Free Energy is the death blow to the entire class/economic system that keeps most of the world enslaved to 12 families. If we all had access to Free Energy, no one would have to "Earn a Living", we would just live (imagine that).
You mean to say that not only would my electric bill go to zero, but so would my rent and groceries? Wow, this REALLY IS some sort of suppressed, secret economic technology!
From TFA... the guy can go through all this on the remote machine:
I got one picture out of the folder, and bearing in mind this is a 56k dial-up, so a very slow internet connection, in dial-up days, using the remote control programme I turned the colour down to 4bit colour and the screen resolution really, really low, and even then the picture was still juddering as it came onto the screen.
And then this:
SK: Do you have a copy of this? It came down to your machine.
GM: No, the graphical remote viewer works frame by frame. It's a Java application, so there's nothing to save on your hard drive, or at least if it is, only one frame at a time.
Skrip Kidees should have to pass a test of basic PC operations before being allowed to crack into Seekrit Gubmint Installations.
So you think the Christian-fundamentalist-controlled Republican party is eagerly trying to implement the plans of The Beast?
Now that you mention it, I can envision the Salvation Army "suggesting"[1] you (or any bum walking in off the street) get an implant before they allow you into the food line.
We could eventually have both a cashless and a cacheless society.
1. Just the same way that when you wear a parachute and jump out of an airplane (perfectly working or not), it is "suggested" you pull the ripcord. Yes, I've actually heard this in a cult meeting.
It would likely take more like three or five seconds. It takes about two seconds for the magnetron filament to heat up, and then it starts oscillating and putting out hundreds of watts of microwave power.
You can see this by putting an AOL CD into a microwave. Interesting things start to happen after about two seconds. Do not breath the resulting smoke, probably best done outdoors, all applicable disclaimers apply, as well as many inapplicable ones.
Philips has filed for a second paten for a system where large burly men hold your eyes open and prevent you from doing something else during the comercials.
I recall prior art in the movie "A Clockwork Orange." Well, there may be a loophole, that wasn't for commercials.
I hope every TV made in the future will have this feature. That would accomplish a wonderful thing--people by the millions would turn off the damn things and do something worthwhile for a change!
The technology essentially takes advantages of the inherent properties of ice. Ice, it turns out, is a semiconductor, meaning that it conducts an electrical charge under certain circumstances.
This appears okay so far, but as in any popular writing about a technical or scientific subject, use of such words as "under certain circumstances" is excessively vague. One can only hope that a later sentence clears this up. But that doesn't happen here.
Unlike silicon, which conducts negatively charged electrons, ice conducts protons, the core of hydrogen atoms that are part of the water molecules.
So the article is that the proton is the charge carrier in ice conduction?
In a "P type" semiconductor doped for positive carrier conduction, it's the 'holes' that move and carry the charge, though their movement is correlated with electrons moving the opposite direction. I know of positively charged particles moving in a plasma (such as an electrical spark), but not in a solid.
Does the author (or the person who tried to explain it to him) mean that ice uses holes as the charge carrier just like P-type semiconductor, and he just messed it up/reinterpreted it as protons?
What's so frustrating about these watered-down "popular science" type articles is it's impossible to know if I'm reading something that is truly new to me, or (as I always suspect and too often find) it turns out I already know more than the writer ever will.
If I find the address of a person online and send an email to the person with a question - technically I'm spammer: I sent an unsolicited email.
It depends strongly on the context where you find the address, and whether what you sent makes any sense in that context. If it's the email to the owner of a webpage, it's reasonable to conclude they are soliciting email PERTAINING TO THE CONTENTS OF THAT WEBPAGE, and that anything else is unsolicited.
I'm late to the thread, but I also had a great experience with ABF's upack.com service.
Avoid traditional commercial movers/"van lines", even the best-known brand names, at all cost! A new-job move took me 900 miles north, IN THE MIDDLE OF UNLOADING THE TRUCK they said there was a problem with payment of this employer-paid move, I called the office to have them sort it out or whatever, the movers STOOD AROUND for over an hour waiting for whatever happened (I presume my employer paid extra money). I've heard of this happening many times, usually before they deliver, they demand hundreds or even thousands of dollars in cash, above and beyond whatever "full payment" you've made, before they bring you your property.
I researched ways of moving my stuff back south after giving the the job and the area a year and then some, and was very glad to find upack.com online.
and the programmers should just stick to writing code
Yes, they should. One of the major problems in software companies is that programmers get promoted to positions of management because they excelled at what they did, but they lack management skills. So you've taken someone out of a position they excel at, and put them into a position they need to learn. I forget the term for this.
