The Chang'E 3 lander will rely on a plutonium-238 radioisotope thermoelectric generator, or RTG, for power. This is the same type of unit that's currently powering Curiosity's traverse across Mars. But unlike Curiosity, Chang'E 3 will only use its RTG to keep the spacecraft's systems humming during the two-week long lunar nights. Solar panels will allow the lander to take advantage of the free power during the two-week long lunar days.
I thought that once you put together an RTG, its lifespan was limited only by the radiation source and the degradation of the thermocouples.
So what's the purpose of not using the RTG all the time? Will that extend its life?
DHS does a notoriously bad job of screening through millions of potential threats and figuring out which are the real threats. They're like a smoke alarm that continually gives false alarms until people ignore it.
What does your comment have to do with the conversation at hand? This isn't a false alarm, there is no need to "balance the risks and costs against the benefits." The DHS is being handed weaponized computer exploits and ideally they're going to turn around and say "You. Manufacturer. Fix it."
CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team) is under DHS, and I don't thing anyone could reasonably argue that reports of computer exploits should go to the FDA or the Dept of Health and Human Services, just because they're in medical devices.
In my humble opinion, none of these devices should even go through the FDA review process without the software being vetted for basic security stuff. Put the onus on the manufacturers to get the stamp of approval from a vulnerability assessment firm.
Wikipedia and Wikitravel have distinct goals, and forking large amounts of content from one project to the other creates wasteful duplication, and can actually stifle the development of creative, original content. In most cases, linking from one to the other would be a better choice.
As a rule, any significant copy-pasting of Wikipedia text to Wikitravel is not permitted, while borrowing the odd single turn of phrase when your writers' brain is stalling is allowed.
Now that they've been forked, Wikitravel might as well close up shop. All the eyeballs that ended up on their website will be landing on wikipedia instead.
A lot of these mass shootings are done by white males who want control, but feel that it is slipping away from them.
Fixed that for you.
We can't have an honest conversation if we aren't talking about who the shooters are, because the solution(s) to this problem are going to be different than the solutions we've used to reduce urban gun violence by minorities.
"Starvation mode" is simply what the people who binge in secret tell you. Adjust your caloric intake to under or just at your base metabolism and you will lose weight, your body won't magically start running on hopes and dreams while it stores calories.
Starvation mode is a (incorrect*) short hand way to describe what your body does when it realizes calories aren't coming in. Normally our gut is ~80%** efficient at absorbing calories. When our bodies notice caloric restriction, that number increases to ~90%.
So out of 3000 calories, we're only really absorbing 2400 (3000*.8) Subtract 10% and, out of 2700 calories, we should absorb 2160 (2700*.8), but since the avg body becomes more efficient, it actually absorbs 2430 calories (2700*.9)
Cut calories, gain weight. Fucking rediculous isn't it?
*actual starvation mode involves going through ketosis/ketoacidosis and then burning muscle tissue **this is an average across all food types. We're super efficient at processing fat and much worse at absorbing fiber
You can generalize cultural views towards suicide. In the USA, where christianity is strong, the conversation around suicide is a moral, not philosophical one.
Rational people can disagree on whether suicide is a natural or sane response to intolerable conditions, but the experts on prevention strongly suggest you never publicly state that suicide is acceptable or right.
Tellingly, in most parts of the world, *highly publicized suicides tend to cause others to kill themselves.
"suicide contagion" causes "suicide clusters" and the CDC has been looking into it for a few decades.
*This includes fictional suicides in print, tv, or cinema
The new proposals require oil traders to put up more of their own money for transactions, ask for more money for market enforcement and monitoring activities, and call for higher penalties for market manipulation.
"None of these will bring gas prices down overnight," Obama said at a White House press. "But they will prevent market manipulation, and help protect consumers."
I think we should just kick speculators out completely, but then again, I also think that fair, competitive, and transparent markets are better than "free" markets.
The numbers I've seen quoted are that the oil market is 70% speculators and 30% producers/users. Historically, that number has been the opposite, with producers/users makeing up 70% of the market.
I'm not disputing that refinery problems are responsible for localized price spikes, but overall prices have gone up because speculators are moving the market towards higher prices.
