When I have kids of my own, I'm raising them to be math and science nerds like the old man, especially any daughters.
My experience with this is you can control which opportunities they get, but they decide what they actually like. Don't turn in the math equivalent of the screaming sports parent.
What's wrong with wanting to work in a war zone? The pay is usually better, and some people like the daily excitement.
Start with taking a "great job" at an office in your local neighborhood inner city and see how you like it. That's where I am. Two shootings within the last 6 years within 200 feet of our lot although no one died (as far as I know), and they pulled a dead body out of the river just a couple months ago, just a couple feet from my window, theres a sight I didn't need to see. Smashed glass everywhere and riots after the annual street festival, which was finally cancelled after two years in a row of shootings (shootings not near my office). Anyone who leaves anything in a car can expect smashed windows... I park underneath a security cam, near the door, work in the daytime, never keep anything in the car, all good so far... Siege mentality gets tiring after awhile, but at least I only have to live it for about 40 hours a week, you'd be stuck there 24x7.
There tends to be pretty intense "blame the victim" attitude in slums, maybe war zones too. She shouldn't have been wearing that outfit, walking in the parking lot after dark, he shouldn't have left anything to steal inside his car, they should have known there would be racial incidents after the street festival like every year, the victim is always to blame, that's why I personally have no reason to fear, right? Its a defense mechanism. An annoying one.
My wife and kids are categorically denied to visit me at work under any circumstances except maybe during sunlight in the winter and even then watch your back at all times, and they would only live/work in a slum over my dead body. Speaking of which, you may find family members threatening to chain you up in the basement to prevent you from going to a warzone, hard to say.
Expect jealousy from the non-contractor types, like enlisted soldiers. I was in their boots (admittedly stateside) and we treated the contractors with exactly the required level of professionalism and otherwise not a droplet more as we hated them for doing our jobs for "ten times the pay" (actually it was probably only twice, but no reasoning with jealousy)... Its a difficult workplace environment. If you make 10x what a grunt makes, expect them to really onload on you if you make a microscopic mistake. Also expect to listen politely and agreeably like a bartender, about how they are stuck there for years whereas you could theoretically stand up, walk out and leave; 19 year old soldiers don't understand the whole concept of "contract" and "having to pay the mortgage back home" and "having to pay for food and medical care" very well, so they really do think you can do that...
On the other hand, in a warzone, maybe there is more camaraderie?
The most important thing you can do to make friends, is figure out what the grunts are not easily able to do and then "help them out" in a way that gets no one in trouble, untraceable, is more or less legal or at least "blind eye" situation, and makes you friends. Back in the day, civilian contractors were "expected" to provide us with warez for our personal laptops in the pre-wide public availability of internet access (note personal laptop in Army speak, is like "personal weapons", things you own and paid for and use solely in your downtime, not personal as in merely army issued "work laptop", it would be dumb to mess with army issued hardware). Also they were expected to provide us with alcohol for all party reasons, not sure how well that works overseas in Islamic countries, but the "rich contractors" were expected to buy us rounds at the bar, not the other way around. On the other hand don't do anything stupid with serial number items or or using classified rated hardware to run unclassified level software. Also be aware of certain army traditions, like you'd share ammo with your buddy if he was out, or you'd share food if he had none, or you'd share medical supplies if he had a sucking chest wound, so expect near violent response if you don't share your mp3 files with anyone who asks, thats just kinda how it is in the Army. Same with pr0n jpegs and movie files. Also paperback books. If there is a paperback book in your possession, and you are not currently reading it, its a major social error to not instantly hand it to someone who wants to read it, so don't bring your signed 1st edition copy of LOTR or something and expect to hoard it until you return home, unless you do literally read it over and over the whole time.
Then once you see the person aiming their "LIDAR" at you, you swivel the tank's gun and send some high-velocity non-photonic matter their way... Probably the most effective countermeasure.