Not sure if it's what you mean, but this sounds a lot like The Peter Principle.
I saw this about three years ago, not sure it was Frontline, perhaps NOVA or something on the Science channel.
Googline for EEG lie detector finds it, "MERMER." Subject is wired to an EEG. There is a specific brain-wave pulse called "P300" when the mind recognizes something such as the scene in a photograph (such as wife, front door of one's home, the room where a murder occurred...). If it's not something the subject has seen before, there's no "recognition pulse." This method claims REMARKABLY high reliability: It is, he claims, 99.9% accurate at determining the veracity of certain sorts of statement. Discussion of this technique is near the end of this page:
On the other hand, the specialised intelligence being assessed is mathematical and scientific, and there is no evidence that it can develop in the absence of effective schooling.
I have greater-than-average (among the public; I dare not guess how I place among the slashdot crowd) "mathematical and scientific intelligence" and I gained it in the absence of effective schooling (as much my fault as the teachers, I did no classwork and my grades showed it). I did a lot of reading in high school of books by Isaac Asimov and similar authors, and learned more about science than I would have if I had studies what was assigned and been an A student.
What I learned was demonstrated in SAT and other test scores, but I think one of the most important ideas I learned was that science is not a body of knowledge (as it appears so many people think) but rather a systematic method (or collection of methods) to discover knowledge.
And I'm likely not the only slashdotter like this. I just wanted to say that the above statement is false (unless you consider my own high-school motivation to read about science to be 'effective schooling'), even though there may be only a few exceptions and that it doesn't take away from your main point. I agree that one DOES needs effective schooling for overall better knowledge/intelligence scores/whatever for math(s) and science.
My experience as an American teaching UK students at university suggests that educational policies of the last twenty years in the UK have not been friendly to math and science.
This is most unfortunate, and I have no doubt the same thing has happened in the USA.
Has anyone actually proved that a Helium-3 based fusion reactor works? Haven't heard of any.
I have no doubt such a reactor can be made to work brilliantly in the short term (a few nanoseconds).
Long-term fusion reactors have indeed been problematic, but commercially viable fusion power plants have been 10 years away for at least the past four decades. IIRC, they are being tested with other light-element isotopes, but I'm sure the use of helium-3 would only require a carburetor adjustmemt.
Well, gold is a relatively heavy material. Helium-3, not quite so much.
Nah, the same mass of each actually WEIGHS the same! Duh!
But Helium-3 is WORTH a lot more (per amount of mass), and thus (presuming it is viable for controlled nuclear fusion - I'd be surprised, but perhaps I should RTFA) it may actually be worth mining on the Moon.
If the Moon were shown to have tons of cocaine on it, drug cartels might already be mining it.
Photons emitted (as from the Sun) which hit another piece of matter (such as a light sail) PUSH on the struck matter due to the transfer of momentum. For a particle to hit (or go through) a mass and cause the mass to go TOWARD the direction the particle came from, it would have to have NEGATIVE momentum.
What's even more problematic is that unlike any other particle I can think of, the graviton has its effect on matter, but isn't itself affected as it passes through. When Pluto is eclipsed by Jupiter (surely a rare event, but it demonstrates my point), the Sun's gravity affecting Pluto is NOT cut off. The idea from Einstein that mass warps space fits much better with this observation.
Is not one of the big problems with "gravitons" that gravity appears to act more or less instantaneously at great distances? And isn't that a little troubling from the "Action at a Distance is Big No-No" point of view?
There may be ways to determine whether the effect of gravity moves instantaneously, or only at the speed of light, but it seems gravity is too weak for humankind to (currently) make an experiment to detect it.. I can't imagine measuring the speed of gravity without carefully orchestrated black holes. Perhaps someday we'll luck out and have LIGO detecting an event and a telescope pointing at the area when two co-orbiting black holes coalesce. Detecting both of these events simultaneously will show that gravity goes at the speed of light.
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Free Energy is the death blow to the entire class/economic system that keeps most of the world enslaved to 12 families.
t Alone.mp3
I've heard this tune before...
http://www.songcity.co.uk/WeAreNotAlone.htm
http://www.songcity.co.uk/Demos/DavidIcke/WeAreNo
Free Energy is the death blow to the entire class/economic system that keeps most of the world enslaved to 12 families. If we all had access to Free Energy, no one would have to "Earn a Living", we would just live (imagine that).
You mean to say that not only would my electric bill go to zero, but so would my rent and groceries? Wow, this REALLY IS some sort of suppressed, secret economic technology!
