pure Misinformation.
Thank you. I'm seeing WAY too many 'Holier than thou' posts here. I have some UNIX experence, but no job experence. I'm just getting out of college, and even though I have real work experence under my belt it's impossible for me to find a Linux/Unix entry level job.
Once I finish my internship and find something to pay the bills, I'm going to seriously look into something like linuxgruven because there's no other way for me to get the experence.
And before everyone start jumping up and shouting "You can train yourself at home on your own box!" Well I've got my own box, two of them with linux on it in fact. But trying to get it to do ANYTHING I want has been an excersise in futility.
So if anyone out there can tell me about an entry level unix position I'd appreciate it.
Or maybe it's just not meant to be.
eazolan@davesworld.net
Erik Z
At a dollar a condom, and not much else to do besides have sex, yeah, I think it does mean you stop having protected sex.
Later
ErikZ
X-com: Ufo Defense.
You have to manage resources, conduct reseach, hire and trin people, outfit your squads to maximum effect and have a good grasp of tactics.
The combat portion of the game is turn based so 'twitch' gamers won't have an edge and the time spent out of combat can be slowed down to give yourself time to think.
I read somewhere that the USAF used this game as a test also.
Later,
ErikZ
The biggest reason in my mind not to allow people to sell their items on Ebay is this: It would be fully possible to start a company, employing people to 'camp' at sites where the rare items are.
Real players would be locked out from ever having a chance of getting an item normally. Even if there was no organized Corp, as soon as people started finding out you could make money doing this, the game would be ruined.
You don't own squat about your character. That's why I stopped playing months ago. Too much time invested in a lot of nothing.
Later,
ErikZ
"The only upside is the number of incredibly beautiful young women willing to do anything to snag a foreigner in the hopes of a better life, and that gets tiring after about a week."
[Sarcasm]
Oh you poor thing, you must be exausted!
[/Sarcasm]
Later,
ErikZ
Considering the WAG estimate for damaged cards is 98,000 out of 100,000.
Wouldn't it be better to say
DirectTV:98
Crackers:2
I think it's going to be VERY difficult to replace those cards. However, if you have a source for them, it should be a profitable time indeed.
Later,
ErikZ
Agreed.
They pulled off a hack that consisted of technical and social engineering. And it worked perfectly. This is a great beginning to "Greatest Hacks of the century"
They guys who actually hack DirectTV are probably fascinated by this, and are examining everything the best that they can. Joe Sixpack who bought the illegal device is probably pissed off and out of luck.
Later,
ErikZ
"Violating this agreement and acting as if you own the work and all rights therein is, at the core, the same thing as stealing. "
Actually, it more like Violating the Agreement. The "Thing" is being used in a way the owner of the copyright doesn't want. Hard to enforce on individuals, easy against big business.
Not true. If I didn't get it for free, I wouldn't get it. How does this deny the author anything?
BTW, my music collection consisted of SIX CD'S before Napster, now I have 30+.
Actually, the markup on the fries is pretty damn close to the markup on the drinks.