Maybe the FBI has problem with storage. With multi-GB HDDs out there they must be getting tired of storing the same VxDs and DLLs in their evidence lockers, not to mention all the storage taken up by porn. Or maybe their agents are spending all their time examining the already mentioned porn files for hidden messages.
What is Latinum? The only thing that has any value, since it can't be replicated. See: http://zooplah.dyndns.org/misc/ stqahttp://zooplah. dyndns.org/misc/stqa
also
Latinum Star Trek A liquid which cannot be replicated or synthesized. Used as a dominant form of currency by the Ferengi. As it is difficult to properly measure liquid for currency transactions, premeasured amounts of latinum are inserted into hollow cores of gold bullion of various sizes, leading to the standard units: slip, strip, bar and brick. With the latinum removed, the gold is considered worthless. For an exposition on the future of money and how latinum might come to be, see "Proposal for an Ideal Nano-Specie: Gold-Pressed Latinum" by Robert Freitas http://discuss.foresight.org/critmail/sci_nano/544 7.html http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/TangibleNanomoney.htm .
The ENGINE will have a better horsepower/weight ratio.
I didn't claim a CAR would bet a better HP/lb ratio.
Throw the same engine into a car and make no additional changes to the car, then the car won't see enough wegith reduction to get a better horsepower/weight ratio.
6 cylinders, average 600 HP total is 100 HP/cyl average. If all Cyls weigh the same, and we remove 2 underperforming cyls that only give 75 HP ea. then we have removed 150HP (25%) at a weight savings of 33%.
Net result is more HP per unit weight of engine, with a lower total engine output. More effecient, but less power overall.
Or brain wise, more BrainPower per neuron, but fewer neurons working to do the things brains do.
PS: I want a 450 HP 4 banger that's street legal, emissions legal, and requires only the basic levels of maintence.
PPS: Oh yeah, also runs on 87 octane, or on used grease from making french fries.
Re:IRC analysis fatally flawed
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In addition to the parents arguments, when a 5mb binary is sent across the lines (typical song in mp3 format) it far outweighs the bandwith used by a 24 hour chat session. If most file swaps on IRC are unauthorised then I'll buy that statistic. If 99% of users on IRC are claimed to be doing illegal things, then I've got to call bullshit (totaly in agreement with the parent.)
That's like saying my cars will go faster when the weakest cylinders are removed. Total horsepower goes down. But, I'll grant you, you'll get a better horsepower/weight ratio for your engine/brain.
Speaking of tatoos, people used to "get ink done."
It's ironic that an derivitive of an ink delivery system now lets you "get skin done."
While on the subject of body modification, I think about artistic scarring. Just print up some scarred skin, no pain, no potential infection, no wait time hoping the wound was deep/wide/ragged enough to leave a worthwhile scar. Just slip into your new skin with all the art already in place.
Okay, I saw the episode, I knoew D-Jackson touch the mirror thing, and the adventure begins, and is resolved in 44-45 minutes of screen time. But, to remember that it's p3r-233... that's so...uber geek.
You're in the right place. Glad you've found a home here at Slashdot.
no, becuase, what if Scientist XYZ didn't have an apple fall on his head and have a great insight on how to make his reverse-entropy machine work, where in another universe the apple fell, the machine was made, and hey, look at that, the guy has free energy and can go out and fight against the heat-death of the universe (or have the energy to make a wormhole to go and reach another universe.)
Or, perhaps, he'll find a universe that occilates between the big bang and big crunch. Catch it on the expanding end of that cycle and that universe will be fresher than our own...but, don't move in durring the crunch!
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2003/07/16/santa_mo. sh tml
This site explains how 86-year-old George Russell Weller killed ten people with his automobile at a farmers market in Santa Monica CA. At least one of the dead was a 10 month old baby and three year old was also injured. Mr Weller decided that he was capable of operating a motor vehicle in a safe fashion. He started the automobile and went about his business. Apparently Mr Weller was not able to operate his automobile quite as well as he though. He "confused" his break and gas pedals. When his "break" pedal did not stop the car he pressed the pedal harder in an effort to stop the car. It accelerated as it crushed and trapped shoppers and vendors. Mr Weller got off with minimal punishment for causing a great loss for so many in the community.
