Most interesting to the geek community is this: What are the terms of his imprisonment?
1) Will he have fairly regular internet access?
2) Will he be allowed to type...perhaps code some?
3) Inmates are regularly allowed to read all they want and take skills courses and learn new crafts...does this extend to a geek's leanings?
With one's wife already gone...one would have a great deal of peace coding...especially if all your meals were provided at regular times and you were guaranteed a fairly clean set of sheets to sleep on.
While I do not advocate killing anybody...it does have advantages if you were a hardcore geek. It would be like college, except without all that silly dating and learning. Just sit in your new 'dorm' room and code.
There is historical proof that people used to live for 600, 800, or 1000 years. See the first 15 pages of your motel Bible. This research may be interesting, as it supposedly restores us to our sinless state as God created us. Interesting.
I want to know if time slows down for the pulsars. We seem to see them (I rtfa) orbiting around each other every couple of hours...
If you were standing on that orbiting pulsar, how long do you think your watch would read?
From the outside - earth, you appear to move around every 2 hours...but if you were sitting there, time slows down...so would you think you were there for weeks?
oddness. measure that.
mod parent up.
Slashdot is significantly easier than reading all the applicable news stories along with all the other fluff in regular news. If I wanted regular news...I'd watch it on tv and fall asleep immediately following the weather.
There is no retirement fund in the world that should be invested in Yahoo. Retirement people...when you are nearing retirement age you want to have little to no risk. Nobody will be losing any money in their golden years because of this except the idiots that put the money there in the first place.
This is more likely a long term outlook 'retirement fund'...a pair of funds that right now are in their 'high risk' or 'moderate risk' spans of time. The folks putting in to these funds right now should be in their 20's to 40's. A small hiccup now is not going to be a major factor 30+ years from now...these idiots are just trying to sue their mistakes away because they've already made too many poor investments.
I would imagine that ebay decided that since the item wasn't actually for sale...at least not for pickup...until 2009, then it really wasn't actually for sale after all. Several thousand dollars for something that isn't guaranteed to work, and that you can't have for over a year is probably somewhat against ebay seller policy.
All the links now show an invalid/removed auction. Ho hum.
I am still waiting for something that I can mount on my own house. Seriously, every single electrician in the world will find plenty of extra work once we don't need the power companies anymore. Distributed semi-private generation is the future.
I feel that way about my cellphone. I'm pretty sure that the phones are programmed with an algorithm to drop more calls and have less signal as the phone ages. My 2 cents of off-topic goodness.
perhaps this inner turmoil and frustration is the blinking indicator light of why things don't get done. I've wanted good envelope and label support for quite some time, and with recent releases it has gotten better - but not really. It is sort of like a stub article in a technical wiki...we intend to put something more substantial here notice. Management is getting in the way of simple upgrades and additions? Never worked for a company like that before.
Sigh. Relative morality is not really any morality at all. All situations can be 'better understood' as the superior enlightened like to say. Others may sometimes call the same 'understanding' things like enabling, guilt-avoidance, unethical, @$@, and other fine insults with real character trashing qualities.
For any free society to be successful, there must exist not only individual liberty, but also individual responsibility.
This fine moron, and anybody arguing for him, understands individual liberty just fine, but not so much the responsibility. Break one, and unfortunately the other will probably be broken on your behalf or on the behalf of those around you.
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Next time, don't bother wasting the electricity used to store the bits used to express your opinion. Trolling and flaming are sort of stupid...especially in a topic as over-posted as this one. Reading the letters and the words and not understanding the truth and principles behind them are obviously a problem you have. Try working on those critical thinking skills and take a few morality and ethics classes at your local community college.
I am afraid of your dense stupidity, and those that share it.
Actions have consequences: He was a moron and got taken away for his obviously planned unruly behavior.
Actions have consequences: The security staff will be scrutinized beyond all sensibilities by morons like yourself that sit in front of computers and have no legal or criminal enforcement experience.
Actions have consequences: The entire country is being taken over by people that don't want to feel threatened, don't want to be put in the corner, and don't want any responsibility for their actions. Those people never got sent to bed without supper, never got a spanking for disrespecting their elders, and never grew the self-control and intestinal fortitude to eat meat or do anything they think is unconscionable except tear each other down and point fingers and say it is everybody else's fault. Thats right. Here in America, you aren't at fault for anything - you are always a victim and worth somebody else's tax money to fight for you.
