That was my thought exactly.
Then it occurred to me that an exploding star might actually have diverse points of origin as far apart as 0.9 light-seconds. If 7.3 billion light-years of travel is insufficient to create greater divergence than 0.9 seconds, we may have to wait for a much more distant event. My guess is that they decided that the noise of diverse points of origin sufficiently overrides the question of 0.9 seconds to the point that absent other evidence, it confirms rather than invalidates the theory of relativity.
The data is out there, electric makes senses for many people.
1) The environmental impact - depending on who you listen to (ignoring big oil financed studies) - an 1 well tuned contemporary gas car running after warm up creates about the same pollution as 25-50 electric cars charged by electricity produced by traditional coal fired plants. If you have hydro or wind production, it's cleaner. If you have nuclear, the air is fine but you'll eventually have spent nuclear fuel. I don't know how much more over the life of the plant, but you could figure it out. I think that it depends on how many electric cars. Right now, there are so few that they just soak up extra capacity at night rather than creating significant new demand. (Yes, that capacity still uses more powerplant fuel that if they weren't plugged in)
2) You can build or have built a conversion of a gas to electric today. I'm converting a Ford Escort myself at a cost of about $8000 including the car. I've seen them done for less than $3000. You can buy an appropriate care and spend $10,000-$14,000 and have a shop convert it for you in many parts of the country. This assumes you use old fashion lead-acid batteries. You end up with with a car with a range of 30-100 miles per charge depending on trade-offs you control (size car/payload/cost). Think about your ordinary day's drive. Do you really need 300 miles range? or would 50 do? Then you have to decide what you do for the times you do need a greater range. Rent? Own another vehicle that you drive on special occasions? Form a co-op? At $3/gallon and $0.10 kilowatt/hr, you can drive electric for less than 50% of the cost of gasoline, once you factor in the maintenance and replacement costs. So that leaves some head room for a solution.
3) In my case, (family with 3 kids), we're planning to convert both cars to electric for daily use. We plan to own a 3rd gas powered vehicle for occasion weekend trips and other exceptions. We expect the savings accumulated from driving electric to be completely eaten by the cost of the 3rd vehicle unless gas prices go up (hah!). However, that means we'll be driving clean and quiet and not subject to gas prices at our current cost. Seems like a good idea.
This wouldn't necessarily work for a traveling salesman, or a farm-call veterenarian. But if you commute more than 30-50 miles round trip, what are you thinking anyway? (I realize there are people for whom this is a necessity. I hope they get mass transit. For most people, commuting more than 30-50 miles is already a problem.)
How do you know that they only protecting my life from Mohammad? BTW, there is a Mohammed who lives in my community. He's a nice guy from a long line of Americans. Why should they protect me from him any more than any other guy walking down the street.
How do you know they are not listening to John talk to his wife or a political opponent plan his/her campaign? It seems like the John Doe bringing the complaint might know. He was forced to cooperate and is saying that he has something to say on the subject that you or I might be interesting in hearing.
How is a person coming out of college possible going to have any idea of what is obvious to one skilled in the art of a given subject area? Most often a person just out of college a person isn't really "skilled in the art" in their own domain, let alone any other domain. Particularly a person who is just out and looking to enhance their resumee. The patent office should have to recruit a panel of folks skilled in the art for many domains. Then, possibly, an examiner just out of college could consult with the panel before coming to a conclusion. But most disciplines takes years of practice before you can be called "skilled in the art" to the point where you should be able recognize what is and isn't obvious. How many times have you shown a "just out" something simple and ordinary to hear them say, "Wow! that's amazing, how did you think of that?".
and then they can freeze the assets of any one who contributed financially (say campaign contributions) to said congress person. When does it stop? How about the company that contributed to the salary of the person who contributed to the campaign of the congress person who voted contrarily?
I guess this raises the stakes on making a campaign contribution.:-)
I find most chilling the fact that anyone who has or might contribute financial to a person or entity that is then later deemed to be subject to this seizure is also subject to the same seizure, or so it looks to read. (argue all you want about seizure - if I can't touch my money for a long time, it's been seized as in an engine block that's "seized up", just like 5 years in Guantanamo sounds like imprisonment to me.)
Hopefully, this will end in front of a court soon. But which lawyer will let there assets get frozen as they contribute to the cause of the person wrongfully "frozen", etc.
