And that's the easy part. Get me a communications system that will transmit first through several miles of "ice" and then the orbital distance without a directional gain antenna to the relay satellite above.
How about the probe leaves a relay station on the surface and feeds a cable behind it as it descends. Once through the ice, the probe transmits to the antenae below the ice, which the relay station retransmits to the orbiter.
Who needs new high tech when we have current tech that works?
BTW, the problem I see it is carrying that huge thermal generator through several years of space travel where disposing of extra thermal energy is a constant problem. There's no convection in a vacuum...
According to scientists, a vortex forms spontaneously - one vortex per disk - in a small magnetic disk when the disk's diameter falls below a certain limit.
So my 750GB drive is now 750GB plus one. Big deal!
Geez, guys. I know this is slashdot and all, but has anybody even RTFA?
IANAL, but this would be something enforced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, not by the local constable on patrol. In other words, they couldn't get a product imported without this feature, or a local manufacturer wouldn't get a license from the FCC, or something similar.
Not that I agree with the principle, but at least read up on it before you jump off the deep end.
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A BILL
To require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound when a photograph is taken.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Camera Phone Predator Alert Act'.
SEC. 2. FINDING.
Congress finds that children and adolescents have been exploited by photographs taken in dressing rooms and public places with the use of a camera phone.
SEC. 3. AUDIBLE SOUND STANDARD.
(a) Requirement- Beginning 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, any mobile phone containing a digital camera that is manufactured for sale in the United States shall sound a tone or other sound audible within a reasonable radius of the phone whenever a photograph is taken with the camera in such phone. A mobile phone manufactured after such date shall not be equipped with a means of disabling or silencing such tone or sound.
(b) Enforcement by Consumer Product Safety Commission- The requirement in subsection (a) shall be treated as a consumer product safety standard promulgated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission under section 7 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2056). A violation of subsection (a) shall be enforced by the Commission under section 19 of such Act (15 U.S.C. 2068).
According to wikipedia, there seems to have been 24 leap seconds in the last 36 years. For solar noon to move a single hour away would take over 5 millenia.
RTFA. There are pretty charts showing that we're pretty much at the top of a parabolic curve. Its still relatively flat, hence there have only been 24 leap seconds needed in the last 36 years. However, as we travel further down the parabolic curve, they will be needed with increasing frequency.
And if you don't get that, turn in your geek card to the closest LUG.
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As a BSD user... I run into alot more sh, ksh, csh, and tcsh.
Haven't they heard the news in the BSD camps? Scripting in csh is considered harmful.;)
In all seriousness, having scripted in both, I would consider bash more powerful than ksh, and I avoid csh/tcsh scripting for some of the (still valid) reasons listed in the legendary tome linked above.
(Although, if performance isn't an issue, I usually attempt to stretch good old/bin/sh to its limits first. I even had it emulating expect for one task, sandwiching telnet between two scripts where the later sent signals back to the first... It worked, and kept me from having to install another package on a rigorously locked-down Solaris 8 box.)
How friggin dare anyone out there make fun of Britney after all she has been through!
She lost her aunt; she went through a divorce; she had two friggin kids; her husband turned out to be a user, a cheater; and now she's going through a custody battle.
All you people care about is *sob* readers and making money off of her. She's a HUMAN! *sob*
What you don't realize is that Britney is making you all this money and all you do is write a bunch of crap about her. She hasn't performed on stage in years. Her song is called 'Give Me More' for a reason because all you people want is MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE!
LEAVE HER ALONE! *sob*
You are lucky she even performed for you BASTARDS! LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! *sob* Please! *sob* *sob*
Or watching a DVD on an airplane... oops, now you're actually doing some work, constantly, for a long period of time.
The big energy user there is the dvd drive. The main use for the CPU is CSS decrypting and shuffling data around, as the MPEG decoding is done in the graphics chip.
BTW, that's why I rip it to the HDD first then play it from there when I'm running on batteries. Don't tell the MPAA... *wink* *wink*
The VIA requires about 17W of power to chug through MP3 encode, for about 460 seconds. That means the power supply had to deliver 17 * 460 = 7,820 joules.
