You don't need the fall of civilization to be reduced to the stone-age. Just get stranded on a island in your Y-fronts
(granted you may get bonus items from lotsam and jetsam)
I came back to office after a break and an upgrade and the following conversation happend
Me: Argh! I'm trying to write a poster and They have moved everything around on Powerpoint 2008 (Mutter) I liked it how it was.
Wife: Why don't you use Open Office thats more like the old powerpoint?
Me: (Facepalm) but but but I'm the one who is supposed to be banging on about Open Source (hands in geek card, stalks off to write poster).
Intriguingly (I think atleast), it is constitutionally impossible for the British government to grant independence to Canada, because it's not possible for one government to do something irreversible that the the next government can't undo. So, technically, the UK must still regard Canada as a colony...
A few years ago I was trying to install Linux on my lappy (on the train home) the X windows was having none of it,.
The next day I idlely picked off the Designed for Microsoft Windows and found it booted Linux perfectly.
Clearly it was the stickers malign influence that was causing the problems (I still have it, If my employers ever hack me off I will affix it somewhere
in their server room and leave... try debugging that one:->
You don't even have to be that patient. With a GPS fiducial network you could be getting results in months rather than years.
Does this work in practice? As I understand it a GPS fiducial network uses ground bases transmitters which would move along with the plate which at the very least would complicate the data analysis...
You can measure plate motions with GPS, if you're patient. Most of the deep structure is worked out using seismic imaging.
You don't have to be really patient... plates move at 2-10 cm/year so you'd start getting GPS data within 2-5 years, Historic data is not too hard to get as the Magnetic stripe patterns on the spreading seafloor give data going back to the Jurassic and the mechanical/geological fit between continents gives data on the original configuration
I'm not sure this is quite as useful as you think... for a start it only works when the machine is powercycled.
Photo kiosks. CCTV DVRs Airport X-rays and anything on a server are probably only switched off during powercuts.
To achieve its full potential it needs a command line erase function so you can wipe a running drive without rebooting the machine.
Because you need a fragile motor/compressor for the process, and air tanks have to be re-tested yearly? Because storing air at 3,000 PSI ain't easy?
It's actually a great idea; you'd eliminate the generator in the wind turbine itself, and replace it with an air compressor. Then the generator gets to live on the ground with the air motor and the generator, and hopefully the mast can be the tank. But that's still adding an air tank, compressor, and air motor where you formerly had none. Cost is the answer.
The key problem here is storage you don't have to store locally. airbladders at the bottom of a lake/sea or storing the air in a disused saltmines
I'm not saying I would act any differently although I'm in the UK. But the future is our own fault if we don't stand up for the rights we do have.
I think the key point is that sentence is 'we'. Individuals getting busted for a causing 'a breach of the peace' and the like will achieve little more than saber rattling in the blogosphere and perhaps an if there well known something in a real newspaper.
If your want to achieve a regular google search on photographyt protest (and attending) better bet. I like the idea of getting together in large numbers and photographing 'forbidden' stuff.
Don't delete any photos. Get a copy of The Photographer's Right from http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm, and stick it in your camera bag if you're worried. Just because some rentacop has an attitude doesn't mean you need to change your behavior.
This is a good strategy, but it rather assumes that said rentacop can a) read b) will act on an unsubstantiated legal opinion got off the web over his training/orders and c) will tolerate any challenge to his authority
I still don't get it. In either case the gender of one child is known,
the gender of the other child can be one of two options where does the third option come in?
The other sibling can be born either before or after the Tuesday Boy.
that's a 50:50 chance.
The other sibling can either be a boy or a girl that's ~50:50
this gives 4 outcomes
Other child is a girl born before the Tuesday Boy
Other child is a boy born before the Tuesday Boy
Other child is a girl born after the Tuesday Boy
Other child is a boy born after the Tuesday Boy
Two outcomes result in the other child being a boy two a girl
which of these is more likely?
Prob[boy,girl] = Prob[boy,boy] = 1/3
Prob[boy,girl] = Prob[Named Boy, girl]
but Prob[boy,boy] != Prob[Named Boy, boy]
It's the "you're wrong or you're right => 1/2" all over again.
Devlin started by listing the children’s sexes in the order of their birth:
Boy, girl
Boy, boy
Girl, boy
I think he is leaving out an option when working out the permutations
The given boy (born on Tuesday) is different entity from his sibling so that gives 4 options and a 1/2 chance?