I detect an economic problem when the cost of a dumb "transmit only" laser diode and microcontroller to pulse it costs less than cannon round. A tactical problem if you build a "tank detector" fortification using a dazzler in a safe area (nothing important downrange of it) and an anti-tank team preposition along a flank of the dazzler's LOS, the big boom from the tank wakes up the sleeping opfor anti-tank team who promptly make an even bigger boom outta the tank... Also a tactical problem if your tank only carries 40 odd rounds and the opfor issues a clip on dazzler decoy device to a couple hundred infantry escorting like two real live opfor tanks, hmm which do I pop odds are only 1 in 100. I suppose you pop the two big thermal plumes, but still the freak out factor must count for something, maybe combined with other surprises...
20 yrs ago I worked on the logistical computer systems for ammo in the USAR so I know those shells are quite expensive, and I do stuff with cheap microcontrollers and some laser diode stuff now, so I know I can build a decoy for maybe 1/10 the cost of a shell.
Hmm. All I'm gonna say is much as its possible to buy an ipod touch and stuff it full of legal and illegal content without ever purchasing anything from the ITMS, its is a nearly perfect analogy that you can buy a kindle and stuff it full of legal and illegal content without ever purchasing anything from amazon.
On/. its an assumed certainty that "almost everyone" either has done, or at least could easily do option 1, but in public option 2 is never discussed and for all intents and purposes doesn't exist.
And suggesting buying a Sony product as part of a boycott? No hardware company is hated by more people, more intensely, than Sony. I'd rather join the Amish than purchase another Sony product. Never again. Its like taking a stand against violating the 6th commandment by simultaneously violating the other 9 commandments (which sounds like it would be a fun video game quest).
Someone tell me/us about Russian politics. Does it matter? For example, here in the US, there is one party, with one set of goals (globalism, imperial global warfare everywhere, war on drugs, tax relief for the 1% and F the 99%, deindustrialize the country, expand the parasitical financial sector at all costs, etc). We have two independent marketing departments that put on a huge show to pacify the population into thinking it matters which marketing department did a better job, D or R. But, it doesn't really matter which side's marketing message was better, we'll have the same result in the end. We've had stolen elections here, but rioting about it would be as stupid as rioting about a sports game, or fighting over a card or board game, in other words some folks take advantage of the chaos to steal goods from stores, about a hundred people will show up on the news because they like being on the TV news, but most people wisely just don't care. Once you're beaten down, you're beaten down for good, here.
Is it the same way in Russia, basically one party rule and it doesn't matter who wins, or does it really matter in terms of policies and leadership? I'm just trying to figure out if I should care, if this could in any way really affect anyone, or if this is like US politics where its about as important as a bad umpire call in a ice hockey game.
Move to one of many darknets and say goodbye to government regulation of, by, and for the big corporations. I'm not a big corporation, so the government should have no interaction with me... if only it worked that way...
Personally, in my infinite spare time, I'm working (slowly) on a openvpn and quagga based exclusively ipv6 darknet. Don't peer with me, peer with someone already there, preferably far away from your home. An independent project is resurrecting ye olde usenet with a twist... all "peering" done over ssh between individuals instead of hub-spoke with big central providers, all non GPG signed articles in some hierarchies are autocancelbotted, completely new hierarchy structure, dramatically different file length limits segregated by hierarchy (so if you can't afford the BW for.binaries. then its much easier to filter), mandatory utf-8 support, and more, another "don't talk to me, talk to someone far away from yourself who's already peering with me". I'm a network guy so I mostly care about design, but WRT content I'm at least hoping its more like I2P than freenet (freenet seems to be mostly CP, I2P seems to be mostly filetraders)
You can have a lot of fun prototyping stuff like this with a stack of old computers in your basement all running linux and some other stuff...