Now the Atom crawled along 30% slower, about 600 seconds to complete. But it only needed a delivery rate of 4 J/s, so it ate 2,400 joules.
And now for the elephant in the room: Why are you encoding MP3s while you're running on batteries?
The normal workload for an ultra-portable running on batteries is not producing MP3s. Its outputting static screens to a beamer during a presentation, or surfing the "series of tubes" via the local WiFi spot between classes (or waiting for the plane). If you've got numbers or MP3s to crunch, save it for when you've got the thing plugged in, silly!
Assuming the average CPU loading is going to be a paltry 2-3% (essentially idle), you're looking at a very capable system using an average of somewhere around 61W vs. a less capable system using only 56W. The difference in battery time between those two is barely significant, which makes the increased potential performance of the Nano a big win in my book. When plugged in, the Nano is a passable desktop replacement. The Atom, not so much.
We all have forefathers that have done things we're not so proud of. Witness Manifest Destiny as another I'm not particularly fond of...
My intent was not to just bring up a sore spot in your nation's history, but rather to point out that your current government continues to try to conceal it.
I'm traveling in Berlin at the moment, and one thing that stands out is how the Germans openly discuss the past two world wars and their parts in them without shame. Its a part of their history, and they should not repeat their ancestor's mistakes, but neither should they forget, lest it happens again.
They're not online enough to read this comment... Does that really count as online?
<retrospect>Was that cruel? I figured it as a way to invoke curiosity when they think they're going to an article about something good, and they end up being blocked by that stupid firewall...</retrospect>
Well actually it really depends. It depends whether it's audio compression, or volume normalisation.
From listening to the sample, it sounds like volume normalization to me. When the video clip starts, it starts fairly quiet, but soon you start hearing shuffles and scraps as the codec apparely ramps up the gain.
The guitar pick turns into a thud for the first few milliseconds, but then the actual tone comes out for a moment as the codec apparently turns down the gain. However, it quickly starts turning it back up again, as the next pick again sounds like a thud.
Besides, if it were audio compression, the guitar picks wouldn't be clipped and distorted so badly; they just wouldn't be so loud. Plus, you'll notice the scrapes and shuffles disappear once the "music" starts. Wouldn't compression try to make those softer sounds louder even when there are loud passages immediately surrounding them?
Further experiments could verify this, but its my understanding that they're just applying AGC in a very aggressive fashion. From 10kft view, that makes sense, as teens submitting cellphone clips aren't normally going to ensure their audio levels are normalized.
That would apparently help, but only in cutting out the quiet scrapes and shuffles before the actual (attempt at) music starts. During that silent period, YouTube's encoder would be cranking up the gain so much that, when the first guitar pluck occured, it would still be a highly clipped thud. This workaround keeps them from adjusting the gain at all.
In other words, prefiltering your audio stream with a gate would quiet down the quiet parts, but would not prevent YouTube's encoder from fiddling with the gain.
Each substorm generates a current of about one million to two million amps over one to two hours, or a total energy equivalent to a magnitude-5 or magnitude-6 earthquake, Dr. Angelopoulos said.
The question is, can we harness this energy? Is this a form of the limitless solar energy that we can enslave to our use, or are we limited to the radiated visible and near-visible spectrum?
And if this is too far up and unavailable to us surface-dwellers, is it something that the LEO/MEO satellites could use for propulsion or power? I thoght I remembered reading something about a mag field powered satellite somewhere...
Filtering/inspecting traffic implies taking responsibility implies getting lawsuits directed at ISPs for users' content.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Doesn't this strip them of their "safe harbor" status? Of course, they don't have to fear the media companies that they're trying to help. Technically, the MAFIAA could now sue the ISPs, but in order to get the ISP's assistance in filtering, they've probably offered some sort of covenant not to sue.
However, there must be some business with deep pockets that's taking a loss from unauthorized copying/illegal activity that would love to bite the ISP's hand off now that they're not offering a content-neutral network. Any suggestions?
How about the government sues the ISPs for allowing VoIP calls where terrorism is discussed? Since they're no longer content-neutral, then they should be filtering for and preventing that. And because they're not, bad things costing billions have happened that are directly attributable to the ISP carrying such content...
