"Nitpick: "Khan" is not a name, it's a title. " Really? If I ever get a chance to choose my own job title, Khan is going to be in it somehere! "The network has crashed! No one can do anything!" "KKHHHhhaaaaannnnnnnn!" Later Erik Z
What do you mean 'No one knows what they're looking for' They're looking for signals of any sort that cannot occur naturally. When/if we find a signal, we'll examine it, hopefully determine it's origin, and decide what to do next. There's too many possibilites what what we can pick up to come up with a good plan now. (Not to mention we can barely make it into orbit, just getting to the moon requires enormous effort and cost)
However, I'd switch over to the Mars lander search in a heartbeat if they made it available.
>Why do you even give a shit about Mitnicks rights?
Because you short sighted MORON, he has the same rights as I do. And every right they figure out how to take away is a right that I, you and ALL Americans loose.
>Linux is going into the vet. It's spaying and >neutering time, as the little creep keeps >spraying all the walls. If it keeps clawing up >the furniture it will need declawing, too
No no no, you've got it all wrong.
Linux is going to the grocery store to buy some milk and cheese and deoderant, because it's almost out. It ate almost all the food in the house trying to keep up it's energy for bad anaolgys.
>I would bet that the army would be extremely uncomfortable with hackers, and hackers would feel completely out of place in the army.
Actually, the military is very results oriented. That's why you hear all those bizzare stories about tying explosives to bats and such. They probably put someone in charge of the project who knows SOMETHING about hacking. He will provide the best enviroment that he can for the people under his command, within reason. (No casual fridays.) The people above him don't give a damn about how he gets results as long as it doesn't look bad on the military.
The fact is that they asked for good hackers. Which means they have no idea how to train good hackers on their own.
BTW, I think this this would be a great idea for anyone interested in doing security for a living. Imagine having 'Trained in computer security by the military' on your resume.
I mean, it wasn't that good of a movie. I've had no urge to see it again in ANY format. If you have DVD money burning a hole in your pocket how about 'Thin Red Line' 'Iron Giant' (so good it even surprised me) 'Stargate'
Ok, I might get a copy of the light saber battle scene for my computer.
They realized that they could change the rating by editing a few scenes and open up to a larger market. Time Allen was on 'Rosie' talking about the movie, they were going for a 'Toy Story' effect. A movie you can take your kids to, yet enjoy it yourself.
Oh really, Well tell me how many women YOU know that would be tickled to be called 'Man of the year'. If 'New Woman' had a 'Woman of the Year' contest and YOU won, would you be happy?
I hate PC as much as the next guy, but this title needs to be chenged to something more gender neutral.
I've been puzzling over this aspect of open source. Say some leader of a powerful software OS company gets on the news and say something like 'Don't install linux, if it doesn't cause your computer to explode outright, it will give you cancer. And it SUX compared to our OS, slower in every aspect by an order of magnitude'
Normal OS companies would be able to sue, what can the Linux comunity do? No one is really in charge, no money is being made so we can't hire a lawyer.
Amazon sells books? I thought they were just fancy middlemen for book warehouses. Considering how the information age has cut away so many middlemen, I'd say that Amazons clock is running out. BTW, they havn't made a profit because they plow all their profits into growing the business. They will make a profit once investers insist.
Well, I see alot of negitive comments, not just about Time's choice for 'Man of the year', but about the whole 'Man of the year' proccess.
Why don't we have our own 'Man of the year' thread here on Slashdot? Set it up the same way interview questions are set up. And change the name to someting a bit more gender neutral while we're at it.
The only rule I can think of is the canidate must be currently alive. Oh, and lets also have 2nd and third place too!
Nasty and harsh and bizzare. I was reading on some Astronomy pages how the moon is picking up rotational energy from the earth. Slowing down the rotation of the earth 1.5ms per century and pushing away the moon 3.8 cm per year.
So, assuming these changes are constant, an earth day 3.6 billion years ago was 8.1 hours and the moon was 1/3 closer to the earth as it is now.
No wonder cave men were brutish and stupid, imagine only sleeping 4 hours a night!:-)
Actually, the sad thing is that I don't wonder at all. When I was was serving in the Air Force in GB, I was asked several times why we blew up a platoon of their tanks during the Gulf war. It was difficult to describe 'Fog of war' to people and it made me wonder how much effort our government put into apologising. We killed more of our own people in that war than the enemy did. Later Erik Z
"..it's like saying this rock keeps tigers away." Homer:"It does?" "You don't see any tigers do you?" Homer:"Honey, will you sell Daddy that rock for 5$?"
>If you ask a skilled programmer with years of experience to do open heart surgery, chances are he won't do any better than your average construction worker.
Nonsense, your average construction worker would hem and haw and probably refuse if he can. Your average programmer would hire a surgeon.
You always see the probes sitting there on flat land with rocks strewn all over the place. How do they get it so that none of the 'feet' land on a rock? Could the probe have landed, becone unblanced and fallen over?
Sure, men on Mars. But first, lets see if we can keep MACHINES working on Mars for as long as we'd like to have men survive there.
