We have a woman in the office who gets offended if she sees two people talking quietly - because she just assumes that they're talking about her.
That's not even remotely similar. This was an intentional attack against this girl with forethought and malice. This was a mother, who should have known better. She should be locked up for a very long time.
The article's poster is leaving a lot out. She's not being charged because she violated TOS she's being charged because she violated TOS to attack someone with the intent to cause serious harm to that person.
While I agree, a better solution should have existed, this doesn't exactly equate to violate TOS = felony. It equates to use the internet to stalk or cause harm = felony. It's a stretch, but Missouri just passed a law so she can't do it again.
While fusion is great, it shouldn't be our only goal. This is still a non-renewable fuel. Hydrogen is an important ingredient to life, use up all the hydrogen and everything will die.
Also, fission produces some terrible byproducts with effectively infinite lifetimes. One really bad accident could destroy the entire planet. One failed rocket exploding in the atmosphere and we all die. So blasting the waste into the Sun isn't the miraculous cure-all supporters claim. Reprocessing has proven to be not "cost-effective". Hence we have these processing plants that haver been turned into storage facilities. Except, the waste has to be constantly stirred or it will explode. Unfortunately the stirring blades need to be replaced every 6 months or so due to the extremely caustic nature of the waste and the facilities have a projected lifetime of 300 years. What are we going to do with tons of waste in 250 years that have half-lifes in the millions of years?
So in conclusion nuclear isn't as great as it appears, in either form. Truly renewable energy is the only correct and really long-term solution. Leaving fission and fusion as good for limited uses such as interstellar travel, or in combination with realistic plans to obtain alternate sources of fuel and properly de-activate the waste. Neither of which is likely to ever be commercially viable.
The influenza virus strains can only survive about an hour without a host. Those people that went to open the graves in Spitzbergen might have been a bit paranoid. However, since they were digging up graves and there might have been some living organisms (like worms), it is possible the virus was still present.
We are talking about an inanimate computer here. You want to disinfect it from the influenza virus? Put it in a plastic bag, seal it up and leave it alone for 3 hours. Voila disinfected.
Viruses cannot survive outside of a living cell. Think along the lines of Gu'auld. Parasitic beings which have no means to eat, breath or reproduce outside of living tissue. That said dirt contains gazillions of living cells. The worst place to bury a plague victim is in dirt. Granite vaults would be much better. Frozen corpses, my biology knowledge isn't advanced enough to comment on absolutely, but my money would be on, not possible. Viruses really need to be inside ***living*** cells - from everything I've ever read on the subject.
Unlike bacteria, which can hibernate for years or perhaps even centuries.
you saw Congress pass any law that wasn't bought and paid for by big corporate bullies?
Or any really useful and needed law?
Sure, your sentiment is right, but your faith in Congress to do the right thing is very misplaced. I'd rather the scientists make the decisions on what's best for the planet. Because they actually seem to care.
God told the prophet Hosea to go out and take a whore as his wife. Sure, "God" had a lesson to teach the people of Israel. I say Hosea just got horny for some experienced lover. But you see back then when you could have 100 wives sex was more open, and prostitution was a legal profession. It was the whores in Temples they didn't like. Not everyone could afford to take care of 100 wives so prostitution filled a primary human need. This was recognized back then, and it's something we've repressed. But your quote isn't talking about whores, but about wives mostly. Which makes some sense from a wartime perspective. It's probably not a great idea to take a woman as a wife after you've just slain her husband and the father of her children, and maybe some or all of her children.
Violence seems to be worse now than before the Catholic church outlawed polygamy around 1200. Before the Romanization of the Christian faith, only the Romans and Greeks were in any way "monogamous". Although both of those societies used slaves and concubines liberally.
So the escalation in violence seems to be more that we've gone away from our natural tendency of men having multiple simultaneous partners and some women also having many partners to a society that constricts our sexual drives. This leads to frustration on possibly a genetically programmed level, and thus become a subconscious conflict resulting in the tendency to be more violent. In societies where polygamy and sex are more open tend to be less violent.
Also, the fact that we live in highly dense populations may have a tendency to increase violence. This has been shown to be true with rats also. So, linking sex to violence may not be justified unless you can prove this with some double-blind studies or any really good study that has eliminated other factors.
