Not reading the article is the way to go on/. but not properly reading the intro and then complaining about it should be frowned upon even on/.
Just for you, from the text *up there*: "Still not reported elsewhere, Flight International reports..." actually linking to that Friday news you talk about.
I know my post is just garbage and adds nothing to the subject itself, but rather than modding you down I think it may be more helpful to shove it on your face so you don't do it again (at least in the next two weeks, then you forget...)
Yes, I can only be Carlos Cruz to make such a statement...
I made a minor comment about Paulo Pedroso, which spent sometime in jail to later on be released and no charges made against him. And what about Gertrude Nunes, the owner of the house in Elvas where supposedly orgies were happening left and right. She was innocent after all. Clearly only Carlos Cruz has reasons to be pissed at this moment. Quite frankly, if the owner of a place where child abuse was happening systematically doesn't even go to jail, you as a Portuguese should be pissed as well. Or am I supposed to believe she had nothing to do with it? Or am I supposed to accept that that part of the story was a lie, but the victims were truthful in everything else.
Anyway, most of my comment was about the case itself and not a specific person. If you want to focus your attention on that, go ahead. I'm not sure Carlos Cruz was the only guy affected by this delay. And I'm not sure either Justice itself wasn't the most affected...
Putting this on Slashdot without giving more the info on this case (which would have very hard) is prone to disaster.
This has been the longest running case in Portuguese justice and has been full of stupid decision since day one. When this whole thing blew up (6 years ago or so) a few of the key people on the process were arrested and put in jail while the investigation was going. The theory was that there was the danger they would flee the country. Some were left there for the maximum time they can be arrested before a trial, while others after several months in jail were released and no charges were made against them (so maybe they shouldn't have been put in jail in the first place). From the ones that were put in jail and later released, none fled the country. So the first decision on this process was already a mess and a good start for the entire thing.
The trial was huge and went on for 6 years,the longest even in Portugal. There were 900 witnesses, 7 lawyers for the defendants and also the prosecutors. Since every one of these lawyers and the prosecutors has the right to talk to the witnesses this leads to about 7000 cross-interrogations. Whatever can be taken from 900 people and not summarized by 50 or 100 people (remember, this is a case about child-abuse, not country-wide rigging of elections or whatever) is still to be understood.
The victims, in many instances, failed to offer clear evidence anything at all. They couldn't be precise on dates on when things happened, on places where things happened, on people present. It gets to the point of one supposed places where the abuses happened is described not by the exact address but by "an apartment with an odd door number on street [whatever]" (in Portugal buildings on one side of the street have odd numbers, on the other side even, so in practice they were just able to say we enter a building on this side of the street). One guy is accused of abusing a boy but the time span is described as "on the second trimester of year XXXX". I wonder how many of us could provide a solid alibi spanning 3 months... I'm not trying to defend no one here, but there were, but as far as we get to know, there was no clear solid evidence to anything. There aren't even phone calls between the abusers and the supposed ring leaders or anyone involved. People abuse other people for years and no phone call is ever made to set up any meetings and so on.
Now going to the decision itself, it was supposed to be read in June, later postponed to July due to lack of time to write it and then to September (there are "judicial holidays" in August in Portugal) as they still had no time to finish it. When the day of presenting it finally came, they attorneys were not given the decision by the judges, as it still had to be finalized. All sentences in Portugal are presented to the defendant when the paperwork is already on the Ministery of Justice system and can be accessed right away (to start preparing for appeals and so on). Not this one, because it was too big, with 2000 pages, and it had still to be finalized. The date of presenting the decision was Sep 3, the date of finally having the paper work was then said to be the Sep 8. That day came and things were postponed one day because there was a problem with the making of the PDF due to the size of the document. Next day it was postponed again to the 10th and it was a problem with the printer, generically described as a "computer problem", common nowadays when things go south. Friday by the middle of the afternoon the news came out everything will be finished by Monday. And yesterday there was this piece in the same newspaper as presented above:
Delay due to virus (Only in Portuguese, google translate should be as good as before)
So the reason has been changing with time and the most likely reason is the judges' inability to finish the thing on time (not wanting to go into the lack of skills vs lack of t
How is this different from the situation yesterday? Until today you could also crack an application, make your score at the game whatever 999999999 points and so on. Have been people complaining about that?
