Perhaps it could have gone into sleep mode again. A timer can use practically no power.
A timer uses no power but keeping the batteries warm uses a lot of power (you wouldn't want them to freeze, would you?). On Cassini you have power from solar panels to do that, but once you separate you're on your own... batteries.
Now a mini-nuclear reactor to power it would be another story, but those can backfire if your rocket blows up during launch.
I don't really get it why everyone talks about what we really want or don't want to happen with our accounts after death, when Yahoo's decision was made on purely financial (and perhaps practical) reasons. Had they decided to give families access after your death they'd have to hire people to shift through all the necessary paperwork plus phone calls with no profit at all out of it. They'd also have to deal with all the forged death certificates they'd get from people trying to break into other accounts, possibly creating liability issues for Yahoo if they gave out passwords to the wrong people.
As anyone trying to be law abiding, it is wrong and unsound to suggest that any segment of the population be exempt from the laws(or exempt from punishment) no matter your personal views on the law. Certainly support fighiting to change the law. But it is dangerous to engender a disrespect for the law. Using hyperbole in an oft use cliche - would you say the same if they were murderers? What about commiting fraud? Identity theft? Where do you draw the line on crimes that are "ok" or "wrong to sue college students over"?
Here's where I draw the line: if RIAA thinks they are defrauded by the broke college students or 13 year olds they should be required to prove that the person they are suing would have bought the songs they downloaded from Kazaa if free downloads weren't available, or in the case of sharing that some of the people who downloaded from them would have paid for those songs.
Compensations should also be limited to 3x the market value of the "proven" songs. Why? Because if a merchant overcharges my credit card (or charges me for a service they didn't provide, like PepBoys) all I can get is a refund, maybe 3x the disputed amount if I sue. Why is RIAA entitled to $150k per song even if the guy wouldn't have ever bought that song if he couldn't get it free?
How about if they inserted a RFID tag (with a range of a few meters) in all driving licenses, passports, credit cards, debit cards, etc and then introduced RFID scanners everywhere and I mean every 10 meters throughout the city, and recorded the ID of every single person walking by every single scanner 24/7. Would that be an invasion of privacy? How is that different from what they're doing in this Florida town?
And if that's not enough, how about if they required a RFID sub-skin implant for all US citizens (remove it and go to jail) and placed scanners everywhere again. Would that be enough to call it invasion of privacy? How's that different, umm? What would you have to fear if you haven't broken their law?
Wonder how much IR you could generate by heating the plate from behind, maybe in an uneven fashion to distort the numbers?
I always wondered if there were death traps in F1
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Think about this: air resistance normally goes up with the square of your speed due to turbulence (for cars it really picks up around 60mph, which is why the old highway speed limit was set at 55mph). Now if the downforce on an F1 car went up with the square of vehicle speed (and I think it does) you could engineer a turn so that if you tried driving around it at low speeds you'd make it ok, then at a certain medium speed you'd lose traction because centrifugal force exceeds friction, but then at much higher speeds you could have the downforce kick in and give you enough grip to make it around the corner again. That's because centrifugal force is liner to your speed, but friction depends on downforce wich goes up with the square of speed.
So by "death trap" I meant a turn that you could take at say 200mph or more, or below 150mph, but any speed between 150mph and 200mph would make you lose control. Any such thing you've heard of, or am I making no sense?
I think the lateral 5gs are only obtained when the track is banked. On a flat road they'll probably get 2-3gs lateral, and that only in certain very high speed turns. In medium-tight turns or on a circular skidpad where they use slow speeds (by F1 standards) the downforces are small and they won't get much more than 1g lateral.
professional dragsters put out more like 4000 (four thousand) horsepower through crazy turbochargers and special fuels. the engine can take it for only one race at a time then it needs rebuilding. they get to the end of their 1/4 mile race in something like 4-5 seconds, and running at full power any longer would immediately melt the engine internals.
so yeah, definitely most horsepower from a factory car for the bugatti.
Clearly it's the same thing no? You may argue that in this case users specifically searched for AXA and got to see their competitors also, but isn't the case the same when someone purposely flips the page to look at an article about HP printers and sees an Epson Ad beside it?
Not exactly the same. People go to read the HP article knowing full well that the magazine may contain advertisements for anything anywhere in its pages. The same expectation does not apply when you type something into Google; when you search you expect that all results would be related to your keywords.
There is yet another issue here: Google is making profit from using trademark "X" in a contract with X's competitors. What they are really doing is more similar to selling "Coca-Cola vending machine location maps" and getting money from Pepsi to specifically include Pepsi-only machines as well on those maps.
9. "KEYLOGGING COMPUTER PROGRAMS" means computer programs, installed without the knowledge of the computer user, that send electronic communications, that the computer user is unaware of, from the computer to an unauthorized user. Such communications are computer files that display ALL of the keystrokes that a computer makes.
So if my keylogger drops all the spacebars then I'm home free, thank you sir!