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ps - my this topic certainly has gotten a lot of comments. Not exactly News for nerds...or things that matter. This is quite possibly the biggest dupe of slashdot ever. Ask yourself this: Would anybody really care what the answers to that babbling idiot's questions would be if he hadn't caused such a scene? The only reason this is being talked about is because he was a complete moron in public - way to play into his plan. You've all been duped by a 20 year old with too much spare time on his hands at the beginning of the semester. He and his idealistic brethren thought up this plan some evening last week while drinking beer and eating pizza....cheap pizza.
I know it really isn't a rootkit, but seriously, why is a GAME putting information into the registry anyway? I know that all games pretty much do put things into the registry...but the actual reason for it is moronic.
The registry serves as a storage space for operating system values that can be loaded quickly and easily. It is not a space to pile in any old crap that might be useful to your game or other piece of software. For that you have - tada - config files.
Your config files can be plain ascii, they can be hex, they can be binary. I don't really care. Just keep your crap out of the registry so that windows doesn't need to load a 70Meg registry file at boot.
Secondly...did nobody in their companies try to install it and notice this? Really, something that shows up under any scan with your name on it can scare the less informed. Just not a good first impression I'd say.
I have been using 256 encoded Ogg Vorbis for quite a few years now. It is noticeably better than mp3...especially at the crappy encoding rates that some of the teenagers try to rip their music into. Seriously, a 96 or even 64 bit encoding scheme is optimized for size not quality.
I suggest the recording industry (RIAA) start a TV campaign telling kids that can't do simple math that they are supposed to always pick the highest quality recording they can. When they can't download things that way, then they'll at least have to buy a cd and do it themselves.
This is off topic, considering the headline story...but the way the topic usually hashes out (and indeed did) makes this post not entirely off topic.
This is a fine example of the moronic left not seeing the world moderating and controling it I suppose.
Or, conversely, a fine example of the righteous right seeing the picture, but only from their point of view and seeking to make sure the rest of the world sees it their way.
In general, I'd say that a lack of genetic diversity seems an obvious outcome from centuries of radiation from the sun and an excellent support to a degrading human race - not an improving and evolving one. Others I'm sure can speculate the other way. Hence the never ending debate.
Hence the enormous mass of weight lifter's muscles. They are larger in order to stockpile more mitochonrial structures in their cellular walls. Each cell itself is bigger, there aren't more of them.
Runners and cardio folks, with their long stringy muscles, do not contain huge reserves of mitochondrial energy. They get their endurance from a very good and efficient process of ATP processing involving oxygen.
Lifters do not use oxygen to get their work done...but do require frequent rest periods to allow lactic acid to drain from their muscles before they can do their next set of reps.
Lots of bodybuilders, if good, will get their heartbeat going by rotating through several exercises in quick succession. Lat pulls, leg press, bench press - for example. Each using different muscles - your body as a whole is still constantly tasked, but each muscle group has a chance to expell waste products and return to a functional state. Some of the clubs that the original poster went to may very well be too damn busy at the early morning and lunch time periods - and making it impossible to do a proper rotation reliably because there will be a bunch of pencil necked paper pushers and fat butts in their way after they get done with one exercise.
The suit was a standard issue pilot's G-suit. They weren't planning on leaving the atmosphere I believe. G-suit helps keep blood in your skull when you are pulling anywhere between 2.5-12 times the force of gravity. Otherwise you'd pass out. I suppose the water and such in the legs would give you some very temporary protection from the (lack of) elements in space. Definitely not a space suit.
How, when the chip is designed to work at a certain power level, do you assume it takes more? It may indeed be slightly higher or lower, and indeed it does actually use some electricity to compute things - it does more than simply radiate heat - but so does a light bulb. You can be pretty sure that the chip itself is taking the 59 watts of power or less. Generally, the machine isn't running full tilt anyway - wasted cycles - and will generally run around 35-45watts.
This is more like the horsepower rating of your engine....it goes up to that amount but is usually less.