Society is a complex thing and to just say sex should be censored because it leads to violence, I say BS, and prove what you say with concrete data. I would say that the suppression of sex and sex related subjects is more cause for violence rather than jealousy from overexposure to sex.
Those who see "hacking a tit off" as PG and "sucking a tit" as R are sick sick animals. As are those who think a game that requires you to steal and kill to win, are also sick sick animals.
Go ahead MOD me down. I'm sure GTA is a great game of violence, but it will never be in my house. Nor will any other game that's main theme is violence or war. There used to be games that while they contained mild violence and war themes, were,'nt so realistic that it actually simulated real violence. I also don't allow these kinds of movies in my house.
However, to each his own. If you're into sick warped twisted violent video games and you are an adult or have the blessing of your guardians (if you have any), go for it. If you're not, then don't buy them. Also, if you're going to buy a game make sure you know what it is about BEFORE you buy it. Then you don't need to sue someone because you're too freaking lazy or stupid to take responsibility for your actions.
I also will have no problem with allowing my children to see nudity or know about sex. Since there are multiple versions of the Ksma Sutra in the house and some books on Renaissance Art, that shouldn't be a problem. Not to mention some of my own art.
I agree that China is very bad when it comes to freedom, and that the country would have been better off if the Coomunist Party hadn't turned on the revolutionary partners they had in overthrowing the Monarchy. However, China hasn't had free thought in probably a millenia or more.
You cannot use European filtered glasses and understand the Chinese mind (although there were visionaries in China during the revolution). Sure, there are many enlightened Chinese now, but life in China is still much the way it has been for over a thousand years (altough probably better for many and worse for some). Freedom is a new concept in China, not even a hundred years old. I think over all, they aren't doing too bad for a people just discovering free thought. Japan too struggles with this foreign concept. In Japan it is still often "the nail that sticks out that gets hammered down". Whereas, in many European cultures, "the nail that sticks out" often gets pulled out to see how it works (although, from what I read - the younger generation in Japan has made the transition).
So, while we should continue to pursue a path to bring China and the other freedom denying countries into the light, one should try to keep a mind on the cultural heritage and other other factors when approaching them.
In the end, free thinking will win out, because it open up many more avenues than any other mind set. Of course with free-thinking, I think you also get more crime. It's all Yin-Yang in the end. Eventually there will be a tipping point and a cascade event in China, much like I think Japan has recently undergone.
Glass is Silcon based, Transparent Aluminum is Aluminum based, it is also known as the gemstone White Sapphire and looks much like diamonds. In fact it has been used for diamond like effects, but doesn't have the brilliance of diamonds (due to different reflective indexes).
Where can I get some of that stuff. I could use a really good hallucinogenic of those proportions in my daily life.
As, for e-wikipedia, I hope they made all their profit before being/.ed, because the Wikimedia people shut them down with a Leech computing article, access denied, linkback page. Too, funny. Those wikimedia guys are right on it. Kudos to them for shutting down a leech so fast. It only points out the power of the set up they have. I wonder if this was all a media whore stunt by them?
To be fair Macmillan is really originally a Scottish publisher, since it was started by two Scots, not two Brits (although you may argue that Scots are Brits your argument will fall on deaf ears). The fact that merger mania has altered the meaning of what nationality a company is is moot. Also, there was, up until about 1990 an American Macmillan publishing company, that was at one time a subsidiary of the British one. But yes Nature was originally British.
You left out the best part. With video cards like this, you could build really awesome super computers that do all kinds of sophisticated modeling AND get graphical displays.
Can you say REAL Earth Simulator video!
Seeing as how Linux rules the top 500 (85.4%, 427), I can see a niche market there.
I have always liked AMD, and now they have a very loyal customer. I'm no gamer, but I still want to be able to do graphic intensive stuff in Linux. Things like CAD/CAM including airfoil design and wind tunnel simulation. Since, you know, I haven't the room or money for a full scale wind tunnel at home.
those poor microbes living in the Martian soil that had all the water ice in their environment and their microscopic bodies sublimated right out of them!
Cry for the poor microbial Martian lifeforms!
Better not send any manned missions there for a while and if you do, don't send any laser cutting drills.