Look carefully at the scientific method. It is all about only making claims that can be disproved. Proof assumes that you already know all of the relevant universal constants, which is silly on the face of it, if you're still discovering things.
So science is about "claiming something is true and explaining how it could be proven untrue" and then trying to prove it untrue until you succeed. If you don't succeed, then it *might* be true, so if it's useful you keep it as a scientific theory.
Look up prenatal vitamins, folic acid, interactions with sunlight, historic poor birth rates of northern europeans in tropical climates before folic acid supplements became widely available.
Then look up vitamin D, effects of vitamin D defeciency on health, sources of vitamin D, interactions of Vitamin D in humans with sunlight with respect to skin melanin content/skin color.
Assume all populations have some natural variation in skin color (this is observable in any contemporary population or family. Consider the effects of moving a dark skinned population to northern europe or a light skinned population to the tropics. This is an evolutionary path that has repeated several times in history and is relatively understandable.
That is to say that for humans skin color strongly alters the ability to survive and produce viable offspring that survive to do the same at any particular latitude. The relationship is causal, the affect tends to be partial. That is to say that there is enough variation and survivability even in those with the wrong skin color that populations survive, but drift strongly towards the shade that offers the best survival chances for the latitude that a population inhabits.
5 atmosphere's isn't so hard to come by as you suggest. The GP may not have mean liquid, but I do play with liquid CO2 with my kids. A simple vinyl tube folded and clamped hard at both ends is sufficient. Fill it with dry ice wait for it to warm. Voila, it doesn't sublime, it melts....
I've been watching this thread from the beginning. I cannot believe how entitled you feel others are to control someone else's actions.
You have many choices. Only one of them is to use any particular open source project. No one has forced you to pick it up. Your only meaningful leverage on the develper to threaten "I won't use your product". How threatened will the developer who doesn't want to implement your change will feel?
If I write instructions on how to write a song and you follow the instructions, but are not pleased with the result, what are your options?
You could improve the instructions yourself, if you know how. You could ask me to improve the instructions, if I want to. You could use someone else's instructions, and I may not care.
Software is like instructions. It is a means to end. It is a technique and a tool that you apply at your discretion. The fact that I make it easy for you to choose my technique or to have copies of my tools, that's a result of my generosity. If you choose to use these copies (binary or not), that's your choice. If you don't like the tools and techniques, but choose to use them, you are either foolish or desperate. If you are foolish, so be it. If you are desperate, I'd think you'd appreciate the generosity you've received. If you really need/want improvements, what do you bring to the market to motivate others to do what you want.
The open source developer let you access his work without charging with more generous than legally required rights. He/she did this because the transaction cost was low and the potential benefit potentially high. The potential benefit is that others would contribute improvements.
You are demanding that the developer do something expensive - develop to your requirements rather than his/her own. You are not offering to contribute the one currency expected - improvements to the code, not developed by the originator.
Basically, it sounds like you are a freeloader. Hmmm.
In principle I agree with what you say. However, I must call into question the claim that "it was her who teached me that - and she properly did."
I'm glad she gave you a passion for learning and books. It is not clear fromt this post that you learned much grammar. If you did attend school, perhaps your post is an indictment of their teaching abilities.
So here's an idea: Create sim children that are avatars for real starving children. Even have someone keep the sim children's state so it reasonably reflects their real state.
Now give custody of some number of these sim children to potential donors and see if they donate more, when the only way they can effectively manage the well-being of the child is to donate or organize services for the child. Make tools available in the sim world such that the act of organizign services there maps to something useful in the real world (actually traps out to the real world aid organizations) See if proximate involvement improves the degree of help said starving children get.
My guess is that this could go soooo wrong. People like to catch sims on fire and trap them in houses and such. But it would be interesting.
Alternatively, create a non-sim world where volunteers can effectively help real children via transactions and effort on the web in real time an the real world. Involvement, involvement, feedback and influence. These will engage people and keep them coming back.
It's a file server. Just put a serial console on it, and stop worrying about plugging anything into it.
PS: this is my first ever self-diagnosed, deliberately obnoxious slashdot post. Enjoy....
Sounds like you have significant hearing loss in the high frequencies. I say significant, because I was tested recently. I can hear almost up to 15khz, but not quite. That's pretty bad. But I could hear all the sounds in the test.
Hearing only a click is symptomatic of continuous tones starting and stopping on a loud speaker, where the tones are out of your range, but the clicks of the cone kicking in and out at the beginning of the tone aren't. Or maybe something else happened. I'd get my hearing checked if I were you.