Actually, he's referring to RING, also by Stephen Baxter, and part of the Xeelee sequence. Vacumm Diagrams is just a collection of short stories rounded up into one volume. Still an entertaining read:)
Reading Vacum Diagrams first is like reading the cliffs notes before reading a book. It's a spoiler of much that's to come. Vac. Diag. is a collection of short stories set in the Xeelee universe that goes a way to filling in holes and answering questions that come up from reading the other novels. It's a great entertaining read.
The idea behind paralell universes are that they are smilar to our own, but slightly diffrent, say, way back when Pangea was the place to be a meteor landed and cracked the mega continent, and in certain paralell universe the metor hit, but didn't crack the continent due to some serious english being placed on the rock when it fell (or whatever bullshit thing you can think of.) Fastforward 100million years and the dinosar killing rock hits ocean instead of land, so the big die-off isn't so big. Fastforward another 200 million, and dinosaurs still rule the earth and men still look like squirles. Small changes far back can mean a big thing today. Think using 2 bytes to store the value of a year vs 4. That's a y2k problem, or no y2k problem. It all would depend on when the parallel universes diverged, and the degree of divengence. A big diffrence only a few years old and you might not notice a diffrence in the overall universe, but a small diffrence that occured way back in the begining (like..oh..say... durring the big bang there was a discarded mayonase sanwich laying about.)
As a young orphan, a boy[Val Kilmer] refuses to accept the name given him by priests and instead chooses to take on the name of Simon Templar after the Saint of magic. Speed ahead and the young boy is now a master thief in bidding wars with countries for his services. Using his skills of master disguise, he eludes all pursuers as he assumes names associated with the various Saints. In this role after stealing from a Russian industrialist, the industrialist hires The Saint to steal a formula for cold fusion being developed by a young female scientist. Cold fusion is said to permit a nation to heat its citizens with only a few gallons of water. However, on this case The Saint falls in love with the scientist placing him in a quandary of fulfilling his professional obligations or staying with the innocent young scientist. When she becomes threatened by the Russian Mafia, he has no choice but to go ahead with his job. However, she follows him to Moscow, setting off a chase across the City and through their sewers.
Simon Templar[Val Kilmer] - a fictitious name a young orphan boy invented for himself in a Hong Kong orphanage years ago - is now a suave, debonair, international thief who needs to pull-off just one more exuberant heist to put him at the $50 million mark in his Swiss bank account (his goal amount for retirement). An easy job: simply steal Dr. Emma Russel's formula for cold-fusion, and deliver it to a Russian billionaire bent on sending Russia back to Communism - no problem, Right? Wrong! There's one thing Mr. Templar, master of disguise didn't count on... falling in love.
Uhm, V.K. was just some clueless spy guy...you really need to talk to Elizabeth Shue. On second though, I'll go talk to her and relate to slashdot what she had to say.
no! no! I'm not stalking anyone! I'm trying to get a comment from Elizabeth Shue, for slashdot a big online news website, on the recent use of senic waves to create compression in plasma for the purpose of starting a nuclear fission reaction. What? you never heard of slashdot? of nuclear fission? plasma? No, I'm not talking about a television![while security drone with no neck and arms as big as my thighs throws me out into the street]
Slashdotted at 5 comments. Here's the article text (after a 4 minute wait.)
Ultimate Retro: Modern echoes of the early universe
Ron Cowen
Two teams of astronomers have for the first time detected the surviving notes of a cosmic symphony created just after the Big Bang, when the universe was a foggy soup of matter and radiation. The discoverers say that the survival of the acoustic imprint from this early epoch, 13.7 billion years ago, provides compelling new evidence that the blueprint for the present distribution of galaxies was set at the time of the Big Bang by random subatomic fluctuations.
In 1999, researchers detected a specific pattern of acoustic oscillations in the faint, ancient whisper of radiation--the cosmic microwave background--left over from the Big Bang. This week, Shaun Cole of the University of Durham in England and his colleagues announced that they had discerned remnants of that pattern while analyzing data from the Two-Degree Field Redshift Gravity Survey, a large-scale analysis of 220,000 galaxies. The map covers one-twentieth the area of the sky out to a distance of 2 billion light-years from Earth.
Another team, led by Daniel Eisenstein of the University of Arizona in Tucson, examined a subset of 46,000 galaxies from another sky map, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which covers one-quarter of the sky.
Each team used a different method of analysis but found the same acoustic pattern. The groups reported their findings this week at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Diego.
The signals are so weak that, to detect them even in large-galaxy surveys, "both groups had to work quite hard," notes cosmologist David N. Spergel of Princeton University. "The result is another important milestone in establishing a standard model for cosmology."
