Only in our beloved country could someone think that this set of pages "sums up everything you might need to know if you wanted to refine nuclear fuel and build some atomic weapons." The information presented is what anyone with a high-school level knowledge of science should know. It's what anyone old enough to vote should know. When Bush claimed that Saddam was buying yellowcake from Nigeria -- even if it had been true -- it should have been obvious that without a lot of additional sophisticated equipment, it was about as useless as talcum powder.
On the other hand, I did get a nice refresher on the process. You do forget a few things in 20 years. And I can use the site as a resource for my kids, since they'll be too busy being taught "Intelligent Design" to be bothered with anything as mundane as chemistry and physics.
"At this point, it is really tenuous. Here, it's still hanging on by its fingernails, and the publicity alone could be enough to wipe it out again." We can only pray.
I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I was able to tell the moment the Slashdot story went online... the chicagocrime.org site suddenly stopped responding. And it's not like we could have linked to a mirror.
So you'll just have to take my word for it -- it was pretty cool. I found out that there were three reported crimes at Chicago cemeteries, for example -- a theft, a trespassing, and a vandalism. Crimes at airports included a "theft by lessee" -- looks like there's somebody at Midway who you shouldn't get your rental car from.
The gas station link is holding up better, though. Hope it's not hosted at a gas station... kablooie!
Simple principle of marketing "Sex sells". Simple principle of the internet "Its full of porn"
I was going to dash off a reply saying that such an entry would violate the TOS, but this is all they got: "3) Your entry must comply with Datagram's terms of use. See http://www.datagram.com/acceptable.html for more details. Please refrain from submitting hardcore pornography or illegal content of any kind."
The Datagram.com page looks like the standard "don't break the law, dammit" requirement, and doesn't mention pr0n at all. So other than saying "please" nothing gross, there's nothing to prevent a contestant from building a nice little tribute to someplace like domai.com (NSFW) (and including a referral link).
This is as good a time as any to cancel my subscription. I really wasn't getting my money's worth anyway. Before it was choice between convenience and how much their sight design sucked but wal-mart is just evil.
I know I'm replying to flamebait, but don't you get it? YOU WON! WE WON! Wal-Mart didn't buy out the little guy. Instead, Wal-Mart decided they couldn't beat Netflix, and decided to cut their losses and make a deal while they could still pretend they didn't get their hind end handed to them.
Potential downsides abound -- Wal-Mart is notorious for its bullying of its suppliers. But Netflix has shown the determination to survive, so I think they'll make it. But I'll be keeping an eye on Hacking Netflix to see what happens next.
OK, all human life then. But the politicians who'll decide upon whether to do this or not are hardly going to be looking to cockroaches for their votes, are they?
You know, I never thought of it that way... they talk about lobbyists crawling around the Capitol like cockroaches. Maybe the human lobbyists are just there to distract us from the real power brokers -- the cockroaches! How else can you explain the filibuster debate?
You know this might actually be on topic... I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted computer programmer...
Space exploration and space science should be carried out on peaceful, scientific grounds only. The world's major militaries can all wipe out life on the face of the Earth already, so being able to do it a few minutes faster with space-borne weapons is hardly my idea of progress.
I'm surprised that nobody has pointed out that, even with all our nukes and other weapons, we still can't wipe out all life on Earth. We may be able to wipe out all the bipedal, supposedly-intelligent primates, and the collateral damage would probably take out the snowy owls, the snail darters, and the platypuses (platipi?).
But the Earth will still contain plenty of life, and it will go merrily on its way without giving our untimely departure a second thought. At least for the next few billion years, that is... until the sun swells up and turns into a cosmic sterilization oven.
actually i would think that the lightsaber would melt the bullet but not slow its velocity, causing a fast-moving molten lead bullet to pierce his head.