From TFA... the guy can go through all this on the remote machine:
I got one picture out of the folder, and bearing in mind this is a 56k dial-up, so a very slow internet connection, in dial-up days, using the remote control programme I turned the colour down to 4bit colour and the screen resolution really, really low, and even then the picture was still juddering as it came onto the screen.
And then this:
SK: Do you have a copy of this? It came down to your machine.
GM: No, the graphical remote viewer works frame by frame. It's a Java application, so there's nothing to save on your hard drive, or at least if it is, only one frame at a time.
Skrip Kidees should have to pass a test of basic PC operations before being allowed to crack into Seekrit Gubmint Installations.
So you think the Christian-fundamentalist-controlled Republican party is eagerly trying to implement the plans of The Beast?
Now that you mention it, I can envision the Salvation Army "suggesting"[1] you (or any bum walking in off the street) get an implant before they allow you into the food line.
We could eventually have both a cashless and a cacheless society.
1. Just the same way that when you wear a parachute and jump out of an airplane (perfectly working or not), it is "suggested" you pull the ripcord. Yes, I've actually heard this in a cult meeting.
It would likely take more like three or five seconds. It takes about two seconds for the magnetron filament to heat up, and then it starts oscillating and putting out hundreds of watts of microwave power.
You can see this by putting an AOL CD into a microwave. Interesting things start to happen after about two seconds. Do not breath the resulting smoke, probably best done outdoors, all applicable disclaimers apply, as well as many inapplicable ones.
Philips has filed for a second paten for a system where large burly men hold your eyes open and prevent you from doing something else during the comercials.
I recall prior art in the movie "A Clockwork Orange." Well, there may be a loophole, that wasn't for commercials.
I hope every TV made in the future will have this feature. That would accomplish a wonderful thing--people by the millions would turn off the damn things and do something worthwhile for a change!
Like read and post to Slashdot?
So the article is that the proton is the charge carrier in ice conduction?
should read:
So the article is saying that the proton is the charge carrier in ice conduction?
The technology essentially takes advantages of the inherent properties of ice. Ice, it turns out, is a semiconductor, meaning that it conducts an electrical charge under certain circumstances.
This appears okay so far, but as in any popular writing about a technical or scientific subject, use of such words as "under certain circumstances" is excessively vague. One can only hope that a later sentence clears this up. But that doesn't happen here.
Unlike silicon, which conducts negatively charged electrons, ice conducts protons, the core of hydrogen atoms that are part of the water molecules.
So the article is that the proton is the charge carrier in ice conduction?
In a "P type" semiconductor doped for positive carrier conduction, it's the 'holes' that move and carry the charge, though their movement is correlated with electrons moving the opposite direction. I know of positively charged particles moving in a plasma (such as an electrical spark), but not in a solid.
Does the author (or the person who tried to explain it to him) mean that ice uses holes as the charge carrier just like P-type semiconductor, and he just messed it up/reinterpreted it as protons?
What's so frustrating about these watered-down "popular science" type articles is it's impossible to know if I'm reading something that is truly new to me, or (as I always suspect and too often find) it turns out I already know more than the writer ever will.
Can someone post a REAL article on this topic?
If I find the address of a person online and send an email to the person with a question - technically I'm spammer: I sent an unsolicited email.
It depends strongly on the context where you find the address, and whether what you sent makes any sense in that context. If it's the email to the owner of a webpage, it's reasonable to conclude they are soliciting email PERTAINING TO THE CONTENTS OF THAT WEBPAGE, and that anything else is unsolicited.
So, Great Slashdot God in The Sky, Where are my mod points NOW???
That is the most retarded thing I've heard in a long time, and I've been reading slashdot for over an hour now.
As they say in Alcoholics Anonymous (and likely in many other cults), "keep coming back."
'nuff said.
Especially after seeing This Web Site
Some bastard hacked into my slashdot account and changed the settings.
They did it to you too? OH my GOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooood
I mean, like, who needs ponies when you can create an Earth-Shattering Boom?
Obligatory Link to Earth-Shattering Boom Story
I'm late to the thread, but I also had a great experience with ABF's upack.com service.
Avoid traditional commercial movers/"van lines", even the best-known brand names, at all cost! A new-job move took me 900 miles north, IN THE MIDDLE OF UNLOADING THE TRUCK they said there was a problem with payment of this employer-paid move, I called the office to have them sort it out or whatever, the movers STOOD AROUND for over an hour waiting for whatever happened (I presume my employer paid extra money). I've heard of this happening many times, usually before they deliver, they demand hundreds or even thousands of dollars in cash, above and beyond whatever "full payment" you've made, before they bring you your property.
