Yes, electrical blasting caps can be set off by currents generated by induction. Wires in the presence of RF radiation can have voltages/currents induced in them, setting off explosives. This is why you sometimes see signs on the side of the road telling you to turn off two-way radios. It is because there is blasting in the general area and they don't need some ham radio operator with a 35 watt (or larger) rig coming along and setting off caps. Conventional fuses that burn are used when blasting is necessary in close proximity to broadcast antennas and such. But in reality, I'm sure terrorists can shield there wires effectively enough that it makes no difference. Munitions for the military (missiles, bombs, anything electrically detonated) are designed to operate in an RF rich environment. For example, the Patriot missile must operate in view of the radar that helps to guide it to the target. You wouldn't want your guided missile blowing up once they get out of the launch cannister and in the presence of the radar.
Freon is actually a whole family of DuPont CFCs. I know because on the farm we used an old 30 gallon drum (not gas bottle) labeled "Freon" that we stored diesel in. R-12 could not be stored in such a drum as its vapor pressure would blow it out. Freon CFCs were also used as an electronics solvent, in addition to a refrigerant. There is also R-22 used in most home air conditioners.
We are stockpiling old computers with ISA slots so they can use the special interface card that is utilized by 20 year old lab equipment (the Gleeble machine comes to mind, and I'm sure Gleebles are expensive, but the newer ones sure look nice).
I've been able to boot Apple hardware from the CD since 1996 (that is my experience, I am comfortably behind the curve when it comes to hardware). Why has "wintel" been even more behind the curve when it comes to booting from alternate drives? It isn't like it was patented or something. Put the CD in, hold down the C key, and it boots, what a great idea. But if you still find floppies useful, more power to you. Thank you for keeping that old hardware useful.
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Why is your backspace key still mapped to control H?
Fix that one first.
Yes, and problems are "unforseen negative enhancements" I got that one from my brother, who would sometimes work console at MSFC while on live NASA cable feed. They would use phrases that wouldn't scream out "problem!" just so it wouldn't attract attention. Gotta love it, "negative enhancement" those rocket scientists
The guy coming off the plane in a suit, or the guy in a tee shirt and shorts? It's all about context. I'm assuming your flights weren't to say, Columbia. In some locales you may be respected for the wrong reasons by the way you dress. Some people are projecting an image that they want you to believe in. I'm sure there are plenty of con men who dress up and look the part of "responsible person". And there are those of us who try to fly below the radar, for our own reasons. Suckers judge books by their covers.
on if he or she is a really good lawyer. It reminds me of a Dennis Leary joke regarding airline pilots and cocaine. "would you want your pilot doing cocaine?" "I wouldn't mind as long as he can land a plane well high on coke" Same goes for anyone. I don't care what they look like, as long as they can pull their own weight and do the job they are paid for. Ken Lay didn't have any obvious tattoos or piercings but he sure got paid alot to make sure some people got screwed. Allegedly anyway.
What is irresponsible about not taking on more responsibilities? I don't want kids, so I use birth control. Does that make me irresponsible? I know several people younger than me who have fathered children, and have nothing to do with them. I consider that irresponsible. I'd also guess that eighty years ago, the extended family helped out more with the day to day responsiblities of child rearing. What is wrong with self expression? Does fatherhood make one a man? As a 32 year old, I am wondering if people older than me understand cause and effect. Are the auto industries responsible for flooding the market with SUVs or are the buyers' responsible for making irresponisble long term choices? Maybe that last statement was self righteous, but there is plenty of irresponsiblity spread out among the generations. At least children have a good excuse.
Actually, it might be funny watching Ted Koppel sit and watch CNN. He could make critical or smart ass comments just like the gang at MST3k. It might even be better if he watched Fox news.