Oh and be careful around any sparkling twinkling sand.
Of course, you realize, the cost of sending the Mayflower across the Atlantic was comparably equally expensive back then. The travel time was about the same. We are technologically capable of sending vehicles to Mars in a three month period. We'll see colonization of Mars, by private enterprises before NASA probably. It's terribly expensive, but I think we are close to the time where it will be economical soon enough. Reusable space craft is the key, and cheap sub-orbital craft. I can see how mining and manufacturing of mined materials would be economical for certain materials on Mars. Once the Australians have built a ship around that scramjet of theirs we'll have great suborbital craft. Might even work on Mars, although a spring loaded cannon might be more efficient.
our carbon dioxide breathing mutant human overlords!
Mars, atmosphere: CO2 ~ 95.3%, N 2.7%, Argon 1.6%, O2 0.13%.
Of course we could just build irrigation systems on Mars, inside greenhouse type enclosures, and plant trees. In a hundred years we'd have a breathable atmosphere in the enclosures, if we planted enough trees. Build enough enclosures, plant enough trees and tap enough water, and we'd eventually be able to vent the enclosed atmosphere and be done with the enclosures. Voila! Our first terraformed planet! Of course, I haven't done a critical analysis of this. There is also the possibility that venting the artificial atmosphere into the actual Martian atmosphere wouldn't work. Also, those really cold nights might kill off any tress not in an enclosure that controls the temperature. In which case we'd need to call in Arnold to fix things!
On the moon (or anywhere that lacks an atmosphere), you could lay the mass driver right down on the surface and it wouldn't make any difference.
Except for those pesky space rocks scratching the bottom of your ship and causing drag, and those darned impact crater rims in the way of launch. Ouch!
We'd better throw out those phase change diagrams in the schools' books and remove the triple point of water, someone on/. has confirmed... IT'S ALL A LIE! Water can't sublimate.
Of course, since the triple point of water is 6.1 millibars @ 0.0098 C, and the average atmospheric pressure of Mars is 6 millibars, it can't possibly ever have favorable conditions for the sublimation of... err... uh, I mean, ummm... err... Uh.... All your vapor belong to US!
A company that makes systems for trains use lead free solder, and I've not seen these problems. But they also coat the boards and solder joints with a sealant. This removes oxidation and any possible tin growth problem. You'd better hope these work, because the boards are used on freight trains.
A very long time. I have replaced lithium primary batteries in train equipment that have lasted more than 10 years and still retain most if not all of their power. The batteries are a backup so don;t get used a lot, but the ones used in pacemakers usually last ten or more years. The plain truth here is batteries last as long as the application that they are needed for. Which is why retailers don't sell Lithium chromate batteries to the general masses. Who would ever buy an Duracell when they could own a SAFT Lithium Chromate that lasts 10 time longer?
Actually, this was a fail-safe incident. Something in one of the monitoring systems screwed up - resetting data. in this situation the only logical safe thing to do is shutdown, because you no longer no what the real state of your system is.
Example: 3 Mile Island had a water sensor in a drain trap (yeah I know BRILLIANT). This sensor is the one the engineers were reading to "know" they had water in reactor. Meanwhile all the water boiled out due to a jammed pressure relief valve. Had the engineers bothered to check one of the other water sensors earlier, they would never had been within 45 minutes of a total and complete meltdown - far worse than Chernobyl. So, I'm rather glad that this reactor took the Human element out and forced them to look at more than just the one gauge they look at, because "that's the way we've always done it".
Total stalemate is only good for one election, and Congress still will get some of what they want done, think veto override.
Checkmate, stalemate broken.
Ron Paul would be a lame duck president, until you can replace Congress, you're wasting your time electing a decent person as president. Congress chews up and spits out decent folks.
Is/. authorized to print any of the summaries of stories from other sites?
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I see an ACTA take down for/. if this happens. Blogs, did any of you bloggers get authorization to talk about those: patent lawsuits, RIAA lawsuits, ,...
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We have a woman in the office who gets offended if she sees two people talking quietly - because she just assumes that they're talking about her.
That's not even remotely similar. This was an intentional attack against this girl with forethought and malice. This was a mother, who should have known better. She should be locked up for a very long time.