(Yes, I realize that's not what we'd actually want the ISPs to do. The point is to show the ISP the error of their ways. Once they start filtering certain content, they lose safe harbor, and are liable for not filtering all other sorts of things. Their only viable choice is to return to content neutrality.)
Screw my mod points. Time for an OT history lesson...
Roughshod \Rough"shod\, a. Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse.
Back to the topic, I agree; burn 'em! The telcos failed miserably in their fiduciary duty to protect their customers' privacy. Ask an old-time telco engineer how much the value of privacy has declined in their industry, and prepare to get an earful...
The US Government should leave Microsoft's development of Windows 7 alone. If it turns out to have anti-competitive effects, then the government can punish Microsoft for it.
Once someone has been convicted of murder, they're put in jail until society can be reasonably sure they aren't going to do it again. The convict necessarily loses most or all of his freedoms until he regains society's trust.
While not murder, Microsoft (the corporate entity) has been convicted of anti-competitive behavior. I think it is entirely just for society to monitor them for a while to ensure they don't do it again. Think of it as a convict's probation period. Would a judge let a convicted murderer who feels their last murder was justified go without jail time or probation?
Microsoft's board has not admitted or acknowledged that they've committed anti-competitive acts; I think they still feel they've been unjustly treated by the DoJ. Saying we should just leave them alone and wait until they turn out something else that's anti-competitive is akin to saying we're not going to jail unrepentant murder convicts, not going to monitor them, and if they kill again, then we'll just tell them again that they shouldn't do that. That's not a deterrent!
Not to mention that Microsoft understands that some ethical/law violations make good business sense. They make more money by ignoring a law and paying the fines from the profits they reap than they would make by following the law. When an individual shows no scruples, we put them away. Why should a corporate entity be any different?
They'll get my FreeBSD box, fail to understand it, reformat the RAID drives trying to run a 'disk checker' on them.
Negative, sir. One of the first things any investigator would do is hook each original drive up to a write blocker and copy it to a drive on which they do the actual work. Without using a write blocker, defense could likely get the evidence thrown out under the auspices of planted evidence and/or sloppy investigation methods.
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There's Trapster and NMobile to start...
Take a video of the disassembly. Run it backwards when its time to reassemble.
And that's the easy part. Get me a communications system that will transmit first through several miles of "ice" and then the orbital distance without a directional gain antenna to the relay satellite above.
How about the probe leaves a relay station on the surface and feeds a cable behind it as it descends. Once through the ice, the probe transmits to the antenae below the ice, which the relay station retransmits to the orbiter.
Who needs new high tech when we have current tech that works?
BTW, the problem I see it is carrying that huge thermal generator through several years of space travel where disposing of extra thermal energy is a constant problem. There's no convection in a vacuum...
According to scientists, a vortex forms spontaneously - one vortex per disk - in a small magnetic disk when the disk's diameter falls below a certain limit.
So my 750GB drive is now 750GB plus one. Big deal!
Am I missing something?
IANAL, but this would be something enforced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, not by the local constable on patrol. In other words, they couldn't get a product imported without this feature, or a local manufacturer wouldn't get a license from the FCC, or something similar.
Not that I agree with the principle, but at least read up on it before you jump off the deep end.
Full text follows:
According to wikipedia, there seems to have been 24 leap seconds in the last 36 years. For solar noon to move a single hour away would take over 5 millenia.
RTFA. There are pretty charts showing that we're pretty much at the top of a parabolic curve. Its still relatively flat, hence there have only been 24 leap seconds needed in the last 36 years. However, as we travel further down the parabolic curve, they will be needed with increasing frequency.
And if you don't get that, turn in your geek card to the closest LUG.
As a BSD user ... I run into alot more sh, ksh, csh, and tcsh.
Haven't they heard the news in the BSD camps? Scripting in csh is considered harmful. ;)
/bin/sh to its limits first. I even had it emulating expect for one task, sandwiching telnet between two scripts where the later sent signals back to the first... It worked, and kept me from having to install another package on a rigorously locked-down Solaris 8 box.)
In all seriousness, having scripted in both, I would consider bash more powerful than ksh, and I avoid csh/tcsh scripting for some of the (still valid) reasons listed in the legendary tome linked above.