Pumping money into mars would be a huge waste. Investing in the infrastructure needed to make traveling around the solar system would be the wisest choice. A Space station and a moon base would be the logical first step. Frankly, seeing how we're doing with the space station makes me hesitate at the idea of this 'Hail Mary' of space exploration.
Ah Cow and Chicken have expanded on that great tradition and simply REMOVED everything above the belt. Yes, their parents are nothing more than a walking, talking pair of legs.
Yesterday I was at the local 'Best Buy' looking at computer games. When I ran into a display containing mindstorm kits! The droid development kit was only 100$ (Only? Working with computers sure warps your reality.) When I get the time I'll consider getting one. Maybe during winter break.
In all the sci-fi I've seen, I don't remember 'really cool toys' as part of the future. In retrospect, it's obvious. So here's my prediction, the future if chock full of cool toys.
(Wonders how much a battalion of Battle Droids would cost.)
Sounds familiar. I was amazed when I first ate over at a friends house and people were actually speaking to each other over lunch or dinner. All the meals I've had have been pretty much completely silent. Which is to say, my small talk skills are, well, malnurished. Any goal oriented group I do fine. I also do best socially when the group is going to do something. I couldn't 'Hang out' if my life depended on it.
Not really? Nanos are JUST MACHINES. Thats IT. They build what you need, but building and testing is the last part of any proccess. (Ok, maintance is the very last part.) First you have to design the damn things. Gills are easy because so many creatures have them. Now, where do you put them? Replace you lungs? Where are you during this phase? You need extremely detailed plans on this..where will you store them? Will you be carrying aound the designs for every possible thing your nanites can do?
Repair damages, I can see hospitals for this. Sure, you have nanites with you, but are you carrying 'Bonerepair Ver 3.4' on you? The hospital carries the latest plans. You do have the latest version with you? Well the hospital is still better, they have the equipment to make sure your nanites are saturated in the materials they need, plus assistance on a macro level (Setting the bone) will speed the procces greatly.
The amount of knowlege required to use nanites effectively is beyond what we know now.
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"Nitpick: "Khan" is not a name, it's a title. " Really? If I ever get a chance to choose my own job title, Khan is going to be in it somehere! "The network has crashed! No one can do anything!" "KKHHHhhaaaaannnnnnnn!" Later Erik Z
You mean the 'Struggling with budget cuts' NASA?
I'm sure they're swimming in supercompters, from the 1980's
Later
Erik Z
What do you mean 'No one knows what they're looking for' They're looking for signals of any sort that cannot occur naturally. When/if we find a signal, we'll examine it, hopefully determine it's origin, and decide what to do next. There's too many possibilites what what we can pick up to come up with a good plan now. (Not to mention we can barely make it into orbit, just getting to the moon requires enormous effort and cost)
However, I'd switch over to the Mars lander search in a heartbeat if they made it available.
Later
Erik Z
>Why do you even give a shit about Mitnicks rights?
Because you short sighted MORON, he has the same rights as I do. And every right they figure out how to take away is a right that I, you and ALL Americans loose.
Later
Erik Z
>Linux is going into the vet. It's spaying and >neutering time, as the little creep keeps >spraying all the walls. If it keeps clawing up >the furniture it will need declawing, too
No no no, you've got it all wrong.
Linux is going to the grocery store to buy some milk and cheese and deoderant, because it's almost out. It ate almost all the food in the house trying to keep up it's energy for bad anaolgys.
Later
Erik Z
>I would bet that the army would be extremely uncomfortable with hackers, and hackers would feel completely out of place in the army.
Actually, the military is very results oriented. That's why you hear all those bizzare stories about tying explosives to bats and such. They probably put someone in charge of the project who knows SOMETHING about hacking. He will provide the best enviroment that he can for the people under his command, within reason. (No casual fridays.) The people above him don't give a damn about how he gets results as long as it doesn't look bad on the military.
The fact is that they asked for good hackers. Which means they have no idea how to train good hackers on their own.
BTW, I think this this would be a great idea for anyone interested in doing security for a living. Imagine having 'Trained in computer security by the military' on your resume.
Later
Erik Z
I mean, it wasn't that good of a movie. I've had no urge to see it again in ANY format. If you have DVD money burning a hole in your pocket how about
'Thin Red Line'
'Iron Giant' (so good it even surprised me)
'Stargate'
Ok, I might get a copy of the light saber battle scene for my computer.
Later
Erik Z
They realized that they could change the rating by editing a few scenes and open up to a larger market. Time Allen was on 'Rosie' talking about the movie, they were going for a 'Toy Story' effect. A movie you can take your kids to, yet enjoy it yourself.
Later
Erik Z
Oh really,
Well tell me how many women YOU know that would be tickled to be called 'Man of the year'.
If 'New Woman' had a 'Woman of the Year' contest and YOU won, would you be happy?
I hate PC as much as the next guy, but this title needs to be chenged to something more gender neutral.
Later
Erik Z
I've been puzzling over this aspect of open source. Say some leader of a powerful software OS company gets on the news and say something like 'Don't install linux, if it doesn't cause your computer to explode outright, it will give you cancer. And it SUX compared to our OS, slower in every aspect by an order of magnitude'
Normal OS companies would be able to sue, what can the Linux comunity do? No one is really in charge, no money is being made so we can't hire a lawyer.