Darn it, I got mod points but of course I can't use them to mod up your reply to my post. That's the one issue I don't see brought up in the Feasibilty of Star Wars Tech discussion. Energy weapon deflection, sure. Traditional sword, maybe. But a chunk of flying lead... maybe it would slice it in two, which would leave two tumbling high-speed projectiles.
(No, this discussion doesn't make me a geek. That would only be if I attempted to calculate the damage factor increase in terms of dice rolls... Ok, I'm a geek.)
Although Lucas has absolutely said he is finished with the series, it is inconceivable to me that 20th Century-Fox will willingly abandon the franchise, especially as Lucas has hinted that parts VII, VIII and IX exist at least in his mind. There will be enormous pressure for them to be made, if not by him, then by his deputies.
Yes! Bring on the deputies! And as for the Sheriff...
Freedom came my way one day, And I started out of town, yeah! All of a sudden I saw Sheriff George Lucas Brown Aiming to shoot me down. So I shot, I shot, I shot him down.
(Of course, Lucas would deflect the shot with his lightsaber)
One of my favorite unknown alt.country singers, Slaid Cleaves, tells the story of his day job: lab rat for experimental medicines at a center in Austin, Texas.
I take drugs for a living. I'm a human guinea pig. A lab rat. A medical research volunteer. Pharmaco International pays me to stay in their facility for about $100 a day. Some studies only last a couple of days. Some are comprised of several weekend stays. Right now I'm in the middle of a long term study. 22 days. We are in the facility for the entire time, except for a few 20 minute walks around the building for fresh air. No visitors. No outside food. Hospital type meals are provided, along with newspapers, movies, pay phones and a clip board that tells us where to be and when for certain "procedures."
The rest of the story (including the lab's phone number, if you're interested) can be found at Slaid Cleaves' web site.
Sorry to tell you this but real scientists in the real world usually dont base a whole lot of their research on hollywood movies...
Supposedly not, but:
Report: Paleontologist "fudged" discovery to promote movie Museum of the Rockies paleontologist Jack Horner "fudged" information about a dinosaur discovery four years ago to promote the third "Jurassic Park" film, National Public Radio reported Wednesday.
Horner disputes altering dinosaur discovery for movie opening BOZEMAN -- Paleontologist Jack Horner, who served as a science consultant for the "Jurassic Park" films, acknowledged that the announcement of a dinosaur find in eastern Montana was delayed to help promote the third installment of the dinosaur-flick franchise four years ago.
And the NPR report (audio) that broke the story: Movie Marketers Turn to Subtle, Sophisticated Tactics Advertisers are finding new and creative ways to sell their films. [...] One studio has even manipulated a scientific discovery to coincide with the opening of a film. A look at some of the tactics studios use to seduce moviegoers to their films.
So much for the universal integrity of scientists in the real world...
Wouldn't your Driver's Ed teacher (aka the basketball coach) be much happier if he could verify your skills in one of these, rather than from the passenger seat with nothing but a second brake pedal between him and being pwnx0rd by a bridge abutment?
It's not such a crazy idea... check out the Truck Driver Simulation Mobile Classroom. It's a full-sized full-motion multi-screen 18-wheeler simulator, designed to help train professional truck drivers. The unit -- which itself is housed in an 18-wheeler trailer -- claims to be "unlike any in the world," although the folks in the UK are trying to catch up.
Myself, I'd like to see what it's really like to climb in the cab and say... so we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight, I says let them truckers roll, 10-4, 'cause we got a mighty Convoy rockin' through the night...
Food is a basic necessity. It is a right, in fact, part of the basic human right to life. There is no basic human right to sport.
As I recall, one well-known country was founded on a Declaration that included not just life as a right, but also liberty, which could include the right to be as free as your ancestors were -- though there might be drawbacks to that. There's even an unusual-sounding right to a "pursuit of happiness", which, if you define "happiness" as "hunting $CRITTER_NAME", would imply a right to sport.
