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I'm not a particle physicist, but from what I can see, it's saying that the problem is that some of the electrons would have to be moving faster than the speed of light.
I also understand that if you take a specified ammount of one of those desnse artificial elements, you can exert a force upon it, and it is part of the aparatus that helps us travel (in a vehicle) faster than light.
Not that I have any proof or anything, but this is what some of those alien conspiracy-thoerists believe. Here's a link to Billy Meier, one of the contactees. I think I actually have a copy of some of the analysis on the metal samples on a green DVD here.
Also, I've been paying attention to Gravity Probe B and Gravity Probe B, which I think is a closer step -- noticing strange things about gravity.
Yes, I do want to get off this planet as soon as possible.
Seriously. They've earned enough money from their ancient unshielded untwisted copper pairs of wires. I want something better than DSL, and there are many alternatives.
I am perfectly happy with my Comcast cable Internet (in spite of the 300-500kbps tx speed limit). Fiber would be ideal, but why dig holes, and block up the roads, hire union workers -- it's much ideal to use something like free-space optics, WiFi, and even fucking tin cans tied together with yarn made from old cat hair than to choose to hand over good money for old crap from Verizon.
Offtopic?!@ Has any of the mods actually tried to get a LPTV station license? Nevermind running Linux as the managing software? jeez, sometimes the mods are spot on, and othertimes the "Frist Psot" messages get a higher priority.
And I am a big fan of MythTV too! It is great if you are sitting in front of the TV with a remote -- which is what it is supposed to do -- but it is not geared around playing content, from pools of media, in a lineup that you'd want for a television station.
I can imagine, however, that most of it (and supporting libraries/packages) is already there for managing the media, and varied hardware. It even has the multiple backend/headend support, which would be ideal for this type of application.
I can imagine a plugin for MythTV -- mythbroadcast or something -- which lets you schedule when to play shows, what commercials to play, and how often to do things like station announcements, pass-through to other inputs, etc. Shit, even something that does those automated stations you see on cable would be a start.
I have been wondering the same thing. I was expecting to be a little more elaborate, and generating the content in realtime. OTherwise, I would think that things like geekradio might be modified to fit commercials, show snippets, station announcement, etc.
The real question in doing a TV station, is how to get a license for the LPTV station? THe FCC website talks about having to check the website for when the application window is active, and they only allow license applications when they think it is convenient for them.
Also, you need a place to put the antenna, nevermind the equipment costs. Can I stick an antenna on my house? Can I use this old dead tree? I haven't been able to find out that sort of thing just yet. FCC and the City of Pittsburgh obfuscate their rules and regulations, it is a bit hard to figure out some of these things.
I just bought a house. I was going to join some local organization, just to see what it's all about. And yeah, this article caught my attention -- can I power my wireless APs and maybe a PC using a windmill? I'm thinking of building a windmill in the back yard. It might even be lime green.
Of course, there is a Verizon cell tower in my neighbor's yard. There's the tower, a generator next to it, an outside equipment rack with its own AC, and then the brick building with two ACs. I believe that any windmill that I'd install would be less noisemaking than the air conditioners of the Verizon tower.
The tesla-coil, on the other hand -- that is gonna be *loud*.
Hi, my name is Drew, and I'm an American. With all this unAmerican actions happening inside my once free country, I am interested in living and working elsewhere.
I have 10 years of experience as a UNIX sysadmin, some contributory authership cred, and I do some other neat webby things on the side. I can prolly relearn German most easily, but will be happy to learn almost any other language as needed.
I'm looking to earn a modest living in or near a City, without the threat of anal probes, or arbitrary incarceration. Oh, and I want a flying car. Please reply privately to my account listed here on Slashdot.
I believe it is possible to have a system where -- people go in, and fuel goes out. This is something I think about, and discuss with friends. Yes, they do think I'm nuts, but it makes sense. What else are we going to do with out unemployed government contractors and former human resources people? I say, to turn them into gas for my Subaru, so I can get to work.
First, you need a victim-hopper. This is where you put the people. I think you could also use, like you mentioned above: plastic, sawdust, printed pages, extra cigarette packets, too-old leftovers, farming waste, chicken processing waste -- anything you can find.
You'll need to grind everything up into a slurry -- a victim slurry. They'll hate this, but I'm sure there's some engineer out there, who can design a giant mascerator. I can imagine it large enough to handle the daily waste of a City, or other trucked-in waste, plus the populace of any conquered city, or other undesirables.
And then the refining would begin. New Jersey might be an idea place for this kinds of action to occur -- they already have refineries, and lots of 'em. 'Cause what you're talking about, is the refining of bulk material. You're going to have to react this material in some way, and collect and refine the raw materials. Since we're talking about using humans as a fuel source, I am going to suggest humans, their waste (sewage), and the waste used to feed the humans (farm and animal processing waste).