I suppose islanding the internet into many independent country sized networks would pretty much stop darknets. Maybe only registered multinational corporations with pre-arranged FBI/NSA/MI5 bugging arrangements would be allowed to VPN across the firewall. I suppose we may as well start planning our workarounds for that, too.
thats pretty interesting. Is a possible countermeasure against this, parking your tank behind two nearly perpendicular mirrors so the beam path between the two mirrors is like 100 miles?
Or would parking your tank behind a mirror make the terrain behind the tank look just like the terrain in front of the tank, but backwards... that might be too easy to detect after all...
If you have a rare and expensive quad channel scope, watch the TX and RX, AND the hardware control lines and have fun telling them how fast their interrupt service routines are, this used to completely freak out OS/device driver developers (so... you mean you just look on a scope, instead of hand counting theoretical instructions?)
I will admit you are correct, if you have way too much money you can buy direct non undersampling digital scopes. Or I suppose if you're only monitoring audio speed signals or whatever.
If its high enough energy / high enough freq / low enough wavelength we call it a gamma particle and you watch ionized air particles it left behind as it passes thru.
Thats kinda abstract because we're not looking at "it" but more what it did to the air as it wooshed by.
Maybe a closer example would be cerenkov radiation, essentially a visual sonic boom as one goes thru something with a lower speed of light (some plastics have a really low speed of light, which makes them pretty good lens material). I guess if you make a plastic scintilator type of thingy with a continuously changing refractive index so the particle continuously emits cerenkov radiation then you could kinda argue you're seeing "it", although we're destroying it in the process of seeing it so...
Cerenkov radiation is what leads to 2nd order BS WRT the color of radiation. Comic books trained kids radioactive stuff glows green, thats the 1st order BS. Actually visiting a test or experimental reactor quickly trains them to the 2nd order BS that radiation is blue (inspiration for star trek tng engines, I guess). Trust me, neutrons, by themselves, are not actually green or blue.
If not photons, what are you using to see? The "photons moving across the scene" doesn't mean you see one moving from A to B, it means you see one presumably came from A because it was a pitch black room, hits B, bounces off and hits yer eye or camera. There is some geometrical / trig foolishness to correct the actual speed, but to the simplest approximation if you suddenly turn on a light at A, the position of B moves away around the speed of light. (Bonus points for calculating how fast imaginary construct point B moves when a beam of light hits a nearly perpendicular mirror "warp speed" here we come)
Well they can, just not individual photons or individual photon events. It's exactly the same as an oscilloscope -- you also don't see the shape of an individual pulse. You under-sample, and then add the samples together assuming it was always the same pulse.
Only with digital scopes. With analog that's exactly how it works, you can, if you want, see literally one pulse. Not much analog scopes on professional desktops anymore... they're all on hardware hackers basement desks now, like mine. Thats why I bring it up, on average across/. readership there are probably more analog scope users than digital scope users. That would make an interesting/. poll, 1) I use an analog scope 2) I use a digital scope 3) Cowboy Neal is a my scope 4) Whats an oscilloscope?
they can actually see the movement of photons of light across a scene or object
...no.
Sure you can. I've seen the nuke test footage. I'm not talking about the stereotypical "wind gust front" but actual "light" output. The first few frames are classified and I have not seen them, because they show asymmetries that imply various things about internal construction, but once the fireball gets a couple feet across its pretty much perfectly spherical and that's the unclassified frames I've seen. If there were a useful way to search youtube / google / archive.org for a description like this, I'd give you a link to the actual movie. You can distinctly see the disk of light hit the ground and expand very rapidly circularly underneath the slowly growing fireball, well, slowly growing compared to the speed of light, anyway. There are not many frames to this "movie" probably synchronization of the cameras and the "bang" was harder back in the 50s. The footage is many decades old.
I believe the relevant part of the story is this might be the first "trillion fps" camera that isn't classified and is owned by "civilians"
Jesus fucking H Christ... Sometimes I understand mass murderers...
who? oh you mean the environmentalists. Just a thin sickly sweet veneer of respectability on some pretty gross motivations.