Eh, what's that, honey? I can't quite hear your light feminine tones as you ask me to take out the trash... No hearing loss isn't all bad. I think it's a survival thing bred into the speciies by years of monogamy.
Interesting, I also live in Wake County. I am a software professional. This has been my exact thought. I think there should be 3 counts:
1) The touch screen and its reporting chain, all by one vendor set 2) The scan machine and its reporting chain, all by an independent vendor set 3) A rescan of the paper ballots by one or more independent agencies (volunteer, non-profit, govt, etc).
Each should publicly tabulate and report their results without knowing the results of the others. When all have completed their counts, the complete set of counts should be made available to the election officials and the media at the same time.
If it takes a longer than "before bedtime" so be it. If it costs more, lets deal with it. Lets have accurate trustworthy elections.
If the software (QT) is under GPL and either distributed to the general public or explicitly distributed to you by the authors (troll tech and other contributors, then GPL gives you the permission to get the source. Moreover, it you have permission to do anything with it in private you want. Moreover, you have permission to republish it modified or not on any terms you want that include providing the source under the GPL to anyone you distribute it to. Businesses could use it for free if someone distributed it to them for free. You could do this, or someone you distributed it to could do this. Of course, if they redistribute it, they also have permit this, because they must redistribute under the GPL.
At least that seems to be the basic principle. IANAL, but I have read the GPL.
These follow on worms seem like crude attempts to implement Curious Yellow.
http://blanu.net/curious_yellow.html
I'm really surprised that we haven't seen various implementations taking over large numbers of computers.
My only thought has been that the kind of person who implements Curious Yellow is sufficiently more skilled than the average worm writer that they choose to be subtle and slow. If that is the case, then I expect that the 75,000 is a very small number of machines compared to those that are already running a variant of Curious Yellow.
So how is this different from a typical commercial software license?
I notice that the License that SCO recently published excludes indemnification against the incidental inclusion of IP they don't own, even in the code that they claim is all theirs. I don't think this is unusual. Nor is it unusual for the software to come with a statement that it isn't warranted to do *anything* at all useful and a warning that it may do something harmful.
The only obvious risk to the vendor is that you might stop buying.
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That was my thought exactly. Then it occurred to me that an exploding star might actually have diverse points of origin as far apart as 0.9 light-seconds. If 7.3 billion light-years of travel is insufficient to create greater divergence than 0.9 seconds, we may have to wait for a much more distant event. My guess is that they decided that the noise of diverse points of origin sufficiently overrides the question of 0.9 seconds to the point that absent other evidence, it confirms rather than invalidates the theory of relativity.
Or at least report the correct data. And it wasn't google but the ISP that fouled it up.
He didn't do it. Read the article. Someone mis-reported the ip to identity mapping. It stood for 50 days.
Practically everyone I know who uses windows and mac uses it on these platforms. Where do you get your information?
this can't be a first post, can it? How dumb,but I figured I'd try for one since I got lucky.
The data is out there, electric makes senses for many people.
1) The environmental impact - depending on who you listen to (ignoring big oil financed studies) - an 1 well tuned contemporary gas car running after warm up creates about the same pollution as 25-50 electric cars charged by electricity produced by traditional coal fired plants. If you have hydro or wind production, it's cleaner. If you have nuclear, the air is fine but you'll eventually have spent nuclear fuel. I don't know how much more over the life of the plant, but you could figure it out. I think that it depends on how many electric cars. Right now, there are so few that they just soak up extra capacity at night rather than creating significant new demand. (Yes, that capacity still uses more powerplant fuel that if they weren't plugged in)
2) You can build or have built a conversion of a gas to electric today. I'm converting a Ford Escort myself at a cost of about $8000 including the car. I've seen them done for less than $3000. You can buy an appropriate care and spend $10,000-$14,000 and have a shop convert it for you in many parts of the country. This assumes you use old fashion lead-acid batteries. You end up with with a car with a range of 30-100 miles per charge depending on trade-offs you control (size car/payload/cost). Think about your ordinary day's drive. Do you really need 300 miles range? or would 50 do? Then you have to decide what you do for the times you do need a greater range. Rent? Own another vehicle that you drive on special occasions? Form a co-op? At $3/gallon and $0.10 kilowatt/hr, you can drive electric for less than 50% of the cost of gasoline, once you factor in the maintenance and replacement costs. So that leaves some head room for a solution.
