These quotes make perfect sense if you assume that the NY Trade Center attacks were carried out by an Iraqi-sponsored group. I mean, we all assume that Al Qaeda was behind the attacks on 2001-09-11, but, hey, it wouldn't be the first time that they've taken credit for stuff that they haven't done.
Android derives from the latin root for male, "andros". Ergo, when dealing with a female robot, its name should come from the latin root for female, "ogy". Thus, ladies and gentlemen, I give you...
Well, I guess we should call it "GRB_MACDUFF" and send it off after the super-black hole M111, colloquially known as M_ACBETH. That thing is beginning to get out of hand, what with all the dark matter it's been dealing with.
Unfortunately, we have already managed to obliterate the server on which the document is hosted, so now no one will be able to read it, and won't know how to stop this from happening in the first place.
I'm afraid that I can't find the studies to site, but marijuana can cause paranoid scizophrenia in people who are sucseptible to it. I've seen it happen. What's even more annoying is that it's a reverse-resistance drug, so, if you have one bad experience with it, the next one will probably be even worse, just like an allergic reaction gets worse with more exposure.
So, yeah. That sounds like pretty antisocial behaviour, doesn't it?
What about diplomatic power, which is the way things really get done in the modern world, we're certainly not #1 in that category.
Um, actually, you really do have an amazing amount of diplomatic power.
The US has fostered numerous peace accords (some even succesfully), the UN hasn't been able to stop Israel from invading other countries due to the US's support of Israel, CUBA is totally sol economically due to the US's economic embargo, and so on. Lots of countries give some token resistance, but, in the end, the US gets its way most of the time by having enough money, and, to a lesser extent, arms to throw around.
couldn't the administration had just said "look, we should have killed this snake saddam in 1991, but we couldn't deal with a lot of body bags then. we now know a basket case of a middle east is bad for the us, and so we can stomach the body bags, because it's better a couple hundred dead servicemen in iraq than a couple hundred thousand dead civilians in washington dc. osama is not a cause, he's a symptom. and the cause is a f**ked up middle east. so to war with iraq we go, to begin the the process of fixing the middle east. because september 11th shows that the middle east will export its problems to us, so it is our responsibility to fix the middle east, whether we deserve it or not."
Well, if the government in country A decides that a government in country B is just not up to snuff, why can't country B think that country A is also in need of replacing?
Slashdot is trying to make sure that they represent a variety of viewpoints... from the USA.
Good God, folks, would it hurt to at least try and make things a bit balanced? Important things happen in the world that don't have to do with the USA. There are a lot of people here who would be interested in hearing about it.
Reverse-hashing a known email address isn't hard - it's trivial. In the case where the attacker knew the email address of the person from whom he stole the filter, he could just reverse the hash and replace it with his own email address.
No, good lawyers act following their client's guidelines. Most lawyers tend to file briefs, send letters, make intimidating phone calls, and ask questions later.
We sold my grandmother's house, having mentioned that there was a small problem with the furnace (or something) which might cause them problems down the road. 6 months later, a gasket leaked. The people who bought the house casually mentioned this to their lawyer, who sent us a letter. We contacted the homeowners directly. Turned out they didn't know about the letter, nor were they ready to pursue legal action, contrary to the contents of the letter.
Now that's accountability for ya.
recipe for multipying temperatures by two
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X43-A on to Mach 10
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Step 1:
go to Kelvin scale, which is an absolute scale. It's got a zero that you can't go below.
Step 2:
Take temperature, in degrees Kelvin, and multiply by two.
Step 3:
Conver temperature back (if you really want).
This new temperature is twice as big as the last one. Really. The zeroth law of thermodynamics doesn't have much to do with it.
Who the hell has 60 GB of (legally acquired).MP3 files, anyway?
Ooh, ooh, me! Pick me! Pick me!
It's legal to, you know, shift the format from CD to ogg/mp3. So I took my entire CD collection (~350 CDs) and ripped them to shiny, high-quality ogg files. All legally. No more scratches, no more blips, no more hunting for disc. I'm listening to them right now, in fact.
It's not a crime to own digital media formats, you know.
It is likely true that the earth has had warmer periods as well, obviously, as colder.
However.
By dumping greenhouse gasses into the environment the way that we are, we might be tipping the planet into a new equilibrium that it has _not_ seen before. We don't know where this will lead us. I work in computational fluid dynamics, a part of which is weather prediction. We sure as hell don't know what's going to happen.