Being 40+ years out of date, I imagine they'll have to spend billions to repeat the original work,
The real cost to ressurect old aerospace technology is in remaking the molds and figuring out the exact composition of the materials used. If NASA saved any of the old molds/dies or documents, it'll save them a lot of money and effort.
And I'd like to point out that "out of date" is a questionable statement when we're talking about rocket technology. The R&D has already been done and it's not like the old designs deteriorate with age. Computers aside, most of what's done today isn't very different from 50 year old rocketry.
I read the same article and the costs of gorilla glass won't apply to laptops/ultrabooks, because they don't require the same anorexically thin displays like phones.
Specifically: Why did they pursue a case when the plaintiffs want out?
a) Was it because they thought what he allegedly did was so terrible that it must be prosecuted?
b) Were they thinking this was a meal ticket to fame?
There are many civil crimes that, when crossing a monetary threshold, turn into criminal actions which do not require a plaintiff to press charges.
What's wrong with this? Don't we all bounce ideas and thoughts, in every aspect of our lives, off of knowledgeable people? Or am I a statistical outlier that asks first and designs second?
DARPA is essentially throwing up their hands at the problem of locomotion and saying it's cheaper from an energy standpoint to just pepper the ocean with lots of sensors than to transport a single sensor over lots of territory pushing water out of the way of its course.
Have you seen how our military operates? The Army has hundreds of overseas bases that cost megabucks to build, operate, and staff... just to host an airport or signit or [other]. They have no problem "pre-staging" a hundred million dollars worth of hardware on the off chance it might be needed in some random corner of the world.
One of the problems with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is that the military has more or less emptied its overseas stashes and is now much less capable of responding to new events. The idea of just tossing sensors into the ocean fits perfectly with the military's desire to have assets everywhere that are available on short notice.
The increased mass gives a flywheel effect, meaning the pedal goes through top dead center easier. [...] So, by going to carbon fiber (lighter, and most likely stiffer), they'll most likely negate any benefits!
Here's the thing: carbon fiber does not have to be stiff. You can go out today and buy carbon fiber leaf or coil springs. carbon fiber cranks are nothing new to the (off)road bicycling word. And haven't you heard about the amputee athletes who run on carbon fiber legs?
But the main reason for using carbon fiber is lighter weight, and if your system depends on extra rotating mass, then there's absolutely nothing to be gained by making the crank out of super light carbon fiber. If Mr. Z-Crank wants springier, he can just choose a different metal alloy and keep the same mass.
If you are just a home user go under addons in Firefox and IE and disable sun/oracle and java. DONE.
I just updated yesterday to the latest Java (addons v7.10.2.18 in FF, v7.0.100.18 in IE) and I swear that the update re-enabled my previously disabled plugins in FF and IE.
My experience is that it's damn hard to find an open Wi-Fi router these days. That tells me that in fact, most people DO know how to do it (or at least get someone else who knows how to)
When encryption was an opt-in choice, few people enabled it. Now that encryption is the default on routers, almost no one opts out.
This article highlights some of the things you mention. As the author points out, Boeing was forced to keep pushing the delivery date on the 787 for over 3 years
Sounds like a dumb idea, until you realize that Chuck E. Cheese and similar businesses have, for decades, been using a similar tactic to avoid running afoul of gambling laws: You're not playing for gifts or money, you're playing for worthless tokens!
I doubt the Feds would allow Japanese style Pachinko gambling, where one business sells/buys the steel balls and another has the gaming machines.
Maybe you could do something online, with a non-US company selling/buying Entertainment Bucks and online casinos accepting/paying out with the same.
The Feds would probably call it all money laundering and make your life hell.
The Pirate Bay has become a contemporary historical phenomenon, due to its distinguished position in the file-sharing debate
The Pirate Bay has become a contemporary historical phenomenon, due to its distinguished position as the last man standing. Before TPB, there was SuprNova (TPB's forums are still hosted @ https://forum.suprbay.org/ ) and before SuprNova there were several other sites that were central to the bittorrent community.
Some of TPB's contemporaries are still around, they're just not as vocal in their fight against the existing copyright regime.