I'm beginning to think that "lack of consumer demand" has become another way of excusing poor design. why should my mouse have a 1.5 meter long cord on it, when it is going to always be roughly within.25 meters of my keyboard (and that is a wide margin). PS/2 came out in 1987. Apple had ADB in 1986. RS422 was standardized in 1979. I am not going to fault IBM for not being forward looking enough, but we still have PS/2 ports on damn near every piece of wintel desktop hardware. You'd think that they would save the cost of the connectors and cables and back panel real-estate by wholeheartedly embracing USB, and ditching PS/2. That is what USB was developed for (of course, now it is turned into a high speed bus). Yet I haven't seen a wintel box without PS/2 ports yet. And why are PS/2 ports different? Why couldn't the hardware be smart enough to know which one has a mouse, and which one has a keyboard attached? To make up for the bad design, they color coded the connectors. Nice work around, but poor engineering if you ask me. I have had to spec connectors on hardware. We used 2 similar connectors, but they were keyed different so you cannot physically interchange the two. Of course, this hardware isn't consumer, so we didn't have to idiot proof it to the nth degree. PS/2 is another poorly designed computer standard that is still with us for too long. And it seems that no one in the computer industry has enough guts to move on to the newer standards, and leave the old ones behind (ok, Apple did it, but they didn't use PS/2). I mean, we don't use 8 inch floppies anymore. Most computers come bundled with keyboards and mice anyway. Of course, if I had a Kenesis or something, I would be disappointed that I'd have to get an adapter to use it with USB, but that is the cost of progess. BTW, I'm writing this on a computer that dates from 1997 so I know all about not upgrading every 18 months. Maybe the whole thing is lost on me, because if I were an example of consumer demand there wouldn't be this upgrade treadmill. This computer of mine has an IEEE 1394 and USB combo card installed, so I can use the newer optical mice. I was glad to ditch the old ball mouse. And it is an Apple, so PS/2 wasn't an option. So maybe I'm biased against PS/2. Whew, what a rant. Sorry to waste anyone's time reading this.
That made the tech which enabled optical mice without a special mousepad (you know, the grid) that the old Mouse Sytems optical mice used.
Check: http://www.agilent.com/labs/news/1999features/fea_ gordon_gary.html
MS may have been the first to license it, but they didn't invent it.
I can't plug my friggin' mouse into the damn keyboard. I know it may be a minor point, but why the hell did they make PS/2 the way they did? When I used a SPARC box, it had the mouse plug into the keyboard, Apple had ADB, which allowed the same. PS/2? what? seperate connectors on the box for mouse and keyboard? What if I put the box on the floor? It is serial, but RS232 doesn't allow daisy chaining. Why didn't they use RS422? (I think I got that right, whatever Apple used for serial, which allowed daisy chaining.) PS/2 sucks for that reason alone. Otherwise, sure, it's fine, it gets the job done, in an unelegant manner.
How come nobody says, hey I want an FM receiver in my cell phone, but everytime there is an iPod discussion on/., someone always chimes in with "if only it had FM radio" or some shit. I think it would be easier to put radio in a cell phone especially, digital radio. Shit, that is my new business plan, Sirius, or XM within the cellphone market. They could use the same towers. OMG! has anyone thought of this? (I'm being rhetorical). It could even turn down the music when you receive a call! kinda like a reverse ringtone! a ringmute!
Would wake up and realize that North American FM covers different frequencies and spacings than Europe or Japan. I'm sure they could make it a worldwide reciever, but FM (in the US anyway) sucks. That is why other manufacturers are making ones with FM, 'cause they can buy a $1 chip, and say, "hey look we've got MP3 and FM". The ipod has a global market. A good FM reciever costs money, and won't work well in a stainless steel case. Not to mention the EMF from a hard drive motor. I've got a toshiba FM stereo reciever from the '80's that is the size of a 9v battery and runs off a AAA cell for hours. If you guys like your FM so much, get an FM radio, they make them even smaller now. Here is one with AM and FM that is about the size of a type I pcmcia card (ok, I know it is "PC Card" now): http://www.audiocubes.com/images/f_sony_srf220.jpg Oh, it's a Sony. It costs $60 but I bet it sounds better than my 20 year old FM only Toshiba.