3) In my case, (family with 3 kids), we're planning to convert both cars to electric for daily use. We plan to own a 3rd gas powered vehicle for occasion weekend trips and other exceptions. We expect the savings accumulated from driving electric to be completely eaten by the cost of the 3rd vehicle unless gas prices go up (hah!). However, that means we'll be driving clean and quiet and not subject to gas prices at our current cost. Seems like a good idea.
This wouldn't necessarily work for a traveling salesman, or a farm-call veterenarian. But if you commute more than 30-50 miles round trip, what are you thinking anyway? (I realize there are people for whom this is a necessity. I hope they get mass transit. For most people, commuting more than 30-50 miles is already a problem.)
How do you know they are not listening to John talk to his wife or a political opponent plan his/her campaign? It seems like the John Doe bringing the complaint might know. He was forced to cooperate and is saying that he has something to say on the subject that you or I might be interesting in hearing.
I don't use a sig, but the answer is:
Lrf!
s/since/sense/g
and then they can freeze the assets of any one who contributed financially (say campaign contributions) to said congress person. When does it stop? How about the company that contributed to the salary of the person who contributed to the campaign of the congress person who voted contrarily? I guess this raises the stakes on making a campaign contribution. :-)
I find most chilling the fact that anyone who has or might contribute financial to a person or entity that is then later deemed to be subject to this seizure is also subject to the same seizure, or so it looks to read. (argue all you want about seizure - if I can't touch my money for a long time, it's been seized as in an engine block that's "seized up", just like 5 years in Guantanamo sounds like imprisonment to me.)
Hopefully, this will end in front of a court soon. But which lawyer will let there assets get frozen as they contribute to the cause of the person wrongfully "frozen", etc.
Avoid run on sentences.
Look carefully at the scientific method. It is all about only making claims that can be disproved. Proof assumes that you already know all of the relevant universal constants, which is silly on the face of it, if you're still discovering things. So science is about "claiming something is true and explaining how it could be proven untrue" and then trying to prove it untrue until you succeed. If you don't succeed, then it *might* be true, so if it's useful you keep it as a scientific theory.
Look up prenatal vitamins, folic acid, interactions with sunlight, historic poor birth rates of northern europeans in tropical climates before folic acid supplements became widely available. Then look up vitamin D, effects of vitamin D defeciency on health, sources of vitamin D, interactions of Vitamin D in humans with sunlight with respect to skin melanin content/skin color. Assume all populations have some natural variation in skin color (this is observable in any contemporary population or family. Consider the effects of moving a dark skinned population to northern europe or a light skinned population to the tropics. This is an evolutionary path that has repeated several times in history and is relatively understandable. That is to say that for humans skin color strongly alters the ability to survive and produce viable offspring that survive to do the same at any particular latitude. The relationship is causal, the affect tends to be partial. That is to say that there is enough variation and survivability even in those with the wrong skin color that populations survive, but drift strongly towards the shade that offers the best survival chances for the latitude that a population inhabits.
5 atmosphere's isn't so hard to come by as you suggest. The GP may not have mean liquid, but I do play with liquid CO2 with my kids. A simple vinyl tube folded and clamped hard at both ends is sufficient. Fill it with dry ice wait for it to warm. Voila, it doesn't sublime, it melts....
I've been watching this thread from the beginning. I cannot believe how entitled you feel others are to control someone else's actions.
You have many choices. Only one of them is to use any particular open source project. No one has forced you to pick it up. Your only meaningful leverage on the develper to threaten "I won't use your product". How threatened will the developer who doesn't want to implement your change will feel?
If I write instructions on how to write a song and you follow the instructions, but are not pleased with the result, what are your options?
You could improve the instructions yourself, if you know how.
You could ask me to improve the instructions, if I want to.
You could use someone else's instructions, and I may not care.
Software is like instructions. It is a means to end. It is a technique and a tool that you apply at your discretion. The fact that I make it easy for you to choose my technique or to have copies of my tools, that's a result of my generosity. If you choose to use these copies (binary or not), that's your choice. If you don't like the tools and techniques, but choose to use them, you are either foolish or desperate. If you are foolish, so be it. If you are desperate, I'd think you'd appreciate the generosity you've received. If you really need/want improvements, what do you bring to the market to motivate others to do what you want.
