In order to keep outsiders confused (and hence continue to remain ousiders), we slashdotters like have a little fun with the moderation system at times. So here's a little decoder chart for you.
If a comment is actually saterical/funny (see grandparent) then the appropriate slashdot bizzaro-world moderation is +1 Insightful.
If a comment is actually a troll (see great-grandparent)in which the basic premise is "This sux. Because I said so." And then the poster ends up replying to himself with the
exact opposite conclusion, then the proper moderation will be +5 Insightful.
If a comment has a genuinely unique perspective on the situation, then of course the correct moderation is to leave it languishing as-is.
If you need to do some karma-whoring then do a quick google search on the current topic and post the results. Your diligence will earn you a handsome +5 Informative as your reward.
Well you get the idea. Further examples are left as an exersize to the reader.
P.S. Or sometimes we also like to believe that by modding a comment +1 Insightful it will become that way.
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Hmmm. Are they really using a x-ray sensitive ccd? Do they use a pin-hole for focusing, or are there good lenses for these (apparently low-energy) x-rays. If they have to use a pin-hole, then it seems like they would have a relatively long exposure time (since I would think only a small percentage of the xrays are going to get bounced off the target, and fewer still are going to get through your pin-hole). So then I wonder what the exposure time is. Do you have to stand perfectly still while the exposure happens? And I also wonder what kinds of materials you could use for lenses, if they are indeed using lenses to focus. What I'm really wondering is how hard would it be to make a home-brew machine like this, assuming the ccd's and lenses are available.
Q: How much radiant energy is a person exposed to?
A: Each full body scan of the SECURE 1000 produces approximately 3 microREMs of emission. This is equivalent to the exposure every person receives each five minutes from naturally occurring background environmental radioactivity.
Q: Is background radiation exposure really a good comparison?
A: Yes, because SECURE 1000 scanning and background radiation both expose a large portion of the body to a very low level of x-rays. The only difference is that background radiation has slightly higher x-ray energy resulting in deeper penetration.
Q: What about exposure levels for individuals who are frequent flyers or for employees in companies or high security facilities who have to be screened each day?
A: Under current international guidelines (such as the ANSI 43.17 Standard) up to 5000 scans per year can be conducted safely.
Q: Will SECURE 1000 detect objects in the body? A: No, the x-rays penetrate only about 1/10 (0.1) inch of the skin. Any object that
would be deeper than that level would not be detected. Under current regulations generally body cavity inspections must be performed by high dose medical x-ray systems in the presence of a medical professional or body cavity searches must be performed manually by trained enforcement personnel.
Since I'd never heard of X-Ray backscatter before I'd thought I'd do a
google search, but I couldn't find much in the way of technical details of the how and why xray backscatter works. There didn't seem to be much for academic/research papers available. Is this a relatively new thing? The article mentions that the xrays are bounced off of you, but I wonder what dosage you would be exposed to. Are they using an xray source, or is it background radiation? These were my findings so far...
On the notion of fresh ideas, I've always wondered if the most economical solution was just to pay people not to commute. When I lived in the Portland, OR area, they expanded their light rail system to cover the 'burbs on the west side. IIRC the construction cost was ~$1.5 billion. With that kind of money, you could pay 15,000 commuters $100,000 each to buy a house closer to where they work or move to somewhere else.
I came across this article which dicusses how companies buy influence with politicians by hiring their (Orrin's, er I mean the politician's) relatives.
Speaking of IP addresses for wireless headphones, has anyone heard anything on the progress of
ZigBee? ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4) was supposed to be the low-cost/low-power/low-bit-rate Bluetooth clone which was supposed to cost ~$0.50-$1.00.
It looks like the short answer is that the poly doesn't get as many dopant ions down close to the gate oxide, which results in an effective reduction of oxide thickness. Therefore, if the poly is replaced by SiN there will be metal all the way down to the oxide and the electric fields will be higher, which means a better transistor. Two good papers...
I probably need to crack my physics books for this, but I thought the work function of a metal was the amount of energy needed to free and electron from the metal (a la, the photo-electric effect). So I don't see how that could possibly have an affect on the transistor action. Any physics students out there?
I'm not a process guy, so could someone explain why they're claiming metal gates
are better? I was under the impresson that metal gates were more compatable
with high-k gate oxides, but I didn't see any mention of non-SiO2 dielectrics.
And on that note, does anyone know if AMD is trying out any low-k dielectrics for
the interconnect?
