I will never tire of setting the record straight every time someoone uses the term hacker incorrectly. The original article title does say "malicious hackers", but Bruce has truncated it to just hackers. Sensationalism.
The original article is a little mysterious, is this another BofA + Chamber attempt to discredit Wikileaks? Wikileaks as Hactivists? I thought Wikileaks were the good guys? I know some people would like to put them on the other side. It's nice, from a certain perspective, to be able to put all your political dissenters into one square and shoot them all.
The BEST teacher I ever had never insulted anyone in class or public, that I know of. My FAVORITE, and one of the best, teachers I had routinely insulted the kids in his class. He was generally hated and feared by most students. But even the worst student in the school got better grades in his class than in years before or after. He was a great teacher, but routinely hit students with flying chalk or erasers if they weren't paying attention (impressive for a one-armed man). Today he'd be canned in a heartbeat. To the loss of the students. His aim and timing were finely honed. I'll never forget the chalk smoke flying off the back of George's head when caught talking in class, yet again.
I have run Debian based systems for a very long time. Mepis, Mint, Kubuntu, and on and on. On my server, it's just pure straight stable Debian. I did, at one point have to compromise slightly on that for PHP5, IIRC. It can be frustrating running pure stable Debian. Unstable Debian can be just as frustrating. Hence the need for third party Debian based distros. If it wasn't for Debian's crazy release schedule and placement of code in unstable or testing when it really needs to be in stable, there would be little need for the alternatives. Heck if Debian came out with a "Best of Debian" branch they'd probably kill most of the need for the Debian based distros.
I've used them all, and just like debian based more. Started with Slackware, went to RH and then Mandrake, then Debian - after that it becomes a blur. Even tried Corel Linux, LFS, Gentoo, DSL. Lastly, I tried building my own. But then I discovered Mepis, and Mint and Ubuntu variants. When Mepis went quiet, I switched to Mint. Tried Ubuntu, but hated it - for some reason.
Now of course this was a comment made by perhaps the most successful troll in the IT world, Mr. Nichols. So what can we really expect. This is what you get when you feed trolls too much. But using the closest thing we have to track Linux distribution, Distrowatch, Mr Nichols means if you're' not in the top three you're just not as important anymore. Then of course, you have the fact that Debian based distros control over 40% of the webserver market, [+ RH based ~92%]. I guess that's not important either.
I believe them, because I've created a perpetual motion machine. It's really simple, I repeatedly say "LOOK! What the HELL is THAT!" and when everyone looks away I give it another push!
Well, one small flaw in your logic. Pretty much every experienced sailor knew Columbus screwed up his math (by nearly 160% *) and that the distance round the planet was way longer than they had supplies for and no one knew about the existence of North and South America. So, they all basically signed up for what they knew was a suicide mission. Yet he got enough sailors to fill three boats! The accepted wisdom at the time said it was nothing but empty sea, and too far to travel to the East Indies that way. Columbus really just got lucky, using just about the best route he could have (save the Northerly route), via the Trade Winds.
*His estimate circumference ~25,500km vs. actual ~40,000km. Of course that was just one of his problems with math and geography.
Had you bothered to actually RTFA, you'd have seen the old dude's picture, and realized, "Ah his kids are grown and gone and he never sees them and rarely sees the grandkids.". A lot of older people volunteered. I also find it not so probable that it is a suicide mission. Of course it all depends on a few factors.
1) Are supplies and equipment going to be sent prior to the live mission,
2) are supplies and equipment being sent with the mission,
3) is there a redundant supply being stored in a different part of the delivery vehicle,
4) does that equipment include livestock, and seeds and the the necessary chemicals to grow that,
5) is only one vehicle going,
6) is there a a good mix of sexes and talent?
Don't forget, when the first ships began sailing around the globe, travel was quite as long and the risk of death considerable with a whole helluva lot less technology. Hell we have people living in frozen wastelands not much friendlier than Mars now. Don't sell humanity so short. A well thought out and equipped colonization effort is easily a self-sustaining event. It also doubles the probability that the human species will survive a single ELE. One big rock is all it would take today to wipe out the human species from the Galaxy. I've got my thumb ready to hitch a ride off this rock.
While there is no doubt that the US legal system is fscked, I see no link between the Greek legal system and the US, or that one can draw conclusions about the US legal system from actions in the Greek legal system. But is shows the Greeks do seem to aspire to imitate the US. Our US propaganda system seems to be working. At least in Greece.