And why is 4 oz easier than 120 grams? Simply because it's a smaller number? It's still "one number". Or you measure large distances in any unit longer than mile?
Oracle should also have testing procedures to check for the handling of leap seconds and it didn't. I'd rather be on a situation where something is not in the need to be tested (not having leap seconds) than hoping they tested for it.
Because as he just put it, the problem isn't *only* with Oracle. Flight industry and other safety-critical stuff don't (necessarily) depend on Oracle...
Helium is lighter so, just like hydrogen, it can escape the gravity of the planet. Carbon dioxide is heavy enough to stay around.
Even if you forget that "minor" detail, extracting Helium from air is expensive (Just to give a back of the envelope example, to extract water out of air you just need to cool it down below freezing point. If the same principle is applied to extract He then you are in need of a lot of cooling [it's not how it's actually done, but it gives an idea].) At this point it's just not commercially viable to do so (and go back to first paragraph to see why it might not be later on either).
Helium is essential for keeping most of superconducting stuff at superconducting temperatures. Current NMR machines, for instance, all depend on He for maintaining their magnets and the market for these is slightly bigger than the market for Large Hadron Colliders.
So, if the He availability really goes down, prices will go up in the typical "supply vs demand" effect and people will stop using it for such important tasks as keeping children and girlfriends happy with princess and heart shaped balloons.
(On a side note, there should be enough alpha-decay radioactivity out there to prevent "panic" when this starts really depleting. And if it becomes scarcer, people will take measures to recycle/reuse it, rather than just letting it go to the atmosphere, and other countries (Poland is also "rich" on He) will make sure they don't waste their "gaseous gold".)
I was already thinking no one would mention McCandless!
You are indeed right and reading a bit through the info on the Wikipedia page about him or seeing the movie "Into the Wild" (although he is a bit glorified there) shows technology is not in any way a main contributor to stupidity. A young man, went to live in the middle of no where without taking even a map (because he "wanted to live in uncharted territory"). But, in the process he failed to even familiarize himself with the surroundings and missed something that would have allowed him to make a safe return, that was a mere 1/4 mile down from where he had been for 3 months! Explorers that do it the proper way plan ahead, prepare and do a reconnaissance of the terrain when they get there, which he failed to do.
GPS just brings the next level of stupidity in...
Well, I've got a 4 year old laptop (Sony Vaio SZ1HP/B, not really the most uncommon thing around) and Ubuntu recognizes everything but the webcam from minute 0.
Windows 7 didn't recognize the webcam, just like Ubuntu (and solving this issue involved installing some Windows XP drivers [yes, XP] found on some hard to find forum). On top of that, the wireless card was recognized but didn't work. The solution was deleting the driver, rebooting and letting Windows find it again. This is something I've done dozens of times on other systems so I know it (sometimes) works. For the average Joe if it's already recognized then it must be ok, so they would be with a laptop without wireless network.
On top of that Windows 7 feels (and is) much slower and makes the laptop run with cpu fan all the time.
Granted, it's not a new laptop so it ends up being slow, but one would guess after 4 years the hardware would be accept as mainstream, no? Yet, Ubuntu got it better. And it's not a random set of parts, just in case you forgot! So, your point was...
Well, there's a big difference between "you can't go faster than the speed of light" and some (semi-)random guy saying 640 kB is enough. All those sentences you just referred to are simply opinions. Physics on the other hand, tends to be based on facts! And I'm certain no physicist ever said it was impossible to go faster than the speed of sound... (at least a sane one).