The early universe rang like a bell, notes Spergel. As gravity drew together clumps of atomic matter, radiation--then tightly bound to that matter--exerted an outward pressure. The tug-of-war between gravity's pull and radiation's push generated pressure waves, or acoustic oscillations.
About 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe had cooled sufficiently for the radiation to break free from matter and travel unimpeded into space. Now in the form of microwaves, this radiation pervades the universe and provides a snapshot of the cosmos at that early time, ripples and all.
The small size of the fluctuations, both in the microwave background and the galaxy distribution today, provides additional evidence that most of the mass of the universe is composed of dark matter--an exotic, invisible, and primordial material that has never interacted with light and so had never generated sound waves, notes Spergel.
Eisenstein notes that, using the length of the sound waves as a cosmic ruler, astronomers can calculate the universe's expansion. Both of the new studies agree with earlier reports that cosmic expansion is speeding up (SN: 5/22/04, p. 330: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040522/bob9. asp). The universe's first symphony therefore provides independent evidence that the cosmos is filled with dark energy, which causes the acceleration.
I'd say the answer is as soon as a 747 with a FCS-700A and a pilot that feels the need to use auto-landing durring an emergency all come together in the same part of the sky.
Here's the dope on the FCS-700A
Long version: http://www.rockwellcollins.com/ecat/at/FCS-700A.ht ml?smenu=105
Short Version: The FCS-700A is a fully digital, fail operational autopilot flight director system. The system, part of the Boeing 747-400 flight control system, performs tasks associated with flight director commands, speed selection, altitude selection, heading selection, autopilot, autoland, and system fault isolation. Utilizing the new FCC-703, system upgrades are much easier and less expensive due to the incorporation of dataload capability via either front connector or rear connector. The FCC-703 replaces the FCC-702, Collins part number 622-8787-106.
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Maybe the FBI has problem with storage. With multi-GB HDDs out there they must be getting tired of storing the same VxDs and DLLs in their evidence lockers, not to mention all the storage taken up by porn. Or maybe their agents are spending all their time examining the already mentioned porn files for hidden messages.
What the hell is my Latinum?
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What is latinum?
Latinum is the currency used in the later Star Trek Series.
See:
http://www.thesitefights.com/team13/faq/f
Also
What is Latinum? The only thing that has any value, since it can't be replicated.
See:
http://zooplah.dyndns.org/misc
also
Latinum
Star Trek
A liquid which cannot be replicated or synthesized. Used as a dominant form of currency by the Ferengi. As it is difficult to properly measure liquid for currency transactions, premeasured amounts of latinum are inserted into hollow cores of gold bullion of various sizes, leading to the standard units: slip, strip, bar and brick. With the latinum removed, the gold is considered worthless.
For an exposition on the future of money and how latinum might come to be, see "Proposal for an Ideal Nano-Specie: Gold-Pressed Latinum" by Robert Freitas http://discuss.foresight.org/critmail/sci_nano/54
The ENGINE will have a better horsepower/weight ratio.
I didn't claim a CAR would bet a better HP/lb ratio.
Throw the same engine into a car and make no additional changes to the car, then the car won't see enough wegith reduction to get a better horsepower/weight ratio.
Hell, if I read that anywhere (slashdot or not) I think I'll wait till a 2.0 version before I even think about using it.
When will these show up at your local computer store?
okay, the VEHICLE would have fewer HP sure, that's the problem, the brain/engine would be more effecient, but have less HP overall. It's an ANALOGLY.
6 cylinders, average 600 HP total is 100 HP/cyl average. If all Cyls weigh the same, and we remove 2 underperforming cyls that only give 75 HP ea. then we have removed 150HP (25%) at a weight savings of 33%.
Net result is more HP per unit weight of engine, with a lower total engine output. More effecient, but less power overall.
Or brain wise, more BrainPower per neuron, but fewer neurons working to do the things brains do.
PS: I want a 450 HP 4 banger that's street legal, emissions legal, and requires only the basic levels of maintence.
PPS: Oh yeah, also runs on 87 octane, or on used grease from making french fries.
In addition to the parents arguments, when a 5mb binary is sent across the lines (typical song in mp3 format) it far outweighs the bandwith used by a 24 hour chat session. If most file swaps on IRC are unauthorised then I'll buy that statistic. If 99% of users on IRC are claimed to be doing illegal things, then I've got to call bullshit (totaly in agreement with the parent.)