The article's poster is leaving a lot out. She's not being charged because she violated TOS she's being charged because she violated TOS to attack someone with the intent to cause serious harm to that person.
While I agree, a better solution should have existed, this doesn't exactly equate to violate TOS = felony. It equates to use the internet to stalk or cause harm = felony. It's a stretch, but Missouri just passed a law so she can't do it again.
While fusion is great, it shouldn't be our only goal. This is still a non-renewable fuel. Hydrogen is an important ingredient to life, use up all the hydrogen and everything will die.
Also, fission produces some terrible byproducts with effectively infinite lifetimes. One really bad accident could destroy the entire planet. One failed rocket exploding in the atmosphere and we all die. So blasting the waste into the Sun isn't the miraculous cure-all supporters claim. Reprocessing has proven to be not "cost-effective". Hence we have these processing plants that haver been turned into storage facilities. Except, the waste has to be constantly stirred or it will explode. Unfortunately the stirring blades need to be replaced every 6 months or so due to the extremely caustic nature of the waste and the facilities have a projected lifetime of 300 years. What are we going to do with tons of waste in 250 years that have half-lifes in the millions of years?
So in conclusion nuclear isn't as great as it appears, in either form. Truly renewable energy is the only correct and really long-term solution. Leaving fission and fusion as good for limited uses such as interstellar travel, or in combination with realistic plans to obtain alternate sources of fuel and properly de-activate the waste. Neither of which is likely to ever be commercially viable.
Although, most ship pirates make a good living off of piracy.
Most data pirates do it just for the fun of it.
The influenza virus strains can only survive about an hour without a host.
Those people that went to open the graves in Spitzbergen might have been a bit paranoid.
However, since they were digging up graves and there might have been some living organisms (like worms), it is possible the virus was still present.
We are talking about an inanimate computer here.
You want to disinfect it from the influenza virus?
Put it in a plastic bag, seal it up and leave it alone for 3 hours.
Voila disinfected.
Viruses cannot survive outside of a living cell. Think along the lines of Gu'auld. Parasitic beings which have no means to eat, breath or reproduce outside of living tissue. That said dirt contains gazillions of living cells. The worst place to bury a plague victim is in dirt. Granite vaults would be much better. Frozen corpses, my biology knowledge isn't advanced enough to comment on absolutely, but my money would be on, not possible. Viruses really need to be inside ***living*** cells - from everything I've ever read on the subject.
Unlike bacteria, which can hibernate for years or perhaps even centuries.
you saw Congress pass any law that wasn't bought and paid for by big corporate bullies?
Or any really useful and needed law?
Sure, your sentiment is right, but your faith in Congress to do the right thing is very misplaced. I'd rather the scientists make the decisions on what's best for the planet. Because they actually seem to care.
God told the prophet Hosea to go out and take a whore as his wife. Sure, "God" had a lesson to teach the people of Israel. I say Hosea just got horny for some experienced lover. But you see back then when you could have 100 wives sex was more open, and prostitution was a legal profession. It was the whores in Temples they didn't like. Not everyone could afford to take care of 100 wives so prostitution filled a primary human need. This was recognized back then, and it's something we've repressed. But your quote isn't talking about whores, but about wives mostly. Which makes some sense from a wartime perspective. It's probably not a great idea to take a woman as a wife after you've just slain her husband and the father of her children, and maybe some or all of her children.
Violence seems to be worse now than before the Catholic church outlawed polygamy around 1200. Before the Romanization of the Christian faith, only the Romans and Greeks were in any way "monogamous". Although both of those societies used slaves and concubines liberally.
So the escalation in violence seems to be more that we've gone away from our natural tendency of men having multiple simultaneous partners and some women also having many partners to a society that constricts our sexual drives. This leads to frustration on possibly a genetically programmed level, and thus become a subconscious conflict resulting in the tendency to be more violent.
In societies where polygamy and sex are more open tend to be less violent.
Also, the fact that we live in highly dense populations may have a tendency to increase violence. This has been shown to be true with rats also. So, linking sex to violence may not be justified unless you can prove this with some double-blind studies or any really good study that has eliminated other factors.
Society is a complex thing and to just say sex should be censored because it leads to violence, I say BS, and prove what you say with concrete data. I would say that the suppression of sex and sex related subjects is more cause for violence rather than jealousy from overexposure to sex.