I read somewhere about workers at an Army ammunition plant. A newbie came on, and was being shown around his area of responsibility, when there was a loud metallic CLANG, as some object in the warehouse full of high explosives dropped to the floor. The newbie instinctively dove to the ground has his compatriots chuckled. As he stood back up, they told him, "If you hear it hit the floor, it didn't explode."
I agree that Roland's "stories" have got to stop - but is there anything we can do to further this end? (and I don't mean hack/ddos his site, although I'm surprised that hasn't happenned yet).
That's it! If we DDOS the Roland Pig-Pile's site, he'll have to stop sumbmitting his borderline-plagarism drivel. And I know just how to do it... Submit a story to Slashdot.org. If that doesn't bring his server to it's knees, nothing will.
Also, what effects would this have on gas mileage of vehicles. If the road was givein way a little as say a semi or large vehicle was driveing over the road, to waht degree would it "sink" into the road? Would you be wanting to run more air pressure in the tires of the vehicle on these types of roads, to compensate for the flex inherant in this road? And over time, what effect would this have on gas. Another valuable resource.
If the road does tend to allow vehicles to "sink" into it, you'd need to *decrease* your air pressure, not increase it. It's going to be like driving on the beach -- flatter tires are fatter and give you more traction. Nice, hard, taut tires will sink into the surface even worse. Either way, though, the gas mileage will likely suffer.
OTOH, other posters have suggested that this won't be a problem, YMMV (a remarkably apropos acronym in this case).
They use liquid sodium metal in nuclear reactors. you do NOT want this in your computer.
Maybe YOU don't want liquid sodium metal in your computer. I think it would be beyond cool, especially when the unit reaches end-of-life and it's disposal time.
I'll be 60. It looks like I'll be able to turn our family's hobby -- raising and riding horses -- into my retirement income, after the fall of civilization.
Looks like the next 20 years would be a good time to stock up on saddles, tack, and horse meds.
Did it occur to you that since "you" don't have moral values, that might be why your guy lost? Seems your party is the most hateful around...it truly shows.
Who exactly are you talking to?
My candidate was David Cobb. Folks say a lot of things about the Green Party, but "most hateful" is one epithet I've never heard applied to it.
I'll leave the deconstruction of your assertion about my personal moral values as an exercise for the student.
Well, I'll be darned. After squirming over action items like "supporting the President in the War on Terror" and "Cracking Down on Indecency", I was concerned. We got a letter recently with a checklist of priorites, which included several of the buzzwords being bandied around by the radical right ever since they disguised fear and hate as "Moral Values" to win the 2004 elections.
And then, Jeb Hensarling (R - Athens) goes and opens the door to "these newcomers to our political process [...] bloggers and online activists." (from TFA). And in a show of rare bipartisanship (on an issue not involving oil or war), he's partnering with a leading Democratic Senator. And some of the biggest beneficiaries of the legislation will be third-party bloggers, Greens, Libertarians, and all the rest.
It's as if he has a sense of civic duty. Maybe it's possible, even today. After all, there are an awful lot of "R"s in Texas who were "D"s in a previous life.
From Wikipedia: Sousveillance refers both to inverse surveillance, as well as to the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity (i.e. personal experience capture).
Of course, if the grandparent had RTFA (but then, why break with tradition?), he'd have seen this:
The opposite of surveillance -- French for watching from above -- sousveillance refers to watching from below, essentially from beneath the eye in the sky. It's the equivalent of keeping an eye on the eye.
It also sounds much better if you use a French accent. "sue-vail-AHNS" instead of "sue's-VEIL-uns".
Google (currently) appears to format answers it's sure about (what's google, what's the slashdot effect) with an icon and a link to "define:term". Fuzzier matches (Jane Fonda and the putative president) get the nonsequitur text "Property:" and an "According to:" disclaimer.
This looks like something interesting, but clearly still in the early beta. Which is *great*! I love getting a peek behind the curtain.