Don't fuck with the ipod that I like just as it is. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Says "oh the technology is the easy part" (ok I'm paraphrasing) If it's so easy, why the fuck doesn't Sirius start making some portable units? I guess the technology _is_ the easy part. Kinda like atom bombs, the tech is the easy part, the process of actually making one is the hard part. It is the _engineering_ that is hard. I'm sure there are some engineers who have heard that sort of shit before "oh it'll be easy". Not to mention the CEO's bias. Yeah, it'll be easy. Won't make it any bigger, or consume any more power I'm sure. I've seen Sirius antenna's that are bigger than an iPod. Though, I guess in cities, they have a terrestrial repeater network. I won't hold my breath waiting for a Sirius iPod.
has the "old scratched film effect" Talk about messing with future people's heads. Then again, if the "old scratched film effect" was digitally added, then simply knowing the algorithm, one can then remove it as well? Will they come out with a "fucked up and old" VHS tape effect? Analog forever! Ah... the memories of a Nth generation copy Debbie Does Dallas VHS tape... Has that been remastered yet? (that last one was rhetorical, I'm no longer interested)
So that is one change that might stop a hijacking.
I just hope they are using ammo that won't penentrate the aircraft fuselage. Of course, that has little to do with ID cards.
And 2 left over Saturn V rockets. One is on display in Huntsville, AL and one in Houston (I think). They are both laying on their sides, the one in Alabama is exposed to the environment. They were both FLIGHT hardware, not mockups, at least up to the service module, I know the one in Huntsville has a mockup Apollo capsule.
Fuck! where did it go? Earlier today I was able to get past the archived comment limit (for us nonsubscribers) by using the "google slashdot" at the bottom of the page. Now it is just back to search. I felt that the default slashdot search sucked anyway and was glad they had the google slashdot search engine working. Now it is gone. What happen? someone set us up the bomb!
All your comments are belong to us!
Or they just prey on women?
Quote by ErikTheRed:
"You have to either really hate women or be completely clueless as to the consequences of something like this to not consider this an extremely bad situation (for your sake, I hope it's the latter)."
Hmmm, I seem to remember a certain female teacher... Who is now married to her "victim".
Was justice served? I'm not saying she commited no crime, but does the "Justice" system deliver justice?
P.S. Her name is Mary Kay Latourneau
Maybe he is referring to the shuttle Enterprise. I don't think it should count, seeing as though it has never flew in space. It did fly for some approch and landing tests, launched from a 747.
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Yes, electrical blasting caps can be set off by currents generated by induction. Wires in the presence of RF radiation can have voltages/currents induced in them, setting off explosives. This is why you sometimes see signs on the side of the road telling you to turn off two-way radios. It is because there is blasting in the general area and they don't need some ham radio operator with a 35 watt (or larger) rig coming along and setting off caps. Conventional fuses that burn are used when blasting is necessary in close proximity to broadcast antennas and such. But in reality, I'm sure terrorists can shield there wires effectively enough that it makes no difference. Munitions for the military (missiles, bombs, anything electrically detonated) are designed to operate in an RF rich environment. For example, the Patriot missile must operate in view of the radar that helps to guide it to the target. You wouldn't want your guided missile blowing up once they get out of the launch cannister and in the presence of the radar.
Freon is actually a whole family of DuPont CFCs. I know because on the farm we used an old 30 gallon drum (not gas bottle) labeled "Freon" that we stored diesel in. R-12 could not be stored in such a drum as its vapor pressure would blow it out. Freon CFCs were also used as an electronics solvent, in addition to a refrigerant. There is also R-22 used in most home air conditioners.
How can software be brittle? I can understand HARDware being brittle but SOFTware? isn't it too soft to be brittle?
We are stockpiling old computers with ISA slots so they can use the special interface card that is utilized by 20 year old lab equipment (the Gleeble machine comes to mind, and I'm sure Gleebles are expensive, but the newer ones sure look nice).
I've been able to boot Apple hardware from the CD since 1996 (that is my experience, I am comfortably behind the curve when it comes to hardware). Why has "wintel" been even more behind the curve when it comes to booting from alternate drives? It isn't like it was patented or something. Put the CD in, hold down the C key, and it boots, what a great idea. But if you still find floppies useful, more power to you. Thank you for keeping that old hardware useful.
Why is your backspace key still mapped to control H? Fix that one first.
