I hope this decision is an enlightened set-up for a movement towards the thorium fuel cycle. - No weapons-grade fissible material and no shortage of the fuel anywhere.
Also sometimes movies are right: Lunking a nuke at the surface of a giant rock won't do much.
We have thousands of them and they aren't much good for anything else. Most of us would be happy just to get them off the face of the planet and somehow imagine the nuclear arms race wasn't just an economic holocaust.
That's for the info. I didn't know it was that high and I'm not aware of any cooling effect aside from the easily detected, sublimated comet's tail which would act as an IR stealth-mode.
I don't think 90% is good enough though, simply because of Murphy's Law.
I was secretly referring to Carol Rosin's relaying of Werner von Braun's warning about the militarization of space. I felt I'll probably earn the Troll mod just for thinking about it... But both of these people are to be considered reliable non-cranks and respected scientists.
However, if we don't have any tactical ability in space it means we are relying on the presumed aliens for our safety. - That would be the same aliens which let 1000 people get hurt in Chelyabinsk. - If meteor-deflecting aliens did ever exist, perhaps this means they think we are ready to handle it ourselves?
Reliable, visual-range detection of meteors is doubtful since they get covered by dust which can be very dark.
What's needed is a type of active radar with Doppler shift detection. You might be able to put an existing one of those on the ISS to start with, say from tech developed for fighter airplanes. Better not sink money into developing them all over again unless that is actually needed.
You don't have to put the nuke right next to it as to smash it. With a reasonable distance you should be able to sublimate the meteor's dark and dust-covered surface surface, which creates quite a bit of pressure which can be further increased with additional detonations.
The risk to satellites is very real though. Just like the gravity probe you have to have an early detection and launch. A nuke in space too close to Earth will over-excite the van Allen Belt, which then damages satellites over a period of many months.
It may be an alternative to give the meteor a slight spin with a simple collision. The sun will heat up the surface and as the surface spins it creates a thrust to one side as it cools. You basically turn it into a solar-powered curveball. This is also why predicting meteor paths is difficult; it's hard to tell if it's spinning unless one side is naturally brighter.
I wonder if there are any junior positions job openings for this...
4. The developers were stupid and did not anticipate the traffic they got.
I'm not directly affected by this, but I'm pissed off anyway. - I don't see how this ISN'T software for a medical device. - By that qualifier this is a failure of the managers who hired newbie web designers for a job that required experienced engineers.
Considering the volume of patients with medical needs that should be processed, can we not already ascribe actual real, deaths to their failure? - Manslaughter, I believe is the legal term.
I hope they read this. People who fail to realize the full scope of the consequence of their ineptitude are truly my and everyone else's mortal enemy. - They're the proverbial fools rushing in where angels fear to tread. - A manger is paid for the responsibility that their position entails, but they seem to think more money is always better and that a rubber stamp from a brand-name university magically endows competence.
Perhaps it's the fault of the universities, which lack the courage to follow through on their educational contract, and fail under-performing students.
( p.s. If you're thinking 'they would have died anyway if we didn't build the site', you are either an egomaniac or a psychological moron. Just so you know. You're probably more used to being called 'dickhead' though. )
Three. A certain three-letter club in Germany appears not amused at all, and their politicians who actually seem to represent them talk of US actions resembling those of a cold war.
This is why traditional security companies with guards and trucks don't get into IT sec. IT sec lets you build locks which last forever while traditional locks only need to last as long as the patrol interval. The management of the traditionals don't have the left-hemisphere intelligence to learn IT.
There's for example this guy who appears to be very well-versed in making supercaps using glass jars and chemicals in white bottles obtained from unusual sources. He has a few videos where he uses chitin from fungi to make them.
He's not the only guy doing this, but for every video on this level of science there is a dozen perpetual motion devices. If you know of more interesting amsci, please link.
