find one. pay for a membership (it's polite). Reserve a room and spend the weekend there. mingle, to to some panels, visit the con suite and room parties. debate the relative merits of Captain Piccard vs. Captain Kirk or is Six hotter than 7 of 9 or whatever is the custom these days. lotsa fun.
I work at a National Lab called um... "furby" lab..... and by golly and by gosh ALL the safety rules apply to EVERYONE. We (the lab Furbions) pay particular attention to summerstudents/ undergrads/ postdocs/ new people to make sure they're following the rules. Every Single Person Who Sets Foot On Site Is Responsible For Their And Everyone Else's Safety. Corner cutting is very bad juju. Maybe it's different in the jello-mold sciences, but not here, not even a little bit. Violate the safety rules = get "yelled at" and maybe (if bad enough or repeated) get canned/ banned from the site.
If there's a problem elsewhere, it's a cultural problem in that sector or institution.
All flatware will be replaced with sporks, and, after an adjustment period, the sporks will be replaced with rubber-tipped chopsticks.
Also, the ! will be replaced with the pipe|.
why don't we just make cars so that the hott air can excape (sic). In my community we do this by... cracking the window a fraction of an inch and putting those kewl dashboard reflector things behind the windshield.
And yet... your comment was modded up to +5 Insightful.
Are you truly unaware of the broad and historic role of he anonymous whistleblower?
Is it truly reasonable to think that only truthful anonymous comments have power? Let's take a look at any random 100 falsities in Snopes, although personally, i'd recommend we start with search=Obama, but i suppose we could try vaccination-->autism. etc. etc. etc.
Some news reports in the last week addressed the correlation between sleep and catching colds. A couple weeks ago there was a report (here maybe?) about how sleep allows cellular repair mechanims work better. There are numberous studies correlating sleep with obesity, depression and other mental and physical pathology.
I'm a professional shift worker. Almost 30 years. I've found sleep to be very important.
I want to mee-too the part about errors on long shifts. 12 hr. shifts are great if you're generally sitting around not doing anything real complex, but if it's something that requires a lot of mental concentration for the whole 12 hrs, you're asking for trouble because your brain will turn to oatmeal.
The sleep deficit thing is quite real also.
I am a... long time... shift worker at the big atom smasher's main control room. (not the one that blew up). I know whereof i speak.
And you guys claim to read Schneiier??
Consider this: if the Chinese are spying on our tech, we can stick it to them rather badly by lettng them find pointless dead end projects upon which to waste their treasure.
everything is an opportunity....max
fsck-up things for everyone else to make a "point".. kinda like critical mass gridlocks drivers on their way home on random fridays to show how fun bike riding can be. Thanks for the assist, NOT.
One cute trick i've seen used on abusive commenter/posters is to apply a script to their posts that deletes all the vowels. "Your calculator is clearly a deficient piece of crap designed by an idiot redhead" becomes something like "r clcltr s clrl dfcint pc f crp dsgnd b n dt rdhd". Always makes me laff. Fark does something goofy to people who try to "first post!" but i forget what it is.
Maybe replace the user's text with an excerpt from Wuthering Heights...
As currently envisioned, the Tesla Roadster is SO FAR out of my reach at $109k, with an additional $55k to lock in your delivery date. oy! Not knowing much more about the Tesla than "it's an electric sports car" i'm wondering how the second/third generation models are envisioned to ring up $$-wise. Is their manufacturing process projected become a production line or will the cars "always" be assembled by a team of craftsmen (i.e. more like a chevy or a ferrari?). Will there be compromises in the materials schedule so as to lower the price? Are these questions best asked 5 years from now? Oh ya -- is anyone here on The List?
I did this, back in the late 80s. i used the neutrino pings at Fermilab to send out a morse encoded neutrino beam.
It took several minutes, because we only got three (iirc) pings/minute, but i sent out "Dinner is served" a couple of times.
While this ins't a completely bad idea, the cited articles suggest savings to consumers will be fairly modest, in the 5~7% range at best, and quite the opposite in a significant number of cases.
I'm not really sure how much demand shifting "we" consumers can do that we're not already doing. In the interests of brevety suffice ti to say that for _me_, damnably little. And i suspect a lot of consumers are going to be pig-biting mad when they end up paying premium rates to run their air conditioning on hot days after leaving the AC off all day whiile they were working anyway.
My prediction: this stuff _will_ on average, save most consumers a litle money untill it's widely deployed, at which point power utilities will start gaming the system to jack their effective rates up. Ultimately, consumers will pay more for less, utilities will sell less for more than if the system weren't installed at all and overall consumption will not change from current trends at all.