Yes, and problems are "unforseen negative enhancements" I got that one from my brother, who would sometimes work console at MSFC while on live NASA cable feed. They would use phrases that wouldn't scream out "problem!" just so it wouldn't attract attention. Gotta love it, "negative enhancement" those rocket scientists
The guy coming off the plane in a suit, or the guy in a tee shirt and shorts? It's all about context. I'm assuming your flights weren't to say, Columbia. In some locales you may be respected for the wrong reasons by the way you dress. Some people are projecting an image that they want you to believe in. I'm sure there are plenty of con men who dress up and look the part of "responsible person". And there are those of us who try to fly below the radar, for our own reasons. Suckers judge books by their covers.
on if he or she is a really good lawyer. It reminds me of a Dennis Leary joke regarding airline pilots and cocaine. "would you want your pilot doing cocaine?" "I wouldn't mind as long as he can land a plane well high on coke" Same goes for anyone. I don't care what they look like, as long as they can pull their own weight and do the job they are paid for. Ken Lay didn't have any obvious tattoos or piercings but he sure got paid alot to make sure some people got screwed. Allegedly anyway.
What is irresponsible about not taking on more responsibilities? I don't want kids, so I use birth control. Does that make me irresponsible? I know several people younger than me who have fathered children, and have nothing to do with them. I consider that irresponsible. I'd also guess that eighty years ago, the extended family helped out more with the day to day responsiblities of child rearing. What is wrong with self expression? Does fatherhood make one a man? As a 32 year old, I am wondering if people older than me understand cause and effect. Are the auto industries responsible for flooding the market with SUVs or are the buyers' responsible for making irresponisble long term choices? Maybe that last statement was self righteous, but there is plenty of irresponsiblity spread out among the generations. At least children have a good excuse.
Actually, it might be funny watching Ted Koppel sit and watch CNN. He could make critical or smart ass comments just like the gang at MST3k. It might even be better if he watched Fox news.
I'm beginning to think that "lack of consumer demand" has become another way of excusing poor design. why should my mouse have a 1.5 meter long cord on it, when it is going to always be roughly within .25 meters of my keyboard (and that is a wide margin). PS/2 came out in 1987. Apple had ADB in 1986. RS422 was standardized in 1979. I am not going to fault IBM for not being forward looking enough, but we still have PS/2 ports on damn near every piece of wintel desktop hardware. You'd think that they would save the cost of the connectors and cables and back panel real-estate by wholeheartedly embracing USB, and ditching PS/2. That is what USB was developed for (of course, now it is turned into a high speed bus). Yet I haven't seen a wintel box without PS/2 ports yet. And why are PS/2 ports different? Why couldn't the hardware be smart enough to know which one has a mouse, and which one has a keyboard attached? To make up for the bad design, they color coded the connectors. Nice work around, but poor engineering if you ask me. I have had to spec connectors on hardware. We used 2 similar connectors, but they were keyed different so you cannot physically interchange the two. Of course, this hardware isn't consumer, so we didn't have to idiot proof it to the nth degree. PS/2 is another poorly designed computer standard that is still with us for too long. And it seems that no one in the computer industry has enough guts to move on to the newer standards, and leave the old ones behind (ok, Apple did it, but they didn't use PS/2). I mean, we don't use 8 inch floppies anymore. Most computers come bundled with keyboards and mice anyway. Of course, if I had a Kenesis or something, I would be disappointed that I'd have to get an adapter to use it with USB, but that is the cost of progess. BTW, I'm writing this on a computer that dates from 1997 so I know all about not upgrading every 18 months. Maybe the whole thing is lost on me, because if I were an example of consumer demand there wouldn't be this upgrade treadmill. This computer of mine has an IEEE 1394 and USB combo card installed, so I can use the newer optical mice. I was glad to ditch the old ball mouse. And it is an Apple, so PS/2 wasn't an option. So maybe I'm biased against PS/2. Whew, what a rant. Sorry to waste anyone's time reading this.
That made the tech which enabled optical mice without a special mousepad (you know, the grid) that the old Mouse Sytems optical mice used._ gordon_gary.html
MS may have been the first to license it, but they didn't invent it.
Check: http://www.agilent.com/labs/news/1999features/fea
I can't plug my friggin' mouse into the damn keyboard. I know it may be a minor point, but why the hell did they make PS/2 the way they did? When I used a SPARC box, it had the mouse plug into the keyboard, Apple had ADB, which allowed the same. PS/2? what? seperate connectors on the box for mouse and keyboard? What if I put the box on the floor? It is serial, but RS232 doesn't allow daisy chaining. Why didn't they use RS422? (I think I got that right, whatever Apple used for serial, which allowed daisy chaining.) PS/2 sucks for that reason alone. Otherwise, sure, it's fine, it gets the job done, in an unelegant manner.