Slashdot Mirror
Only in our beloved country could someone think that this set of pages "sums up everything you might need to know if you wanted to refine nuclear fuel and build some atomic weapons." The information presented is what anyone with a high-school level knowledge of science should know. It's what anyone old enough to vote should know. When Bush claimed that Saddam was buying yellowcake from Nigeria -- even if it had been true -- it should have been obvious that without a lot of additional sophisticated equipment, it was about as useless as talcum powder.
On the other hand, I did get a nice refresher on the process. You do forget a few things in 20 years. And I can use the site as a resource for my kids, since they'll be too busy being taught "Intelligent Design" to be bothered with anything as mundane as chemistry and physics.
"At this point, it is really tenuous. Here, it's still hanging on by its fingernails, and the publicity alone could be enough to wipe it out again."
We can only pray.
I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I was able to tell the moment the Slashdot story went online... the chicagocrime.org site suddenly stopped responding. And it's not like we could have linked to a mirror.
So you'll just have to take my word for it -- it was pretty cool. I found out that there were three reported crimes at Chicago cemeteries, for example -- a theft, a trespassing, and a vandalism. Crimes at airports included a "theft by lessee" -- looks like there's somebody at Midway who you shouldn't get your rental car from.
The gas station link is holding up better, though. Hope it's not hosted at a gas station... kablooie!
Simple principle of marketing "Sex sells". Simple principle of the internet "Its full of porn"
I was going to dash off a reply saying that such an entry would violate the TOS, but this is all they got:
"3) Your entry must comply with Datagram's terms of use.
See http://www.datagram.com/acceptable.html for more details. Please refrain from submitting hardcore pornography or illegal content of any kind."
The Datagram.com page looks like the standard "don't break the law, dammit" requirement, and doesn't mention pr0n at all. So other than saying "please" nothing gross, there's nothing to prevent a contestant from building a nice little tribute to someplace like domai.com (NSFW) (and including a referral link).
This is as good a time as any to cancel my subscription. I really wasn't getting my money's worth anyway. Before it was choice between convenience and how much their sight design sucked but wal-mart is just evil.
I know I'm replying to flamebait, but don't you get it? YOU WON! WE WON! Wal-Mart didn't buy out the little guy. Instead, Wal-Mart decided they couldn't beat Netflix, and decided to cut their losses and make a deal while they could still pretend they didn't get their hind end handed to them.
Potential downsides abound -- Wal-Mart is notorious for its bullying of its suppliers. But Netflix has shown the determination to survive, so I think they'll make it. But I'll be keeping an eye on Hacking Netflix to see what happens next.
OK, all human life then. But the politicians who'll decide upon whether to do this or not are hardly going to be looking to cockroaches for their votes, are they?
You know, I never thought of it that way... they talk about lobbyists crawling around the Capitol like cockroaches. Maybe the human lobbyists are just there to distract us from the real power brokers -- the cockroaches! How else can you explain the filibuster debate?
You know this might actually be on topic... I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted computer programmer...
Space exploration and space science should be carried out on peaceful, scientific grounds only. The world's major militaries can all wipe out life on the face of the Earth already, so being able to do it a few minutes faster with space-borne weapons is hardly my idea of progress.
I'm surprised that nobody has pointed out that, even with all our nukes and other weapons, we still can't wipe out all life on Earth. We may be able to wipe out all the bipedal, supposedly-intelligent primates, and the collateral damage would probably take out the snowy owls, the snail darters, and the platypuses (platipi?).
But the Earth will still contain plenty of life, and it will go merrily on its way without giving our untimely departure a second thought. At least for the next few billion years, that is... until the sun swells up and turns into a cosmic sterilization oven.
actually i would think that the lightsaber would melt the bullet but not slow its velocity, causing a fast-moving molten lead bullet to pierce his head.
Darn it, I got mod points but of course I can't use them to mod up your reply to my post. That's the one issue I don't see brought up in the Feasibilty of Star Wars Tech discussion. Energy weapon deflection, sure. Traditional sword, maybe. But a chunk of flying lead... maybe it would slice it in two, which would leave two tumbling high-speed projectiles.