"Kinda" like how that whole cable TV thang has worked out. Or your POTS wire. etc....
imho.
that is all.
oh, and you don't have to do it '80s. There's plenty of postmillenial cheezeball tech workarounds for Mac to work. Lessee... he could rescue an airbus 320 with his iPhone, he could lift an overturned semi trailer off a van full of nuns by using his passenger-side airbag and he could turn his microwave into a navigational beacon for the space shuttle.
I could go on for quite a while...but you get the point.
this stuff writes itself!
I found it interesting that the article said the insurance company did not previously know about the lunar maneuver. Seems kind of incompetent of them, given the kind of money that is involved in this sort of stuff. This leads to a related thought: i wonder how many other satellites have a) used this maneuver or b) been lost for failing to use it.
In the meantime, i have patented my "drive around the block because you missed your turn" business strategy, along with my "drive around the block until a parking space opens up" business strategy. You all owe me a MILLION dollars.
i'm glad you agree with me. REREAD my comments. "Yes but not if i... (INSERT THE FOLLOWING CLEARLY CLEARLY IMPLIED TEXT AFTER THE ELIPSIS:) -->>__PAY ATTENTION__
So let's try this again " there's a decent probability that you're going to get seriously T-boned at a two-way stop some day. "Ya,but not if i" PAY ATTENTION". People make mistakes. You will.
IS that clearer?
sorry, you misunderstood the thrust of my comment. Here's what i think of helping people drive like asshats: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=510232&cid=22954190. You will note that it was posted before your comment. Thanks for the thought, and die in a fire!:-)
One reason to stop at stop signs is to promote the habit of stopping, reduce the amount of thinking necessary, and thus the possibility for mistakes, at stop signs. For example, If you get in a habit of rolling stopsigns, there's a decent probability that you're going to get seriously T-boned at a two-way stop some day. "Ya,but not if i" blah blah. People make mistakes. You will. GaraunEffngTeed.
You really should cultivate good habits, even when nobody is looking. Good habits can buttress you against brain farts.
Sorry, no flame, but your theory of driving is defective and dangerous.
Guess what: i'm right. 90% of people rarely travel outside their regular, established patterns. Amazing and true! Feel free to hit the DOT website for confirmation.
let me rephrase, since the obvious intent of my sentence was too nuance for you to understand. I have never had the need for GPS mediated street directions while driving.
Hope this helps. Troll wise, suck it.
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find one. pay for a membership (it's polite). Reserve a room and spend the weekend there. mingle, to to some panels, visit the con suite and room parties. debate the relative merits of Captain Piccard vs. Captain Kirk or is Six hotter than 7 of 9 or whatever is the custom these days. lotsa fun.
If there's a problem elsewhere, it's a cultural problem in that sector or institution.
All flatware will be replaced with sporks, and, after an adjustment period, the sporks will be replaced with rubber-tipped chopsticks. Also, the ! will be replaced with the pipe|.
why don't we just make cars so that the hott air can excape (sic). In my community we do this by ... cracking the window a fraction of an inch and putting those kewl dashboard reflector things behind the windshield.
This story was supposed to be embargoed until April 1. Now the justkidding defense is totally shot.
And yet... your comment was modded up to +5 Insightful.
Are you truly unaware of the broad and historic role of he anonymous whistleblower?
Is it truly reasonable to think that only truthful anonymous comments have power? Let's take a look at any random 100 falsities in Snopes, although personally, i'd recommend we start with search=Obama, but i suppose we could try vaccination-->autism. etc. etc. etc.
"we could have the first humans to experience entanglement within months."
Assuming this is possible at all, then almost certainly this has happened before many gabillions of times and nobody noticed.
sleep == important!!
Some news reports in the last week addressed the correlation between sleep and catching colds. A couple weeks ago there was a report (here maybe?) about how sleep allows cellular repair mechanims work better. There are numberous studies correlating sleep with obesity, depression and other mental and physical pathology.
I'm a professional shift worker. Almost 30 years. I've found sleep to be very important.
I want to mee-too the part about errors on long shifts. 12 hr. shifts are great if you're generally sitting around not doing anything real complex, but if it's something that requires a lot of mental concentration for the whole 12 hrs, you're asking for trouble because your brain will turn to oatmeal. The sleep deficit thing is quite real also. I am a ... long time ... shift worker at the big atom smasher's main control room. (not the one that blew up). I know whereof i speak.
And you guys claim to read Schneiier?? Consider this: if the Chinese are spying on our tech, we can stick it to them rather badly by lettng them find pointless dead end projects upon which to waste their treasure. everything is an opportunity... .max
fsck-up things for everyone else to make a "point".. kinda like critical mass gridlocks drivers on their way home on random fridays to show how fun bike riding can be. Thanks for the assist, NOT.
