If i were trying to fight the Iraqi (or other) insurgency i sure as hell would want a tool like this.
W/o getting into a moralistic analysis, it's clear that while such monitoring is not a panacea, it would at least raise the bar for the insurgents, and increase their exposure to OPSEC fubars.
We do this already in a less-than-coordinated fashion in the US. The police regularly survey all the security camera tapes in the area of crimes, esp. murders, to try to create a gestalt of the crime scene area. Works pretty good is some cases, has bagged more than a couple of murderers and hit and run drivers.
Hitachi, Ltd. announced that on the 13th, size 0.05 millimeter angle, thickness 0.005 millimeters succeeded in the development of the powdered worldwide smallest most thin electronic tag which is said. You aim toward the utilization of 2 and 3 years later.
At the same company, already electronic tag "mu tip/chip" in size 0.4 millimeter angle commercialization. It was used with purpose of prevention of forgery of the admission ticket of Aichi international exposition. It has succeeded in also the development in 0.15 millimeter angle in 06.
As for the electronic tag which was developed anew, besides the fact that refined technology of the semiconductor was utilized, with the fact that among other things the electronic beam is utilized in entry of the data to the baseplate, in comparison with the existing product size in 1/64 miniaturization. Record capacity guaranteed the same level as the mu tip/chip. In addition, with miniaturization that productivity 60 times it improves in comparison with the existing product, we have assumed..max
bummer to give up the trip, but i can see how $25k might be a porblem [sic]. In a circumstance like this i'd try to tap into the pop. culture for resources. Whore myself out for endorsements, appearances, start a "training for my flight" blog or something. Being a lucky space prize winner has _got_ (one would hope) to carry enough cachet that a clever chappie could leverage it to earn the money required.
ETHICS OFFICER 1. Own fancy suits 2. can swat people with rolled-up newspaper while shouting "BAD KITTY, BAD!" 3. will hunt down and execute people responsible for deep-sixing the good RPN calculators.
PRIVACY OFFICER 1. Own fancy suits 2. can swat people with rolled-up newspaper while shouting "NO LOOKING!" 3. will institute manditory privacy screens for erotic interweb browsing.
In the early 90s i spent (way too much of) my energy in the marijuana movement. Not wholly surprisingly, i got a little paranoid about marajuana-movement organizations' mailing lists being confiscated in various busts around the country.
So i relentlessly harangued a national organization to distribute a windows/DOS/Mac PGP release to all of their chapters.
I felt pretty good about it until i got a call from someone in another state:
"duuuude. i forgot my passphrase..."
How did you do that?
"we were rilly baked..."
i've always wondered how much damage i did to the marijuana movement by handing a bunch of stoners a tool that required memorizing a passphrase...
This is going to disappear in the flood of responses but...
Earlier this year i calculated a back-of-envolope value... a 1 penny/gallon increase in gas price for a year is _about_ $1 Billion dollars per year unavailable for US consumer spending. It's actually a little higher, but close enough.
FYI..max
I've spent twenty years working in the control rooms of various particle accelerator facilities. I earn my money by sitting on my ass, using a keyboard, mouse and trackball and staring at a bank of monitors.
i find that almost any kind of upper body excercise helps a lot. I live next to a river, so i kayak regularly -- it really helps keep the musculo-skeletal parts all tweaked up. Juggling is good. I imagine climbing, basketball etc help too. Bicycling is almost useless (i ride a lot, it's just not good for upper back problems). Unicycling is way good.:-) Some of my collegues like to lift.
There's only so much posture / workstation ergonomics can do for you. Excercise is the real key..max
In a lot of [U.S.] cities, running out to stuff another wad of quarters in the meter will get you a ticket, the concept being that metered parking is temporary parking. Curbside metered parking is designed for people who are going to get-in/get-out. If you're going to be somewhere all day you should either be using a parking garage or alternate transportation. In theory.
This scheme seems like a bullshit technological antisolution that would only make the current street parking situation worse,
At the risk of sounding jaded or complacent, this sounds awfully familiar, decades-old familiar... it sounds like the news isn't so much the process as the plan to send real world hardware up for a test run?
the real challenge to my mind sounds like a)keeping the machinery functioning for more than a few days and b) keeping the furnace's optics from collecting too much dust. I wonder how they plan to address the dust-related issues.
all in all, it sounds way cool. Best of luck to everyone involved.
