I have been on a flight where they've announced no peanuts were being distributed or sold because of someone with allergies on the fllight. Of course they may have just run out of peanuts and it sounded better than "we forgot to stock up".
Assuming this is legal where you live: But if not, hey, try it anyway...
1. Create app that gives people a chance to win $500,000, (but only pays out if app is biggest download) as a free lottery thing. 2. Distribute for free. Give codes to people so you get an extra "ticket" for everyone you recruit to download it, and from those they recruit etc. 3. Sit back and wait. 4. PROFIT 5. Send $50,000 to me for the idea. Thanks
Lunar meteorites are not that uncommon here (chunks of the moon blasted out of the moon after asteroid/meteorite impacts onto the moon which then fall on earth).
The reverse has no doubt happened too, over geological time, chunks of Earth rock have been blasted into space during particularly nasty collisions (think of the one that ended the dinosaurs), and while most of it would rain back down on Earth, a small percentage could eventually end up caught by the moon.
Now, this doesn't necessarily mean the traces of organic chemicals found on the moon are from the Earth, there are far more likely sources (such as comets) where organic chemicals are found.
But it opens up an interesting possiblity - because much of the Earth's surface is constantly subducted and renewed at plate boundaries, much of the fossil record of very early times is lost - and there has been speculation that the best place to find fossils of very early life on earth is on meteorite fragments on the surface of the moon.
I'm quite happy to go up there and do some collecting for anyone, if they'll pay my fare.
A day trip to Edinburgh is just about practical (I did one earlier this year) if you fly there and flying is MUCH cheaper than the train! EasyJet fly their from London, probably other discount airlines do too.
Week ticket might work better, but loses flexibility (for example, if you want to go to somewhere like the Royal Air Force museum at Hendon (well worth it) you'll need to have a zone 3 ticket if you go the weekly pass route. Also, depending on where you're staying in London, you might not need to use public transport every day. You see a lot more of a city when you walk!
Also.. Don't go to Stonehenge. Long way to travel and far too expensive. If you're driving in the UK ever, you can drive past it on the A303, park somewhere past the official car park, walk back and see it for free from the fence. IMHO what you get when you pay to go in isn't much better.
Other day trips that are worthwhile if you've got time include day coach trips to Oxford. There are various bus companies offering cheap return trips to Oxford from central London. Oxford Tube are one, and judging by the number of their busses I've overtaken driving up the M40 in the past they're probably quite frequent. There must be other companies too doing this.
Don't forget the British Museum recently* split into two, the British Museum, and the Natural History Museum - which used to be the British Museum (Natural History). The British Museum, which houses things such as the mummys, Elgin marbles, Rosetta stone and various other things we stole from around the world during our colonial past, is in Holborn, pretty central in London, and the Natural History Museum, with dinosaurs, big stuffed blue whale and a fabulous mineral and gemstone collection is in South Kensington, right next to the Science Museum (as mentioned previously) and Victoria and Albert museum.
Entrance to all of these is free. Some special exhibits need payment however (usually temporary ones).
When you get to the airport, as long as you're not feeling too lazy, don't try to get a taxi to London, it'll cost you $80 or more (it's a long way). Go to the underground, get an Oyster card with (say) £20 of credit on it (you'll have to ask at the manned ticket office for this), that works for all your underground and bus travel in London, much simpler and quicker than using cash. You can top it up if you run out (you can check your balance at the station or register online to top it up automatically).
So? There are 4.6 billion tonnes of natural uranium dissolved in the sea.
Putting even our most highly-radioactive and soluble waste in the middle of the Atlantic is probably the best thing we could do with it. If it's highly soluble all the better, it disperses quicker.
Jolyon
ps. Dumping it in a ship 18 miles off the coast is probably not a good idea though. Even if it was likely low-level nuclear waste.
While arpanet/the internet was originally designed for just these sorts of things, the modern reality is that critical infrastructure shouldn't really be attached to the internet. Shouldn't there be a private network entirely isolated from the public internet for these things?
Yes it'd be more expensive and it make it less easy for private contractors to work on stuff from their offices, but the word 'critical' is a bit of a clue here.
Not that even this would guarantee security, but it makes it a heap load harder for any would-be hacker.
Slashdot Mirror
For example, the spanish inverted exclamation mark would work fine.
Sorry for breaking your meme. I'll be more careful in the future.
I have been on a flight where they've announced no peanuts were being distributed or sold because of someone with allergies on the fllight. Of course they may have just run out of peanuts and it sounded better than "we forgot to stock up".
Jolyon. Oh yes, my .sig is appropriate today
Assuming this is legal where you live: But if not, hey, try it anyway...
1. Create app that gives people a chance to win $500,000, (but only pays out if app is biggest download) as a free lottery thing.
2. Distribute for free. Give codes to people so you get an extra "ticket" for everyone you recruit to download it, and from those they recruit etc.
