I think that number two does not belong on the list. There are the obvious arguments that Galileo and Copernicus' science would not pass this test, but the suppression of valid science by corporation or governments continues to be an enourmous problem even today.
The best known example is the discovery of the probiotic used in the treatment of ulcers in the 70's. A guy named Dr. S. K. Dash invented this treatment using probiotics that cured 90-something percent of ulcers, but his treatement would mean that huge pharmeceutical corporations would lose millions of $ to this cheaper, more effective competitor (their products did next-to-nothing for the treatement of ulcers). As a result, major pharmeceutical companies invested huge amounts of money in discrediting Dr. Dash in both the courts and the media. Ultimately the science won out, but it was a very trying time for Dr. Dash and his associates, and a less-determined individual may actually have had his discovery suppressed.
Good points, and it especially makes one wonder when the company in charge of this "iblist" is called "Veni Vidi Vici"...
For those who don't know, "Veni Vidi Vici" is latin for "I came, I saw, I conquered." It was first used by the famous Roman emporer and general, Ceaser.
Sorry, I know that this is the second reply that I've posted to this comment, but I just had this thought.
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1 month normally, 2 in really bad cases or where multiple vendors are involved... Once a bug/exploit is know, regardless of whether by the good guys or the bad guys, it is only a matter of time before it leaks out. And at a certain point, if the vendors are not going to move their asses on a serious problem, then sysadmins have the right to know about it so that they can minimize the damage on their systems (shutdown a non-mission-critical service, migrate to another solution, work out their own patch (OSS), or something else).
uh, the article linked above mentions that they were thinking of fusing He-3 and Deuterium, not two He-3 molecules. This would allow for a conventional nuclear reactor setup with still ~1% of the radiation emmissions of current reactors thus making it far lighter and safer.
I'm surprised at the number of slashdot users who have completely overlooked this fundamental flaw in the security system: The bank has a biometric identifier for you that you cannot change. A PIN or password is something that can be unique to each institution you use it in, and a photograph or signature is so easy to fake that they're not as trusted. But an Iris-identifier would be considered a basically infallible method of determining someone's id (there are methods of determining whether the eyeball is alive) and until a method of faking an iris becomes common (it will eventually), someone could commit ENOURMOUS fraud by developing such a method.
What happens if an airline, tax office, or other institution requires iris-scanning in order to use it? Suddenly, any unscrupulous bank employee can book airline tickets in my name or collect my tax returns and there's NOTHING I can do about it. Furthermore, what if I work in the military and my iris patterns are used to access classified material, or worse, launch nuclear weapons. Does this mean that I, or for that matter the President of the U.S., cannot get a bank account for security reasons? These seem to be very important concerns that are justifiable reasons for NOT adopting this system.
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look at the picture with this caption: FEBRUARY 14, 2003 The Airbus A340- 600ST with one of three helicopters it transported to the Australian air show
"someoen... mixed water with petrol and made his car 20 times more efficient."
This has been done by drag racers for years, and as another poster mentioned, was even used in spitfires in WWII. The reason it works is the same principal as a steam engine: hot water -> steam, expanding dramatically in the process, thus providing more pressure on the piston. However, the high temperatures in an engine cause some of the water to be ripped apart into H2 and O2, at which point the H2 can recombine to form highly acidic compounds that corrode your engine and reduce its operating life many times over. That is why it is not commonly used unless super-high torque is required from an engine NOW and you don't care how long the engine lasts after that.
Of course, there's still the other obvious problem of putting too much water in your gas...
The asteroid could be very porous, it just absorbs the blast, or requires an impossibly big bang to be sure it deflects.
Um sorry, but momentum is momentum. In space, the volume of the object doesn't really matter when you're trying to impart an impulse (as there's no air friction to worry about), it's just the mass. In that case, being porus would only help because it would mean that the mass is less than estimated. Any "absorption" wouldn't matter...
(I'd also make damn sure to keep the incoming address away from spam-lists, but that is another matter).
Actually, this would finally give spam lawsuits some actual weight. Whereas the bandwidth and time costs per spam to joe schmoe on his desktop PC are measured in fractions of a cent, spam would actually prove a quantifiable, significant financial burden to the operator of this system. Too bad they're in Nepal though, I have no idea how receptive Nepali civil court is to these kinds of suits (do they even have a civil court?) or how they could possibly enforce as suit against someone in the US or Korea...