If you do need it for something (like Minecraft), you can remove it from the browser, which tends to also solve the security problems (unless the Java updater adds itself back in, which it's been known to do). Still a better option than just leaving it. There's very few websites left that actually use Java for anything today.
This has been my situation for the last few years, )though not for minecraft.) Adobe's Flash/Shockwave more or less killed java for the average user.
/the mass of exploits that is flash makes for another conversation entirely
JP Morgan cited lower volumes and a recent rare earth price collapse as the key drivers behind their price target cut. Specifically, JP Morgan writes, âoeWe continue to believe MCP will likely have to seek additional capital beyond just a revolver and/or equipment leaseback.â
Until Thursday, Molycorp had been having a solid week. Shares rallied over 12 percent on Monday after the Chinese government cut its production quotas for rare earth metals.
In 2011 Molycorp stock was $75. Today their stock is around $8.
* goverment subsidy plus dumping to put everyone else out of business
[Citation Needed] If anything, China has one the opposite of dumping, by severely restricting the export of refined rare earths. The USA went to the WTO twice last year to try and force China to increase their exports.
China is the leader because they bought almost all the mining and refining capacity. The parent governments could have prevented the sales of their assets. Really anyone with money could have stopped them.
While the CDC does not keep a tab of deaths overall from the flu, it estimates that 24,000 Americans die each year.
Why doesn't the CDC keep tabs on overall deaths from the flu? You can make policy without hard numbers, but you will never know if the policy is effective.
Slashdot Mirror
The Chang'E 3 lander will rely on a plutonium-238 radioisotope thermoelectric generator, or RTG, for power. This is the same type of unit that's currently powering Curiosity's traverse across Mars. But unlike Curiosity, Chang'E 3 will only use its RTG to keep the spacecraft's systems humming during the two-week long lunar nights. Solar panels will allow the lander to take advantage of the free power during the two-week long lunar days.
I thought that once you put together an RTG, its lifespan was limited only by the radiation source and the degradation of the thermocouples.
So what's the purpose of not using the RTG all the time?
Will that extend its life?
Also, in a proper free market, producers would have to pay for the externalities. Use of common resources - e.g. aquifers - must be paid for properly.
Farmers get susidized water from the Federal Government.
Here's one proposal on how to limit those subsidies to the smaller farms that actually need it,
instead of feeding Big Agribusiness' bottom line: http://www.ewg.org/release/feingold-bill-would-limit-subsidies-rich-corporate-farms
DHS does a notoriously bad job of screening through millions of potential threats and figuring out which are the real threats. They're like a smoke alarm that continually gives false alarms until people ignore it.
What does your comment have to do with the conversation at hand?
This isn't a false alarm, there is no need to "balance the risks and costs against the benefits."
The DHS is being handed weaponized computer exploits and ideally they're going to turn around and say "You. Manufacturer. Fix it."
CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team) is under DHS, and I don't thing anyone could reasonably argue that reports of computer exploits should go to the FDA or the Dept of Health and Human Services, just because they're in medical devices.
In my humble opinion, none of these devices should even go through the FDA review process without the software being vetted for basic security stuff.
Put the onus on the manufacturers to get the stamp of approval from a vulnerability assessment firm.
"Wikitravel is not a Wikimedia project"
http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:List_of_related_projects#Wikipedia
http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Cooperating_with_Wikipedia
Wikipedia and Wikitravel have distinct goals, and forking large amounts of content from one project to the other creates wasteful duplication, and can actually stifle the development of creative, original content. In most cases, linking from one to the other would be a better choice.
As a rule, any significant copy-pasting of Wikipedia text to Wikitravel is not permitted, while borrowing the odd single turn of phrase when your writers' brain is stalling is allowed.
Now that they've been forked, Wikitravel might as well close up shop.
All the eyeballs that ended up on their website will be landing on wikipedia instead.
A lot of these mass shootings are done by white males who want control, but feel that it is slipping away from them.
Fixed that for you.
We can't have an honest conversation if we aren't talking about who the shooters are,
because the solution(s) to this problem are going to be different than the solutions we've used to reduce urban gun violence by minorities.
"Starvation mode" is simply what the people who binge in secret tell you. Adjust your caloric intake to under or just at your base metabolism and you will lose weight, your body won't magically start running on hopes and dreams while it stores calories.