The open source developer let you access his work without charging with more generous than legally required rights. He/she did this because the transaction cost was low and the potential benefit potentially high. The potential benefit is that others would contribute improvements.
You are demanding that the developer do something expensive - develop to your requirements rather than his/her own. You are not offering to contribute the one currency expected - improvements to the code, not developed by the originator.
Basically, it sounds like you are a freeloader. Hmmm.
In principle I agree with what you say. However, I must call into question the claim that "it was her who teached me that - and she properly did." I'm glad she gave you a passion for learning and books. It is not clear fromt this post that you learned much grammar. If you did attend school, perhaps your post is an indictment of their teaching abilities.
So here's an idea: Create sim children that are avatars for real starving children. Even have someone keep the sim children's state so it reasonably reflects their real state. Now give custody of some number of these sim children to potential donors and see if they donate more, when the only way they can effectively manage the well-being of the child is to donate or organize services for the child. Make tools available in the sim world such that the act of organizign services there maps to something useful in the real world (actually traps out to the real world aid organizations) See if proximate involvement improves the degree of help said starving children get. My guess is that this could go soooo wrong. People like to catch sims on fire and trap them in houses and such. But it would be interesting. Alternatively, create a non-sim world where volunteers can effectively help real children via transactions and effort on the web in real time an the real world. Involvement, involvement, feedback and influence. These will engage people and keep them coming back.
It's a file server. Just put a serial console on it, and stop worrying about plugging anything into it. PS: this is my first ever self-diagnosed, deliberately obnoxious slashdot post. Enjoy....
Sounds like you have significant hearing loss in the high frequencies. I say significant, because I was tested recently. I can hear almost up to 15khz, but not quite. That's pretty bad. But I could hear all the sounds in the test. Hearing only a click is symptomatic of continuous tones starting and stopping on a loud speaker, where the tones are out of your range, but the clicks of the cone kicking in and out at the beginning of the tone aren't. Or maybe something else happened. I'd get my hearing checked if I were you. Eh, what's that, honey? I can't quite hear your light feminine tones as you ask me to take out the trash... No hearing loss isn't all bad. I think it's a survival thing bred into the speciies by years of monogamy.
Interesting, I also live in Wake County. I am a software professional. This has been my exact thought. I think there should be 3 counts:
1) The touch screen and its reporting chain, all by one vendor set
2) The scan machine and its reporting chain, all by an independent vendor set
3) A rescan of the paper ballots by one or more independent agencies (volunteer, non-profit, govt, etc).
Each should publicly tabulate and report their results without knowing the results of the others. When all have completed their counts, the complete set of counts should be made available to the election officials and the media at the same time.
If it takes a longer than "before bedtime" so be it. If it costs more, lets deal with it. Lets have accurate trustworthy elections.
If the software (QT) is under GPL and either distributed to the general public or explicitly distributed to you by the authors (troll tech and other contributors, then GPL gives you the permission to get the source. Moreover, it you have permission to do anything with it in private you want. Moreover, you have permission to republish it modified or not on any terms you want that include providing the source under the GPL to anyone you distribute it to. Businesses could use it for free if someone distributed it to them for free. You could do this, or someone you distributed it to could do this. Of course, if they redistribute it, they also have permit this, because they must redistribute under the GPL. At least that seems to be the basic principle. IANAL, but I have read the GPL.
These follow on worms seem like crude attempts to implement Curious Yellow.
http://blanu.net/curious_yellow.html
I'm really surprised that we haven't seen various implementations taking over large numbers of computers.
My only thought has been that the kind of person who implements Curious Yellow is sufficiently more skilled than the average worm writer that they choose to be subtle and slow. If that is the case, then I expect that the 75,000 is a very small number of machines compared to those that are already running a variant of Curious Yellow.
Just some rambling thoughts.
And remember, they are saying that kernel 2.2 is clean. So they are talking about a million lines that changed between 2.2 and 2.4.
if (size==0)
return) ((ulong_t NULL);
In which language does this compile?
So how is this different from a typical commercial software license? I notice that the License that SCO recently published excludes indemnification against the incidental inclusion of IP they don't own, even in the code that they claim is all theirs. I don't think this is unusual. Nor is it unusual for the software to come with a statement that it isn't warranted to do *anything* at all useful and a warning that it may do something harmful. The only obvious risk to the vendor is that you might stop buying.