The illness comes from having to learn to deal with the emotionally retarded, sociopathic, unintelligent, wilfully ignorant and embarrassingly neurotic nutcases who make up the vast majority of the population of this planet.
If you're not perfect, you're hurting someone. That hurting can have consequences like anxiety, atonia, mania, hypomania, seizures, hypokalemia, dry mouth, excessive sweating, restlessness, suicide.
You shouldn't respond to these. Myself and others routinely mod everyone posting Offtopic with their UID -1 because Slashdot puts a troll thread above a good one if it has more points in it.
The article is the topic. If you don't have anything to contribute with respectfully STFU, even if this is called the 'comments' section. Important stuff get posted here too and we don't want it lost due to a bad signal-to-noise ratio.
I believe I have the most computationally intensive gender imaginable; it's the inverse of whatever person who I am considering for a life-long partner.
My gender field will probably need to be executable with your user privs.
The problem seems to have its root in daycare centres. The personnel push the children into groups based on the gender the parents report and refuse to accept children without this information. They condition the children to accept gender roles and act normal in a sick society.
There is an immense amount of disrespect for children in daycare centres, simply because they can in no way fight back and it's convenient for the personnel.
Now you're about to fail CS. - Information get parsed by a program and becomes data and then it get parsed by a human and becomes information. All computer systems which do anything important need to have recoverable information because otherwise they are worse than useless.
Look. A civilized world collapses pretty quick. Schools get shot up, marathons get bombed, and messages get parsed by audiences they are not intended for.
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I hope this decision is an enlightened set-up for a movement towards the thorium fuel cycle. - No weapons-grade fissible material and no shortage of the fuel anywhere.
Also sometimes movies are right: Lunking a nuke at the surface of a giant rock won't do much.
We have thousands of them and they aren't much good for anything else. Most of us would be happy just to get them off the face of the planet and somehow imagine the nuclear arms race wasn't just an economic holocaust.
That's for the info. I didn't know it was that high and I'm not aware of any cooling effect aside from the easily detected, sublimated comet's tail which would act as an IR stealth-mode.
I don't think 90% is good enough though, simply because of Murphy's Law.
I was secretly referring to Carol Rosin's relaying of Werner von Braun's warning about the militarization of space. I felt I'll probably earn the Troll mod just for thinking about it... But both of these people are to be considered reliable non-cranks and respected scientists.
However, if we don't have any tactical ability in space it means we are relying on the presumed aliens for our safety. - That would be the same aliens which let 1000 people get hurt in Chelyabinsk. - If meteor-deflecting aliens did ever exist, perhaps this means they think we are ready to handle it ourselves?
Reliable, visual-range detection of meteors is doubtful since they get covered by dust which can be very dark.
What's needed is a type of active radar with Doppler shift detection. You might be able to put an existing one of those on the ISS to start with, say from tech developed for fighter airplanes. Better not sink money into developing them all over again unless that is actually needed.
You don't have to put the nuke right next to it as to smash it. With a reasonable distance you should be able to sublimate the meteor's dark and dust-covered surface surface, which creates quite a bit of pressure which can be further increased with additional detonations.
The risk to satellites is very real though. Just like the gravity probe you have to have an early detection and launch. A nuke in space too close to Earth will over-excite the van Allen Belt, which then damages satellites over a period of many months.
It may be an alternative to give the meteor a slight spin with a simple collision. The sun will heat up the surface and as the surface spins it creates a thrust to one side as it cools. You basically turn it into a solar-powered curveball.
This is also why predicting meteor paths is difficult; it's hard to tell if it's spinning unless one side is naturally brighter.
I wonder if there are any junior positions job openings for this...
First pst!
4. The developers were stupid and did not anticipate the traffic they got.
I'm not directly affected by this, but I'm pissed off anyway. - I don't see how this ISN'T software for a medical device. - By that qualifier this is a failure of the managers who hired newbie web designers for a job that required experienced engineers.