Those who see "hacking a tit off" as PG and "sucking a tit" as R are sick sick animals. As are those who think a game that requires you to steal and kill to win, are also sick sick animals.
Go ahead MOD me down. I'm sure GTA is a great game of violence, but it will never be in my house. Nor will any other game that's main theme is violence or war. There used to be games that while they contained mild violence and war themes, were,'nt so realistic that it actually simulated real violence. I also don't allow these kinds of movies in my house.
However, to each his own. If you're into sick warped twisted violent video games and you are an adult or have the blessing of your guardians (if you have any), go for it. If you're not, then don't buy them. Also, if you're going to buy a game make sure you know what it is about BEFORE you buy it. Then you don't need to sue someone because you're too freaking lazy or stupid to take responsibility for your actions.
I also will have no problem with allowing my children to see nudity or know about sex. Since there are multiple versions of the Ksma Sutra in the house and some books on Renaissance Art, that shouldn't be a problem. Not to mention some of my own art.
I agree that China is very bad when it comes to freedom, and that the country would have been better off if the Coomunist Party hadn't turned on the revolutionary partners they had in overthrowing the Monarchy. However, China hasn't had free thought in probably a millenia or more.
You cannot use European filtered glasses and understand the Chinese mind (although there were visionaries in China during the revolution). Sure, there are many enlightened Chinese now, but life in China is still much the way it has been for over a thousand years (altough probably better for many and worse for some). Freedom is a new concept in China, not even a hundred years old. I think over all, they aren't doing too bad for a people just discovering free thought. Japan too struggles with this foreign concept. In Japan it is still often "the nail that sticks out that gets hammered down". Whereas, in many European cultures, "the nail that sticks out" often gets pulled out to see how it works (although, from what I read - the younger generation in Japan has made the transition).
So, while we should continue to pursue a path to bring China and the other freedom denying countries into the light, one should try to keep a mind on the cultural heritage and other other factors when approaching them.
In the end, free thinking will win out, because it open up many more avenues than any other mind set. Of course with free-thinking, I think you also get more crime. It's all Yin-Yang in the end. Eventually there will be a tipping point and a cascade event in China, much like I think Japan has recently undergone.
Of course, I could be totally wrong.
Glass is Silcon based,
Transparent Aluminum is Aluminum based, it is also known as the gemstone White Sapphire and looks much like diamonds. In fact it has been used for diamond like effects, but doesn't have the brilliance of diamonds (due to different reflective indexes).
Glass MOHS: ~ 5.5
Transparent Aluminun: MOHS = 9. Much harder, better crystaline structure, denser.
And as far as the article's claims, all solids move, but glass definitely is an abnormal material.
Where can I get some of that stuff. I could use a really good hallucinogenic of those proportions in my daily life.
As, for e-wikipedia, I hope they made all their profit before being /.ed, because the Wikimedia people shut them down with a Leech computing article, access denied, linkback page. Too, funny. Those wikimedia guys are right on it. Kudos to them for shutting down a leech so fast. It only points out the power of the set up they have. I wonder if this was all a media whore stunt by them?
Oh, that's why it's written in American English!
Thanks for clearing that up.
To be fair Macmillan is really originally a Scottish publisher, since it was started by two Scots, not two Brits (although you may argue that Scots are Brits your argument will fall on deaf ears). The fact that merger mania has altered the meaning of what nationality a company is is moot. Also, there was, up until about 1990 an American Macmillan publishing company, that was at one time a subsidiary of the British one. But yes Nature was originally British.
You left out the best part. With video cards like this, you could build really awesome super computers that do all kinds of sophisticated modeling AND get graphical displays.
Can you say REAL Earth Simulator video!
Seeing as how Linux rules the top 500 (85.4%, 427), I can see a niche market there.
I have always liked AMD, and now they have a very loyal customer. I'm no gamer, but I still want to be able to do graphic intensive stuff in Linux. Things like CAD/CAM including airfoil design and wind tunnel simulation. Since, you know, I haven't the room or money for a full scale wind tunnel at home.
those poor microbes living in the Martian soil that had all the water ice in their environment and their microscopic bodies sublimated right out of them!