It is wholly unlike your milage estimate... which is directly dependant on how a great many things far more out of the designers control. Milage is generally overstated. And so is horsepower. The designer does have control over the second though.
Hmm...I guess I am proven a buffoon. I saw this years ago and figured it was what it said...perpendicular to what is normally written. Still horizontal, but not longitudinal. Sigh. I am stupid.
If the bits were standing on end, it would be called vertical recording. That is a horrible video. Perhaps I'm mistaken...but I thought perpendicular meant instead of going around the disk like this: - - - - - - - - - they could go like this: llllllllllllllllll
sigh.
Nothing like marketing and graphic artist dorks messing up real, honest, true, scientific, and conventional wisdom and methods.
Well, it isn't going to get you anywhere with the girls, but it doesn't hang around long. Burnt plastic/metal film doesn't smell good...but my gosh 8 seconds is too long! Smell disipates after doing a dozen or so discs 3 seconds each within an hour or so.
3 seconds. It takes roughly 2 seconds for the magnetron thingy to warm up and begin producing microwaves at any appreciable amount in most microwaves. That leaves 1 second of radiation...
My prefered method - and effective and proven safe probably around 100 times...
Put a small glass in the center of the microwave, place the disc on top of that. 3 seconds. Not long enough to fry anything but the disc.
Last year I convinced my wife to let me do a dozen or so for a geek-tree at christmas.
I do believe you made a typo and meant 13th century...
If not, you are a bafoon indeed. The roman catholic church cannot even trace it's origins beyond 400 ad without cheating. Considering the church of england had to be 'birthed' by the roman catholic...wow. There was no 'King of England' in the 3rd century...hence no real need to bend Christendom to advance their political agendas.
I for one vote that we send our mars mission to a landing place within a fair distance of this great anomaly. Seriously...if for no other reason than to have a small vacation spot for the crew to go visit. Something interesting away from the normal day to day like growing vegetables for food and doing mineral samples. This would be a great scientific AND social easter egg for them (and us).
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I would consider it 'donating time' and 'performing community service'. Just in a far different manner than most.
Most interesting to the geek community is this: What are the terms of his imprisonment? 1) Will he have fairly regular internet access? 2) Will he be allowed to type...perhaps code some? 3) Inmates are regularly allowed to read all they want and take skills courses and learn new crafts...does this extend to a geek's leanings? With one's wife already gone...one would have a great deal of peace coding...especially if all your meals were provided at regular times and you were guaranteed a fairly clean set of sheets to sleep on. While I do not advocate killing anybody...it does have advantages if you were a hardcore geek. It would be like college, except without all that silly dating and learning. Just sit in your new 'dorm' room and code.
There is historical proof that people used to live for 600, 800, or 1000 years. See the first 15 pages of your motel Bible. This research may be interesting, as it supposedly restores us to our sinless state as God created us. Interesting.
I want to know if time slows down for the pulsars. We seem to see them (I rtfa) orbiting around each other every couple of hours... If you were standing on that orbiting pulsar, how long do you think your watch would read? From the outside - earth, you appear to move around every 2 hours...but if you were sitting there, time slows down...so would you think you were there for weeks? oddness. measure that.
mod parent up. Slashdot is significantly easier than reading all the applicable news stories along with all the other fluff in regular news. If I wanted regular news...I'd watch it on tv and fall asleep immediately following the weather.
There is no retirement fund in the world that should be invested in Yahoo. Retirement people...when you are nearing retirement age you want to have little to no risk. Nobody will be losing any money in their golden years because of this except the idiots that put the money there in the first place.
This is more likely a long term outlook 'retirement fund'...a pair of funds that right now are in their 'high risk' or 'moderate risk' spans of time. The folks putting in to these funds right now should be in their 20's to 40's. A small hiccup now is not going to be a major factor 30+ years from now...these idiots are just trying to sue their mistakes away because they've already made too many poor investments.
Greed. Always astounds me. You'd think eventually I'd just expect everybody to be greedy and the world to implode because of it.
I would imagine that ebay decided that since the item wasn't actually for sale...at least not for pickup...until 2009, then it really wasn't actually for sale after all. Several thousand dollars for something that isn't guaranteed to work, and that you can't have for over a year is probably somewhat against ebay seller policy.