I also noticed that one of the lines in the slide said something to the effect of,
"Mesa isolation was used to keep things simple". Does this mean that they just did
that for the one test wafer to keep things easy, but it'll be no problem once we
get the process into production? Or are we talking about something that's still
many years in the future?
6+ hours a day? I probably wouldn't have any problems if I only worked 6 hours a day. Why don't you try putting in 10 hours of mouse intensive CAD/schematic entry, and then I'll be more inclined to listen to you talk out your lazy ass.
...your idea should be worth between $12,000,000 to $40,000,000 before patenting makes any sense. Old Don has a lot of sage advice about the whole patent process for the little guy...
For most individuals and small scale startups, patents are virtually
certain to result in a net loss of time, energy, money, and sanity.
One reason for this is the outrageously wrong urban lore involving
patents and patenting. A second involves the outright scams which
inevitably surround "inventions" and "inventing". A third is that the economic breakeven needed to recover patent costs
is something between $12,000,000.00 and $40,000,000 in gross sales.
It is ludicrously absurd to try and patent a million dollar idea.
I wouldn't let any wanna-be patents get in the way of something that's going to make you money. Your company, Widgets-R-Us should start cranking out as many Whizzy-Wigs(TM) as possible (first mover advantage is your friend). It will take a while for those patent holders to figure out that you are infringing on them. Then they'll have spend some real money to sue you. Your counter move is to use the court system in the way it works best. That is: delay, delay, delay. With only minimal attorney's costs, you should be able to get continuance, upon continuance. When two years down the road your court date arrives, you have a choice to make: either Widgets-R-Us is a highly sucessful enterprise which can afford to fight in court (or possibly license the patent), or Widgets-R-Us files for bankruptcy, in which case the trial will be put on hold. Then, by sheer coincidence, Widget-Factory, Inc. decides to hire you as President/CEO and gives you 100% ownership in the company as an incentive. Wash, rinse, repeat.
The best reason for IPv6 wasn't even mentioned in the blurb. Multicasting is like Bittorrent on steroids. I don't know how all of the money for the bandwidth changes hands, but imagine being able to download the latest iso for your favorite linux distro, the first hour it is available. Better yet, imagine being able to host that iso from your own whimpy machine. Better still, imagine a world free from the dreaded slashdot effect.
And for those occasions when you do need a graphical X program, use the ratpoison window manager. It's a no-nonsense, no bloat, no mouse needed window manager.
Tinfoil Hat Linux has gpggrid , a wrapper for GPG that lets you use a video game style
character entry system instead of typing in your passphrase. Keystroke
loggers get a random set of grid points, not your passphrase.
You might want to check out this site which debunks the myth that polygraphs work. And yes, I'll bet most people probably give up their passwords themselves. For instance, Jim Bell, the guy behind Assination Politcs, a guy who should know better, gave up his PGP passphrase as part of his plea bargin. He is now suing the state of Washington and a host of others for the costs of breaking the encryption, brute-force using 1997 hardware.
Slashdot Mirror
But now you use pre-paid cell phones right?
eyes-only
In order to keep outsiders confused (and hence continue to remain ousiders), we slashdotters like have a little fun with the moderation system at times. So here's a little decoder chart for you.
If a comment is actually saterical/funny (see grandparent) then the appropriate slashdot bizzaro-world moderation is +1 Insightful.
If a comment is actually a troll (see great-grandparent)in which the basic premise is "This sux. Because I said so." And then the poster ends up replying to himself with the exact opposite conclusion, then the proper moderation will be +5 Insightful.
If a comment has a genuinely unique perspective on the situation, then of course the correct moderation is to leave it languishing as-is.
If you need to do some karma-whoring then do a quick google search on the current topic and post the results. Your diligence will earn you a handsome +5 Informative as your reward.
Well you get the idea. Further examples are left as an exersize to the reader.
P.S. Or sometimes we also like to believe that by modding a comment +1 Insightful it will become that way.
Commit this information to memory. Message will self destruct in 5 seconds. End Transmission...
Why would anyone use a battery if you can plug it into the little holes in the wall?
Hmmm. Are they really using a x-ray sensitive ccd? Do they use a pin-hole for focusing, or are there good lenses for these (apparently low-energy) x-rays. If they have to use a pin-hole, then it seems like they would have a relatively long exposure time (since I would think only a small percentage of the xrays are going to get bounced off the target, and fewer still are going to get through your pin-hole). So then I wonder what the exposure time is. Do you have to stand perfectly still while the exposure happens? And I also wonder what kinds of materials you could use for lenses, if they are indeed using lenses to focus. What I'm really wondering is how hard would it be to make a home-brew machine like this, assuming the ccd's and lenses are available.