"reduce growth" = people freezing to death under highway overpasses
"reduce pollution" = we won't need those sewage treatment plants once the residents are dead.
If the environmentalists had the courage to admit their convictions, that their plan for measurable reduction is a bloodbath, then, although I'd continue to disagree with them, at least I'd respect them for their successful introspection.
Speaking out against enviromentalism in the 10's is, literally, like speaking out against nazism in the 30s. Maybe this time we'll be civilized enough to avoid another holocaust?
LOL as the voice of experience as a member of the married over a decade club, the only time the wife complains more than spending $500 on something, is when I spend $500 on something right after spending $200 on something because the $200 one isn't any good. The premise of the article is people are returning the fire at a fast pace. I can tolerate the wifely reaction to buying a fire OR an ipad, but I don't wanna hear about it twice. Its "safer" just to buy the ipad because I know it'll be good and not need to be returned.
The other part is some people make fun of the ipad as being "just a big ipod touch / iphone". Yet that is the killer feature. I donno what a "kindle fire" is like other than everyone tells me its nothing like the "plain ole kindle" at all. But I love my ipod touch and the iphones I've been able to borrow, in fact the only way to improve my ipod touch would be to make a bigger screen for it, because sometimes its needed... just like an ipad. So once again it's safer to buy an ipad, because I and everyone I know already loves the older smaller ipod touch / iphone.
In summary if you're married its much safer to buy the ipad.
Gotta put "worked" in quotes for Newcomen, efficiency was awful, and I believe there were historical hydrolock incidents although given the insanely low speed and low power output and low operating pressures, damage wasn't too severe (mostly a lot of yelling, WTF why isn't the water pump working, etc).
It's not that they want to produce dreck - it's that they want to produce consistency.
McDonald's would happily make you a quality hamburger, if they could find a way for all their staff across their worldwide empire to make that burger at a decent price. But studies have shown that what customers want is consistency - they're happy to be able to walk into any Mickey D's in the world, order a Big Mac, and get the exact same burger, whether they're at home or halfway around the world.
I call bogus on that.
What makes it apparently trivial for 500 Culvers burger joints to produce really tasty food consistently (I've traveled the midwest and eaten at a good fraction of the 500, and they're all really good).
There was a gyro place in my hometown that had two sites, one local, and one 10 miles away, and the 10 mile away site sucked. Supposedly it should be easier to be consistent with a whopping two sites, but they just couldn't pull it off.
I'm just not thinking its a scalability problem. You can apparently execute "dish make a good burger" across the whole cluster of restaurants in a heck of a lot less than polynomial time.
LOL yeah right. That's exactly what we did after 9-11, glass the cities of the worlds biggest oil exporter, saudi arabia. No wait, instead we invaded a couple of their neighbors instead. LOL. I agree, if NK launched even a dud or a test at the continental US, we'd probably attack, probably attack Iran, I mean.
You are correct that many printers deployed in schools are misconfigured not to do any authentication, authorization, or accounting. That doesn't mean they must remain so.
LOL yes, yes it does. Schools are semi-legendary for not having resources to take care of simple things like this, and kids are legendary for reconfiguring things they have physical access to.
On/. and among the delinquent types like myself, the port 9100 thing is known. Out in the world, your average minimum wage cable puller has no idea he needs to do anything other than plug it in and configure the name.
Also I've seen devices like printers dropped off the IT support list... its just like a dvd player, you take care of it yourself, someone locally is assumed to be smart enough to replace the toner, the whole works comes out of your budget not the "IT" budget.
That's not much of a boycott - by buying a Kindle you've locked her into purchasing further e-books from Amazon (unless she buys all unprotected content that can be viewed on the Kindle). You should have gone for a Nook.
On/. of all places... believe it or not, its possible to download stuff for free off the internet. Not just music and movies, either.