Actually, it sounds like an alternate way of recording a holographic image. The one thing I don't see mentioned is it becomes increasingly more difficult to make this work, the less smooth and flat your reflecting surface gets. In fact, I'd be surprised if this was even feasible if you are reflecting the laser beams off anything that isn't significantly flat and smooth.
Do you live in some alternate universe? In my timeline, we have a centrist Democratic president and a slim Democratic Senate, and a lame duck democratic House majority, about to be replaced by a large Republican majority. Worse is a relative term. It was already in a horrible place, and there is not end in sight. Republican or Democrat, we're mostly screwed. But at least we're taking Europe with us. If you're going to get orgiastically screwed by the government, it's better to have European company. Those guys know how to partay!
All that said, my own daughter was frisked at the airport at the age of two. The reason being, I wasn't going to expose her to radiation treatment at that age. She however has been taught how to behave and didn't throw a temper tantrum, like this couple staged. Parents who can't control their children are the real issue. That and the fact the TSA is filled with perverts and molesters.
I've been a Windows user since Windows version 1.01 (that used real mode DOS, and text based graphics). Windows has never, ever, ever been "snappy". At least not out of the box. There used to be third-party utilities (eg Norton Desktop), that made the experience better. But, it does depend on what you use it for. If you don't have tens of thousands of files to maintain, and only use it to watch pr0n and for email, and that Christmas letter. Then yes, you will probably have snappy performance.
If however you use it for business, and write dozen of documents a day and have millions of lines of code in thousands of files, and are creating videos and music, then you will not see snappy Windows performance. That said, unless you've been using the -ck kernel patch (I downloaded and stored on my own server when CK left in storm), you've not seen snappy performance in any full blown WM in Linux either. Now, it looks like they finally got a kernel patch that can compete with Con's 6 year old patch. Congratulations Linus! It only took you and your crew six years to duplicate the work of one man that you bullied out of the kernel group!
Running Linux since 1991! Wow it's almost been 20 years since I attained enlightenment!
Speak for yourself. There is nothing in my home infringing anyone's copyright.
FYI, it's cheaper to buy most any book than it is to photocopy it. Who would photocopy a whole newspaper? Who has a copier big enough to copy a newspaper page?
Yes, when I was a teen , I made my own mixed track cassettes. Out of albums I owned. It's considered fair use.
However, I see no problem in recording loaner/rental music and DVDs anymore. Because the media companies are so amoral they no longer deserve to exist.
Actually copyright law came about in the first place because printers were making copies of books written by authors and the authors were never seeing a dime of revenue from that. Copyright law originated because of shifty publishers of the creative works of artists. As you can see the publishing house have been thinking up more and more creative solutions to ripping off artists and have now figured out how to further rip off any potential customer too.
And the artists are still left by the wayside. Hence copyright law has utterly failed to protect the people it was originally intended to protect, and has become a huge weapon for those that the law was aimed at. The pirating houses are just publishing houses ripping off other creepy amoral publishing houses.
You reap what you sow. No honor among thieves and all that.
Or with a dollar and a cup of coffee you could copy them from: a loaned CD from a library or your friend, or off of the radio (would take longer, and you'd probably only get the popular songs on the album) with a blank CD/DVD and a recorder.
Just making a modern day equivalent argument about the days of cassette copying among friends. It's just easier today to make friends all over the globe. Hence you can make a lot more friends in a shorter span of time, and over a much larger demographic.
I personally find the practice of uploading one's music and/or video collection to the Internet for anyone to download offensive and immoral. I find the actions of theses media companies even more offensive. But two wrongs don't make a right.
All that aside. This judgment is meaningless, she'll wind up filing chapter 7 or 11 and have most or all of this debt discharged. They'll never see $54,000 and definitely not $1,500,000.
Or you could just drive it back and forth to work all week, go out on Saturday night, and let it charge overnight while you sleep it off. You'd probably have more than a "quarter tank " charge left after all that (assuming ~50mi/day round trips). No need for hot/cold swapping of batteries. Or you could trickle charge every night and wake up to a fully charged battery every day. I'd buy one of these today if it was on the market.
What large amount of precious metal do lithium batteries contain? They are mostly lithium, which is most abundant metal on the planet.. The only reason lithium batteries are expensive is due to patents on insanely obvious chemical compounds.