Considering the volume of patients with medical needs that should be processed, can we not already ascribe actual real, deaths to their failure? - Manslaughter, I believe is the legal term.
I hope they read this. People who fail to realize the full scope of the consequence of their ineptitude are truly my and everyone else's mortal enemy. - They're the proverbial fools rushing in where angels fear to tread. - A manger is paid for the responsibility that their position entails, but they seem to think more money is always better and that a rubber stamp from a brand-name university magically endows competence.
Perhaps it's the fault of the universities, which lack the courage to follow through on their educational contract, and fail under-performing students.
( p.s. If you're thinking 'they would have died anyway if we didn't build the site', you are either an egomaniac or a psychological moron. Just so you know. You're probably more used to being called 'dickhead' though. )
Is stuff people, Drethon?
-- A concerned reader
John Nash, and his Game Theory.
What will the government do to stop these leaks?!
instead of getting us into two new ones as well.
Three.
A certain three-letter club in Germany appears not amused at all, and their politicians who actually seem to represent them talk of US actions resembling those of a cold war.
I would love to see IDS log stats from the US.
... security has no ROI ...
This is why traditional security companies with guards and trucks don't get into IT sec. IT sec lets you build locks which last forever while traditional locks only need to last as long as the patrol interval. The management of the traditionals don't have the left-hemisphere intelligence to learn IT.
Anything else is a bonus.
They are also a child's status symbol right now. Giving them all a symbol of the highest status is a very good, a very provocative idea.
Depending on the circumstances, that might be enough to get a warrant.
Those no longer seem to matter to your government.
There's for example this guy who appears to be very well-versed in making supercaps using glass jars and chemicals in white bottles obtained from unusual sources. He has a few videos where he uses chitin from fungi to make them.
He's not the only guy doing this, but for every video on this level of science there is a dozen perpetual motion devices. If you know of more interesting amsci, please link.
The illness comes from having to learn to deal with the emotionally retarded, sociopathic, unintelligent, wilfully ignorant and embarrassingly neurotic nutcases who make up the vast majority of the population of this planet.
If you're not perfect, you're hurting someone. That hurting can have consequences like anxiety, atonia, mania, hypomania, seizures, hypokalemia, dry mouth, excessive sweating, restlessness, suicide.
You shouldn't respond to these. Myself and others routinely mod everyone posting Offtopic with their UID -1 because Slashdot puts a troll thread above a good one if it has more points in it.
The article is the topic. If you don't have anything to contribute with respectfully STFU, even if this is called the 'comments' section. Important stuff get posted here too and we don't want it lost due to a bad signal-to-noise ratio.
I believe I have the most computationally intensive gender imaginable; it's the inverse of whatever person who I am considering for a life-long partner.
My gender field will probably need to be executable with your user privs.
it's unlikely the database would be coded to handle them anyway
That would be a very small database. Would Microsoft Excel fit your needs? No, you probably don't need the power of Access.
I agree that modifying the body to fix a mental illness is a good solution.
Riddle me this: is a phantom limb in place of a lost one a mental illness?
Why assume that physical is right and mental is wrong? For all of neural plasticity, why do TG people exist at all?
The problem seems to have its root in daycare centres. The personnel push the children into groups based on the gender the parents report and refuse to accept children without this information. They condition the children to accept gender roles and act normal in a sick society.
There is an immense amount of disrespect for children in daycare centres, simply because they can in no way fight back and it's convenient for the personnel.
There is nothing wrong with the data.
Now you're about to fail CS. - Information get parsed by a program and becomes data and then it get parsed by a human and becomes information. All computer systems which do anything important need to have recoverable information because otherwise they are worse than useless.
Look. A civilized world collapses pretty quick. Schools get shot up, marathons get bombed, and messages get parsed by audiences they are not intended for.
Yes you do have to accept it.
it does however cover 99.999% of the job
Says the guy who got fired from Intel.
Read: Not good enough.