(No, this discussion doesn't make me a geek. That would only be if I attempted to calculate the damage factor increase in terms of dice rolls... Ok, I'm a geek.)
From the Fine Article:
Although Lucas has absolutely said he is finished with the series, it is inconceivable to me that 20th Century-Fox will willingly abandon the franchise, especially as Lucas has hinted that parts VII, VIII and IX exist at least in his mind. There will be enormous pressure for them to be made, if not by him, then by his deputies.
Yes! Bring on the deputies! And as for the Sheriff...
Freedom came my way one day,
And I started out of town, yeah!
All of a sudden I saw Sheriff George Lucas Brown
Aiming to shoot me down.
So I shot, I shot, I shot him down.
(Of course, Lucas would deflect the shot with his lightsaber)
One of my favorite unknown alt.country singers, Slaid Cleaves, tells the story of his day job: lab rat for experimental medicines at a center in Austin, Texas.The rest of the story (including the lab's phone number, if you're interested) can be found at Slaid Cleaves' web site.
Sorry to tell you this but real scientists in the real world usually dont base a whole lot of their research on hollywood movies...
Supposedly not, but:
Report: Paleontologist "fudged" discovery to promote movie
Museum of the Rockies paleontologist Jack Horner "fudged" information about a dinosaur discovery four years ago to promote the third "Jurassic Park" film, National Public Radio reported Wednesday.
Horner disputes altering dinosaur discovery for movie opening
BOZEMAN -- Paleontologist Jack Horner, who served as a science consultant for the "Jurassic Park" films, acknowledged that the announcement of a dinosaur find in eastern Montana was delayed to help promote the third installment of the dinosaur-flick franchise four years ago.
And the NPR report (audio) that broke the story:
Movie Marketers Turn to Subtle, Sophisticated Tactics
Advertisers are finding new and creative ways to sell their films. [...] One studio has even manipulated a scientific discovery to coincide with the opening of a film. A look at some of the tactics studios use to seduce moviegoers to their films.
So much for the universal integrity of scientists in the real world...
Wouldn't your Driver's Ed teacher (aka the basketball coach) be much happier if he could verify your skills in one of these, rather than from the passenger seat with nothing but a second brake pedal between him and being pwnx0rd by a bridge abutment?
... so we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight, I says let them truckers roll, 10-4, 'cause we got a mighty Convoy rockin' through the night...
It's not such a crazy idea... check out the Truck Driver Simulation Mobile Classroom. It's a full-sized full-motion multi-screen 18-wheeler simulator, designed to help train professional truck drivers. The unit -- which itself is housed in an 18-wheeler trailer -- claims to be "unlike any in the world," although the folks in the UK are trying to catch up.
Myself, I'd like to see what it's really like to climb in the cab and say
Both your arguments apply equally well to killing humans.
Ah, but that would be a most dangerous game, wouldn't it?
Food is a basic necessity. It is a right, in fact, part of the basic human right to life. There is no basic human right to sport.
As I recall, one well-known country was founded on a Declaration that included not just life as a right, but also liberty, which could include the right to be as free as your ancestors were -- though there might be drawbacks to that. There's even an unusual-sounding right to a "pursuit of happiness", which, if you define "happiness" as "hunting $CRITTER_NAME", would imply a right to sport.
I read somewhere about workers at an Army ammunition plant. A newbie came on, and was being shown around his area of responsibility, when there was a loud metallic CLANG, as some object in the warehouse full of high explosives dropped to the floor. The newbie instinctively dove to the ground has his compatriots chuckled. As he stood back up, they told him, "If you hear it hit the floor, it didn't explode."
Looks like this one was a dud. Lucky much?
I agree that Roland's "stories" have got to stop - but is there anything we can do to further this end? (and I don't mean hack/ddos his site, although I'm surprised that hasn't happenned yet).