I was saying the inventors say the range is 600 kM ( "less than" 375 mi). so that is where the 375 comes from. Also, screwed up my title. The other German article is tagesschau.de article already linked to by another/.er. It has some good comments.
According to this German article and another German article. The engine uses between 8-15 kWh in normal use.
The trip was 605 kM (377+ miles) at 130 kM/h (81 MPH) or 90kM/h (56 MPH). The 130 in one article seems wrong, and a commenter posted a correction. So, likely it was 90 kM/h.
At the end of the trip the battery pack still had a 18% charge, but the inventors say the range is 600 kM (
So charging to 97% in six minutes required a 79% charge or 90kWh or about 0.9 MW in 6 minutes.
You could drive it for more than 375 miles on a single charge, depending on how deeply you want to drain the battery. Still, who wants to drive more than 7 hours a day. Now if you had just three available stations. you'd be able to drive then entire North-South distance of the US (in 29 hours - I've done it in 21). With seven stations, you'd be able to drive across the US (in 56 hrs ). 377 miles on a "tank" is fairly standard. that's about the range in my cars. There are certainly better ranged cars. The one thing the article breezes over, is that over 55 MPH, you'd likely see polynomially decreasing range.
True, true, but we're not talking about medical proton beams. We're talking about beams designed to smash atoms, not for human medicine.
I know, I won't be sticking my hand in that beam given the chance. Any more than you'll see me stick my hand in liquid nitrogen. Even though, it may be possible to do it quickly and not sustain any damage.
Tell me this was a joke. We're talking about a beam that bored holes through tungsten and etched steel (after boring a hole in tungsten) when they had that accident. Beams that smash protons and neutron into sub particles. Kind of like the effect of shooting the cue ball out a rocket launcher at the eight ball at 800 fps. Now, I'd agree, all this talk of "radiation" and hands blowing up are ridiculous. This is not the kind of radiation you'd see in an atomic explosion. But, I's suspect significant energy will be transferred, and significant particle collision will happen (even though we're talking about a mostly liquid substance). The density and facial area of the beam is important in determining any damage. All bets are off if it hits bone.
Laser = Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
A laser has two partially mirrored lenses (say 99% and 80%) on either side of a medium, let's say ruby. you inject some high energy light (say a flash from a Xenon strobe light) into the ruby. This creates a photon cascade event. Some of the photons shoot out in directions parallel to the two lenses. But they get reflected by the mirrors. One mirror is less mirrored than the other. The photons then bounce back, and knock out more photons, the energy of the photons increases, going back and forth, and eventually a beam exits one of the mirrors. Many red lasers are near-IR, but not IR.
The reason you don't normally "see" a laser beam is due to the fact the photons ARE traveling in parallel. None of the photons reach your eye unless you add matter to disperse part of the beam and cause photons to deflect, thus giving you a false sense of the brightness of the beam. Or you stick your eye into the beam, and see how really bright it is.
A red laser will have a single wavelength. This is due to the fact of exciting a particular electron at a particular location in the electron cloud with particular set energy levels to release a given photon of a particular level of energy and wavelength. It's invariant, for a particular material, mirror set and stimulation source.
Actually, if you read it, his face swelled up so much it was not recognizable, his skin fell off, revealing the path of the beam though his skull and brain, and he now has epilepsy.
He lived and can function because the path of the beam was pure luck. Had the beam passed through a different part of his brain he may have died, or become a vegetable. There was a case of a man in the 1800s, working on a railroad who had a steel rod shoot through his head, and took a large section of his brain with it. He was not expected to live. But he did, but his personality was altered by the loss. He still retained much of his memory and abilities.
Alzheimer's is a slowly progressive disease, which takes away parts of the brain over time, yet many of these people can still function for years.
The fact is there are several factors involved, but it's fairly likely any living tissue subjected to a beam from the LHC is going have many cells destroyed. Think of something like laser surgery, but with a much bigger beam.
Incorrect. Lasers use a highly focused parallel high energy beam. Because it's high energy, it can burn. By projecting the focused parallel beam through a convex lens (the eye's lens) you refocus the beam and all the parallel high-energy photons focus on a point. This point light then burns the back of the cornea. Like looking directly at the Sun. Or focusing a magnifying glass on a leaf on a sunny day. Has nothing to do with IR and everything to do with optics and energy levels.