Yeah, that could really be cool. I'd worry about, for example, my phone being slashdotted, but hey. Maybe there's a work-around that will stop individual servers from being overrun. And telemarketers.
Add crypto to the mix, and it could be very interesting indeed.
I'm thinking more of the situation where _I_ own the computers on both sides.
ie, if I just stuck a computer in my parents' house, hooked it up to the net and a phone line, I could work it so that I could call anyone in their area by routing the call through the computer I left in their closet. All at local rates. And I could let my friends use the machine as well.
Really, there's nothing special about these big companies - we could be running the same service from our closets!
I was thinking about this problem myself when I was living in S. Korea and wanted to call home to Canada.
It seems like the best way to do it (and cheapest) would be to call from your computer over the internet to a computer in the city you wanted to call to, which would then hook up to the regular phone line via a modem. I was looking for something like this, but haven't found anything on freshmeat, etc. (Any links out there?)
It seems quite possible. You tell the computer what local number you want, it dials it, and then just acts as a gateway between you (on the internet) and the person you're talking to (on a normal phone line). Nothing too complicated. If you get the reliability up, this might be your best bet.
Do you have to worry about heat issues in a wood case, ie things getting yet uglier when cooling systems fail and things get too hot....
Also, I imagine that wood provides for a pretty poor Faraday cage, so your computer is now more exposed to external E/M fields. I could see this not being significant, perhaps. I'd still worry about it, personally. Perhaps you could add a wire mesh to the case to get around this.
You know, that gives me an idea. Would it count if you were to train some animal to drive this thing? Would "monkey-controlled" be close enough to "autonomous"? I bet you could get a monkey behind the wheel of a 4x4, train him, hook him up to enough drugs and electrodes to get him to drive the thing.
After all, you've got to remember that the world's fastest computers, the really, really big iron out there, still have about as much computational power as your average cockroach.
Not that I would condone such a thing, but, hey, if you're designing delivery systems for the US military, I think you've already lost the moral high ground.
Quoth Kate in the parent,
[sales rep-tile] "Now sweetheart that's very complicated, are you sure you should try that?"
Sometimes it's difficult to refrain from telling them to kiss my ass.
In the interests of finding out what people think, I'll not add my own opinion, but I encourage others to post a "yes" or "no" in response to this post.
And then I would encourage Kate to go out and act on this (or not act, depending on the results.) Just be careful and have a great come-back from Taming of the Shrew perpared if you get into any trouble.
The article talks about how their discovery can be applied to skiing, and, analogously, driving and a bunch of other stuff, by melting ice and making it more or less slippery, depending on the interval between meltings. Small interval => more water, less freezing, large interval => more freezing, less slippery water. You get the idea.
I imagine that most of you know the ideal gas law, ie that pressure and temperature are (almost) linearly related. So, if you increase the pressure, you should be able to melt snow or ice, right? If it gets colder, you just squeeze harder. This means that warm snow should be slipperier, since you can melt more snow, which will lubricate better, right?
Unfortunately, below 30 degrees Celsius or so, there is no way to get water, no matter what pressure you apply. Look at the following ice/water/vapour diagram. You will notice that vapour and liquids don't take up much of it, it's ice almost everywhere. And all ice below 240K (=-33C) or so.
So how could we possibly ski at below -33C? The answer is that we just slide on the snow. Occam's razor, ya?
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These quotes make perfect sense if you assume that the NY Trade Center attacks were carried out by an Iraqi-sponsored group. I mean, we all assume that Al Qaeda was behind the attacks on 2001-09-11, but, hey, it wouldn't be the first time that they've taken credit for stuff that they haven't done.
... an ogynoid!
Well, I guess we should call it "GRB_MACDUFF" and send it off after the super-black hole M111, colloquially known as M_ACBETH. That thing is beginning to get out of hand, what with all the dark matter it's been dealing with.
Is slashdotting a .gov site an act of terrorism?
So, yeah. That sounds like pretty antisocial behaviour, doesn't it?
Um, actually, you really do have an amazing amount of diplomatic power.
The US has fostered numerous peace accords (some even succesfully), the UN hasn't been able to stop Israel from invading other countries due to the US's support of Israel, CUBA is totally sol economically due to the US's economic embargo, and so on. Lots of countries give some token resistance, but, in the end, the US gets its way most of the time by having enough money, and, to a lesser extent, arms to throw around.
Well, if the government in country A decides that a government in country B is just not up to snuff, why can't country B think that country A is also in need of replacing?
Can anyone see where this is going?