One cute trick i've seen used on abusive commenter/posters is to apply a script to their posts that deletes all the vowels. "Your calculator is clearly a deficient piece of crap designed by an idiot redhead" becomes something like "r clcltr s clrl dfcint pc f crp dsgnd b n dt rdhd". Always makes me laff. Fark does something goofy to people who try to "first post!" but i forget what it is. Maybe replace the user's text with an excerpt from Wuthering Heights...
As currently envisioned, the Tesla Roadster is SO FAR out of my reach at $109k, with an additional $55k to lock in your delivery date. oy! Not knowing much more about the Tesla than "it's an electric sports car" i'm wondering how the second/third generation models are envisioned to ring up $$-wise. Is their manufacturing process projected become a production line or will the cars "always" be assembled by a team of craftsmen (i.e. more like a chevy or a ferrari?). Will there be compromises in the materials schedule so as to lower the price? Are these questions best asked 5 years from now? Oh ya -- is anyone here on The List?
mod parent up insightful
I did this, back in the late 80s. i used the neutrino pings at Fermilab to send out a morse encoded neutrino beam.
It took several minutes, because we only got three (iirc) pings/minute, but i sent out "Dinner is served" a couple of times.
No, really.
While this ins't a completely bad idea, the cited articles suggest savings to consumers will be fairly modest, in the 5~7% range at best, and quite the opposite in a significant number of cases. I'm not really sure how much demand shifting "we" consumers can do that we're not already doing. In the interests of brevety suffice ti to say that for _me_, damnably little. And i suspect a lot of consumers are going to be pig-biting mad when they end up paying premium rates to run their air conditioning on hot days after leaving the AC off all day whiile they were working anyway. My prediction: this stuff _will_ on average, save most consumers a litle money untill it's widely deployed, at which point power utilities will start gaming the system to jack their effective rates up. Ultimately, consumers will pay more for less, utilities will sell less for more than if the system weren't installed at all and overall consumption will not change from current trends at all. "Kinda" like how that whole cable TV thang has worked out. Or your POTS wire. etc.... imho.
that is all. oh, and you don't have to do it '80s. There's plenty of postmillenial cheezeball tech workarounds for Mac to work. Lessee... he could rescue an airbus 320 with his iPhone, he could lift an overturned semi trailer off a van full of nuns by using his passenger-side airbag and he could turn his microwave into a navigational beacon for the space shuttle. I could go on for quite a while...but you get the point. this stuff writes itself!
pronounced like sci fi.
let it stand for Community Internet Fiber or something. Copyright me.
I found it interesting that the article said the insurance company did not previously know about the lunar maneuver. Seems kind of incompetent of them, given the kind of money that is involved in this sort of stuff. This leads to a related thought: i wonder how many other satellites have a) used this maneuver or b) been lost for failing to use it. In the meantime, i have patented my "drive around the block because you missed your turn" business strategy, along with my "drive around the block until a parking space opens up" business strategy. You all owe me a MILLION dollars.
i'm glad you agree with me. REREAD my comments. "Yes but not if i... (INSERT THE FOLLOWING CLEARLY CLEARLY IMPLIED TEXT AFTER THE ELIPSIS :) -->>__PAY ATTENTION__
So let's try this again " there's a decent probability that you're going to get seriously T-boned at a two-way stop some day. "Ya,but not if i" PAY ATTENTION". People make mistakes. You will.
IS that clearer?
sorry, you misunderstood the thrust of my comment. Here's what i think of helping people drive like asshats: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=510232&cid=22954190. You will note that it was posted before your comment. Thanks for the thought, and die in a fire! :-)
One reason to stop at stop signs is to promote the habit of stopping, reduce the amount of thinking necessary, and thus the possibility for mistakes, at stop signs. For example, If you get in a habit of rolling stopsigns, there's a decent probability that you're going to get seriously T-boned at a two-way stop some day. "Ya,but not if i" blah blah. People make mistakes. You will. GaraunEffngTeed. You really should cultivate good habits, even when nobody is looking. Good habits can buttress you against brain farts. Sorry, no flame, but your theory of driving is defective and dangerous.
i hereby take back all the GPS hating i posted in the recent iphone thread. I was wrong. this is cool and a genuine value.
Guess what: i'm right. 90% of people rarely travel outside their regular, established patterns. Amazing and true! Feel free to hit the DOT website for confirmation.
let me rephrase, since the obvious intent of my sentence was too nuance for you to understand. I have never had the need for GPS mediated street directions while driving. Hope this helps. Troll wise, suck it.