In five minutes worth of googling, I found : Barry's homepage, a page showing he doesn't own the "building" for his world headquarters, two press release articles showing he likely has the licensing rights, wikipedia articles not edited by him saying he owns the company etc, and three engadget pages which showed the guy has been working this deal since 2009. He began selling machines, and after Commodore Gaming said he didn't have the rights back in April he updated his site to indicate that he didn't yet have the rights, and a later article by the same author saying that he finally, maybe, got the rights.
Based on all I found, I'd say it's a safe bet this guy isn't a scam. But based on his homepages, I'd say he spent a bit too much time in the 60s getting stoned and it's affected his mind. He also seems to own a few other companies, which he runs out of his girlfriend's house maybe?
My conclusion is the blogger who got the takedown notice couldn't be bothered to do any research to back up his opinions, and is a jerk just looking for page hits. Barry was rightly indignant, but his knee jerk reaction makes him look like the bad guy here, and I'd say the blogger is in the wrong and owes an apology. although, I'd defend his right to be an ignorant opinionated ass. The takedown notice was stupid, and Barry should have talked to a lawyer first, since he'd have no case anyway. Let's put these two jerks in a wrestling ring and let them fight it out. It might be just as entertaining.
Seems to me, that any version of Mac OS would be prior art, as it has always and only had a GUI shutdown. Also, any Linux with a GUI would be prior art. Although, I didn't read through all the 14 claims. MS patents are so hard to read. So full of non-relevant and non-descriptive words. Basically, what I get from it is a way of prompting the user for input on programs not responding to the shutdown command, and then waiting for input for a time and then rinse repeat, and finally eventually, just shutting down those apps. The patent office really need to get a few people who aren't like 200 years old who have never seen a computer or can even spell it.
1) Now is a good time to pull out your old Cracker Jack encryption rings and make an encryption that takes plain text and converts it to another plain text. Hence the encryption becomes invisible. Instead of seeing you detailed analysis of project foo, all they see is "Mary had a little lamb...". Meanwhile your counterpart in India is rapidly coding foo!
2) ?
3) Profit!
Seriously, though, we really need a good encryption algorithm that as a final step of encryption turns the message back to plain text.
Damn, there goes my whiz bang software encryption patent!
Slashdot Mirror
I will never tire of setting the record straight every time someoone uses the term hacker incorrectly. The original article title does say "malicious hackers", but Bruce has truncated it to just hackers. Sensationalism.
The original article is a little mysterious, is this another BofA + Chamber attempt to discredit Wikileaks? Wikileaks as Hactivists? I thought Wikileaks were the good guys? I know some people would like to put them on the other side. It's nice, from a certain perspective, to be able to put all your political dissenters into one square and shoot them all.
The BEST teacher I ever had never insulted anyone in class or public, that I know of. My FAVORITE, and one of the best, teachers I had routinely insulted the kids in his class. He was generally hated and feared by most students. But even the worst student in the school got better grades in his class than in years before or after. He was a great teacher, but routinely hit students with flying chalk or erasers if they weren't paying attention (impressive for a one-armed man). Today he'd be canned in a heartbeat. To the loss of the students. His aim and timing were finely honed. I'll never forget the chalk smoke flying off the back of George's head when caught talking in class, yet again.
Who the Fuck is Steven Vaughan-Nichols?
I have run Debian based systems for a very long time. Mepis, Mint, Kubuntu, and on and on. On my server, it's just pure straight stable Debian. I did, at one point have to compromise slightly on that for PHP5, IIRC. It can be frustrating running pure stable Debian. Unstable Debian can be just as frustrating. Hence the need for third party Debian based distros. If it wasn't for Debian's crazy release schedule and placement of code in unstable or testing when it really needs to be in stable, there would be little need for the alternatives. Heck if Debian came out with a "Best of Debian" branch they'd probably kill most of the need for the Debian based distros.
I've used them all, and just like debian based more. Started with Slackware, went to RH and then Mandrake, then Debian - after that it becomes a blur. Even tried Corel Linux, LFS, Gentoo, DSL. Lastly, I tried building my own. But then I discovered Mepis, and Mint and Ubuntu variants. When Mepis went quiet, I switched to Mint. Tried Ubuntu, but hated it - for some reason.
Now of course this was a comment made by perhaps the most successful troll in the IT world, Mr. Nichols. So what can we really expect. This is what you get when you feed trolls too much. But using the closest thing we have to track Linux distribution, Distrowatch, Mr Nichols means if you're' not in the top three you're just not as important anymore. Then of course, you have the fact that Debian based distros control over 40% of the webserver market, [+ RH based ~92%]. I guess that's not important either.