Good God, folks, would it hurt to at least try and make things a bit balanced? Important things happen in the world that don't have to do with the USA. There are a lot of people here who would be interested in hearing about it.
Reverse-hashing a known email address isn't hard - it's trivial. In the case where the attacker knew the email address of the person from whom he stole the filter, he could just reverse the hash and replace it with his own email address.
However, it is good for the people who get jobs because of it.
This must be tempered, however, with proper environmental and labour laws in whatever country the jobs happen to be in.
We sold my grandmother's house, having mentioned that there was a small problem with the furnace (or something) which might cause them problems down the road. 6 months later, a gasket leaked. The people who bought the house casually mentioned this to their lawyer, who sent us a letter. We contacted the homeowners directly. Turned out they didn't know about the letter, nor were they ready to pursue legal action, contrary to the contents of the letter.
Now that's accountability for ya.
go to Kelvin scale, which is an absolute scale. It's got a zero that you can't go below.
Step 2:
Take temperature, in degrees Kelvin, and multiply by two.
Step 3:
Conver temperature back (if you really want).
This new temperature is twice as big as the last one. Really. The zeroth law of thermodynamics doesn't have much to do with it.
I found it quite humorous, really, clicking on a page about hearing aides and getting visually yelled at.
(1/2 hour later in Newfoundland)
The reason is not availalbe at your security clearance. Welcome to Alpha Complex!
It's legal to, you know, shift the format from CD to ogg/mp3. So I took my entire CD collection (~350 CDs) and ripped them to shiny, high-quality ogg files. All legally. No more scratches, no more blips, no more hunting for disc. I'm listening to them right now, in fact.
It's not a crime to own digital media formats, you know.
However.
By dumping greenhouse gasses into the environment the way that we are, we might be tipping the planet into a new equilibrium that it has _not_ seen before. We don't know where this will lead us. I work in computational fluid dynamics, a part of which is weather prediction. We sure as hell don't know what's going to happen.
So, the question is - do you feel lucky, punk?
Well, do ya?
Man, that's not nearly as bad as walking into a place where only the criminals have nuclear weapons. Wait - that's everywhere in the bleedin' world.
Reductio ad absurdum.
Add crypto to the mix, and it could be very interesting indeed.
ie, if I just stuck a computer in my parents' house, hooked it up to the net and a phone line, I could work it so that I could call anyone in their area by routing the call through the computer I left in their closet. All at local rates. And I could let my friends use the machine as well.
Really, there's nothing special about these big companies - we could be running the same service from our closets!
It seems like the best way to do it (and cheapest) would be to call from your computer over the internet to a computer in the city you wanted to call to, which would then hook up to the regular phone line via a modem. I was looking for something like this, but haven't found anything on freshmeat, etc. (Any links out there?)
It seems quite possible. You tell the computer what local number you want, it dials it, and then just acts as a gateway between you (on the internet) and the person you're talking to (on a normal phone line). Nothing too complicated. If you get the reliability up, this might be your best bet.
Also, I imagine that wood provides for a pretty poor Faraday cage, so your computer is now more exposed to external E/M fields. I could see this not being significant, perhaps. I'd still worry about it, personally. Perhaps you could add a wire mesh to the case to get around this.
After all, you've got to remember that the world's fastest computers, the really, really big iron out there, still have about as much computational power as your average cockroach.
Not that I would condone such a thing, but, hey, if you're designing delivery systems for the US military, I think you've already lost the moral high ground.
Sometimes it's difficult to refrain from telling them to kiss my ass.
In the interests of finding out what people think, I'll not add my own opinion, but I encourage others to post a "yes" or "no" in response to this post.
And then I would encourage Kate to go out and act on this (or not act, depending on the results.) Just be careful and have a great come-back from Taming of the Shrew perpared if you get into any trouble.
~squidgyhead
I imagine that most of you know the ideal gas law, ie that pressure and temperature are (almost) linearly related. So, if you increase the pressure, you should be able to melt snow or ice, right? If it gets colder, you just squeeze harder. This means that warm snow should be slipperier, since you can melt more snow, which will lubricate better, right?
Unfortunately, below 30 degrees Celsius or so, there is no way to get water, no matter what pressure you apply. Look at the following ice/water/vapour
diagram. You will notice that vapour and liquids don't take up much of it, it's ice almost everywhere. And all ice below 240K (=-33C) or so.
So how could we possibly ski at below -33C? The answer is that we just slide on the snow. Occam's razor, ya?