(Although, if performance isn't an issue, I usually attempt to stretch good old
Geez.. that puts class balance and nerfing in a whole new light, doesn't it? No wonder some of the GMs seem to have a god complex...
Spot on. The lack of clue within the RIAA is mindnumbing. A MAC-Address is completely meaningless. As in:
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:DE:AD:BE:EF:00
And for you Windoze enthusiasts, there's macshift.
.. why would an employer need to know what your credit score is?
They don't need to know, but many like to know as it gives an indication about personal responsibility and fiscal management.
How friggin dare anyone out there make fun of Britney after all she has been through!
She lost her aunt; she went through a divorce; she had two friggin kids; her husband turned out to be a user, a cheater; and now she's going through a custody battle.
All you people care about is *sob* readers and making money off of her. She's a HUMAN! *sob*
What you don't realize is that Britney is making you all this money and all you do is write a bunch of crap about her. She hasn't performed on stage in years. Her song is called 'Give Me More' for a reason because all you people want is MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE!
LEAVE HER ALONE! *sob*
You are lucky she even performed for you BASTARDS! LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! *sob* Please! *sob* *sob*
Or watching a DVD on an airplane... oops, now you're actually doing some work, constantly, for a long period of time.
The big energy user there is the dvd drive. The main use for the CPU is CSS decrypting and shuffling data around, as the MPEG decoding is done in the graphics chip.
BTW, that's why I rip it to the HDD first then play it from there when I'm running on batteries. Don't tell the MPAA... *wink* *wink*
The VIA requires about 17W of power to chug through MP3 encode, for about 460 seconds. That means the power supply had to deliver 17 * 460 = 7,820 joules.
Now the Atom crawled along 30% slower, about 600 seconds to complete. But it only needed a delivery rate of 4 J/s, so it ate 2,400 joules.
And now for the elephant in the room: Why are you encoding MP3s while you're running on batteries?
The normal workload for an ultra-portable running on batteries is not producing MP3s. Its outputting static screens to a beamer during a presentation, or surfing the "series of tubes" via the local WiFi spot between classes (or waiting for the plane). If you've got numbers or MP3s to crunch, save it for when you've got the thing plugged in, silly!
Assuming the average CPU loading is going to be a paltry 2-3% (essentially idle), you're looking at a very capable system using an average of somewhere around 61W vs. a less capable system using only 56W. The difference in battery time between those two is barely significant, which makes the increased potential performance of the Nano a big win in my book. When plugged in, the Nano is a passable desktop replacement. The Atom, not so much.
Gives new meaning to AT&T's new slogan.
You too can have More Bars in More Places! All it takes is a customized firmware load and unscrupulous marketing...
Touché!
We all have forefathers that have done things we're not so proud of. Witness Manifest Destiny as another I'm not particularly fond of...
My intent was not to just bring up a sore spot in your nation's history, but rather to point out that your current government continues to try to conceal it.
I'm traveling in Berlin at the moment, and one thing that stands out is how the Germans openly discuss the past two world wars and their parts in them without shame. Its a part of their history, and they should not repeat their ancestor's mistakes, but neither should they forget, lest it happens again.
Tiananmen Square Massacre!
Tiananmen Square Massacre!
Tiananmen Square Massacre!
They're not online enough to read this comment... Does that really count as online?
<retrospect>Was that cruel? I figured it as a way to invoke curiosity when they think they're going to an article about something good, and they end up being blocked by that stupid firewall...</retrospect>
Well actually it really depends. It depends whether it's audio compression, or volume normalisation.
From listening to the sample, it sounds like volume normalization to me. When the video clip starts, it starts fairly quiet, but soon you start hearing shuffles and scraps as the codec apparely ramps up the gain.
The guitar pick turns into a thud for the first few milliseconds, but then the actual tone comes out for a moment as the codec apparently turns down the gain. However, it quickly starts turning it back up again, as the next pick again sounds like a thud.
Besides, if it were audio compression, the guitar picks wouldn't be clipped and distorted so badly; they just wouldn't be so loud. Plus, you'll notice the scrapes and shuffles disappear once the "music" starts. Wouldn't compression try to make those softer sounds louder even when there are loud passages immediately surrounding them?