I believe them, because I've created a perpetual motion machine. It's really simple, I repeatedly say "LOOK! What the HELL is THAT!" and when everyone looks away I give it another push!
Well, one small flaw in your logic. Pretty much every experienced sailor knew Columbus screwed up his math (by nearly 160% *) and that the distance round the planet was way longer than they had supplies for and no one knew about the existence of North and South America. So, they all basically signed up for what they knew was a suicide mission. Yet he got enough sailors to fill three boats! The accepted wisdom at the time said it was nothing but empty sea, and too far to travel to the East Indies that way. Columbus really just got lucky, using just about the best route he could have (save the Northerly route), via the Trade Winds.
*His estimate circumference ~25,500km vs. actual ~40,000km. Of course that was just one of his problems with math and geography.
Had you bothered to actually RTFA, you'd have seen the old dude's picture, and realized, "Ah his kids are grown and gone and he never sees them and rarely sees the grandkids.". A lot of older people volunteered. I also find it not so probable that it is a suicide mission. Of course it all depends on a few factors.
1) Are supplies and equipment going to be sent prior to the live mission,
2) are supplies and equipment being sent with the mission,
3) is there a redundant supply being stored in a different part of the delivery vehicle,
4) does that equipment include livestock, and seeds and the the necessary chemicals to grow that,
5) is only one vehicle going,
6) is there a a good mix of sexes and talent?
Don't forget, when the first ships began sailing around the globe, travel was quite as long and the risk of death considerable with a whole helluva lot less technology. Hell we have people living in frozen wastelands not much friendlier than Mars now. Don't sell humanity so short. A well thought out and equipped colonization effort is easily a self-sustaining event. It also doubles the probability that the human species will survive a single ELE. One big rock is all it would take today to wipe out the human species from the Galaxy. I've got my thumb ready to hitch a ride off this rock.
So, thanks for the fish and good luck!
The Dolphin
While there is no doubt that the US legal system is fscked, I see no link between the Greek legal system and the US, or that one can draw conclusions about the US legal system from actions in the Greek legal system. But is shows the Greeks do seem to aspire to imitate the US. Our US propaganda system seems to be working. At least in Greece.
Actually, it sounds like an alternate way of recording a holographic image. The one thing I don't see mentioned is it becomes increasingly more difficult to make this work, the less smooth and flat your reflecting surface gets. In fact, I'd be surprised if this was even feasible if you are reflecting the laser beams off anything that isn't significantly flat and smooth.
Do you live in some alternate universe? In my timeline, we have a centrist Democratic president and a slim Democratic Senate, and a lame duck democratic House majority, about to be replaced by a large Republican majority. Worse is a relative term. It was already in a horrible place, and there is not end in sight. Republican or Democrat, we're mostly screwed. But at least we're taking Europe with us. If you're going to get orgiastically screwed by the government, it's better to have European company. Those guys know how to partay!
All that said, my own daughter was frisked at the airport at the age of two. The reason being, I wasn't going to expose her to radiation treatment at that age. She however has been taught how to behave and didn't throw a temper tantrum, like this couple staged. Parents who can't control their children are the real issue. That and the fact the TSA is filled with perverts and molesters.
I've been a Windows user since Windows version 1.01 (that used real mode DOS, and text based graphics). Windows has never, ever, ever been "snappy". At least not out of the box. There used to be third-party utilities (eg Norton Desktop), that made the experience better. But, it does depend on what you use it for. If you don't have tens of thousands of files to maintain, and only use it to watch pr0n and for email, and that Christmas letter. Then yes, you will probably have snappy performance.
If however you use it for business, and write dozen of documents a day and have millions of lines of code in thousands of files, and are creating videos and music, then you will not see snappy Windows performance. That said, unless you've been using the -ck kernel patch (I downloaded and stored on my own server when CK left in storm), you've not seen snappy performance in any full blown WM in Linux either. Now, it looks like they finally got a kernel patch that can compete with Con's 6 year old patch. Congratulations Linus! It only took you and your crew six years to duplicate the work of one man that you bullied out of the kernel group!
Running Linux since 1991! Wow it's almost been 20 years since I attained enlightenment!
Speak for yourself. There is nothing in my home infringing anyone's copyright.