It shouldn't be that hard - I mean, your average shockwave game maps keyboard keys, so why cant software developers make mappable gestures? Just have a list of all the possible gestures and all the possible actions, then let the user associate them. That instantly kills all the bureaucratic overhead and ultimately makes all software more customizable for the end user. Seems like a no-brainer to me...
I have no idea what the hell you are trying to say. Are you trying to say that tritium is used instead of normal hydrogen in an H-bomb? I don't know, but it seems reasonable. Is an entire neutron converted to energy in the fusion process? b/c neutrons are really heavy and that would be A LOT of energy released.
Historically, the Nazi scientists (and all others for that matter) had yet to even dream of building a hydrogen bomb at that time, the reason they were pursuing D2O was for their breeder reactors...
I wasn't saying that conflict on a neo-global scope is a prerequisite. I was saying that zipping in at mach 3, dropping a bomb, and then zipping back out again isn't as heroic as piloting a lancaster bomber at altitudes as low as 60 feet on bombing runs repeatedly throughout a war. I was saying that modern (american) tank crews barely know the meaning of fear, because the chances that those old rusty iraqi hulks will get a shot off before they do is slim to none. I was saying that when a marine today gets warning of an impending gas attack, he reaches into his backpack and pulls out his chemical suit, rather than struggling to piss on his hankerchief (sp?) and squatting in muddy WWI trench for the next four hours holding it over his face. I was saying that there is not the same opportunity for a cook on a navy ship to take over the AA guns when his crewmate gets shot, because we barely use those guns anymore in favour of cruise missiles.
My point was that technological prowess has mitigated human heroism. My other point was that nations no longer wage war as a whole body - rather the military forces depart for some country whose name most people can't pronounce and everyone else pitches in by paying a couple more cents at the gas pump - thus reducing the chances for heroism by citizens, politicians, and industry in the home country yet again.
Yes, you've hit the nail on the head there. Norway has tons of hydroelectric energy potential, and making heavy water requires lots of energy: first you have to separate H20 into H2 + O2 by electrolysis, and then you have to cool the H2 to a liquid and distill out the D2. Then you recombine to form the heavy water. In all this makes the process so energy-intensive that you basically need an entire power plant to provide for a heavy water plant.
After the german's realized the insecurity of the facility in Norway, they tried to move the facility parts back to germany, but were again failed when this same guy sank the ferry that was transporting the components.
The ferry incident was merely an extension of this first effort. The ferry was carrying parts from the reactor and the remaining supply of heavy water back to germany to be used in further atomic research. He blew it up to stop that, and he was greatly saddened by the fact that there were several norweigans on board at the time.
As well, Norway wasn't neutral, it was occupied by germany and as such was part of the Nazi war effort.
I don't think that the parent poster meant to imply that todays wars are without danger. Rather that WWII was an era when technology was 'cutting edge' but yet not so advanced as to eliminate the chance for human heroism. WWII, though truely horrible, produced some of the greatest heroes of our time, and from all walks of life. Politicians, Civilians and Military men all joined together for national purpose on both sides. The early 20th century was the first and last time that a nation in its entirety felt the effects of war close up, rather than reflected solely in the prices at the gas pump. The end result was that evenly matched nations became entagled in a war that was as glorious as it was just. No modern war can compare in either respect.
I don't mean to sound like a war monger who thinks of war as glorious, I just want to point out that every war that this earth has seen since WWII has paled in comparison.
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I think that number two does not belong on the list. There are the obvious arguments that Galileo and Copernicus' science would not pass this test, but the suppression of valid science by corporation or governments continues to be an enourmous problem even today.
The best known example is the discovery of the probiotic used in the treatment of ulcers in the 70's. A guy named Dr. S. K. Dash invented this treatment using probiotics that cured 90-something percent of ulcers, but his treatement would mean that huge pharmeceutical corporations would lose millions of $ to this cheaper, more effective competitor (their products did next-to-nothing for the treatement of ulcers). As a result, major pharmeceutical companies invested huge amounts of money in discrediting Dr. Dash in both the courts and the media. Ultimately the science won out, but it was a very trying time for Dr. Dash and his associates, and a less-determined individual may actually have had his discovery suppressed.