Further experiments could verify this, but its my understanding that they're just applying AGC in a very aggressive fashion. From 10kft view, that makes sense, as teens submitting cellphone clips aren't normally going to ensure their audio levels are normalized.
Wouldn't it be easier to set your gate correctly?
That would apparently help, but only in cutting out the quiet scrapes and shuffles before the actual (attempt at) music starts. During that silent period, YouTube's encoder would be cranking up the gain so much that, when the first guitar pluck occured, it would still be a highly clipped thud. This workaround keeps them from adjusting the gain at all.
In other words, prefiltering your audio stream with a gate would quiet down the quiet parts, but would not prevent YouTube's encoder from fiddling with the gain.
Each substorm generates a current of about one million to two million amps over one to two hours, or a total energy equivalent to a magnitude-5 or magnitude-6 earthquake, Dr. Angelopoulos said.
The question is, can we harness this energy? Is this a form of the limitless solar energy that we can enslave to our use, or are we limited to the radiated visible and near-visible spectrum?
And if this is too far up and unavailable to us surface-dwellers, is it something that the LEO/MEO satellites could use for propulsion or power? I thoght I remembered reading something about a mag field powered satellite somewhere...
Filtering/inspecting traffic implies taking responsibility implies getting lawsuits directed at ISPs for users' content.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Doesn't this strip them of their "safe harbor" status? Of course, they don't have to fear the media companies that they're trying to help. Technically, the MAFIAA could now sue the ISPs, but in order to get the ISP's assistance in filtering, they've probably offered some sort of covenant not to sue.
However, there must be some business with deep pockets that's taking a loss from unauthorized copying/illegal activity that would love to bite the ISP's hand off now that they're not offering a content-neutral network. Any suggestions?
How about the government sues the ISPs for allowing VoIP calls where terrorism is discussed? Since they're no longer content-neutral, then they should be filtering for and preventing that. And because they're not, bad things costing billions have happened that are directly attributable to the ISP carrying such content...
(Yes, I realize that's not what we'd actually want the ISPs to do. The point is to show the ISP the error of their ways. Once they start filtering certain content, they lose safe harbor, and are liable for not filtering all other sorts of things. Their only viable choice is to return to content neutrality.)
Screw my mod points. Time for an OT history lesson...
Roughshod \Rough"shod\, a. Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse.
Back to the topic, I agree; burn 'em! The telcos failed miserably in their fiduciary duty to protect their customers' privacy. Ask an old-time telco engineer how much the value of privacy has declined in their industry, and prepare to get an earful...
The US Government should leave Microsoft's development of Windows 7 alone. If it turns out to have anti-competitive effects, then the government can punish Microsoft for it.
Once someone has been convicted of murder, they're put in jail until society can be reasonably sure they aren't going to do it again. The convict necessarily loses most or all of his freedoms until he regains society's trust.
While not murder, Microsoft (the corporate entity) has been convicted of anti-competitive behavior. I think it is entirely just for society to monitor them for a while to ensure they don't do it again. Think of it as a convict's probation period. Would a judge let a convicted murderer who feels their last murder was justified go without jail time or probation?
Microsoft's board has not admitted or acknowledged that they've committed anti-competitive acts; I think they still feel they've been unjustly treated by the DoJ. Saying we should just leave them alone and wait until they turn out something else that's anti-competitive is akin to saying we're not going to jail unrepentant murder convicts, not going to monitor them, and if they kill again, then we'll just tell them again that they shouldn't do that. That's not a deterrent!
Not to mention that Microsoft understands that some ethical/law violations make good business sense. They make more money by ignoring a law and paying the fines from the profits they reap than they would make by following the law. When an individual shows no scruples, we put them away. Why should a corporate entity be any different?
They'll get my FreeBSD box, fail to understand it, reformat the RAID drives trying to run a 'disk checker' on them.
Negative, sir. One of the first things any investigator would do is hook each original drive up to a write blocker and copy it to a drive on which they do the actual work. Without using a write blocker, defense could likely get the evidence thrown out under the auspices of planted evidence and/or sloppy investigation methods.