FYI, it's cheaper to buy most any book than it is to photocopy it. Who would photocopy a whole newspaper? Who has a copier big enough to copy a newspaper page?
Yes, when I was a teen , I made my own mixed track cassettes. Out of albums I owned. It's considered fair use.
However, I see no problem in recording loaner/rental music and DVDs anymore. Because the media companies are so amoral they no longer deserve to exist.
Actually copyright law came about in the first place because printers were making copies of books written by authors and the authors were never seeing a dime of revenue from that. Copyright law originated because of shifty publishers of the creative works of artists. As you can see the publishing house have been thinking up more and more creative solutions to ripping off artists and have now figured out how to further rip off any potential customer too.
And the artists are still left by the wayside. Hence copyright law has utterly failed to protect the people it was originally intended to protect, and has become a huge weapon for those that the law was aimed at. The pirating houses are just publishing houses ripping off other creepy amoral publishing houses.
You reap what you sow. No honor among thieves and all that.
Or with a dollar and a cup of coffee you could copy them from: a loaned CD from a library or your friend, or off of the radio (would take longer, and you'd probably only get the popular songs on the album) with a blank CD/DVD and a recorder.
Just making a modern day equivalent argument about the days of cassette copying among friends. It's just easier today to make friends all over the globe. Hence you can make a lot more friends in a shorter span of time, and over a much larger demographic.
I personally find the practice of uploading one's music and/or video collection to the Internet for anyone to download offensive and immoral. I find the actions of theses media companies even more offensive. But two wrongs don't make a right.
All that aside. This judgment is meaningless, she'll wind up filing chapter 7 or 11 and have most or all of this debt discharged. They'll never see $54,000 and definitely not $1,500,000.
Or you could just drive it back and forth to work all week, go out on Saturday night, and let it charge overnight while you sleep it off. You'd probably have more than a "quarter tank " charge left after all that (assuming ~50mi/day round trips). No need for hot/cold swapping of batteries. Or you could trickle charge every night and wake up to a fully charged battery every day. I'd buy one of these today if it was on the market.
What large amount of precious metal do lithium batteries contain? They are mostly lithium, which is most abundant metal on the planet.. The only reason lithium batteries are expensive is due to patents on insanely obvious chemical compounds.
I was saying the inventors say the range is 600 kM ( "less than" 375 mi). so that is where the 375 comes from. Also, screwed up my title. The other German article is tagesschau.de article already linked to by another /.er. It has some good comments.
According to this German article and another German article. The engine uses between 8-15 kWh in normal use.
The trip was 605 kM (377+ miles) at 130 kM/h (81 MPH) or 90kM/h (56 MPH). The 130 in one article seems wrong, and a commenter posted a correction. So, likely it was 90 kM/h.
At the end of the trip the battery pack still had a 18% charge, but the inventors say the range is 600 kM (
So charging to 97% in six minutes required a 79% charge or 90kWh or about 0.9 MW in 6 minutes.
You could drive it for more than 375 miles on a single charge, depending on how deeply you want to drain the battery. Still, who wants to drive more than 7 hours a day. Now if you had just three available stations. you'd be able to drive then entire North-South distance of the US (in 29 hours - I've done it in 21). With seven stations, you'd be able to drive across the US (in 56 hrs ). 377 miles on a "tank" is fairly standard. that's about the range in my cars. There are certainly better ranged cars. The one thing the article breezes over, is that over 55 MPH, you'd likely see polynomially decreasing range.
True, true, but we're not talking about medical proton beams. We're talking about beams designed to smash atoms, not for human medicine.
I know, I won't be sticking my hand in that beam given the chance. Any more than you'll see me stick my hand in liquid nitrogen. Even though, it may be possible to do it quickly and not sustain any damage.
Tell me this was a joke. We're talking about a beam that bored holes through tungsten and etched steel (after boring a hole in tungsten) when they had that accident. Beams that smash protons and neutron into sub particles. Kind of like the effect of shooting the cue ball out a rocket launcher at the eight ball at 800 fps. Now, I'd agree, all this talk of "radiation" and hands blowing up are ridiculous. This is not the kind of radiation you'd see in an atomic explosion. But, I's suspect significant energy will be transferred, and significant particle collision will happen (even though we're talking about a mostly liquid substance). The density and facial area of the beam is important in determining any damage. All bets are off if it hits bone.
Wrong again!