I researched ways of moving my stuff back south after giving the the job and the area a year and then some, and was very glad to find upack.com online.
and the programmers should just stick to writing code
Yes, they should. One of the major problems in software companies is that programmers get promoted to positions of management because they excelled at what they did, but they lack management skills. So you've taken someone out of a position they excel at, and put them into a position they need to learn. I forget the term for this.
Not sure if it's what you mean, but this sounds a lot like The Peter Principle.
Anonymous Pedant?
I saw this about three years ago, not sure it was Frontline, perhaps NOVA or something on the Science channel.
y .cfm?Story_ID=2897134
Googline for EEG lie detector finds it, "MERMER." Subject is wired to an EEG. There is a specific brain-wave pulse called "P300" when the mind recognizes something such as the scene in a photograph (such as wife, front door of one's home, the room where a murder occurred...). If it's not something the subject has seen before, there's no "recognition pulse." This method claims REMARKABLY high reliability: It is, he claims, 99.9% accurate at determining the veracity of certain sorts of statement. Discussion of this technique is near the end of this page:
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStor
On the other hand, the specialised intelligence being assessed is mathematical and scientific, and there is no evidence that it can develop in the absence of effective schooling.
I have greater-than-average (among the public; I dare not guess how I place among the slashdot crowd) "mathematical and scientific intelligence" and I gained it in the absence of effective schooling (as much my fault as the teachers, I did no classwork and my grades showed it). I did a lot of reading in high school of books by Isaac Asimov and similar authors, and learned more about science than I would have if I had studies what was assigned and been an A student.
What I learned was demonstrated in SAT and other test scores, but I think one of the most important ideas I learned was that science is not a body of knowledge (as it appears so many people think) but rather a systematic method (or collection of methods) to discover knowledge.
And I'm likely not the only slashdotter like this. I just wanted to say that the above statement is false (unless you consider my own high-school motivation to read about science to be 'effective schooling'), even though there may be only a few exceptions and that it doesn't take away from your main point. I agree that one DOES needs effective schooling for overall better knowledge/intelligence scores/whatever for math(s) and science.
My experience as an American teaching UK students at university suggests that educational policies of the last twenty years in the UK have not been friendly to math and science.
This is most unfortunate, and I have no doubt the same thing has happened in the USA.
Has anyone actually proved that a Helium-3 based fusion reactor works? Haven't heard of any.
I have no doubt such a reactor can be made to work brilliantly in the short term (a few nanoseconds).
Long-term fusion reactors have indeed been problematic, but commercially viable fusion power plants have been 10 years away for at least the past four decades. IIRC, they are being tested with other light-element isotopes, but I'm sure the use of helium-3 would only require a carburetor adjustmemt.
Well, gold is a relatively heavy material. Helium-3, not quite so much.
Nah, the same mass of each actually WEIGHS the same! Duh!
But Helium-3 is WORTH a lot more (per amount of mass), and thus (presuming it is viable for controlled nuclear fusion - I'd be surprised, but perhaps I should RTFA) it may actually be worth mining on the Moon.
If the Moon were shown to have tons of cocaine on it, drug cartels might already be mining it.
Photons emitted (as from the Sun) which hit another piece of matter (such as a light sail) PUSH on the struck matter due to the transfer of momentum. For a particle to hit (or go through) a mass and cause the mass to go TOWARD the direction the particle came from, it would have to have NEGATIVE momentum.
What's even more problematic is that unlike any other particle I can think of, the graviton has its effect on matter, but isn't itself affected as it passes through. When Pluto is eclipsed by Jupiter (surely a rare event, but it demonstrates my point), the Sun's gravity affecting Pluto is NOT cut off. The idea from Einstein that mass warps space fits much better with this observation.
Is not one of the big problems with "gravitons" that gravity appears to act more or less instantaneously at great distances? And isn't that a little troubling from the "Action at a Distance is Big No-No" point of view?
There may be ways to determine whether the effect of gravity moves instantaneously, or only at the speed of light, but it seems gravity is too weak for humankind to (currently) make an experiment to detect it.. I can't imagine measuring the speed of gravity without carefully orchestrated black holes. Perhaps someday we'll luck out and have LIGO detecting an event and a telescope pointing at the area when two co-orbiting black holes coalesce. Detecting both of these events simultaneously will show that gravity goes at the speed of light.
Soon we'll be able to outrun light... ...the Four Microsecond Mile?