Adding to the weirdness it depends what she's into, but Amazon "sells" a heck of a lot of zero price content from their storefront. If you're classically educated you can get pretty much a whole lifetime library downloaded for free. The final weirdness, if you read classics, see above, you can go to PG and perfectly legally download free (old) books and toss them on the kindle if amazon for whatever weirdness isn't offering them for free. Just select.mobi format on PG, plug the kindle in like a flash drive, save it there, all done. Not terribly difficult or stressful.
I will say this for my Kindle, despite the best efforts of astroturfers the e-ink display sucks and its glacially slow. But its bigger than my ancient ipod touch, and much lighter than my ipad, with wireless off it runs freaking forever, and its cheaper than dirt (a new non-spam kindle is about the cost of one college level hard cover textbook. ONE BOOK. not $600 or $200 or whatever)
I know a bunch of places I can get.. um.. any book I want for free. I know two places I can get legal kindle content, amazon and free stuff from PG. The astroturfers need to work harder to educate us about the nook because all I know is I assume you can get legal content from the b+n website, and thats it, don't know anything about these supposed 3rd party book vendors.
Another way to look at it is chronologically over a persons lifetime.
Large segments of my life, theres no way I could afford to blow $200 on a toy or even a useful $200 tool simply because there's no way I could scrape up that kind of cash. So who cares about the ipad or the fire. The question is more like "homemade mac n cheese" or "homemade pizza". Medical insurance would have been nice in my 20s as a college student, but crazy me, I decided to gamble I'll stay healthy, and eat instead. I'm sure if I stopped eating I'd soon need the health insurance.
Large segments of my life, basically the last 15 years or so, I can blow $500 on a toy without blinking too hard (as long as I don't make a regular habit of doing this kind of shopping weekly or monthly, I can do it without blinking, anyway). Years of shopping when I was poor at walmart taught me the whole "penny wise pound foolish" thing. So I don't buy junk, I'd rather wait a couple months and save for an ipad than buy something inferior. Which is exactly what I did WRT buying an ipad.
The interval of my life where I could afford to spend $200 on a toy, but cannot afford to spend $500 on a toy... Honestly, I donno, like maybe two whole weeks of my life? The two weeks between getting my first "real job" paycheck catching up on past bills etc and getting my second "real job" paycheck? Those two weeks would have been a great time to buy a Kindle Fire. The rest of my life I was either out of the market entirely, or I'm buying the gold standard aka the ipad.
Pretty much people are either cash flow negative or scraping along the bottom just barely not drowning for now, or they're cash flow positive and little expenses like this are no big deal... To me, as a homeowner, a big expense is replacing the water heater, $2000 of repair work. Or my beautiful $6000 roof job including replacing the water soaked attic insulation quickly before it molds. Or my $800 new dishwasher. Those are big expenses. Trying to excite me with an also ran for $200 instead of $500 isn't really... exciting. Like trying to get me to buy the 25 cent case screws on my desktop instead of the turned brass thumbscrews holding my case together that cost about a buck each... obviously I spend the buck...
anyone who thinks they're going to get a 200 dollar product to replace a 500 dollar+ one is delusional.
Or involved, however tangentially, in the tech field. Like a/. reader. Where the "old $500+ thing" is supposed to be "$200" after a rather short time.
Kind of like how my new TV would have sold for about 10x what I just paid for it many years ago. Or I can't even buy a 4 GB SSD, but if they were out there, an extrapolation of current prices shows they'd sell for about a 50th what I paid for mine some years ago.
Its interesting that the latest ipod touch sells at exactly the same price as my ancient first ipod touch. i-devices don't seem to drop in price like everything else in the tech world, they just gain in performance.
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It sounds like a service thats just asking to be sold to the medical and life insurance companies.
Oh look, you don't have a FB account? We can't evaluate if you're suicidal or not. Life insurance policy denied. bye bye.
When I have kids of my own, I'm raising them to be math and science nerds like the old man, especially any daughters.
My experience with this is you can control which opportunities they get, but they decide what they actually like. Don't turn in the math equivalent of the screaming sports parent.