Which, most likely, ends up being 140 years (as the computer has 4 cores) and not 35 but, as someone already mentioned, this sort of metric is close to meaningless.
People are living longer and, as a result, the genes responsible for Alzheimer's are being exposed. When evolution shaped us, there was no way to naturally select genes that didn't have Alzheimer's traits as our species was most likely dead by the time we hit that age.
Neither now evolution can select us in what concerns Alzheimer's. For the most general type of Alzheimer's disease the effects don't start showing up before being 60 years old and by then you surely have spread your genes. By then, there is a big probability that your grand children are already thinking of sex... So the natural selection regarding Alzheimer's comes too late to be of any effect.
There is a great benefit from a one minute warnign that is better than nothing. Imagine a surgeon about to make a precise cut. Suddenly everything starts to shake. Oops, there goes an artery and part of a spleen or something...
Also for rescue workers during aftershocks in order to make them get out before the ground starts shaking and the buildings colapse on them.
In this way a one minute warning is even better than a 1 day warning like "in the next 24 hours there will be an earthquake so let us all go outside just to avoid building colapsing and stop all cirurgies in order to avoid bigger damage"
A few years ago (actually, a lot) when fluorescent lamps were invented someone said that regular lamps would be dead in 10 years. Fluorescent lamps where invented still in 19th century, so I guess it didn't come true.
I'd hope it gets through this time, but people still by those energy consuming lamps, so I'll just wait and see...
If you read the article carefully (or just the 4th paragraph) and check the image in the other link you'll see that the water from the lake, after cooling the water that goes to the city is treated and then taken to the drinking water supply of the Toronto. So it won't get back, hotter, in the lake, ruining the ecosystem.
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Not reading the article is the way to go on /. but not properly reading the intro and then complaining about it should be frowned upon even on /.
Just for you, from the text *up there*: "Still not reported elsewhere, Flight International reports..." actually linking to that Friday news you talk about.
I know my post is just garbage and adds nothing to the subject itself, but rather than modding you down I think it may be more helpful to shove it on your face so you don't do it again (at least in the next two weeks, then you forget...)
Yes, I can only be Carlos Cruz to make such a statement...
I made a minor comment about Paulo Pedroso, which spent sometime in jail to later on be released and no charges made against him. And what about Gertrude Nunes, the owner of the house in Elvas where supposedly orgies were happening left and right. She was innocent after all. Clearly only Carlos Cruz has reasons to be pissed at this moment. Quite frankly, if the owner of a place where child abuse was happening systematically doesn't even go to jail, you as a Portuguese should be pissed as well. Or am I supposed to believe she had nothing to do with it? Or am I supposed to accept that that part of the story was a lie, but the victims were truthful in everything else.
Anyway, most of my comment was about the case itself and not a specific person. If you want to focus your attention on that, go ahead. I'm not sure Carlos Cruz was the only guy affected by this delay. And I'm not sure either Justice itself wasn't the most affected...
His name is Linus Torvalds.
Putting this on Slashdot without giving more the info on this case (which would have very hard) is prone to disaster.
This has been the longest running case in Portuguese justice and has been full of stupid decision since day one. When this whole thing blew up (6 years ago or so) a few of the key people on the process were arrested and put in jail while the investigation was going. The theory was that there was the danger they would flee the country. Some were left there for the maximum time they can be arrested before a trial, while others after several months in jail were released and no charges were made against them (so maybe they shouldn't have been put in jail in the first place). From the ones that were put in jail and later released, none fled the country. So the first decision on this process was already a mess and a good start for the entire thing.
The trial was huge and went on for 6 years,the longest even in Portugal. There were 900 witnesses, 7 lawyers for the defendants and also the prosecutors. Since every one of these lawyers and the prosecutors has the right to talk to the witnesses this leads to about 7000 cross-interrogations. Whatever can be taken from 900 people and not summarized by 50 or 100 people (remember, this is a case about child-abuse, not country-wide rigging of elections or whatever) is still to be understood.