Who said? Cdr. Taco did, FCS, in the last sentence. Oh, you're being anal-retentive (anal retentive) about the specifics of "pounding on a keyboard". Fine: pounding on keyboard, noodling with mouse. dorking with trackball. fingering touch screen. WHATEVER.
The point, apparently lost on the corpus of slashdot, is that referring to any kind of computer use as "hard work" in the context of workplace injury is baloney and self-aggrandizing special-needs whinging. It crops up over and over and over here: the tendency of this collection of button-pushing geeks to wrap their actions (button pushing)in the mantle of manly endeavor.
Don't believe me? Think about the lexicon of geekery and start counting the words appropriated from or implicative of more traditionally macho endeavor. Hack, wardriving... etc. all part of epistomologically bereft macho posturing tribal language.
We laugh when it's micheal bolton in Office Space.
There's not a thing about computer-related RSI that isn't a) well understood and b) trivially avoidable. It's all ergonomics. There is no "hard work" involved in the injury from pounding on a keyboard (or mouse/trackball/yadda) -- just willfully idiotic malingering. Like getting frostbite because you didn't want to go back in the house for you gloves: trivially avoidable.
Knowlege work may be emotionally or otherwise stressful (ever lose 95% of the world's antim*tter with a single keystroke? I have), but that isn't work in the commonly understood context of "hard work" which is commonly (except to the likes of/.) torefer to work requiring strength and endurance.
If you can fix it by raising your chair or buying a WRIST SPLINT, it's not hard work.
"Every older and some younger Slashdotters have been subject to that tingling feeling in your wrist after countless hours of hacking, cracking, or playing CS. This Google Blog, posted by the Staff MD addresses this serious symptom that could potentially lead to "compression of the nerve which can cause numbness or tingling and eventually weakness if the nerve is damaged severely." Didn't think hard work would hurt anybody right?"
Not to be trite or bitchy (seriously) but it is often possible -- and it can take a "little" planning and saving -- to live within bicycling distance or public transportation distance from your job.
I do. I lived in a crap-hole apt. for several years while saving my bucks and then bought a house at precisely the perfect cycling distance from work, between 7 miles http://tinyurl.com/a2b3p and 9 miles http://tinyurl.com/8meqf. Now i have two 25~35 minute mini-vacations every day.
Seriously: the worst day bicycle commuting beats a good day car commutting.
YMMV, but it may be an option for some of you. If it is, thimk about it.
This sort of thing is going to have as much impact and relevance to society at large as the Americas Cup does. Pretty toys, a few specialist firms involved in one-off designs, and technology not really germane to anything beyond its own sandbox of reality.
There ain't no breakthroughs to be had! Space flight with rockets is fabu $$$, period. Schmancy IRBMs with inflight entertainment isn't... significant. It's just symptomatic of a point in industrilized society where we have a buttload of disposable income and a lot of wealthy people. Which is fine, no prob, wish i was one, but technical breakthrough? Not in any meaningful way.
Seriously: "space tourism" relates to manned space flight the way the heavies do it (US, Russia and now China) similarly to the way the old Seawolf submarine ride at Disneyland compares to the Jimmuh (SSN23, as Seawolf submarine in its own right). Possibly we could substitute the Disneyland sub with one of those excursion toys you sometimes see in the carribean -- but still, not an innovator, just a cool toy..max
This question is either idiotic or dishonest or just plain stupid. But just for the sake of jamming it back whence it came...
Compare and contrast how many bicycle tubes and tires can be made for the amount of resources consumed by one set of stock on-the-lot H2 tires. Hint: try weighing them..max
This is an interesting interpretation of simple arithmatic truths...
I'm generally interested in this sort of thing, having watched the US suffer the Arab Oil Embargo from Munich, and comparing the two countries' response. Got me interested in energy-related stuff... ~33 years ago.
You are of course correct that virtually anyone in America has a profoundly larger energy footprint than a mud hut living goat herder in the African outback. I'm not sure how you you think that's a rhetorical scoring point in the context of choices available to the American consumer, but... your keen grasp of the obvious is an inspiration to us all.
I've done the math for my life.