What's wrong with wanting to work in a war zone? The pay is usually better, and some people like the daily excitement.
Start with taking a "great job" at an office in your local neighborhood inner city and see how you like it. That's where I am. Two shootings within the last 6 years within 200 feet of our lot although no one died (as far as I know), and they pulled a dead body out of the river just a couple months ago, just a couple feet from my window, theres a sight I didn't need to see. Smashed glass everywhere and riots after the annual street festival, which was finally cancelled after two years in a row of shootings (shootings not near my office). Anyone who leaves anything in a car can expect smashed windows... I park underneath a security cam, near the door, work in the daytime, never keep anything in the car, all good so far... Siege mentality gets tiring after awhile, but at least I only have to live it for about 40 hours a week, you'd be stuck there 24x7.
There tends to be pretty intense "blame the victim" attitude in slums, maybe war zones too. She shouldn't have been wearing that outfit, walking in the parking lot after dark, he shouldn't have left anything to steal inside his car, they should have known there would be racial incidents after the street festival like every year, the victim is always to blame, that's why I personally have no reason to fear, right? Its a defense mechanism. An annoying one.
My wife and kids are categorically denied to visit me at work under any circumstances except maybe during sunlight in the winter and even then watch your back at all times, and they would only live/work in a slum over my dead body. Speaking of which, you may find family members threatening to chain you up in the basement to prevent you from going to a warzone, hard to say.
Expect jealousy from the non-contractor types, like enlisted soldiers. I was in their boots (admittedly stateside) and we treated the contractors with exactly the required level of professionalism and otherwise not a droplet more as we hated them for doing our jobs for "ten times the pay" (actually it was probably only twice, but no reasoning with jealousy) ... Its a difficult workplace environment. If you make 10x what a grunt makes, expect them to really onload on you if you make a microscopic mistake. Also expect to listen politely and agreeably like a bartender, about how they are stuck there for years whereas you could theoretically stand up, walk out and leave; 19 year old soldiers don't understand the whole concept of "contract" and "having to pay the mortgage back home" and "having to pay for food and medical care" very well, so they really do think you can do that...
On the other hand, in a warzone, maybe there is more camaraderie?
The most important thing you can do to make friends, is figure out what the grunts are not easily able to do and then "help them out" in a way that gets no one in trouble, untraceable, is more or less legal or at least "blind eye" situation, and makes you friends. Back in the day, civilian contractors were "expected" to provide us with warez for our personal laptops in the pre-wide public availability of internet access (note personal laptop in Army speak, is like "personal weapons", things you own and paid for and use solely in your downtime, not personal as in merely army issued "work laptop", it would be dumb to mess with army issued hardware). Also they were expected to provide us with alcohol for all party reasons, not sure how well that works overseas in Islamic countries, but the "rich contractors" were expected to buy us rounds at the bar, not the other way around. On the other hand don't do anything stupid with serial number items or or using classified rated hardware to run unclassified level software. Also be aware of certain army traditions, like you'd share ammo with your buddy if he was out, or you'd share food if he had none, or you'd share medical supplies if he had a sucking chest wound, so expect near violent response if you don't share your mp3 files with anyone who asks, thats just kinda how it is in the Army. Same with pr0n jpegs and movie files. Also paperback books. If there is a paperback book in your possession, and you are not currently reading it, its a major social error to not instantly hand it to someone who wants to read it, so don't bring your signed 1st edition copy of LOTR or something and expect to hoard it until you return home, unless you do literally read it over and over the whole time.
So far, so good, no one here calling it the God Particle yet. Lets keep it that way. Annoying as all hell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson#.22The_God_particle.22
"Lederman initially wanted to call it the "goddamn particle," but his editor would not let him"
Then once you see the person aiming their "LIDAR" at you, you swivel the tank's gun and send some high-velocity non-photonic matter their way... Probably the most effective countermeasure.