"momentarily" really refered to kinetic energy, which is what you'd be using to spin up a small turbnie/wheel/etc. but yeah, kinetic+potential energy decreases slowly as water goes downhil.
Decreasing pipe size increases velocity, not pressure. Increased velocity in pipes is usually associated with friction loss, or loss of water pressure.
I think the grandparent had it right, although he probably didn't write it down properly. The actual pressure in the fluid may be lower but when you put a turbine in front of the high-speed fluid it'll create a significantly higher pressure right behing the turbine. Basically you want your fluid to go fast because you're capturing its kinetic energy, which is proportional to the square of its velocity.
Somehow I doubt you'll be able to pump any power into the grid unless you manage to generate it at exactly 60Hz and permanently stay in phase with the grid. Doesn't sound like an easy task at all.
yes, but just momentarily. once past your paddle, the water will be accelerated again by earth's gravitational pull, so the downstream power plant won't ever notice.
p.s. it wouldn't notice anyway since they just store the water in the dam and let it free fall on their turbine from there. so your plant will make the water take longer to reach downstream but it'll have just as much energy once there.
...I'm sure aerospace electronics engineers would be capable of solving that problem effectively. Let's see - passengers are inside a large metal can - and there's unlimited mounting space for antennas on the outside.. hmmm..
Let's see... you seem to think that an airplane is a Faraday cage. But you also seem fairly pissed that they won't allow you to place a call from the plane. Hmm...
Seems like people use it because they like the features, like remembering passwords and filling forms. I never installed it so I don't know if there are other things, but how hard can it be to write the same thing over again, just open source? I don't suppose they have a patent, do they?
You could even profit: write/test it in secret, after their IPO place a bid that their stock would drop, and then advertise/release your free version. Eh?
It appears the 109-bit challenge was already solved in November 2002 and one would expect them to be working on the 131-bit challenge now. Am I missing something here?
Readable text compresses well, but compressed text is hard to search, which they say you can do.
Maybe not so. They don't read all the text on every search: they index it before it's saved and they search the index. That returns pointers to saved messages which are then decompressed if requested by the user.
Not only that they're likely to be able to handle them without huge costs, but the most dangerous radioactive components will probably be gone by that time. So you'll have a bunch of somewhat harmless spent uranium burning in the atmosphare and spreading over a wide area.
Isn't it possible for a (small) company to file a lawsuit and argue that a pantent is for something either trivial or already done and widely used, and have the patent invalidated if the patent holder can't prove otherwise? Does this cost a fortune to do (and if so why)?
What's happening is really extortion. These asses are just pattenting trivial and widely used ideas and then asking money from small companies who lack the funds for big lawsuits. They won't ask everyone else to pay since they'd be crushed, but I guess they can make a living off a few dozen small companies.
The trouble is you can't sue them for extortion as long as they have a "valid" patent, so that needs to be killed first and fast.
Doesn't an H-bomb release a hell of a lot more energy than they put in to start it? It's basically a regular nuke that sets of fusion in some deuterium placed next to it.
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A timer uses no power but keeping the batteries warm uses a lot of power (you wouldn't want them to freeze, would you?). On Cassini you have power from solar panels to do that, but once you separate you're on your own... batteries.
Now a mini-nuclear reactor to power it would be another story, but those can backfire if your rocket blows up during launch.
I don't really get it why everyone talks about what we really want or don't want to happen with our accounts after death, when Yahoo's decision was made on purely financial (and perhaps practical) reasons. Had they decided to give families access after your death they'd have to hire people to shift through all the necessary paperwork plus phone calls with no profit at all out of it. They'd also have to deal with all the forged death certificates they'd get from people trying to break into other accounts, possibly creating liability issues for Yahoo if they gave out passwords to the wrong people.
Here's where I draw the line: if RIAA thinks they are defrauded by the broke college students or 13 year olds they should be required to prove that the person they are suing would have bought the songs they downloaded from Kazaa if free downloads weren't available, or in the case of sharing that some of the people who downloaded from them would have paid for those songs.
Compensations should also be limited to 3x the market value of the "proven" songs. Why? Because if a merchant overcharges my credit card (or charges me for a service they didn't provide, like PepBoys) all I can get is a refund, maybe 3x the disputed amount if I sue. Why is RIAA entitled to $150k per song even if the guy wouldn't have ever bought that song if he couldn't get it free?
How about if they inserted a RFID tag (with a range of a few meters) in all driving licenses, passports, credit cards, debit cards, etc and then introduced RFID scanners everywhere and I mean every 10 meters throughout the city, and recorded the ID of every single person walking by every single scanner 24/7. Would that be an invasion of privacy? How is that different from what they're doing in this Florida town?
And if that's not enough, how about if they required a RFID sub-skin implant for all US citizens (remove it and go to jail) and placed scanners everywhere again. Would that be enough to call it invasion of privacy? How's that different, umm? What would you have to fear if you haven't broken their law?
