Quote of the day, from the Washington Post : "As a general rule, when the people saying that this will have a horrible, chilling impact on something are the ones who created that thing in the first place, and the people who are saying, “Oh, no, it’ll be fine, it only targets the bad actors” are members of the Motion Picture Association of America, it seems obvious whose opinion you should heed."
Yes, that is what I heard too. I don't know what the rules are here. Maybe they will call Congress back into session for an hour (the Republicans have been doing that in the Senate a lot to avoid recess appointments).
When voters don't care about a subject, it leaves the congress-people free to do whatever they want. So they do.
Yes. True leaders tell their constituents things that they need to know, so they can be better informed about the issues at hand. Conmen and grifters always try and befog their marks with a blizzard of words and concerns about extraneous things. The marks may mean well, but they're still being played.
He may be a Tea Partier from rural Texas with an "A+" rating from the National Rifle Association," but the TV, movie, and music industries are the top donors to Smith's 2012 campaign committee, according to data complied by the Center for Responsive Politics.
The Tea Party are marks. His donors are his real constituency.
The problem is not landing on the comet, the problem is that the comet's gravity is so weak that conventional sampling techniques will tend to push the spacecraft away, and it is not clear that you will be able to anchor the spacecraft firmly enough to avoid this. Similar problems exist with tether based sample return (where a long tether is used to match velocities with a target, and there are only a few seconds available to collect a sample).
There are various proposed solutions for this "touch and go" sampling problem. The recent Decadal Survey provides an overview. Hayabusa tried to fire pellets into Itokawa, to kick up some material for sampling. Other proposed solutions include cores and scoops, "sticky pads," brush wheel samplers. A reasonable approach would probably be to try several attempts, if possible.
You realize that at a picosecond frame rate it would take about a year of watching at 30 frames per second to actually see any motion of a person on a trampoline at all, and maybe a century to observe an single bounce ?
The current camera only does one line of a frame at a time and uses repeated laser pulses to synthesize a movie, but suppose that they upgrade this camera so that it can take a full frame in a picosecond (it's only engineering !). There is not much besides light (or a beam of high energy particles) that actually changes much in a picosecond - or even in a nanosecond (~ 1000 frames, or 30 seconds at 30 fps).
In 1 picosecond the ISS moves about 80 angstroms, or ~8 micro meters in 1 nanosecond. A bullet is considerably slower, as is a chemical explosion. The only thing else that I know of that changes much in a nanosecond is a nuclear explosion, and I bet that has already been imaged at the picosecond level, not that we are likely to see the films.
TV is in most places currently is transported by bits that are sent differently from all other bits, on different networks using different technology, for legacy historical reasons. Whether or not that is "broken," it is going to change.
That's technically. From a business standpoint, there is lots that is broken, including the bundled channel subscription model (this is akin to making you subscribe to 8 or 10 woodworking magazines to get a subscription to "Rolling Stone" and 8 or 10 gossip tabloids to get a subscription to "National Geographic").
The switchboard was listening in to calls 100 years ago. The mail room was looking at letters 150 years ago. Heck, I'm sure the equivalent was going on in ancient Sumer (sneaking a peak in those sealed clay tablets). "The help" is always going to eavesdrop. Not all of them, not all the time, but it happens.
I recently found myself in a strange position, rehired as a consultant with the unofficial job of reminding the company how an old plant works.
I certainly hope that you negotiated a much higher salary than before.
I have known people who were fired in a "chain saw" maneuver who proved to have core corporate competencies in their heads. They negotiated for a much higher rate the second time around...
If you think about it, the people claiming that advanced civilizations would create self-replicating Von Neumann machines that would spread throughout the galaxy, are really claiming that carbon-based life would create (and maybe be supplanted by) silicon-based life. In the same way that RNA-life may have been necessary to get to DNA-based life, carbon-based life may be a necessary pre-condition for silicon based life. (We might think of those Von Neumann machines as robotic spacecraft, but those that can evolve would likely supplant those that cannot, and in a few billion years take on forms that we cannot predict.)
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Quote of the day, from the Washington Post : "As a general rule, when the people saying that this will have a horrible, chilling impact on something are the ones who created that thing in the first place, and the people who are saying, “Oh, no, it’ll be fine, it only targets the bad actors” are members of the Motion Picture Association of America, it seems obvious whose opinion you should heed."
Yes, that is what I heard too. I don't know what the rules are here. Maybe they will call Congress back into session for an hour (the Republicans have been doing that in the Senate a lot to avoid recess appointments).
but we do actually have very transparent means of seeing who gets campaign contributions from where.
No, we don't. Search on "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission."
The election is almost a year off. This bill is dead, unless they do something really sneaky Wednesday.
When voters don't care about a subject, it leaves the congress-people free to do whatever they want. So they do.