The victims, in many instances, failed to offer clear evidence anything at all. They couldn't be precise on dates on when things happened, on places where things happened, on people present. It gets to the point of one supposed places where the abuses happened is described not by the exact address but by "an apartment with an odd door number on street [whatever]" (in Portugal buildings on one side of the street have odd numbers, on the other side even, so in practice they were just able to say we enter a building on this side of the street). One guy is accused of abusing a boy but the time span is described as "on the second trimester of year XXXX". I wonder how many of us could provide a solid alibi spanning 3 months... I'm not trying to defend no one here, but there were, but as far as we get to know, there was no clear solid evidence to anything. There aren't even phone calls between the abusers and the supposed ring leaders or anyone involved. People abuse other people for years and no phone call is ever made to set up any meetings and so on.
Now going to the decision itself, it was supposed to be read in June, later postponed to July due to lack of time to write it and then to September (there are "judicial holidays" in August in Portugal) as they still had no time to finish it. When the day of presenting it finally came, they attorneys were not given the decision by the judges, as it still had to be finalized. All sentences in Portugal are presented to the defendant when the paperwork is already on the Ministery of Justice system and can be accessed right away (to start preparing for appeals and so on). Not this one, because it was too big, with 2000 pages, and it had still to be finalized. The date of presenting the decision was Sep 3, the date of finally having the paper work was then said to be the Sep 8. That day came and things were postponed one day because there was a problem with the making of the PDF due to the size of the document. Next day it was postponed again to the 10th and it was a problem with the printer, generically described as a "computer problem", common nowadays when things go south. Friday by the middle of the afternoon the news came out everything will be finished by Monday. And yesterday there was this piece in the same newspaper as presented above:
Delay due to virus (Only in Portuguese, google translate should be as good as before)
So the reason has been changing with time and the most likely reason is the judges' inability to finish the thing on time (not wanting to go into the lack of skills vs lack of t
How is this different from the situation yesterday?
Until today you could also crack an application, make your score at the game whatever 999999999 points and so on. Have been people complaining about that?
... not as I do.
And why is 4 oz easier than 120 grams? Simply because it's a smaller number? It's still "one number". Or you measure large distances in any unit longer than mile?
Then I guess it goes to show how much CIA cares about you getting spam...
Oracle should also have testing procedures to check for the handling of leap seconds and it didn't. I'd rather be on a situation where something is not in the need to be tested (not having leap seconds) than hoping they tested for it.
Because as he just put it, the problem isn't *only* with Oracle. Flight industry and other safety-critical stuff don't (necessarily) depend on Oracle...
Helium is lighter so, just like hydrogen, it can escape the gravity of the planet. Carbon dioxide is heavy enough to stay around.
Even if you forget that "minor" detail, extracting Helium from air is expensive (Just to give a back of the envelope example, to extract water out of air you just need to cool it down below freezing point. If the same principle is applied to extract He then you are in need of a lot of cooling [it's not how it's actually done, but it gives an idea].) At this point it's just not commercially viable to do so (and go back to first paragraph to see why it might not be later on either).
Helium is essential for keeping most of superconducting stuff at superconducting temperatures. Current NMR machines, for instance, all depend on He for maintaining their magnets and the market for these is slightly bigger than the market for Large Hadron Colliders.
So, if the He availability really goes down, prices will go up in the typical "supply vs demand" effect and people will stop using it for such important tasks as keeping children and girlfriends happy with princess and heart shaped balloons.
(On a side note, there should be enough alpha-decay radioactivity out there to prevent "panic" when this starts really depleting. And if it becomes scarcer, people will take measures to recycle/reuse it, rather than just letting it go to the atmosphere, and other countries (Poland is also "rich" on He) will make sure they don't waste their "gaseous gold".)