I believe a process involving this procedure, things like fermentation and other types of biological digestion, with various types of refinement processes, would be able to produce just about any type of chemical you'd need -- gasoline (or diesel, hydrogen, etc.) included.
To put it another way:
1) grind up people into slurry
2) digest and refine raw materials
3)...
4) profit!
Why do TiVo, when you can MythTV? Spend $50 on a PVR-150, and record all the shows that you want. Drag them onto your laptop when you get around to it. That, and the other 90% of MythTV really makes the television something interesting again -- it's got shows I want to watch.
Plus, it eats the commercials -- how cool is that?
If you're using a tube-based NTSC television, you're only seeing ~200 lines of resolution anyway. This is why I record my shows (MythTV for me!) at a much lower resolution.
As an American, my edumication was a bit incomplete. I never studied much more than a few obscure battles in early pre-US history. So, I had to look up somethings, and I'll have to say that Wikipedia is great for being able to read up on a topic like this. Che Guevara
"these computers shipped with a nice slim programmers manual with examples."
Hm, I don't recall my Apple//c coming with a programming manual for BASIC. I do remember the manual coming with a page that had a list of BASIC commands, but not how the syntax went -- I had to figure this out on my own.
So, a year later, there's me drawing circles in the screen, without having had calculus first. I sure do wish I had a BASIC programming manual back then.
What about the Lego Mindsorm? That has a programming language. I'll bet it is way cooler to use a beginners programming language to build robots, than it was to draw boxes, or calculate your homework.
Yes, for those of you under the age of 30, 'personal' computers like the Apple II and C64 used to all include BASIC in their ROMs.
That must make me... damn, over 30.
yes, the '80s. This is how most of us used to learn. There were still TRS-80s, Amigas, and ancient XT workstations in some of my friends' homes. I was an Apple ][ kid, myself. I guess I still am.
If a company is sending spam why isn't the ISP for that company shutting them down? Isn't it against the AUP of most providers or at least the big carriers?
You'd think that would be the case, but once carriers have their money, they don't so much care. I send out lots of abuse reports, and I will more often than not -- hear nothing at all, and have nothing done about it. Monster.com is one of the more annoying spammers I get. They just don't care.
Agreed. I would support a bill to legalize assassination. Wouldn't our spammers and government officials think twice if their actions were going to get them killed/tortured/beaten/imprisoned?
Spam is a serious problem. I run my own (Sendmail, thank you very much) mail server. I subscribe to a bunch of these blacklists, and also trade this huge list of spammers with a friend of mine from a local university. I still get spammed.
Some of us DIY sysadmins are on cable modems. Some of us are at a budget colo with no reverse DNS. I'm on some of the blacklists some of the time, and so there are some places I just can't send mail.
I don't trust any of the new mail systems, and I'm happy to deal with this anarchaic system. I'd like to be allowed to form spammer lynchmobs, and physically kick their asses though.
No, I kinda have signed up against it. I call Fetus Master Santorum sometimes, but he doesn't seem to care about the things I say. I have a pile of form letter responses from him here.
Hay, can I have my country back? I didn't sign up to be wiretapped, monitoried, surveiled, folded, spindled, or what have you. And while I'm at it, can I please go to college without having to give up two arms and a kidney?
I have to pipe-up again, and say that MythTV is awesome. If you've got a tuner card, and a spare box, totally check it out. IT EATS COMMERCIALS, plays DVDs, MP3s, does a photo album, and other things that other units don't do, or don't do well.
Seconded! MythTV is friggin' awesome. It eats the commercials, shares the shows over the network (NFS and SMB), lets me dump my MP3s onto it for playing, supports multiple heads (and backends), and more. I don't even use half the features of the software, and it still blows me away.
I'm using KnoppMyth, and was totally amazed how easily everything installed. Yes I did have to tweak LiRC, and a few other things.
I'm getting ready do build another unit into my house, and look forward to the extra features in the new version.
Brashear sounds like a Brittish name. I would expect that the good doctor may be from Calcuta (if that is the case), they definately went to great lengths to give him the Brittish name and accent.
What kind of machine is it? Does it have enough flash/RAM? What about (undocumented) serial ports?
You gotta realize that there will be updates in the Pre-N spec, as it is adopted. I would expect that the range of manunfacturers would produce a firmware upgrade on some of these units. But will the hardware work for the full spec? Is it robust enough a device?
Totally. Kill people, while your laundry gets done. This is a freaking awesome idea, and I wish you were in town. Why look at overweight people stuffing their nasty soiled undergarments into the washer, when you can kill people instead?
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I'm not a particle physicist, but from what I can see, it's saying that the problem is that some of the electrons would have to be moving faster than the speed of light.