Yes. True leaders tell their constituents things that they need to know, so they can be better informed about the issues at hand. Conmen and grifters always try and befog their marks with a blizzard of words and concerns about extraneous things. The marks may mean well, but they're still being played.
the government is not going to shut down Youtube and Facebook, this is to PROTECT Youtube and Facebook
No, it is not.
There are both Ds and Rs in favor of the bill, too.
Meet SOPA author Lamar Smith, Hollywood's favorite Republican.
He may be a Tea Partier from rural Texas with an "A+" rating from the National Rifle Association," but the TV, movie, and music industries are the top donors to Smith's 2012 campaign committee, according to data complied by the Center for Responsive Politics.
The Tea Party are marks. His donors are his real constituency.
And they get mad when we compare SOPA to Chinese censorship using the same tools.
Hayabusa had a pellet gun.
Whichever one you want. Typically, it's chosen to be convenient (in this case, away from the comet).
The problem is not landing on the comet, the problem is that the comet's gravity is so weak that conventional sampling techniques will tend to push the spacecraft away, and it is not clear that you will be able to anchor the spacecraft firmly enough to avoid this. Similar problems exist with tether based sample return (where a long tether is used to match velocities with a target, and there are only a few seconds available to collect a sample).
There are various proposed solutions for this "touch and go" sampling problem. The recent Decadal Survey provides an overview. Hayabusa tried to fire pellets into Itokawa, to kick up some material for sampling. Other proposed solutions include cores and scoops, "sticky pads," brush wheel samplers. A reasonable approach would probably be to try several attempts, if possible.
XKCD has a cartoon for this.
"If you think
the minutes in
your morning lecture
are taking a long time
to pass for YOU..."
Relying on Slashdot for sexual gratification is worse than relying on Slashdot for legal advice, and that's saying something.
Times, at 30 fps, to watch
- a lightning strike move 1 meter : ~ 1 week
- one bullet streak by Neo's head : ~ 100 days
- one boob bounce on Baywatch : ~ 1 century
Better bring lots of popcorn.
I think they mean that in a perfect vacuum, there would be nothing in the bottle and thus nothing to scatter.
You realize that at a picosecond frame rate it would take about a year of watching at 30 frames per second to actually see any motion of a person on a trampoline at all, and maybe a century to observe an single bounce ?
The current camera only does one line of a frame at a time and uses repeated laser pulses to synthesize a movie, but suppose that they upgrade this camera so that it can take a full frame in a picosecond (it's only engineering !). There is not much besides light (or a beam of high energy particles) that actually changes much in a picosecond - or even in a nanosecond (~ 1000 frames, or 30 seconds at 30 fps).
In 1 picosecond the ISS moves about 80 angstroms, or ~8 micro meters in 1 nanosecond. A bullet is considerably slower, as is a chemical explosion. The only thing else that I know of that changes much in a nanosecond is a nuclear explosion, and I bet that has already been imaged at the picosecond level, not that we are likely to see the films.
It may not be directly corrupt, ...
It is directly corrupt. What it may not be is illegal, but I wouldn't put serious money on that either.
TV is in most places currently is transported by bits that are sent differently from all other bits, on different networks using different technology, for legacy historical reasons. Whether or not that is "broken," it is going to change.
That's technically. From a business standpoint, there is lots that is broken, including the bundled channel subscription model (this is akin to making you subscribe to 8 or 10 woodworking magazines to get a subscription to "Rolling Stone" and 8 or 10 gossip tabloids to get a subscription to "National Geographic").
The switchboard was listening in to calls 100 years ago. The mail room was looking at letters 150 years ago. Heck, I'm sure the equivalent was going on in ancient Sumer (sneaking a peak in those sealed clay tablets). "The help" is always going to eavesdrop. Not all of them, not all the time, but it happens.
That would explain a lot!
Outside of the code, all documentation is worthless
Don't look at man pages much, I'll wager.
I recently found myself in a strange position, rehired as a consultant with the unofficial job of reminding the company how an old plant works.
I certainly hope that you negotiated a much higher salary than before.
I have known people who were fired in a "chain saw" maneuver who proved to have core corporate competencies in their heads. They negotiated for a much higher rate the second time around...
If you think about it, the people claiming that advanced civilizations would create self-replicating Von Neumann machines that would spread throughout the galaxy, are really claiming that carbon-based life would create (and maybe be supplanted by) silicon-based life. In the same way that RNA-life may have been necessary to get to DNA-based life, carbon-based life may be a necessary pre-condition for silicon based life. (We might think of those Von Neumann machines as robotic spacecraft, but those that can evolve would likely supplant those that cannot, and in a few billion years take on forms that we cannot predict.)
Really, who cares ? The original Napster is long gone; this is just a corporate entity that bought the name.