That's like saying my cars will go faster when the weakest cylinders are removed. Total horsepower goes down. But, I'll grant you, you'll get a better horsepower/weight ratio for your engine/brain.
I'm sottaly tober officer, I'm dreventing pementia officer!
So, it won't work with a MS OS? :P
Speaking of tatoos, people used to "get ink done."
It's ironic that an derivitive of an ink delivery system now lets you "get skin done."
While on the subject of body modification, I think about artistic scarring. Just print up some scarred skin, no pain, no potential infection, no wait time hoping the wound was deep/wide/ragged enough to leave a worthwhile scar. Just slip into your new skin with all the art already in place.
Okay, I saw the episode, I knoew D-Jackson touch the mirror thing, and the adventure begins, and is resolved in 44-45 minutes of screen time. But, to remember that it's p3r-233... that's so...uber geek.
You're in the right place. Glad you've found a home here at Slashdot.
no, becuase, what if Scientist XYZ didn't have an apple fall on his head and have a great insight on how to make his reverse-entropy machine work, where in another universe the apple fell, the machine was made, and hey, look at that, the guy has free energy and can go out and fight against the heat-death of the universe (or have the energy to make a wormhole to go and reach another universe.)
Or, perhaps, he'll find a universe that occilates between the big bang and big crunch. Catch it on the expanding end of that cycle and that universe will be fresher than our own...but, don't move in durring the crunch!
For those who don't get the reference
. sh tml
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2003/07/16/santa_mo
This site explains how 86-year-old George Russell Weller killed ten people with his automobile at a farmers market in Santa Monica CA. At least one of the dead was a 10 month old baby and three year old was also injured. Mr Weller decided that he was capable of operating a motor vehicle in a safe fashion. He started the automobile and went about his business. Apparently Mr Weller was not able to operate his automobile quite as well as he though. He "confused" his break and gas pedals. When his "break" pedal did not stop the car he pressed the pedal harder in an effort to stop the car. It accelerated as it crushed and trapped shoppers and vendors. Mr Weller got off with minimal punishment for causing a great loss for so many in the community.
Actually, he's referring to RING, also by Stephen Baxter, and part of the Xeelee sequence. Vacumm Diagrams is just a collection of short stories rounded up into one volume. Still an entertaining read :)
Reading Vacum Diagrams first is like reading the cliffs notes before reading a book. It's a spoiler of much that's to come. Vac. Diag. is a collection of short stories set in the Xeelee universe that goes a way to filling in holes and answering questions that come up from reading the other novels. It's a great entertaining read.
The idea behind paralell universes are that they are smilar to our own, but slightly diffrent, say, way back when Pangea was the place to be a meteor landed and cracked the mega continent, and in certain paralell universe the metor hit, but didn't crack the continent due to some serious english being placed on the rock when it fell (or whatever bullshit thing you can think of.) Fastforward 100million years and the dinosar killing rock hits ocean instead of land, so the big die-off isn't so big. Fastforward another 200 million, and dinosaurs still rule the earth and men still look like squirles. Small changes far back can mean a big thing today. Think using 2 bytes to store the value of a year vs 4. That's a y2k problem, or no y2k problem. It all would depend on when the parallel universes diverged, and the degree of divengence. A big diffrence only a few years old and you might not notice a diffrence in the overall universe, but a small diffrence that occured way back in the begining (like..oh..say... durring the big bang there was a discarded mayonase sanwich laying about.)
Sliders? Holodecks? I thought we were talking Wormholes... call up the StarGate Command, they're already in the pegasus galaxy afterall.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120053/
As a young orphan, a boy[Val Kilmer] refuses to accept the name given him by priests and instead chooses to take on the name of Simon Templar after the Saint of magic. Speed ahead and the young boy is now a master thief in bidding wars with countries for his services. Using his skills of master disguise, he eludes all pursuers as he assumes names associated with the various Saints. In this role after stealing from a Russian industrialist, the industrialist hires The Saint to steal a formula for cold fusion being developed by a young female scientist. Cold fusion is said to permit a nation to heat its citizens with only a few gallons of water. However, on this case The Saint falls in love with the scientist placing him in a quandary of fulfilling his professional obligations or staying with the innocent young scientist. When she becomes threatened by the Russian Mafia, he has no choice but to go ahead with his job. However, she follows him to Moscow, setting off a chase across the City and through their sewers.