I also understand that if you take a specified ammount of one of those desnse artificial elements, you can exert a force upon it, and it is part of the aparatus that helps us travel (in a vehicle) faster than light.
Not that I have any proof or anything, but this is what some of those alien conspiracy-thoerists believe. Here's a link to Billy Meier, one of the contactees. I think I actually have a copy of some of the analysis on the metal samples on a green DVD here.
Also, I've been paying attention to Gravity Probe B and Gravity Probe B, which I think is a closer step -- noticing strange things about gravity.
Yes, I do want to get off this planet as soon as possible.
Seriously. They've earned enough money from their ancient unshielded untwisted copper pairs of wires. I want something better than DSL, and there are many alternatives.
I am perfectly happy with my Comcast cable Internet (in spite of the 300-500kbps tx speed limit). Fiber would be ideal, but why dig holes, and block up the roads, hire union workers -- it's much ideal to use something like free-space optics, WiFi, and even fucking tin cans tied together with yarn made from old cat hair than to choose to hand over good money for old crap from Verizon.
Offtopic?!@ Has any of the mods actually tried to get a LPTV station license? Nevermind running Linux as the managing software? jeez, sometimes the mods are spot on, and othertimes the "Frist Psot" messages get a higher priority.
And I am a big fan of MythTV too! It is great if you are sitting in front of the TV with a remote -- which is what it is supposed to do -- but it is not geared around playing content, from pools of media, in a lineup that you'd want for a television station.
I can imagine, however, that most of it (and supporting libraries/packages) is already there for managing the media, and varied hardware. It even has the multiple backend/headend support, which would be ideal for this type of application.
I can imagine a plugin for MythTV -- mythbroadcast or something -- which lets you schedule when to play shows, what commercials to play, and how often to do things like station announcements, pass-through to other inputs, etc. Shit, even something that does those automated stations you see on cable would be a start.
I have been wondering the same thing. I was expecting to be a little more elaborate, and generating the content in realtime. OTherwise, I would think that things like geekradio might be modified to fit commercials, show snippets, station announcement, etc.
The real question in doing a TV station, is how to get a license for the LPTV station? THe FCC website talks about having to check the website for when the application window is active, and they only allow license applications when they think it is convenient for them.
Also, you need a place to put the antenna, nevermind the equipment costs. Can I stick an antenna on my house? Can I use this old dead tree? I haven't been able to find out that sort of thing just yet. FCC and the City of Pittsburgh obfuscate their rules and regulations, it is a bit hard to figure out some of these things.
I just bought a house. I was going to join some local organization, just to see what it's all about. And yeah, this article caught my attention -- can I power my wireless APs and maybe a PC using a windmill? I'm thinking of building a windmill in the back yard. It might even be lime green.
Of course, there is a Verizon cell tower in my neighbor's yard. There's the tower, a generator next to it, an outside equipment rack with its own AC, and then the brick building with two ACs. I believe that any windmill that I'd install would be less noisemaking than the air conditioners of the Verizon tower.
The tesla-coil, on the other hand -- that is gonna be *loud*.
I'd love to see every single voting ballot in the next election read, as a write-in, Frank Zappa. That would totally prove that the system is screwed.
Hi, my name is Drew, and I'm an American. With all this unAmerican actions happening inside my once free country, I am interested in living and working elsewhere.
I have 10 years of experience as a UNIX sysadmin, some contributory authership cred, and I do some other neat webby things on the side. I can prolly relearn German most easily, but will be happy to learn almost any other language as needed.
I'm looking to earn a modest living in or near a City, without the threat of anal probes, or arbitrary incarceration. Oh, and I want a flying car. Please reply privately to my account listed here on Slashdot.
I believe it is possible to have a system where -- people go in, and fuel goes out. This is something I think about, and discuss with friends. Yes, they do think I'm nuts, but it makes sense. What else are we going to do with out unemployed government contractors and former human resources people? I say, to turn them into gas for my Subaru, so I can get to work.
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First, you need a victim-hopper. This is where you put the people. I think you could also use, like you mentioned above: plastic, sawdust, printed pages, extra cigarette packets, too-old leftovers, farming waste, chicken processing waste -- anything you can find.
You'll need to grind everything up into a slurry -- a victim slurry. They'll hate this, but I'm sure there's some engineer out there, who can design a giant mascerator. I can imagine it large enough to handle the daily waste of a City, or other trucked-in waste, plus the populace of any conquered city, or other undesirables.
And then the refining would begin. New Jersey might be an idea place for this kinds of action to occur -- they already have refineries, and lots of 'em. 'Cause what you're talking about, is the refining of bulk material. You're going to have to react this material in some way, and collect and refine the raw materials. Since we're talking about using humans as a fuel source, I am going to suggest humans, their waste (sewage), and the waste used to feed the humans (farm and animal processing waste).