Hurm,
Erik Z
Amazon sells books?
I thought they were just fancy middlemen for book warehouses. Considering how the information age has cut away so many middlemen, I'd say that Amazons clock is running out.
BTW, they havn't made a profit because they plow all their profits into growing the business. They will make a profit once investers insist.
Later
Erik Z
Well, I see alot of negitive comments, not just about Time's choice for 'Man of the year', but about the whole 'Man of the year' proccess.
Why don't we have our own 'Man of the year' thread here on Slashdot? Set it up the same way interview questions are set up. And change the name to someting a bit more gender neutral while we're at it.
The only rule I can think of is the canidate must be currently alive. Oh, and lets also have 2nd and third place too!
This could be cool.
Later
Erik Z
Nasty and harsh and bizzare.
:-)
I was reading on some Astronomy pages how the moon is picking up rotational energy from the earth. Slowing down the rotation of the earth 1.5ms per century and pushing away the moon 3.8 cm per year.
So, assuming these changes are constant, an earth day 3.6 billion years ago was 8.1 hours and the moon was 1/3 closer to the earth as it is now.
No wonder cave men were brutish and stupid, imagine only sleeping 4 hours a night!
Later
Erik Z
Actually, the sad thing is that I don't wonder at all.
When I was was serving in the Air Force in GB, I was asked several times why we blew up a platoon of their tanks during the Gulf war. It was difficult to describe 'Fog of war' to people and it made me wonder how much effort our government put into apologising.
We killed more of our own people in that war than the enemy did.
Later
Erik Z
>I wonder if Echelon monitors Slashdot posts as well?
Yeah, my job at the NSA is to read slashdot for, ah, national security reasons.
Where's my playboy?
Later
Erik Z
Geez, this is straight out of the Simpsons:
"..it's like saying this rock keeps tigers away."
Homer:"It does?"
"You don't see any tigers do you?"
Homer:"Honey, will you sell Daddy that rock for 5$?"
Later
Erik Z
>If you ask a skilled programmer with years of experience to do open heart surgery, chances are he won't do any better than your average construction worker.
Nonsense, your average construction worker would hem and haw and probably refuse if he can. Your average programmer would hire a surgeon.
Later
Erik Z
Wow,
(Trying to imagine what an 184 MILLION dollar remote control could do.)
Later
Erik Z
You always see the probes sitting there on flat land with rocks strewn all over the place. How do they get it so that none of the 'feet' land on a rock? Could the probe have landed, becone unblanced and fallen over?
Later
Erik Z
Sure, men on Mars. But first, lets see if we can keep MACHINES working on Mars for as long as we'd like to have men survive there.
Pumping money into mars would be a huge waste. Investing in the infrastructure needed to make traveling around the solar system would be the wisest choice. A Space station and a moon base would be the logical first step. Frankly, seeing how we're doing with the space station makes me hesitate at the idea of this 'Hail Mary' of space exploration.
Later
Erik Z
Ah Cow and Chicken have expanded on that great tradition and simply REMOVED everything above the belt.
Yes, their parents are nothing more than a walking, talking pair of legs.
Later,
Erik Z
Yesterday I was at the local 'Best Buy' looking at computer games. When I ran into a display containing mindstorm kits! The droid development kit was only 100$ (Only? Working with computers sure warps your reality.)
When I get the time I'll consider getting one. Maybe during winter break.
In all the sci-fi I've seen, I don't remember 'really cool toys' as part of the future. In retrospect, it's obvious. So here's my prediction, the future if chock full of cool toys.
(Wonders how much a battalion of Battle Droids would cost.)
Later
Erik Z
Sounds familiar. I was amazed when I first ate over at a friends house and people were actually speaking to each other over lunch or dinner. All the meals I've had have been pretty much completely silent. Which is to say, my small talk skills are, well, malnurished. Any goal oriented group I do fine. I also do best socially when the group is going to do something. I couldn't 'Hang out' if my life depended on it.
I can see it now.
"Hey, aren't those meteorites supposed to me MUCH smaller?"
FOOM FOOM FOOM FOOM!
Later
Erik Z
My car!
Not really? Nanos are JUST MACHINES. Thats IT. They build what you need, but building and testing is the last part of any proccess. (Ok, maintance is the very last part.) First you have to design the damn things. Gills are easy because so many creatures have them. Now, where do you put them? Replace you lungs? Where are you during this phase? You need extremely detailed plans on this..where will you store them? Will you be carrying aound the designs for every possible thing your nanites can do?
Repair damages, I can see hospitals for this. Sure, you have nanites with you, but are you carrying 'Bonerepair Ver 3.4' on you? The hospital carries the latest plans. You do have the latest version with you? Well the hospital is still better, they have the equipment to make sure your nanites are saturated in the materials they need, plus assistance on a macro level (Setting the bone) will speed the procces greatly.
The amount of knowlege required to use nanites effectively is beyond what we know now.
Later
Erik Z