All the links now show an invalid/removed auction. Ho hum.
I am still waiting for something that I can mount on my own house. Seriously, every single electrician in the world will find plenty of extra work once we don't need the power companies anymore. Distributed semi-private generation is the future.
I feel that way about my cellphone. I'm pretty sure that the phones are programmed with an algorithm to drop more calls and have less signal as the phone ages. My 2 cents of off-topic goodness.
Activision?
perhaps this inner turmoil and frustration is the blinking indicator light of why things don't get done. I've wanted good envelope and label support for quite some time, and with recent releases it has gotten better - but not really. It is sort of like a stub article in a technical wiki...we intend to put something more substantial here notice.
Management is getting in the way of simple upgrades and additions?
Never worked for a company like that before.
cough cough
Sigh. Relative morality is not really any morality at all. All situations can be 'better understood' as the superior enlightened like to say. Others may sometimes call the same 'understanding' things like enabling, guilt-avoidance, unethical, @$@, and other fine insults with real character trashing qualities.
For any free society to be successful, there must exist not only individual liberty, but also individual responsibility.
This fine moron, and anybody arguing for him, understands individual liberty just fine, but not so much the responsibility. Break one, and unfortunately the other will probably be broken on your behalf or on the behalf of those around you.
----- Next time, don't bother wasting the electricity used to store the bits used to express your opinion. Trolling and flaming are sort of stupid...especially in a topic as over-posted as this one. Reading the letters and the words and not understanding the truth and principles behind them are obviously a problem you have. Try working on those critical thinking skills and take a few morality and ethics classes at your local community college.
I am afraid of your dense stupidity, and those that share it.
Actions have consequences: He was a moron and got taken away for his obviously planned unruly behavior.
Actions have consequences: The security staff will be scrutinized beyond all sensibilities by morons like yourself that sit in front of computers and have no legal or criminal enforcement experience.
Actions have consequences: The entire country is being taken over by people that don't want to feel threatened, don't want to be put in the corner, and don't want any responsibility for their actions. Those people never got sent to bed without supper, never got a spanking for disrespecting their elders, and never grew the self-control and intestinal fortitude to eat meat or do anything they think is unconscionable except tear each other down and point fingers and say it is everybody else's fault. Thats right. Here in America, you aren't at fault for anything - you are always a victim and worth somebody else's tax money to fight for you.
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ps - my this topic certainly has gotten a lot of comments. Not exactly News for nerds...or things that matter. This is quite possibly the biggest dupe of slashdot ever. Ask yourself this: Would anybody really care what the answers to that babbling idiot's questions would be if he hadn't caused such a scene? The only reason this is being talked about is because he was a complete moron in public - way to play into his plan. You've all been duped by a 20 year old with too much spare time on his hands at the beginning of the semester. He and his idealistic brethren thought up this plan some evening last week while drinking beer and eating pizza....cheap pizza.
I know it really isn't a rootkit, but seriously, why is a GAME putting information into the registry anyway? I know that all games pretty much do put things into the registry...but the actual reason for it is moronic.
The registry serves as a storage space for operating system values that can be loaded quickly and easily. It is not a space to pile in any old crap that might be useful to your game or other piece of software. For that you have - tada - config files.
Your config files can be plain ascii, they can be hex, they can be binary. I don't really care. Just keep your crap out of the registry so that windows doesn't need to load a 70Meg registry file at boot.
Secondly...did nobody in their companies try to install it and notice this? Really, something that shows up under any scan with your name on it can scare the less informed. Just not a good first impression I'd say.
I have been using 256 encoded Ogg Vorbis for quite a few years now. It is noticeably better than mp3...especially at the crappy encoding rates that some of the teenagers try to rip their music into. Seriously, a 96 or even 64 bit encoding scheme is optimized for size not quality.
I suggest the recording industry (RIAA) start a TV campaign telling kids that can't do simple math that they are supposed to always pick the highest quality recording they can. When they can't download things that way, then they'll at least have to buy a cd and do it themselves.
This is off topic, considering the headline story...but the way the topic usually hashes out (and indeed did) makes this post not entirely off topic.
This is a fine example of the moronic left not seeing the world moderating and controling it I suppose.