That's it! If we DDOS the Roland Pig-Pile's site, he'll have to stop sumbmitting his borderline-plagarism drivel. And I know just how to do it... Submit a story to Slashdot.org . If that doesn't bring his server to it's knees, nothing will.
Also, what effects would this have on gas mileage of vehicles. If the road was givein way a little as say a semi or large vehicle was driveing over the road, to waht degree would it "sink" into the road? Would you be wanting to run more air pressure in the tires of the vehicle on these types of roads, to compensate for the flex inherant in this road? And over time, what effect would this have on gas. Another valuable resource.
If the road does tend to allow vehicles to "sink" into it, you'd need to *decrease* your air pressure, not increase it. It's going to be like driving on the beach -- flatter tires are fatter and give you more traction. Nice, hard, taut tires will sink into the surface even worse. Either way, though, the gas mileage will likely suffer.
OTOH, other posters have suggested that this won't be a problem, YMMV (a remarkably apropos acronym in this case).
They use liquid sodium metal in nuclear reactors. you do NOT want this in your computer.
Maybe YOU don't want liquid sodium metal in your computer. I think it would be beyond cool, especially when the unit reaches end-of-life and it's disposal time.
For what it's worth: Journal Entry: The Slashdot Dream! "Score: 5, Troll"
I'll be 60. It looks like I'll be able to turn our family's hobby -- raising and riding horses -- into my retirement income, after the fall of civilization.
Looks like the next 20 years would be a good time to stock up on saddles, tack, and horse meds.
Did it occur to you that since "you" don't have moral values, that might be why your guy lost? Seems your party is the most hateful around...it truly shows.
Who exactly are you talking to?
My candidate was David Cobb. Folks say a lot of things about the Green Party, but "most hateful" is one epithet I've never heard applied to it.
I'll leave the deconstruction of your assertion about my personal moral values as an exercise for the student.
Once again, I am proud to be a texan, even if everyone gives me the Hank Hill stereotype.
:)
Sometimes, it feels like I'm the only Texan on Slashdot who isn't trying desperately to leave. Glad to know that there are two of us!
Well, I'll be darned. After squirming over action items like "supporting the President in the War on Terror" and "Cracking Down on Indecency", I was concerned. We got a letter recently with a checklist of priorites, which included several of the buzzwords being bandied around by the radical right ever since they disguised fear and hate as "Moral Values" to win the 2004 elections.
And then, Jeb Hensarling (R - Athens) goes and opens the door to "these newcomers to our political process [...] bloggers and online activists." (from TFA). And in a show of rare bipartisanship (on an issue not involving oil or war), he's partnering with a leading Democratic Senator. And some of the biggest beneficiaries of the legislation will be third-party bloggers, Greens, Libertarians, and all the rest.
It's as if he has a sense of civic duty. Maybe it's possible, even today. After all, there are an awful lot of "R"s in Texas who were "D"s in a previous life.
From Wikipedia: Sousveillance refers both to inverse surveillance, as well as to the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity (i.e. personal experience capture).
Of course, if the grandparent had RTFA (but then, why break with tradition?), he'd have seen this:
The opposite of surveillance -- French for watching from above -- sousveillance refers to watching from below, essentially from beneath the eye in the sky. It's the equivalent of keeping an eye on the eye.
It also sounds much better if you use a French accent. "sue-vail-AHNS" instead of "sue's-VEIL-uns".
Compare the formatting for the question from the article, who is jane fonda, with another question: what is google.
You can do a similar comparison between a couple of search terms from other postings: what is the slashdot effect vs. who was president of the usa in 1996.
Google (currently) appears to format answers it's sure about (what's google, what's the slashdot effect) with an icon and a link to "define:term". Fuzzier matches (Jane Fonda and the putative president) get the nonsequitur text "Property:" and an "According to:" disclaimer.
This looks like something interesting, but clearly still in the early beta. Which is *great*! I love getting a peek behind the curtain.