The thing that greatly amazes me about slashdot moderation hypocrisy is that the same people who rail against censorship by others seem to delight in censoring posts that disagree with their agenda.
For the record, the I, Robot comment was posted to open a dialog discussing old-SF vs new-SF and what geeks' priorities are. Sorry you didn't/can't get it.
I knew a pro photographer who was getting married. He posted on the Hasselblad mailing list that he was getting married, would supply the film to another photographer, pay something like $400, and would take the film after the wedding.
I suggest, first of all, that you *do not* spend 4 large to support this scam. You must have a couple of good friends that are reasonably good with a camera. Get them to help and pay them well.
It's mostly our fault. We mericans have treated you Canadians like you are part of the US for so long, that now you're actually starting to believe it.
It's news for nerds and the article was covered on google news yesterday anyway. Look, I can't stand bush, but reading stuff like this is *not* why I read slashdot. Surely there's better tech-related articles that can be covered.
Moderators - discussion of the relevence of an article should be on-topic. If you disagree, post a reply, don't just mod me down.
Clearly the servicemen got the short end of the stick. Not nearly so bad as the civilians downwind of Hanford and Oakridge. Green Run was a deliberate release of extremely large amounts of radioactive materal, mostly iodine-131 to study how well the plume could be tracked
In a three-year period covered by the report, the Hanford iodine-131 emissions totaled 450,000 curies of which 340,000 were released in 1945. The panel had not yet examined releases after 1947 n including the December 1949 "Green Run", a deliberate experiment which released thousands of curies of radioactive iodine and other fission products.
340,000 curies. Let's put that in perspective. How much radioiodine was released during the Three Mile Island incident? I'll tell you. 15 curies. The Green Run story is ready for prime time
the next-gen interactive console will share entire set of raw materials and content production environment in it, unlike current pre-rendered content playback machines.
Jamming is a deliberate "denial of service" attack in the RF relm. Interference is the unintentional degradation or stoppage of service.
When 2 ethernet NIC's transmit at the same time in normal operation we don't call it jamming. I doubt that what the government is doing is intentional.
but one thing that seems important to me is that fraudulant contact information be handled differently than inaccurate information. No sense blackholing honest mistakes and no sense letting spammers and criminals run free
I remember being outraged at the petty officialdom thinking that they somehow had exclusive control of the radiowaves around their airport. This is indeed a *Good Thing* and should serve as a reminder to other local fifedoms.
How strong is the encryption used? I'd seriously question both the encryption and the key distribution in a scheme like this. There's plenty of room for mischef.
The BASIC timeline totally sucked. No mention of any of these much-used verisons:
Basic-E - Gordan Eubank's p-code Basic
CBasic - A commercial Basic based on Basic-E, zillions of lines of code written
RSTS-E - Dec timesharing basic
Northstar Basic - The first affordable language (bundled with hardware) that provided file reads and writes
HP Basic - A whole line of calculators and computers
Tiny Basic - Several versions largly fueled the home computer movement in the 70's and 80's
Lawrence Hall Of Science Basic - Timeshared Basic hosted on DG Novas, introduced thousands SF bay-area kids to programming in the 70's
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Nicely done, moderator..
The thing that greatly amazes me about slashdot moderation hypocrisy is that the same people who rail against censorship by others seem to delight in censoring posts that disagree with their agenda.
For the record, the I, Robot comment was posted to open a dialog discussing old-SF vs new-SF and what geeks' priorities are. Sorry you didn't/can't get it.
Sorry for lameface ACs that can't understand simple English usage.
I'll be at I, Robot
I knew a pro photographer who was getting married. He posted on the Hasselblad mailing list that he was getting married, would supply the film to another photographer, pay something like $400, and would take the film after the wedding.
I suggest, first of all, that you *do not* spend 4 large to support this scam. You must have a couple of good friends that are reasonably good with a camera. Get them to help and pay them well.
It's mostly our fault. We mericans have treated you Canadians like you are part of the US for so long, that now you're actually starting to believe it.
Sorry, you really are in a different country.
It's called "find the fastest linux download server".
It's news for nerds and the article was covered on google news yesterday anyway. Look, I can't stand bush, but reading stuff like this is *not* why I read slashdot. Surely there's better tech-related articles that can be covered.
Moderators - discussion of the relevence of an article should be on-topic. If you disagree, post a reply, don't just mod me down.
If you'd read more Niven, you'd know where my username came from.
I'm not on a first-name basis with "Lance".
I just want to hear Mackey on "The Shield" say "shit".
Clearly the servicemen got the short end of the stick. Not nearly so bad as the civilians downwind of Hanford and Oakridge. Green Run was a deliberate release of extremely large amounts of radioactive materal, mostly iodine-131 to study how well the plume could be tracked
In a three-year period covered by the report, the Hanford iodine-131 emissions totaled 450,000 curies of which 340,000 were released in 1945. The panel had not yet examined releases after 1947 n including the December 1949 "Green Run", a deliberate experiment which released thousands of curies of radioactive iodine and other fission products.
340,000 curies. Let's put that in perspective. How much radioiodine was released during the Three Mile Island incident? I'll tell you. 15 curies. The Green Run story is ready for prime time
Mossad, and Mr. Gerald Bull. Plenty of googlefodder if you're interested.
Thank you. It was the "raw materials" that I couldn't get past. I was thinking maybe the design would be open-sourced or something.
Guess not.
the next-gen interactive console will share entire set of raw materials and content production environment in it, unlike current pre-rendered content playback machines.
Twenty years dated, but still the exquisite geek work and lifestyle story.
Here's all the data you'll ever need, free of charge from the gov. Some appears to be freely available and some is restricted. Have fun.
ftp://ftp2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/
Jamming is a deliberate "denial of service" attack in the RF relm. Interference is the unintentional degradation or stoppage of service.
When 2 ethernet NIC's transmit at the same time in normal operation we don't call it jamming. I doubt that what the government is doing is intentional.
but one thing that seems important to me is that fraudulant contact information be handled differently than inaccurate information. No sense blackholing honest mistakes and no sense letting spammers and criminals run free
A blob of expoxy in the keyboard jack?
I remember being outraged at the petty officialdom thinking that they somehow had exclusive control of the radiowaves around their airport. This is indeed a *Good Thing* and should serve as a reminder to other local fifedoms.
How strong is the encryption used? I'd seriously question both the encryption and the key distribution in a scheme like this. There's plenty of room for mischef.
He wrote The Computer from Pascal to Von Neuman besides working on the ENIAC. An excellent read.
Anyone remember Pacbell's (aka SBC) 80's statement that "Fibre to the Curb" was just around the corner. Well, I'd say it's just about time.
The BASIC timeline totally sucked. No mention of any of these much-used verisons:
Basic-E - Gordan Eubank's p-code Basic
CBasic - A commercial Basic based on Basic-E, zillions of lines of code written
RSTS-E - Dec timesharing basic
Northstar Basic - The first affordable language (bundled with hardware) that provided file reads and writes
HP Basic - A whole line of calculators and computers
Tiny Basic - Several versions largly fueled the home computer movement in the 70's and 80's
Lawrence Hall Of Science Basic - Timeshared Basic hosted on DG Novas, introduced thousands SF bay-area kids to programming in the 70's
I really meant Larry Niven. I don't know why I was thinking about Poul Anderson, except that he's good as well and not mentioned.
To further the error, I googled "Pohl Anderson", got a zillion hits and assumed I spelled it right.
Alas, what's a karma whore to do?