Named Boy, girl
Named Boy, boy
boy, Named Boy
girl, Named Boy
True, it is important to know how the communication between the chip and the PC was made. I'm guessing here, but I think my dad's pacemaker isn't that easily accessable... If it is, or in the future will be, the communication port should -logically- be protected. But for now, I think my dad should fear EMFs more.
Pacemakers have already been hacked granted its really unlikely your dad will be a target but that is getting into the terrain of security through obscurity
Given the signal to noise ratio for most tweets, I'm not convinced this is a particularly good use of resources...
Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you have to!
Its a fantastic idea, its probably only a few Tb of data but it represents the unedited reaction of ordinary people to historical events and a detailed insight into their everyday lives.
The lists are stupid. If I was 18 and got caught having sex with my 17 year old girlfriend, I would wind up on the sexual predator list... even if we got married. Would you avoid me if I was your neighbor, or just move without saying anything?
Its worse than that you can get on the (US) Sex offenders list for public urination
It's a very long time since they looked like that on the outside, either. Or like anything, actually, as we no longer have them as far as I am aware.
Interestingly the BBC own the trademark on the TARDIS from wikipedia
In 1996, the BBC applied to the UK Patent Office to register the TARDIS as a trademark. This was challenged by the Metropolitan Police who felt that they owned the rights to the police box image. However, the Patent Office found that there was no evidence that the Metropolitan Police — or any other police force — had ever registered the image as a trademark. In addition, the BBC had been selling merchandise based on the image for over three decades without complaint by the police. The Patent Office issued a ruling in favour of the BBC in 2002,
That's almost exactly what I was going to say. You've managed to make an accurate first post that actually includes a suggestion for dealing with the problems in question. Are you sure you meant to post this comment on Slashdot?
Actually he'd intended to write
w00t w00t F1r5t p05t !!!
and a link to something disturbing from/b/ but his mum rang just as he hit submit
Slashdot Mirror
You don't need the fall of civilization to be reduced to the stone-age. Just get stranded on a island in your Y-fronts (granted you may get bonus items from lotsam and jetsam)
Actually, it's just how you look at the sales numbers. If you're wearing your 3-D glasses they look much better.
That only applies if the figures were made in 3D, if they were converted from 2D you may as well rub mud in your eyes.
Me: Argh! I'm trying to write a poster and They have moved everything around on Powerpoint 2008 (Mutter) I liked it how it was.
Wife: Why don't you use Open Office thats more like the old powerpoint?
Me: (Facepalm) but but but I'm the one who is supposed to be banging on about Open Source (hands in geek card, stalks off to write poster).
How much do you pay? in the UK its ~ 13p kW h
Intriguingly (I think atleast), it is constitutionally impossible for the British government to grant independence to Canada, because it's not possible for one government to do something irreversible that the the next government can't undo. So, technically, the UK must still regard Canada as a colony...
Does that mean we still own Inida?
There are 397,403 km of paved road in the UK so that makes it about 1 camera / 100 meters
A few years ago I was trying to install Linux on my lappy (on the train home) the X windows was having none of it,. The next day I idlely picked off the Designed for Microsoft Windows and found it booted Linux perfectly.
Clearly it was the stickers malign influence that was causing the problems (I still have it, If my employers ever hack me off I will affix it somewhere in their server room and leave... try debugging that one:->
You don't even have to be that patient. With a GPS fiducial network you could be getting results in months rather than years.
Does this work in practice? As I understand it a GPS fiducial network uses ground bases transmitters which would move along with the plate which at the very least would complicate the data analysis...
You can measure plate motions with GPS, if you're patient. Most of the deep structure is worked out using seismic imaging.
You don't have to be really patient... plates move at 2-10 cm/year so you'd start getting GPS data within 2-5 years, Historic data is not too hard to get as the Magnetic stripe patterns on the spreading seafloor give data going back to the Jurassic and the mechanical/geological fit between continents gives data on the original configuration
I'm not sure this is quite as useful as you think... for a start it only works when the machine is powercycled. Photo kiosks. CCTV DVRs Airport X-rays and anything on a server are probably only switched off during powercuts. To achieve its full potential it needs a command line erase function so you can wipe a running drive without rebooting the machine.
This is known to be fake.
But the headline says its a Hoax.... do you mean its a fake hoax?
Is there any particular reason that the whole system has to run at 1000psi?