How come nobody says, hey I want an FM receiver in my cell phone, but everytime there is an iPod discussion on /., someone always chimes in with "if only it had FM radio" or some shit. I think it would be easier to put radio in a cell phone especially, digital radio. Shit, that is my new business plan, Sirius, or XM within the cellphone market. They could use the same towers. OMG! has anyone thought of this? (I'm being rhetorical). It could even turn down the music when you receive a call! kinda like a reverse ringtone! a ringmute!
Would wake up and realize that North American FM covers different frequencies and spacings than Europe or Japan. I'm sure they could make it a worldwide reciever, but FM (in the US anyway) sucks. That is why other manufacturers are making ones with FM, 'cause they can buy a $1 chip, and say, "hey look we've got MP3 and FM". The ipod has a global market. A good FM reciever costs money, and won't work well in a stainless steel case. Not to mention the EMF from a hard drive motor. I've got a toshiba FM stereo reciever from the '80's that is the size of a 9v battery and runs off a AAA cell for hours. If you guys like your FM so much, get an FM radio, they make them even smaller now. Here is one with AM and FM that is about the size of a type I pcmcia card (ok, I know it is "PC Card" now): http://www.audiocubes.com/images/f_sony_srf220.jpg Oh, it's a Sony. It costs $60 but I bet it sounds better than my 20 year old FM only Toshiba.
Don't fuck with the ipod that I like just as it is. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Says "oh the technology is the easy part" (ok I'm paraphrasing) If it's so easy, why the fuck doesn't Sirius start making some portable units? I guess the technology _is_ the easy part. Kinda like atom bombs, the tech is the easy part, the process of actually making one is the hard part. It is the _engineering_ that is hard. I'm sure there are some engineers who have heard that sort of shit before "oh it'll be easy". Not to mention the CEO's bias. Yeah, it'll be easy. Won't make it any bigger, or consume any more power I'm sure. I've seen Sirius antenna's that are bigger than an iPod. Though, I guess in cities, they have a terrestrial repeater network. I won't hold my breath waiting for a Sirius iPod.
has the "old scratched film effect" Talk about messing with future people's heads. Then again, if the "old scratched film effect" was digitally added, then simply knowing the algorithm, one can then remove it as well? Will they come out with a "fucked up and old" VHS tape effect? Analog forever! Ah... the memories of a Nth generation copy Debbie Does Dallas VHS tape... Has that been remastered yet? (that last one was rhetorical, I'm no longer interested)
Couldn't resist http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~arobic/funny/Gillett e.html
I hope their server holds
Like a supplemental spending bill for Bush's Iraqi adventure. After all, who would not want to support the troops?
So that is one change that might stop a hijacking. I just hope they are using ammo that won't penentrate the aircraft fuselage. Of course, that has little to do with ID cards.
And 2 left over Saturn V rockets. One is on display in Huntsville, AL and one in Houston (I think). They are both laying on their sides, the one in Alabama is exposed to the environment. They were both FLIGHT hardware, not mockups, at least up to the service module, I know the one in Huntsville has a mockup Apollo capsule.
Fuck! where did it go? Earlier today I was able to get past the archived comment limit (for us nonsubscribers) by using the "google slashdot" at the bottom of the page. Now it is just back to search. I felt that the default slashdot search sucked anyway and was glad they had the google slashdot search engine working. Now it is gone. What happen? someone set us up the bomb! All your comments are belong to us!
Or they just prey on women? Quote by ErikTheRed: "You have to either really hate women or be completely clueless as to the consequences of something like this to not consider this an extremely bad situation (for your sake, I hope it's the latter)." Hmmm, I seem to remember a certain female teacher... Who is now married to her "victim". Was justice served? I'm not saying she commited no crime, but does the "Justice" system deliver justice? P.S. Her name is Mary Kay Latourneau
Maybe he is referring to the shuttle Enterprise. I don't think it should count, seeing as though it has never flew in space. It did fly for some approch and landing tests, launched from a 747.