Hrmm...
Good points, and it especially makes one wonder when the company in charge of this "iblist" is called "Veni Vidi Vici"...
For those who don't know, "Veni Vidi Vici" is latin for "I came, I saw, I conquered." It was first used by the famous Roman emporer and general, Ceaser.
Sorry, I know that this is the second reply that I've posted to this comment, but I just had this thought.
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Rather than displaying no timestamp on preview stories, could you display a negative timestamp so that subscribers know when a story is due to leave the queue? (i.e. 5 mins before going live) This would be for those who want to come back and post comments, or for those who want to know how long they have to read/load the links before the
Would moderation be allowed in the TMF window? My vote is that it shouldn't...
shit man...
when i read that i actually said "aaaah" out loud!
that's damn scary...
Gee fucktard, I believe that was covered in "2) BY DEFAULT, it is turned off in any build."
90 days!? That's three months!
1 month normally, 2 in really bad cases or where multiple vendors are involved... Once a bug/exploit is know, regardless of whether by the good guys or the bad guys, it is only a matter of time before it leaks out. And at a certain point, if the vendors are not going to move their asses on a serious problem, then sysadmins have the right to know about it so that they can minimize the damage on their systems (shutdown a non-mission-critical service, migrate to another solution, work out their own patch (OSS), or something else).
uh, the article linked above mentions that they were thinking of fusing He-3 and Deuterium, not two He-3 molecules. This would allow for a conventional nuclear reactor setup with still ~1% of the radiation emmissions of current reactors thus making it far lighter and safer.
Does the ICAO [icao.org] have strong procedural rules in place on what to do in the event of a slashdotting?
Might be time to get out the rulebook...
I'm surprised at the number of slashdot users who have completely overlooked this fundamental flaw in the security system: The bank has a biometric identifier for you that you cannot change. A PIN or password is something that can be unique to each institution you use it in, and a photograph or signature is so easy to fake that they're not as trusted. But an Iris-identifier would be considered a basically infallible method of determining someone's id (there are methods of determining whether the eyeball is alive) and until a method of faking an iris becomes common (it will eventually), someone could commit ENOURMOUS fraud by developing such a method.
What happens if an airline, tax office, or other institution requires iris-scanning in order to use it? Suddenly, any unscrupulous bank employee can book airline tickets in my name or collect my tax returns and there's NOTHING I can do about it. Furthermore, what if I work in the military and my iris patterns are used to access classified material, or worse, launch nuclear weapons. Does this mean that I, or for that matter the President of the U.S., cannot get a bank account for security reasons? These seem to be very important concerns that are justifiable reasons for NOT adopting this system.
HOLY COW!
look at the picture with this caption:
FEBRUARY 14, 2003
The Airbus A340- 600ST with one of three helicopters it transported to the Australian air show
That is one crazy airplane!
"someoen ... mixed water with petrol and made his car 20 times more efficient."
This has been done by drag racers for years, and as another poster mentioned, was even used in spitfires in WWII. The reason it works is the same principal as a steam engine: hot water -> steam, expanding dramatically in the process, thus providing more pressure on the piston. However, the high temperatures in an engine cause some of the water to be ripped apart into H2 and O2, at which point the H2 can recombine to form highly acidic compounds that corrode your engine and reduce its operating life many times over. That is why it is not commonly used unless super-high torque is required from an engine NOW and you don't care how long the engine lasts after that.
Of course, there's still the other obvious problem of putting too much water in your gas...
3rd baby in 13 months?
Sorry buddy, but with a nine month human gestation period, I call BS
The asteroid could be very porous, it just absorbs the blast, or requires an impossibly big bang to be sure it deflects.
Um sorry, but momentum is momentum. In space, the volume of the object doesn't really matter when you're trying to impart an impulse (as there's no air friction to worry about), it's just the mass. In that case, being porus would only help because it would mean that the mass is less than estimated. Any "absorption" wouldn't matter...
Still a not a bad post.
to prevent any other aircraft or any ships from getting too close.
Um, remember that bit about having to be near an international airport? ummm, yeah...