Because you need a fragile motor/compressor for the process, and air tanks have to be re-tested yearly? Because storing air at 3,000 PSI ain't easy? It's actually a great idea; you'd eliminate the generator in the wind turbine itself, and replace it with an air compressor. Then the generator gets to live on the ground with the air motor and the generator, and hopefully the mast can be the tank. But that's still adding an air tank, compressor, and air motor where you formerly had none. Cost is the answer.
The key problem here is storage you don't have to store locally. airbladders at the bottom of a lake/sea or storing the air in a disused saltmines
Is there any particular reason why Compressed air storage is not more widely used?
I'm not saying I would act any differently although I'm in the UK. But the future is our own fault if we don't stand up for the rights we do have.
I think the key point is that sentence is 'we'. Individuals getting busted for a causing 'a breach of the peace' and the like will achieve little more than saber rattling in the blogosphere and perhaps an if there well known something in a real newspaper.
If your want to achieve a regular google search on photographyt protest (and attending) better bet. I like the idea of getting together in large numbers and photographing 'forbidden' stuff.
Don't delete any photos. Get a copy of The Photographer's Right from http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm, and stick it in your camera bag if you're worried. Just because some rentacop has an attitude doesn't mean you need to change your behavior.
This is a good strategy, but it rather assumes that said rentacop can a) read b) will act on an unsubstantiated legal opinion got off the web over his training/orders and c) will tolerate any challenge to his authority
Imagine your having a chat with Hannibal Lecter and I think you have it at about the right sort of level.
I still don't get it. In either case the gender of one child is known, the gender of the other child can be one of two options where does the third option come in?
But your permutations aren't equally likely!
I'm not sure what your getting at here.
The other sibling can be born either before or after the Tuesday Boy. that's a 50:50 chance.
The other sibling can either be a boy or a girl that's ~50:50
this gives 4 outcomes
Other child is a girl born before the Tuesday Boy
Other child is a boy born before the Tuesday Boy
Other child is a girl born after the Tuesday Boy
Other child is a boy born after the Tuesday Boy
Two outcomes result in the other child being a boy two a girl
which of these is more likely?
Prob[boy,girl] = Prob[boy,boy] = 1/3 Prob[boy,girl] = Prob[Named Boy, girl] but Prob[boy,boy] != Prob[Named Boy, boy] It's the "you're wrong or you're right => 1/2" all over again.
I think he is leaving out an option when working out the permutations The given boy (born on Tuesday) is different entity from his sibling so that gives 4 options and a 1/2 chance?
Named Boy, girl
Named Boy, boy
boy, Named Boy
girl, Named Boy
True, it is important to know how the communication between the chip and the PC was made. I'm guessing here, but I think my dad's pacemaker isn't that easily accessable... If it is, or in the future will be, the communication port should -logically- be protected. But for now, I think my dad should fear EMFs more.
Pacemakers have already been hacked granted its really unlikely your dad will be a target but that is getting into the terrain of security through obscurity
Given the signal to noise ratio for most tweets, I'm not convinced this is a particularly good use of resources...
Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you have to!
Its a fantastic idea, its probably only a few Tb of data but it represents the unedited reaction of ordinary people to historical events and a detailed insight into their everyday lives.
The lists are stupid. If I was 18 and got caught having sex with my 17 year old girlfriend, I would wind up on the sexual predator list... even if we got married. Would you avoid me if I was your neighbor, or just move without saying anything?
Its worse than that you can get on the (US) Sex offenders list for public urination
It's a very long time since they looked like that on the outside, either. Or like anything, actually, as we no longer have them as far as I am aware.
Interestingly the BBC own the trademark on the TARDIS from wikipedia
In 1996, the BBC applied to the UK Patent Office to register the TARDIS as a trademark. This was challenged by the Metropolitan Police who felt that they owned the rights to the police box image. However, the Patent Office found that there was no evidence that the Metropolitan Police — or any other police force — had ever registered the image as a trademark. In addition, the BBC had been selling merchandise based on the image for over three decades without complaint by the police. The Patent Office issued a ruling in favour of the BBC in 2002,
That's almost exactly what I was going to say. You've managed to make an accurate first post that actually includes a suggestion for dealing with the problems in question. Are you sure you meant to post this comment on Slashdot?
Actually he'd intended to write
/b/ but his mum rang just as he hit submit
w00t w00t F1r5t p05t !!!
and a link to something disturbing from