I was already thinking no one would mention McCandless! You are indeed right and reading a bit through the info on the Wikipedia page about him or seeing the movie "Into the Wild" (although he is a bit glorified there) shows technology is not in any way a main contributor to stupidity. A young man, went to live in the middle of no where without taking even a map (because he "wanted to live in uncharted territory"). But, in the process he failed to even familiarize himself with the surroundings and missed something that would have allowed him to make a safe return, that was a mere 1/4 mile down from where he had been for 3 months! Explorers that do it the proper way plan ahead, prepare and do a reconnaissance of the terrain when they get there, which he failed to do. GPS just brings the next level of stupidity in...
Well, I've got a 4 year old laptop (Sony Vaio SZ1HP/B, not really the most uncommon thing around) and Ubuntu recognizes everything but the webcam from minute 0. Windows 7 didn't recognize the webcam, just like Ubuntu (and solving this issue involved installing some Windows XP drivers [yes, XP] found on some hard to find forum). On top of that, the wireless card was recognized but didn't work. The solution was deleting the driver, rebooting and letting Windows find it again. This is something I've done dozens of times on other systems so I know it (sometimes) works. For the average Joe if it's already recognized then it must be ok, so they would be with a laptop without wireless network. On top of that Windows 7 feels (and is) much slower and makes the laptop run with cpu fan all the time. Granted, it's not a new laptop so it ends up being slow, but one would guess after 4 years the hardware would be accept as mainstream, no? Yet, Ubuntu got it better. And it's not a random set of parts, just in case you forgot! So, your point was...
So when you press Ctrl+Alt the entire keyboard suddenly changes into a big "Delete"?
Well, there's a big difference between "you can't go faster than the speed of light" and some (semi-)random guy saying 640 kB is enough. All those sentences you just referred to are simply opinions. Physics on the other hand, tends to be based on facts! And I'm certain no physicist ever said it was impossible to go faster than the speed of sound... (at least a sane one).
Which, most likely, ends up being 140 years (as the computer has 4 cores) and not 35 but, as someone already mentioned, this sort of metric is close to meaningless.
What's the part of "*do not compare charts against each other" (right under the main title) that I'm not getting, to understand the joke...
People are living longer and, as a result, the genes responsible for Alzheimer's are being exposed. When evolution shaped us, there was no way to naturally select genes that didn't have Alzheimer's traits as our species was most likely dead by the time we hit that age.
Neither now evolution can select us in what concerns Alzheimer's. For the most general type of Alzheimer's disease the effects don't start showing up before being 60 years old and by then you surely have spread your genes. By then, there is a big probability that your grand children are already thinking of sex... So the natural selection regarding Alzheimer's comes too late to be of any effect.
There is a great benefit from a one minute warnign that is better than nothing. Imagine a surgeon about to make a precise cut. Suddenly everything starts to shake. Oops, there goes an artery and part of a spleen or something...
Also for rescue workers during aftershocks in order to make them get out before the ground starts shaking and the buildings colapse on them.
In this way a one minute warning is even better than a 1 day warning like "in the next 24 hours there will be an earthquake so let us all go outside just to avoid building colapsing and stop all cirurgies in order to avoid bigger damage"
A few years ago (actually, a lot) when fluorescent lamps were invented someone said that regular lamps would be dead in 10 years. Fluorescent lamps where invented still in 19th century, so I guess it didn't come true.
I'd hope it gets through this time, but people still by those energy consuming lamps, so I'll just wait and see...
If the viscosity of a fluid doesn't influence your speed through it how come you have a terminal velocity while falling in air but not in vacuum.
And, as someone said, why can't we swim in air?
If you read the article carefully (or just the 4th paragraph) and check the image in the other link you'll see that the water from the lake, after cooling the water that goes to the city is treated and then taken to the drinking water supply of the Toronto. So it won't get back, hotter, in the lake, ruining the ecosystem.
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Is he allowed to do that?