Simon Templar[Val Kilmer] - a fictitious name a young orphan boy invented for himself in a Hong Kong orphanage years ago - is now a suave, debonair, international thief who needs to pull-off just one more exuberant heist to put him at the $50 million mark in his Swiss bank account (his goal amount for retirement). An easy job: simply steal Dr. Emma Russel's formula for cold-fusion, and deliver it to a Russian billionaire bent on sending Russia back to Communism - no problem, Right? Wrong! There's one thing Mr. Templar, master of disguise didn't count on ... falling in love.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120053/
Uhm, V.K. was just some clueless spy guy...you really need to talk to Elizabeth Shue. On second though, I'll go talk to her and relate to slashdot what she had to say.
no! no! I'm not stalking anyone! I'm trying to get a comment from Elizabeth Shue, for slashdot a big online news website, on the recent use of senic waves to create compression in plasma for the purpose of starting a nuclear fission reaction. What? you never heard of slashdot? of nuclear fission? plasma? No, I'm not talking about a television![while security drone with no neck and arms as big as my thighs throws me out into the street]
Slashdotted at 5 comments. Here's the article text (after a 4 minute wait.)
. asp). The universe's first symphony therefore provides independent evidence that the cosmos is filled with dark energy, which causes the acceleration.
Ultimate Retro: Modern echoes of the early universe
Ron Cowen
Two teams of astronomers have for the first time detected the surviving notes of a cosmic symphony created just after the Big Bang, when the universe was a foggy soup of matter and radiation. The discoverers say that the survival of the acoustic imprint from this early epoch, 13.7 billion years ago, provides compelling new evidence that the blueprint for the present distribution of galaxies was set at the time of the Big Bang by random subatomic fluctuations.
In 1999, researchers detected a specific pattern of acoustic oscillations in the faint, ancient whisper of radiation--the cosmic microwave background--left over from the Big Bang. This week, Shaun Cole of the University of Durham in England and his colleagues announced that they had discerned remnants of that pattern while analyzing data from the Two-Degree Field Redshift Gravity Survey, a large-scale analysis of 220,000 galaxies. The map covers one-twentieth the area of the sky out to a distance of 2 billion light-years from Earth.
Another team, led by Daniel Eisenstein of the University of Arizona in Tucson, examined a subset of 46,000 galaxies from another sky map, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which covers one-quarter of the sky.
Each team used a different method of analysis but found the same acoustic pattern. The groups reported their findings this week at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Diego.
The signals are so weak that, to detect them even in large-galaxy surveys, "both groups had to work quite hard," notes cosmologist David N. Spergel of Princeton University. "The result is another important milestone in establishing a standard model for cosmology."
The early universe rang like a bell, notes Spergel. As gravity drew together clumps of atomic matter, radiation--then tightly bound to that matter--exerted an outward pressure. The tug-of-war between gravity's pull and radiation's push generated pressure waves, or acoustic oscillations.
About 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe had cooled sufficiently for the radiation to break free from matter and travel unimpeded into space. Now in the form of microwaves, this radiation pervades the universe and provides a snapshot of the cosmos at that early time, ripples and all.
The small size of the fluctuations, both in the microwave background and the galaxy distribution today, provides additional evidence that most of the mass of the universe is composed of dark matter--an exotic, invisible, and primordial material that has never interacted with light and so had never generated sound waves, notes Spergel.
Eisenstein notes that, using the length of the sound waves as a cosmic ruler, astronomers can calculate the universe's expansion. Both of the new studies agree with earlier reports that cosmic expansion is speeding up (SN: 5/22/04, p. 330: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040522/bob9
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http://www.rockwellcollins.com/ecat/at/FC
I'd say the answer is as soon as a 747 with a FCS-700A and a pilot that feels the need to use auto-landing durring an emergency all come together in the same part of the sky.
Here's the dope on the FCS-700A
Long version: http://www.rockwellcollins.com/ecat/at/FCS-700A.h
Short Version:
The FCS-700A is a fully digital, fail operational autopilot flight director system. The system, part of the Boeing 747-400 flight control system, performs tasks associated with flight director commands, speed selection, altitude selection, heading selection, autopilot, autoland, and system fault isolation. Utilizing the new FCC-703, system upgrades are much easier and less expensive due to the incorporation of dataload capability via either front connector or rear connector. The FCC-703 replaces the FCC-702, Collins part number 622-8787-106.