Its not xrays, but you might want to check out...
Terahertz Imaging:Another Way to See Through Walls
Terahertz Imagery Progresses
Teravision
Star Tiger
More pictures.
More detail as to how the machine works.
Last time I checked, tin was not aluminium.
On the notion of fresh ideas, I've always wondered if the most economical solution was just to pay people not to commute. When I lived in the Portland, OR area, they expanded their light rail system to cover the 'burbs on the west side. IIRC the construction cost was ~$1.5 billion. With that kind of money, you could pay 15,000 commuters $100,000 each to buy a house closer to where they work or move to somewhere else.
I came across this article which dicusses how companies buy influence with politicians by hiring their (Orrin's, er I mean the politician's) relatives.
Speaking of IP addresses for wireless headphones, has anyone heard anything on the progress of ZigBee? ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4) was supposed to be the low-cost/low-power/low-bit-rate Bluetooth clone which was supposed to cost ~$0.50-$1.00.
Dopant profile and gate geometric effects on polysilicon gate
Gate Length Dependent Polysilicon Depletion Effects
Also EETimes has another interesting article with more information about AMD's presentation at the 2003 Symposium on VLSI Technology in Kyoto, Japan.
I probably need to crack my physics books for this, but I thought the work function of a metal was the amount of energy needed to free and electron from the metal (a la, the photo-electric effect). So I don't see how that could possibly have an affect on the transistor action. Any physics students out there?
I'm not a process guy, so could someone explain why they're claiming metal gates are better? I was under the impresson that metal gates were more compatable with high-k gate oxides, but I didn't see any mention of non-SiO2 dielectrics. And on that note, does anyone know if AMD is trying out any low-k dielectrics for the interconnect?
I also noticed that one of the lines in the slide said something to the effect of, "Mesa isolation was used to keep things simple". Does this mean that they just did that for the one test wafer to keep things easy, but it'll be no problem once we get the process into production? Or are we talking about something that's still many years in the future?
6+ hours a day? I probably wouldn't have any problems if I only worked 6 hours a day. Why don't you try putting in 10 hours of mouse intensive CAD/schematic entry, and then I'll be more inclined to listen to you talk out your lazy ass.
Journal: Beyond irrational numbers (continued fractions)
I wouldn't let any wanna-be patents get in the way of something that's going to make you money. Your company, Widgets-R-Us should start cranking out as many Whizzy-Wigs(TM) as possible (first mover advantage is your friend). It will take a while for those patent holders to figure out that you are infringing on them. Then they'll have spend some real money to sue you. Your counter move is to use the court system in the way it works best. That is: delay, delay, delay. With only minimal attorney's costs, you should be able to get continuance, upon continuance. When two years down the road your court date arrives, you have a choice to make: either Widgets-R-Us is a highly sucessful enterprise which can afford to fight in court (or possibly license the patent), or Widgets-R-Us files for bankruptcy, in which case the trial will be put on hold. Then, by sheer coincidence, Widget-Factory, Inc. decides to hire you as President/CEO and gives you 100% ownership in the company as an incentive. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Journal: Beyond irrational numbers (continued fractions)
You might want to reconsider whether or not that camera can tell how you feel...
Emotion Recognition Using a Cauchy Naive Bayes Classifier
Facial features detection and face emotion recognition
The best reason for IPv6 wasn't even mentioned in the blurb. Multicasting is like Bittorrent on steroids. I don't know how all of the money for the bandwidth changes hands, but imagine being able to download the latest iso for your favorite linux distro, the first hour it is available. Better yet, imagine being able to host that iso from your own whimpy machine. Better still, imagine a world free from the dreaded slashdot effect.
And for those occasions when you do need a graphical X program, use the ratpoison window manager. It's a no-nonsense, no bloat, no mouse needed window manager.
I thought that the tin-foil-hats were crazy by definition.
You might want to check out this site which debunks the myth that polygraphs work. And yes, I'll bet most people probably give up their passwords themselves. For instance, Jim Bell, the guy behind Assination Politcs, a guy who should know better, gave up his PGP passphrase as part of his plea bargin. He is now suing the state of Washington and a host of others for the costs of breaking the encryption, brute-force using 1997 hardware.