I know, because i track with daily logging and simple stats, that the choices i make result in a lower energy use than they would be if i followed the Ameican standard modality. I cyclecommuted http://tomato.fnal.gov/bicycle/usersInfo.php?order =2005 202 days last year, did not use a car at all 205 days, drove my car (which goes 3~4X further/gallon than your hummer) less than 5K mi, had summer electric bills 0.5X and winter gas bills 0.6X the avg. of the area... My curbside waste stream is about 1/5 of my neighborhood avg. My recreational toys are either pedal or paddle powered, and they're all ridden or hand-towed to where i use them. I use a push-powered reel mower.
My energy consumption and resource footprint is just about as low as i can make it, short of living only on rice and dried beans and drinking my own urine.
i'm pretty sure my energy footprint is lower than yours, and yes, i go to some level of inconvenience to achieve it, since i ride pretty much year round, in all weather, on a rotating shift. There are absolutely times when it would be easier to take my car.
So i pretty much earned right to bitchslap you and your tranny hooker tonka toy. Let's see some numeric analysis from you instead of a bunch of Hannity-esque moral equivication. In the meantime, you should probably thank me (feel free to pick a cheek to kiss) for making available an extra couple hundred gallons of gas for you.
How much gasoline did you piss away this week?
And if you're really discerning, you'll be able to intuit how i personally save the American taxpayer 1~3 million dollars each year in electricity. Not because i have to, but because i want to and i can.
So you can kiss me on the other cheek for saving a little extra uranium for you to post with.
I'm wondering what the effective difference is. One may reasonably presume that access to the secure data center is a requirement of certain jobs. One may further presume that the ability to perform certain jobs, such as those requiring access to the secure data center, will be necessary requirements for promotion and advancement.
Ergo, while one may not be required to have a transponder as a condition of employment, it will almost certainly be a requirement for advancement. Requiring an unnecessary medical procedure for professional advancement seems pretty coercive to me, prima facie.
Somewhat more speculative: Given the standards and criterea for things workplace sexual harrasment and hostile work environments, i think the company is hanging it's willie waay out there and will likely have it cut off. It should be easy to prove defacto compulsion after one or two performance reveiw cycles.
Simalarly speculative is the obvious prediction that there will be the multi billion dollar damage award to the first employee to suffer having his arm cut off (or simply cut open) by someone seeking unauthorized access to the facility. A clever employee could probably sue right now and bankrupt the company.
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This is the Coolest Thing Ever So Far This Century.
ROLF! true!
If i were trying to fight the Iraqi (or other) insurgency i sure as hell would want a tool like this.
W/o getting into a moralistic analysis, it's clear that while such monitoring is not a panacea, it would at least raise the bar for the insurgents, and increase their exposure to OPSEC fubars.
We do this already in a less-than-coordinated fashion in the US. The police regularly survey all the security camera tapes in the area of crimes, esp. murders, to try to create a gestalt of the crime scene area. Works pretty good is some cases, has bagged more than a couple of murderers and hit and run drivers.
Bon Chance.
http://www.business-i.jp/news/sou-page/news/200702 140008a.nwc Using the cut/paste box at Google Translate we get:
.max
Hitachi, Ltd. announced that on the 13th, size 0.05 millimeter angle, thickness 0.005 millimeters succeeded in the development of the powdered worldwide smallest most thin electronic tag which is said. You aim toward the utilization of 2 and 3 years later.
At the same company, already electronic tag "mu tip/chip" in size 0.4 millimeter angle commercialization. It was used with purpose of prevention of forgery of the admission ticket of Aichi international exposition. It has succeeded in also the development in 0.15 millimeter angle in 06.
As for the electronic tag which was developed anew, besides the fact that refined technology of the semiconductor was utilized, with the fact that among other things the electronic beam is utilized in entry of the data to the baseplate, in comparison with the existing product size in 1/64 miniaturization. Record capacity guaranteed the same level as the mu tip/chip. In addition, with miniaturization that productivity 60 times it improves in comparison with the existing product, we have assumed.
Why, that's just ~32 tons of CO2 per second. Piece of cake.
bummer to give up the trip, but i can see how $25k might be a porblem [sic]. In a circumstance like this i'd try to tap into the pop. culture for resources. Whore myself out for endorsements, appearances, start a "training for my flight" blog or something. Being a lucky space prize winner has _got_ (one would hope) to carry enough cachet that a clever chappie could leverage it to earn the money required.