Cry for the poor microbial Martian lifeforms!
Better not send any manned missions there for a while and if you do, don't send any laser cutting drills.
Oh and be careful around any sparkling twinkling sand.
Of course, you realize, the cost of sending the Mayflower across the Atlantic was comparably equally expensive back then. The travel time was about the same. We are technologically capable of sending vehicles to Mars in a three month period. We'll see colonization of Mars, by private enterprises before NASA probably. It's terribly expensive, but I think we are close to the time where it will be economical soon enough. Reusable space craft is the key, and cheap sub-orbital craft. I can see how mining and manufacturing of mined materials would be economical for certain materials on Mars. Once the Australians have built a ship around that scramjet of theirs we'll have great suborbital craft. Might even work on Mars, although a spring loaded cannon might be more efficient.
our carbon dioxide breathing mutant human overlords!
Mars, atmosphere: CO2 ~ 95.3%, N 2.7%, Argon 1.6%, O2 0.13%.
Of course we could just build irrigation systems on Mars, inside greenhouse type enclosures, and plant trees. In a hundred years we'd have a breathable atmosphere in the enclosures, if we planted enough trees. Build enough enclosures, plant enough trees and tap enough water, and we'd eventually be able to vent the enclosed atmosphere and be done with the enclosures. Voila! Our first terraformed planet! Of course, I haven't done a critical analysis of this. There is also the possibility that venting the artificial atmosphere into the actual Martian atmosphere wouldn't work. Also, those really cold nights might kill off any tress not in an enclosure that controls the temperature. In which case we'd need to call in Arnold to fix things!
On the moon (or anywhere that lacks an atmosphere), you could lay the mass driver right down on the surface and it wouldn't make any difference.
Except for those pesky space rocks scratching the bottom of your ship and causing drag, and those darned impact crater rims in the way of launch. Ouch!We'd better throw out those phase change diagrams in the schools' books and remove the triple point of water, someone on /. has confirmed ...
IT'S ALL A LIE! Water can't sublimate.
Of course, since the triple point of water is 6.1 millibars @ 0.0098 C, and the average atmospheric pressure of Mars is 6 millibars, it can't possibly ever have favorable conditions for the sublimation of ... err ... uh, I mean, ummm ... ... ....
err
Uh
All your vapor belong to US!
A company that makes systems for trains use lead free solder, and I've not seen these problems. But they also coat the boards and solder joints with a sealant. This removes oxidation and any possible tin growth problem. You'd better hope these work, because the boards are used on freight trains.
A very long time. I have replaced lithium primary batteries in train equipment that have lasted more than 10 years and still retain most if not all of their power. The batteries are a backup so don;t get used a lot, but the ones used in pacemakers usually last ten or more years. The plain truth here is batteries last as long as the application that they are needed for. Which is why retailers don't sell Lithium chromate batteries to the general masses. Who would ever buy an Duracell when they could own a SAFT Lithium Chromate that lasts 10 time longer?
Actually, this was a fail-safe incident. Something in one of the monitoring systems screwed up - resetting data. in this situation the only logical safe thing to do is shutdown, because you no longer no what the real state of your system is.
Example: 3 Mile Island had a water sensor in a drain trap (yeah I know BRILLIANT). This sensor is the one the engineers were reading to "know" they had water in reactor. Meanwhile all the water boiled out due to a jammed pressure relief valve. Had the engineers bothered to check one of the other water sensors earlier, they would never had been within 45 minutes of a total and complete meltdown - far worse than Chernobyl. So, I'm rather glad that this reactor took the Human element out and forced them to look at more than just the one gauge they look at, because "that's the way we've always done it".
Total stalemate is only good for one election, and Congress still will get some of what they want done, think veto override.
Checkmate, stalemate broken.
Ron Paul would be a lame duck president, until you can replace Congress, you're wasting your time electing a decent person as president. Congress chews up and spits out decent folks.
Someone has to file suit to have the law overturned as unconstitutional, and get SCOTUS to agree that it is indeed unconstitutional.
Is /. authorized to print any of the summaries of stories from other sites?
/. if this happens. Blogs, did any of you bloggers get authorization to talk about those: patent lawsuits, RIAA lawsuits, , ...
hmmm...
I see an ACTA take down for