3. Sit back and wait.
4. PROFIT
5. Send $50,000 to me for the idea. Thanks
Slashdot Idle
"(and, perhaps, vice versa)"
Not only do you need to worry about the C++ bugs that don't exist in C++, but you also need to worry about the C++ bugs that don't exist in C++.
Now, i'm not a mathematician, but I make that double the worry.
Jolyon
Lunar meteorites are not that uncommon here (chunks of the moon blasted out of the moon after asteroid/meteorite impacts onto the moon which then fall on earth).
The reverse has no doubt happened too, over geological time, chunks of Earth rock have been blasted into space during particularly nasty collisions (think of the one that ended the dinosaurs), and while most of it would rain back down on Earth, a small percentage could eventually end up caught by the moon.
Now, this doesn't necessarily mean the traces of organic chemicals found on the moon are from the Earth, there are far more likely sources (such as comets) where organic chemicals are found.
But it opens up an interesting possiblity - because much of the Earth's surface is constantly subducted and renewed at plate boundaries, much of the fossil record of very early times is lost - and there has been speculation that the best place to find fossils of very early life on earth is on meteorite fragments on the surface of the moon.
I'm quite happy to go up there and do some collecting for anyone, if they'll pay my fare.
Jolyon
If it was China, they'd have charged her for the three bullets.
(Yeah... I know that's not really done out there any more)
A day trip to Edinburgh is just about practical (I did one earlier this year) if you fly there and flying is MUCH cheaper than the train! EasyJet fly their from London, probably other discount airlines do too.
Week ticket might work better, but loses flexibility (for example, if you want to go to somewhere like the Royal Air Force museum at Hendon (well worth it) you'll need to have a zone 3 ticket if you go the weekly pass route. Also, depending on where you're staying in London, you might not need to use public transport every day. You see a lot more of a city when you walk!
Also.. Don't go to Stonehenge. Long way to travel and far too expensive. If you're driving in the UK ever, you can drive past it on the A303, park somewhere past the official car park, walk back and see it for free from the fence. IMHO what you get when you pay to go in isn't much better.
Other day trips that are worthwhile if you've got time include day coach trips to Oxford. There are various bus companies offering cheap return trips to Oxford from central London. Oxford Tube are one, and judging by the number of their busses I've overtaken driving up the M40 in the past they're probably quite frequent. There must be other companies too doing this.
Jolyon
Don't forget the British Museum recently* split into two, the British Museum, and the Natural History Museum - which used to be the British Museum (Natural History). The British Museum, which houses things such as the mummys, Elgin marbles, Rosetta stone and various other things we stole from around the world during our colonial past, is in Holborn, pretty central in London, and the Natural History Museum, with dinosaurs, big stuffed blue whale and a fabulous mineral and gemstone collection is in South Kensington, right next to the Science Museum (as mentioned previously) and Victoria and Albert museum.
Entrance to all of these is free. Some special exhibits need payment however (usually temporary ones).
When you get to the airport, as long as you're not feeling too lazy, don't try to get a taxi to London, it'll cost you $80 or more (it's a long way). Go to the underground, get an Oyster card with (say) £20 of credit on it (you'll have to ask at the manned ticket office for this), that works for all your underground and bus travel in London, much simpler and quicker than using cash. You can top it up if you run out (you can check your balance at the station or register online to top it up automatically).
Have fun!
Jolyon
* - in 1881. That's recently for us Europeans!
Whilst on the subject of names, i always wondered what that minge tty thing was
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=minge (if you're from outside the UK)
No.
Just dial their cell number and see if they explode.
Goat C. Worst. Syntax. Ever.
You obviously haven't tried Tub Perl
That's the ultimate suicide attack - trying to destroy the entire universe!
They should have sent a poet
... is that people have to be told that sending/reading text messages when driving is unsafe.
Are people really that fucking dumb these days?
Judging by the evidence above, it seems so.
A bit damn annoying if you're on the train, or a passenger in someone else's car.
That's all I have to say on the topic.
So? There are 4.6 billion tonnes of natural uranium dissolved in the sea.
Putting even our most highly-radioactive and soluble waste in the middle of the Atlantic is probably the best thing we could do with it. If it's highly soluble all the better, it disperses quicker.
Jolyon
ps. Dumping it in a ship 18 miles off the coast is probably not a good idea though. Even if it was likely low-level nuclear waste.
to hurt him even more!
What makes you think they haven't already?
On one they're controlling the power station, on the other they're reading slashdot.
Unless typing 'FIRST POST! LOL' on the wrong box causes a reactor meltdown, I think we'll be ok :)
Jolyon
Then I'd suggest they need two PCs.
While arpanet/the internet was originally designed for just these sorts of things, the modern reality is that critical infrastructure shouldn't really be attached to the internet. Shouldn't there be a private network entirely isolated from the public internet for these things?
Yes it'd be more expensive and it make it less easy for private contractors to work on stuff from their offices, but the word 'critical' is a bit of a clue here.
Not that even this would guarantee security, but it makes it a heap load harder for any would-be hacker.
Jolyon
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