Qualifications:
ETHICS OFFICER
1. Own fancy suits
2. can swat people with rolled-up newspaper while shouting "BAD KITTY, BAD!"
3. will hunt down and execute people responsible for deep-sixing the good RPN calculators.
PRIVACY OFFICER
1. Own fancy suits
2. can swat people with rolled-up newspaper while shouting "NO LOOKING!"
3. will institute manditory privacy screens for erotic interweb browsing.
I wonder how well it transmits through automotive safety glass...
In the early 90s i spent (way too much of) my energy in the marijuana movement. Not wholly surprisingly, i got a little paranoid about marajuana-movement organizations' mailing lists being confiscated in various busts around the country.
..."
So i relentlessly harangued a national organization to distribute a windows/DOS/Mac PGP release to all of their chapters.
I felt pretty good about it until i got a call from someone in another state:
"duuuude. i forgot my passphrase..."
How did you do that?
"we were rilly baked
i've always wondered how much damage i did to the marijuana movement by handing a bunch of stoners a tool that required memorizing a passphrase...
my bad!
This is going to disappear in the flood of responses but... Earlier this year i calculated a back-of-envolope value... a 1 penny/gallon increase in gas price for a year is _about_ $1 Billion dollars per year unavailable for US consumer spending. It's actually a little higher, but close enough. FYI. .max
I've spent twenty years working in the control rooms of various particle accelerator facilities. I earn my money by sitting on my ass, using a keyboard, mouse and trackball and staring at a bank of monitors.
:-) Some of my collegues like to lift.
.max
i find that almost any kind of upper body excercise helps a lot. I live next to a river, so i kayak regularly -- it really helps keep the musculo-skeletal parts all tweaked up. Juggling is good. I imagine climbing, basketball etc help too. Bicycling is almost useless (i ride a lot, it's just not good for upper back problems). Unicycling is way good.
There's only so much posture / workstation ergonomics can do for you. Excercise is the real key.
This scheme seems like a bullshit technological antisolution that would only make the current street parking situation worse,
Slashdot: the only place on the internet where Stephen Hawking could get the stupid tag.
In the low-gravity essentially vacuum environment of the moon, dust kicks up unbelievably easily. Major problem. And, it's abrasive as all hell, too.
the real challenge to my mind sounds like a)keeping the machinery functioning for more than a few days and b) keeping the furnace's optics from collecting too much dust. I wonder how they plan to address the dust-related issues.
all in all, it sounds way cool. Best of luck to everyone involved.
The point, apparently lost on the corpus of slashdot, is that referring to any kind of computer use as "hard work" in the context of workplace injury is baloney and self-aggrandizing special-needs whinging. It crops up over and over and over here: the tendency of this collection of button-pushing geeks to wrap their actions (button pushing)in the mantle of manly endeavor.
Don't believe me? Think about the lexicon of geekery and start counting the words appropriated from or implicative of more traditionally macho endeavor. Hack, wardriving... etc. all part of epistomologically bereft macho posturing tribal language.
We laugh when it's micheal bolton in Office Space.
There's not a thing about computer-related RSI that isn't a) well understood and b) trivially avoidable. It's all ergonomics. There is no "hard work" involved in the injury from pounding on a keyboard (or mouse/trackball/yadda) -- just willfully idiotic malingering. Like getting frostbite because you didn't want to go back in the house for you gloves: trivially avoidable.
Knowlege work may be emotionally or otherwise stressful (ever lose 95% of the world's antim*tter with a single keystroke? I have), but that isn't work in the commonly understood context of "hard work" which is commonly (except to the likes of /.) torefer to work requiring strength and endurance.
If you can fix it by raising your chair or buying a WRIST SPLINT, it's not hard work.
keyboard pounding == hard work. ya. uh huh.
.max
Install a few brick paver driveways and get back to me.
who is himself a button pushing geek.
So i can have my mom sent off to camp exwray for the pages upon pages of Neil Boortz Fair Tax crap she's been transcribing?? Woohoo!!
I do. I lived in a crap-hole apt. for several years while saving my bucks and then bought a house at precisely the perfect cycling distance from work, between 7 miles http://tinyurl.com/a2b3p and 9 miles http://tinyurl.com/8meqf. Now i have two 25~35 minute mini-vacations every day.