Starvation mode is a (incorrect*) short hand way to describe what your body does when it realizes calories aren't coming in.
Normally our gut is ~80%** efficient at absorbing calories.
When our bodies notice caloric restriction, that number increases to ~90%.
So out of 3000 calories, we're only really absorbing 2400 (3000*.8)
Subtract 10% and, out of 2700 calories, we should absorb 2160 (2700*.8),
but since the avg body becomes more efficient, it actually absorbs 2430 calories (2700*.9)
Cut calories, gain weight.
Fucking rediculous isn't it?
*actual starvation mode involves going through ketosis/ketoacidosis and then burning muscle tissue
**this is an average across all food types. We're super efficient at processing fat and much worse at absorbing fiber
Please do not generalize.
You can generalize cultural views towards suicide.
In the USA, where christianity is strong, the conversation around suicide is a moral, not philosophical one.
Rational people can disagree on whether suicide is a natural or sane response to intolerable conditions,
but the experts on prevention strongly suggest you never publicly state that suicide is acceptable or right.
Tellingly, in most parts of the world, *highly publicized suicides tend to cause others to kill themselves.
"suicide contagion" causes "suicide clusters" and the CDC has been looking into it for a few decades.
*This includes fictional suicides in print, tv, or cinema
April 17, 2012
http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/17/markets/obama-oil-speculators/index.htm
The new proposals require oil traders to put up more of their own money for transactions, ask for more money for market enforcement and monitoring activities, and call for higher penalties for market manipulation.
"None of these will bring gas prices down overnight," Obama said at a White House press. "But they will prevent market manipulation, and help protect consumers."
I think we should just kick speculators out completely, but then again,
I also think that fair, competitive, and transparent markets are better than "free" markets.
The numbers I've seen quoted are that the oil market is 70% speculators and 30% producers/users.
Historically, that number has been the opposite, with producers/users makeing up 70% of the market.
I'm not disputing that refinery problems are responsible for localized price spikes, but overall prices have gone up because speculators are moving the market towards higher prices.
Being 40+ years out of date, I imagine they'll have to spend billions to repeat the original work,
The real cost to ressurect old aerospace technology is in remaking the molds and figuring out the exact composition of the materials used.
If NASA saved any of the old molds/dies or documents, it'll save them a lot of money and effort.
And I'd like to point out that "out of date" is a questionable statement when we're talking about rocket technology.
The R&D has already been done and it's not like the old designs deteriorate with age.
Computers aside, most of what's done today isn't very different from 50 year old rocketry.
I thought you could e-mail anyone to their [nickname]@facebook.com
I read the same article and the costs of gorilla glass won't apply to laptops/ultrabooks,
because they don't require the same anorexically thin displays like phones.
There's less than 30 models of tablet/laptop/tv using gorilla glass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_devices_with_Gorilla_Glass#Tablets
Specifically:
Why did they pursue a case when the plaintiffs want out?
a) Was it because they thought what he allegedly did was so terrible that it must be prosecuted?
b) Were they thinking this was a meal ticket to fame?
There are many civil crimes that, when crossing a monetary threshold, turn into criminal actions which do not require a plaintiff to press charges.
correcting your conceptual mistakes
What's wrong with this?
Don't we all bounce ideas and thoughts, in every aspect of our lives, off of knowledgeable people?
Or am I a statistical outlier that asks first and designs second?
DARPA is essentially throwing up their hands at the problem of locomotion and saying it's cheaper from an energy standpoint to just pepper the ocean with lots of sensors than to transport a single sensor over lots of territory pushing water out of the way of its course.
Have you seen how our military operates?
The Army has hundreds of overseas bases that cost megabucks to build, operate, and staff... just to host an airport or signit or [other].
They have no problem "pre-staging" a hundred million dollars worth of hardware on the off chance it might be needed in some random corner of the world.
One of the problems with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is that the military has more or less emptied its overseas stashes and is now much less capable of responding to new events.
The idea of just tossing sensors into the ocean fits perfectly with the military's desire to have assets everywhere that are available on short notice.
The increased mass gives a flywheel effect, meaning the pedal goes through top dead center easier.