Wonder how much IR you could generate by heating the plate from behind, maybe in an uneven fashion to distort the numbers?
[kinda off-topic but still]
Think about this: air resistance normally goes up with the square of your speed due to turbulence (for cars it really picks up around 60mph, which is why the old highway speed limit was set at 55mph). Now if the downforce on an F1 car went up with the square of vehicle speed (and I think it does) you could engineer a turn so that if you tried driving around it at low speeds you'd make it ok, then at a certain medium speed you'd lose traction because centrifugal force exceeds friction, but then at much higher speeds you could have the downforce kick in and give you enough grip to make it around the corner again. That's because centrifugal force is liner to your speed, but friction depends on downforce wich goes up with the square of speed.
So by "death trap" I meant a turn that you could take at say 200mph or more, or below 150mph, but any speed between 150mph and 200mph would make you lose control. Any such thing you've heard of, or am I making no sense?
I think the lateral 5gs are only obtained when the track is banked. On a flat road they'll probably get 2-3gs lateral, and that only in certain very high speed turns. In medium-tight turns or on a circular skidpad where they use slow speeds (by F1 standards) the downforces are small and they won't get much more than 1g lateral.
I'm not, because the maps are free.
so yeah, definitely most horsepower from a factory car for the bugatti.
Not exactly the same. People go to read the HP article knowing full well that the magazine may contain advertisements for anything anywhere in its pages. The same expectation does not apply when you type something into Google; when you search you expect that all results would be related to your keywords.
There is yet another issue here: Google is making profit from using trademark "X" in a contract with X's competitors. What they are really doing is more similar to selling "Coca-Cola vending machine location maps" and getting money from Pepsi to specifically include Pepsi-only machines as well on those maps.
ok, now translate that into mom's windows parley
that's a typo, it was "keystrokes that a computer user makes" but i had to transcribe since silly /. wouldn't allow all caps.
So if my keylogger drops all the spacebars then I'm home free, thank you sir!
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stupid /. won't let me quote all caps
"momentarily" really refered to kinetic energy, which is what you'd be using to spin up a small turbnie/wheel/etc. but yeah, kinetic+potential energy decreases slowly as water goes downhil.
I think the grandparent had it right, although he probably didn't write it down properly. The actual pressure in the fluid may be lower but when you put a turbine in front of the high-speed fluid it'll create a significantly higher pressure right behing the turbine. Basically you want your fluid to go fast because you're capturing its kinetic energy, which is proportional to the square of its velocity.
Somehow I doubt you'll be able to pump any power into the grid unless you manage to generate it at exactly 60Hz and permanently stay in phase with the grid. Doesn't sound like an easy task at all.
yes, but just momentarily. once past your paddle, the water will be accelerated again by earth's gravitational pull, so the downstream power plant won't ever notice.
p.s. it wouldn't notice anyway since they just store the water in the dam and let it free fall on their turbine from there. so your plant will make the water take longer to reach downstream but it'll have just as much energy once there.
Let's see... you seem to think that an airplane is a Faraday cage. But you also seem fairly pissed that they won't allow you to place a call from the plane. Hmm...
Seems like people use it because they like the features, like remembering passwords and filling forms. I never installed it so I don't know if there are other things, but how hard can it be to write the same thing over again, just open source? I don't suppose they have a patent, do they?
You could even profit: write/test it in secret, after their IPO place a bid that their stock would drop, and then advertise/release your free version. Eh?
1. Get the local Harley club interested in using that street often (especially late at night).
2. Have them do 5mph over and rev their bikes repeatedly while waiting at the light (backfire at will!).
3. Watch the residents flock to the mayor and ask him do take the light down.
4. Thank the Harley club!
From one of the links above I got to:
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http://www.certicom.com/index.php?action=compan
It appears the 109-bit challenge was already solved in November 2002 and one would expect them to be working on the 131-bit challenge now. Am I missing something here?
Maybe not so. They don't read all the text on every search: they index it before it's saved and they search the index. That returns pointers to saved messages which are then decompressed if requested by the user.
Not only that they're likely to be able to handle them without huge costs, but the most dangerous radioactive components will probably be gone by that time. So you'll have a bunch of somewhat harmless spent uranium burning in the atmosphare and spreading over a wide area.
Isn't it possible for a (small) company to file a lawsuit and argue that a pantent is for something either trivial or already done and widely used, and have the patent invalidated if the patent holder can't prove otherwise? Does this cost a fortune to do (and if so why)?
What's happening is really extortion. These asses are just pattenting trivial and widely used ideas and then asking money from small companies who lack the funds for big lawsuits. They won't ask everyone else to pay since they'd be crushed, but I guess they can make a living off a few dozen small companies.
The trouble is you can't sue them for extortion as long as they have a "valid" patent, so that needs to be killed first and fast.
Doesn't an H-bomb release a hell of a lot more energy than they put in to start it? It's basically a regular nuke that sets of fusion in some deuterium placed next to it.