This isn't a new idea. Wikipedia has a great article on thermal depolymerization, which describes things better than I can, but put simply, cooking stuff breaks molecules into smaller molecules.
I believe a process involving this procedure, things like fermentation and other types of biological digestion, with various types of refinement processes, would be able to produce just about any type of chemical you'd need -- gasoline (or diesel, hydrogen, etc.) included.
To put it another way:
1) grind up people into slurry
2) digest and refine raw materials
3)
4) profit!
Why do TiVo, when you can MythTV? Spend $50 on a PVR-150, and record all the shows that you want. Drag them onto your laptop when you get around to it. That, and the other 90% of MythTV really makes the television something interesting again -- it's got shows I want to watch.
Plus, it eats the commercials -- how cool is that?
640 * 480 is low res if you've got a DVD player.
If you're using a tube-based NTSC television, you're only seeing ~200 lines of resolution anyway. This is why I record my shows (MythTV for me!) at a much lower resolution.
As an American, my edumication was a bit incomplete. I never studied much more than a few obscure battles in early pre-US history. So, I had to look up somethings, and I'll have to say that Wikipedia is great for being able to read up on a topic like this. Che Guevara
"these computers shipped with a nice slim programmers manual with examples."
//c coming with a programming manual for BASIC. I do remember the manual coming with a page that had a list of BASIC commands, but not how the syntax went -- I had to figure this out on my own.
Hm, I don't recall my Apple
So, a year later, there's me drawing circles in the screen, without having had calculus first. I sure do wish I had a BASIC programming manual back then.
What about the Lego Mindsorm? That has a programming language. I'll bet it is way cooler to use a beginners programming language to build robots, than it was to draw boxes, or calculate your homework.
...and hold on, now! Where's my damn flying car?
Yes, for those of you under the age of 30, 'personal' computers like the Apple II and C64 used to all include BASIC in their ROMs.
That must make me... damn, over 30.
yes, the '80s. This is how most of us used to learn. There were still TRS-80s, Amigas, and ancient XT workstations in some of my friends' homes. I was an Apple ][ kid, myself. I guess I still am.
If a company is sending spam why isn't the ISP for that company shutting them down? Isn't it against the AUP of most providers or at least the big carriers?
You'd think that would be the case, but once carriers have their money, they don't so much care. I send out lots of abuse reports, and I will more often than not -- hear nothing at all, and have nothing done about it. Monster.com is one of the more annoying spammers I get. They just don't care.
Agreed. I would support a bill to legalize assassination. Wouldn't our spammers and government officials think twice if their actions were going to get them killed/tortured/beaten/imprisoned?
Spam is a serious problem. I run my own (Sendmail, thank you very much) mail server. I subscribe to a bunch of these blacklists, and also trade this huge list of spammers with a friend of mine from a local university. I still get spammed.
Some of us DIY sysadmins are on cable modems. Some of us are at a budget colo with no reverse DNS. I'm on some of the blacklists some of the time, and so there are some places I just can't send mail.
I don't trust any of the new mail systems, and I'm happy to deal with this anarchaic system. I'd like to be allowed to form spammer lynchmobs, and physically kick their asses though.
No, I kinda have signed up against it. I call Fetus Master Santorum sometimes, but he doesn't seem to care about the things I say. I have a pile of form letter responses from him here.
Hay, can I have my country back? I didn't sign up to be wiretapped, monitoried, surveiled, folded, spindled, or what have you. And while I'm at it, can I please go to college without having to give up two arms and a kidney?
I have to pipe-up again, and say that MythTV is awesome. If you've got a tuner card, and a spare box, totally check it out. IT EATS COMMERCIALS, plays DVDs, MP3s, does a photo album, and other things that other units don't do, or don't do well.
It even has support for MAME.
Seconded! MythTV is friggin' awesome. It eats the commercials, shares the shows over the network (NFS and SMB), lets me dump my MP3s onto it for playing, supports multiple heads (and backends), and more. I don't even use half the features of the software, and it still blows me away.
I'm using KnoppMyth, and was totally amazed how easily everything installed. Yes I did have to tweak LiRC, and a few other things.
I'm getting ready do build another unit into my house, and look forward to the extra features in the new version.
Brashear sounds like a Brittish name. I would expect that the good doctor may be from Calcuta (if that is the case), they definately went to great lengths to give him the Brittish name and accent.
What kind of machine is it? Does it have enough flash/RAM? What about (undocumented) serial ports?
You gotta realize that there will be updates in the Pre-N spec, as it is adopted. I would expect that the range of manunfacturers would produce a firmware upgrade on some of these units. But will the hardware work for the full spec? Is it robust enough a device?
Totally. Kill people, while your laundry gets done. This is a freaking awesome idea, and I wish you were in town. Why look at overweight people stuffing their nasty soiled undergarments into the washer, when you can kill people instead?