Sounds good (though a lot more complicated), unfortunatly that's not in their plans so the question still remains.
(I'd also make damn sure to keep the incoming address away from spam-lists, but that is another matter).
Actually, this would finally give spam lawsuits some actual weight. Whereas the bandwidth and time costs per spam to joe schmoe on his desktop PC are measured in fractions of a cent, spam would actually prove a quantifiable, significant financial burden to the operator of this system. Too bad they're in Nepal though, I have no idea how receptive Nepali civil court is to these kinds of suits (do they even have a civil court?) or how they could possibly enforce as suit against someone in the US or Korea...
It shouldn't be that hard - I mean, your average shockwave game maps keyboard keys, so why cant software developers make mappable gestures? Just have a list of all the possible gestures and all the possible actions, then let the user associate them. That instantly kills all the bureaucratic overhead and ultimately makes all software more customizable for the end user. Seems like a no-brainer to me...
I have no idea what the hell you are trying to say. Are you trying to say that tritium is used instead of normal hydrogen in an H-bomb? I don't know, but it seems reasonable. Is an entire neutron converted to energy in the fusion process? b/c neutrons are really heavy and that would be A LOT of energy released.
Historically, the Nazi scientists (and all others for that matter) had yet to even dream of building a hydrogen bomb at that time, the reason they were pursuing D2O was for their breeder reactors...
I wasn't saying that conflict on a neo-global scope is a prerequisite. I was saying that zipping in at mach 3, dropping a bomb, and then zipping back out again isn't as heroic as piloting a lancaster bomber at altitudes as low as 60 feet on bombing runs repeatedly throughout a war. I was saying that modern (american) tank crews barely know the meaning of fear, because the chances that those old rusty iraqi hulks will get a shot off before they do is slim to none. I was saying that when a marine today gets warning of an impending gas attack, he reaches into his backpack and pulls out his chemical suit, rather than struggling to piss on his hankerchief (sp?) and squatting in muddy WWI trench for the next four hours holding it over his face. I was saying that there is not the same opportunity for a cook on a navy ship to take over the AA guns when his crewmate gets shot, because we barely use those guns anymore in favour of cruise missiles.
My point was that technological prowess has mitigated human heroism. My other point was that nations no longer wage war as a whole body - rather the military forces depart for some country whose name most people can't pronounce and everyone else pitches in by paying a couple more cents at the gas pump - thus reducing the chances for heroism by citizens, politicians, and industry in the home country yet again.
Argh, sorry you're right. I hate it when i get stuff like that mixed up.
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abundance of energy in Norway?"
Yes, you've hit the nail on the head there. Norway has tons of hydroelectric energy potential, and making heavy water requires lots of energy: first you have to separate H20 into H2 + O2 by electrolysis, and then you have to cool the H2 to a liquid and distill out the D2. Then you recombine to form the heavy water. In all this makes the process so energy-intensive that you basically need an entire power plant to provide for a heavy water plant.
After the german's realized the insecurity of the facility in Norway, they tried to move the facility parts back to germany, but were again failed when this same guy sank the ferry that was transporting the components.
The ferry incident was merely an extension of this first effort. The ferry was carrying parts from the reactor and the remaining supply of heavy water back to germany to be used in further atomic research. He blew it up to stop that, and he was greatly saddened by the fact that there were several norweigans on board at the time.
As well, Norway wasn't neutral, it was occupied by germany and as such was part of the Nazi war effort.
I don't think that the parent poster meant to imply that todays wars are without danger. Rather that WWII was an era when technology was 'cutting edge' but yet not so advanced as to eliminate the chance for human heroism. WWII, though truely horrible, produced some of the greatest heroes of our time, and from all walks of life. Politicians, Civilians and Military men all joined together for national purpose on both sides. The early 20th century was the first and last time that a nation in its entirety felt the effects of war close up, rather than reflected solely in the prices at the gas pump. The end result was that evenly matched nations became entagled in a war that was as glorious as it was just. No modern war can compare in either respect.
I don't mean to sound like a war monger who thinks of war as glorious, I just want to point out that every war that this earth has seen since WWII has paled in comparison.
Nope, that's about a rocke fuel plant. This is the right one: The Heroes of Telemark