Laser = Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
A laser has two partially mirrored lenses (say 99% and 80%) on either side of a medium, let's say ruby. you inject some high energy light (say a flash from a Xenon strobe light) into the ruby. This creates a photon cascade event. Some of the photons shoot out in directions parallel to the two lenses. But they get reflected by the mirrors. One mirror is less mirrored than the other. The photons then bounce back, and knock out more photons, the energy of the photons increases, going back and forth, and eventually a beam exits one of the mirrors. Many red lasers are near-IR, but not IR.
The reason you don't normally "see" a laser beam is due to the fact the photons ARE traveling in parallel. None of the photons reach your eye unless you add matter to disperse part of the beam and cause photons to deflect, thus giving you a false sense of the brightness of the beam. Or you stick your eye into the beam, and see how really bright it is.
A red laser will have a single wavelength. This is due to the fact of exciting a particular electron at a particular location in the electron cloud with particular set energy levels to release a given photon of a particular level of energy and wavelength. It's invariant, for a particular material, mirror set and stimulation source.
Actually, if you read it, his face swelled up so much it was not recognizable, his skin fell off, revealing the path of the beam though his skull and brain, and he now has epilepsy.
He lived and can function because the path of the beam was pure luck. Had the beam passed through a different part of his brain he may have died, or become a vegetable. There was a case of a man in the 1800s, working on a railroad who had a steel rod shoot through his head, and took a large section of his brain with it. He was not expected to live. But he did, but his personality was altered by the loss. He still retained much of his memory and abilities.
Alzheimer's is a slowly progressive disease, which takes away parts of the brain over time, yet many of these people can still function for years.
The fact is there are several factors involved, but it's fairly likely any living tissue subjected to a beam from the LHC is going have many cells destroyed. Think of something like laser surgery, but with a much bigger beam.
Incorrect. Lasers use a highly focused parallel high energy beam. Because it's high energy, it can burn. By projecting the focused parallel beam through a convex lens (the eye's lens) you refocus the beam and all the parallel high-energy photons focus on a point. This point light then burns the back of the cornea. Like looking directly at the Sun. Or focusing a magnifying glass on a leaf on a sunny day. Has nothing to do with IR and everything to do with optics and energy levels.
In five minutes worth of googling, I found : Barry's homepage, a page showing he doesn't own the "building" for his world headquarters, two press release articles showing he likely has the licensing rights, wikipedia articles not edited by him saying he owns the company etc, and three engadget pages which showed the guy has been working this deal since 2009. He began selling machines, and after Commodore Gaming said he didn't have the rights back in April he updated his site to indicate that he didn't yet have the rights, and a later article by the same author saying that he finally, maybe, got the rights.
Based on all I found, I'd say it's a safe bet this guy isn't a scam. But based on his homepages, I'd say he spent a bit too much time in the 60s getting stoned and it's affected his mind. He also seems to own a few other companies, which he runs out of his girlfriend's house maybe?
My conclusion is the blogger who got the takedown notice couldn't be bothered to do any research to back up his opinions, and is a jerk just looking for page hits. Barry was rightly indignant, but his knee jerk reaction makes him look like the bad guy here, and I'd say the blogger is in the wrong and owes an apology. although, I'd defend his right to be an ignorant opinionated ass. The takedown notice was stupid, and Barry should have talked to a lawyer first, since he'd have no case anyway. Let's put these two jerks in a wrestling ring and let them fight it out. It might be just as entertaining.
Seems to me, that any version of Mac OS would be prior art, as it has always and only had a GUI shutdown. Also, any Linux with a GUI would be prior art. Although, I didn't read through all the 14 claims. MS patents are so hard to read. So full of non-relevant and non-descriptive words. Basically, what I get from it is a way of prompting the user for input on programs not responding to the shutdown command, and then waiting for input for a time and then rinse repeat, and finally eventually, just shutting down those apps. The patent office really need to get a few people who aren't like 200 years old who have never seen a computer or can even spell it.
1) Now is a good time to pull out your old Cracker Jack encryption rings and make an encryption that takes plain text and converts it to another plain text. Hence the encryption becomes invisible. Instead of seeing you detailed analysis of project foo, all they see is "Mary had a little lamb...". Meanwhile your counterpart in India is rapidly coding foo!
2) ?
3) Profit!
Seriously, though, we really need a good encryption algorithm that as a final step of encryption turns the message back to plain text.
Damn, there goes my whiz bang software encryption patent!