Seriously: the worst day bicycle commuting beats a good day car commutting. YMMV, but it may be an option for some of you. If it is, thimk about it.
This sort of thing is going to have as much impact and relevance to society at large as the Americas Cup does. Pretty toys, a few specialist firms involved in one-off designs, and technology not really germane to anything beyond its own sandbox of reality.
... significant. It's just symptomatic of a point in industrilized society where we have a buttload of disposable income and a lot of wealthy people. Which is fine, no prob, wish i was one, but technical breakthrough? Not in any meaningful way.
.max
There ain't no breakthroughs to be had! Space flight with rockets is fabu $$$, period. Schmancy IRBMs with inflight entertainment isn't
Seriously: "space tourism" relates to manned space flight the way the heavies do it (US, Russia and now China) similarly to the way the old Seawolf submarine ride at Disneyland compares to the Jimmuh (SSN23, as Seawolf submarine in its own right). Possibly we could substitute the Disneyland sub with one of those excursion toys you sometimes see in the carribean -- but still, not an innovator, just a cool toy.
This question is either idiotic or dishonest or just plain stupid. But just for the sake of jamming it back whence it came...
.max
Compare and contrast how many bicycle tubes and tires can be made for the amount of resources consumed by one set of stock on-the-lot H2 tires. Hint: try weighing them.
This is an interesting interpretation of simple arithmatic truths...
... ~33 years ago.
... your keen grasp of the obvious is an inspiration to us all.
r =2005 202 days last year, did not use a car at all 205 days, drove my car (which goes 3~4X further/gallon than your hummer) less than 5K mi, had summer electric bills 0.5X and winter gas bills 0.6X the avg. of the area ... My curbside waste stream is about 1/5 of my neighborhood avg. My recreational toys are either pedal or paddle powered, and they're all ridden or hand-towed to where i use them. I use a push-powered reel mower.
I'm generally interested in this sort of thing, having watched the US suffer the Arab Oil Embargo from Munich, and comparing the two countries' response. Got me interested in energy-related stuff
You are of course correct that virtually anyone in America has a profoundly larger energy footprint than a mud hut living goat herder in the African outback. I'm not sure how you you think that's a rhetorical scoring point in the context of choices available to the American consumer, but
I've done the math for my life.
I know, because i track with daily logging and simple stats, that the choices i make result in a lower energy use than they would be if i followed the Ameican standard modality. I cyclecommuted http://tomato.fnal.gov/bicycle/usersInfo.php?orde
My energy consumption and resource footprint is just about as low as i can make it, short of living only on rice and dried beans and drinking my own urine.
i'm pretty sure my energy footprint is lower than yours, and yes, i go to some level of inconvenience to achieve it, since i ride pretty much year round, in all weather, on a rotating shift. There are absolutely times when it would be easier to take my car.
So i pretty much earned right to bitchslap you and your tranny hooker tonka toy. Let's see some numeric analysis from you instead of a bunch of Hannity-esque moral equivication. In the meantime, you should probably thank me (feel free to pick a cheek to kiss) for making available an extra couple hundred gallons of gas for you.
How much gasoline did you piss away this week?
And if you're really discerning, you'll be able to intuit how i personally save the American taxpayer 1~3 million dollars each year in electricity. Not because i have to, but because i want to and i can.
So you can kiss me on the other cheek for saving a little extra uranium for you to post with.
I'm wondering what the effective difference is. One may reasonably presume that access to the secure data center is a requirement of certain jobs. One may further presume that the ability to perform certain jobs, such as those requiring access to the secure data center, will be necessary requirements for promotion and advancement.
Ergo, while one may not be required to have a transponder as a condition of employment, it will almost certainly be a requirement for advancement. Requiring an unnecessary medical procedure for professional advancement seems pretty coercive to me, prima facie.
Somewhat more speculative: Given the standards and criterea for things workplace sexual harrasment and hostile work environments, i think the company is hanging it's willie waay out there and will likely have it cut off. It should be easy to prove defacto compulsion after one or two performance reveiw cycles.
Simalarly speculative is the obvious prediction that there will be the multi billion dollar damage award to the first employee to suffer having his arm cut off (or simply cut open) by someone seeking unauthorized access to the facility. A clever employee could probably sue right now and bankrupt the company.
I repeat: film at eleven, hand wringers.