Or, conversely, a fine example of the righteous right seeing the picture, but only from their point of view and seeking to make sure the rest of the world sees it their way.
In general, I'd say that a lack of genetic diversity seems an obvious outcome from centuries of radiation from the sun and an excellent support to a degrading human race - not an improving and evolving one. Others I'm sure can speculate the other way. Hence the never ending debate.
Hence the enormous mass of weight lifter's muscles. They are larger in order to stockpile more mitochonrial structures in their cellular walls. Each cell itself is bigger, there aren't more of them.
Runners and cardio folks, with their long stringy muscles, do not contain huge reserves of mitochondrial energy. They get their endurance from a very good and efficient process of ATP processing involving oxygen.
Lifters do not use oxygen to get their work done...but do require frequent rest periods to allow lactic acid to drain from their muscles before they can do their next set of reps.
Lots of bodybuilders, if good, will get their heartbeat going by rotating through several exercises in quick succession. Lat pulls, leg press, bench press - for example. Each using different muscles - your body as a whole is still constantly tasked, but each muscle group has a chance to expell waste products and return to a functional state. Some of the clubs that the original poster went to may very well be too damn busy at the early morning and lunch time periods - and making it impossible to do a proper rotation reliably because there will be a bunch of pencil necked paper pushers and fat butts in their way after they get done with one exercise.
The suit was a standard issue pilot's G-suit. They weren't planning on leaving the atmosphere I believe. G-suit helps keep blood in your skull when you are pulling anywhere between 2.5-12 times the force of gravity. Otherwise you'd pass out. I suppose the water and such in the legs would give you some very temporary protection from the (lack of) elements in space. Definitely not a space suit.
How, when the chip is designed to work at a certain power level, do you assume it takes more? It may indeed be slightly higher or lower, and indeed it does actually use some electricity to compute things - it does more than simply radiate heat - but so does a light bulb. You can be pretty sure that the chip itself is taking the 59 watts of power or less. Generally, the machine isn't running full tilt anyway - wasted cycles - and will generally run around 35-45watts.
... which is directly dependant on how a great many things far more out of the designers control. Milage is generally overstated. And so is horsepower. The designer does have control over the second though.
This is more like the horsepower rating of your engine....it goes up to that amount but is usually less.
It is wholly unlike your milage estimate
Hmm...I guess I am proven a buffoon. I saw this years ago and figured it was what it said...perpendicular to what is normally written. Still horizontal, but not longitudinal. Sigh. I am stupid.
Vertical it is.
Perpendicular /= Vertical
If the bits were standing on end, it would be called vertical recording. That is a horrible video. Perhaps I'm mistaken...but I thought perpendicular meant instead of going around the disk like this:
- - - - - - - - -
they could go like this:
llllllllllllllllll
sigh.
Nothing like marketing and graphic artist dorks messing up real, honest, true, scientific, and conventional wisdom and methods.
Well, it isn't going to get you anywhere with the girls, but it doesn't hang around long. Burnt plastic/metal film doesn't smell good...but my gosh 8 seconds is too long! Smell disipates after doing a dozen or so discs 3 seconds each within an hour or so.
3 seconds. It takes roughly 2 seconds for the magnetron thingy to warm up and begin producing microwaves at any appreciable amount in most microwaves. That leaves 1 second of radiation...
My prefered method - and effective and proven safe probably around 100 times...
Put a small glass in the center of the microwave, place the disc on top of that. 3 seconds. Not long enough to fry anything but the disc.
Last year I convinced my wife to let me do a dozen or so for a geek-tree at christmas.
3rd Century? Like 200s....
I do believe you made a typo and meant 13th century...
If not, you are a bafoon indeed. The roman catholic church cannot even trace it's origins beyond 400 ad without cheating. Considering the church of england had to be 'birthed' by the roman catholic...wow. There was no 'King of England' in the 3rd century...hence no real need to bend Christendom to advance their political agendas.
I for one vote that we send our mars mission to a landing place within a fair distance of this great anomaly. Seriously...if for no other reason than to have a small vacation spot for the crew to go visit. Something interesting away from the normal day to day like growing vegetables for food and doing mineral samples. This would be a great scientific AND social easter egg for them (and us).