[...]
So, by going to carbon fiber (lighter, and most likely stiffer), they'll most likely negate any benefits!
Here's the thing: carbon fiber does not have to be stiff.
You can go out today and buy carbon fiber leaf or coil springs.
carbon fiber cranks are nothing new to the (off)road bicycling word.
And haven't you heard about the amputee athletes who run on carbon fiber legs?
But the main reason for using carbon fiber is lighter weight, and if your system depends on extra rotating mass,
then there's absolutely nothing to be gained by making the crank out of super light carbon fiber.
If Mr. Z-Crank wants springier, he can just choose a different metal alloy and keep the same mass.
If you are just a home user go under addons in Firefox and IE and disable sun/oracle and java. DONE.
I just updated yesterday to the latest Java (addons v7.10.2.18 in FF, v7.0.100.18 in IE) and I swear that the update re-enabled my previously disabled plugins in FF and IE.
I only checked on a whim after reading your post.
But in this world, java on the web is effectively dead.
What killed it?
My experience seems to be that flash has replaced everything that java was supposed to do.
My experience is that it's damn hard to find an open Wi-Fi router these days. That tells me that in fact, most people DO know how to do it (or at least get someone else who knows how to)
When encryption was an opt-in choice, few people enabled it.
Now that encryption is the default on routers, almost no one opts out.
This article highlights some of the things you mention.
As the author points out, Boeing was forced to keep pushing the delivery date on the 787 for over 3 years
Boeing Has An Airplane Problem, Not a PR Problem
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathansalembaskin/2013/01/10/boeing-has-an-airplane-problem-not-a-pr-problem/
Sounds like a dumb idea, until you realize that Chuck E. Cheese and similar businesses have, for decades, been using a similar tactic to avoid running afoul of gambling laws: You're not playing for gifts or money, you're playing for worthless tokens!
I doubt the Feds would allow Japanese style Pachinko gambling, where one business sells/buys the steel balls and another has the gaming machines.
Maybe you could do something online, with a non-US company selling/buying Entertainment Bucks and online casinos accepting/paying out with the same.
The Feds would probably call it all money laundering and make your life hell.
The Pirate Bay has become a contemporary historical phenomenon, due to its distinguished position in the file-sharing debate
The Pirate Bay has become a contemporary historical phenomenon, due to its distinguished position as the last man standing.
Before TPB, there was SuprNova (TPB's forums are still hosted @ https://forum.suprbay.org/ )
and before SuprNova there were several other sites that were central to the bittorrent community.
Some of TPB's contemporaries are still around, they're just not as vocal in their fight against the existing copyright regime.
If you do need it for something (like Minecraft), you can remove it from the browser, which tends to also solve the security problems (unless the Java updater adds itself back in, which it's been known to do). Still a better option than just leaving it. There's very few websites left that actually use Java for anything today.
This has been my situation for the last few years, )though not for minecraft.)
Adobe's Flash/Shockwave more or less killed java for the average user.
/the mass of exploits that is flash makes for another conversation entirely
Funny that this just passed across my desk earlier today:
Molycorp Plummets on JP Morgan Price Target Cut
JP Morgan cited lower volumes and a recent rare earth price collapse as the key drivers behind their price target cut. Specifically, JP Morgan writes, âoeWe continue to believe MCP will likely have to seek additional capital beyond just a revolver and/or equipment leaseback.â
Until Thursday, Molycorp had been having a solid week. Shares rallied over 12 percent on Monday after the Chinese government cut its production quotas for rare earth metals.
In 2011 Molycorp stock was $75.
Today their stock is around $8.
* goverment subsidy plus dumping to put everyone else out of business
[Citation Needed]
If anything, China has one the opposite of dumping, by severely restricting the export of refined rare earths.
The USA went to the WTO twice last year to try and force China to increase their exports.
China is the leader because they bought almost all the mining and refining capacity.
The parent governments could have prevented the sales of their assets.
Really anyone with money could have stopped them.
While the CDC does not keep a tab of deaths overall from the flu, it estimates that 24,000 Americans die each year.
Why doesn't the CDC keep tabs on overall deaths from the flu?
You can make policy without hard numbers, but you will never know if the policy is effective.