I detect an economic problem when the cost of a dumb "transmit only" laser diode and microcontroller to pulse it costs less than cannon round. A tactical problem if you build a "tank detector" fortification using a dazzler in a safe area (nothing important downrange of it) and an anti-tank team preposition along a flank of the dazzler's LOS, the big boom from the tank wakes up the sleeping opfor anti-tank team who promptly make an even bigger boom outta the tank... Also a tactical problem if your tank only carries 40 odd rounds and the opfor issues a clip on dazzler decoy device to a couple hundred infantry escorting like two real live opfor tanks, hmm which do I pop odds are only 1 in 100. I suppose you pop the two big thermal plumes, but still the freak out factor must count for something, maybe combined with other surprises...
20 yrs ago I worked on the logistical computer systems for ammo in the USAR so I know those shells are quite expensive, and I do stuff with cheap microcontrollers and some laser diode stuff now, so I know I can build a decoy for maybe 1/10 the cost of a shell.
Hmm. All I'm gonna say is much as its possible to buy an ipod touch and stuff it full of legal and illegal content without ever purchasing anything from the ITMS, its is a nearly perfect analogy that you can buy a kindle and stuff it full of legal and illegal content without ever purchasing anything from amazon.
On /. its an assumed certainty that "almost everyone" either has done, or at least could easily do option 1, but in public option 2 is never discussed and for all intents and purposes doesn't exist.
And suggesting buying a Sony product as part of a boycott? No hardware company is hated by more people, more intensely, than Sony. I'd rather join the Amish than purchase another Sony product. Never again. Its like taking a stand against violating the 6th commandment by simultaneously violating the other 9 commandments (which sounds like it would be a fun video game quest).
Someone tell me/us about Russian politics. Does it matter?
For example, here in the US, there is one party, with one set of goals (globalism, imperial global warfare everywhere, war on drugs, tax relief for the 1% and F the 99%, deindustrialize the country, expand the parasitical financial sector at all costs, etc). We have two independent marketing departments that put on a huge show to pacify the population into thinking it matters which marketing department did a better job, D or R. But, it doesn't really matter which side's marketing message was better, we'll have the same result in the end. We've had stolen elections here, but rioting about it would be as stupid as rioting about a sports game, or fighting over a card or board game, in other words some folks take advantage of the chaos to steal goods from stores, about a hundred people will show up on the news because they like being on the TV news, but most people wisely just don't care. Once you're beaten down, you're beaten down for good, here.
Is it the same way in Russia, basically one party rule and it doesn't matter who wins, or does it really matter in terms of policies and leadership? I'm just trying to figure out if I should care, if this could in any way really affect anyone, or if this is like US politics where its about as important as a bad umpire call in a ice hockey game.
Move to one of many darknets and say goodbye to government regulation of, by, and for the big corporations. I'm not a big corporation, so the government should have no interaction with me... if only it worked that way...
Personally, in my infinite spare time, I'm working (slowly) on a openvpn and quagga based exclusively ipv6 darknet. Don't peer with me, peer with someone already there, preferably far away from your home. An independent project is resurrecting ye olde usenet with a twist... all "peering" done over ssh between individuals instead of hub-spoke with big central providers, all non GPG signed articles in some hierarchies are autocancelbotted, completely new hierarchy structure, dramatically different file length limits segregated by hierarchy (so if you can't afford the BW for .binaries. then its much easier to filter), mandatory utf-8 support, and more, another "don't talk to me, talk to someone far away from yourself who's already peering with me". I'm a network guy so I mostly care about design, but WRT content I'm at least hoping its more like I2P than freenet (freenet seems to be mostly CP, I2P seems to be mostly filetraders)
You can have a lot of fun prototyping stuff like this with a stack of old computers in your basement all running linux and some other stuff...
I suppose islanding the internet into many independent country sized networks would pretty much stop darknets. Maybe only registered multinational corporations with pre-arranged FBI/NSA/MI5 bugging arrangements would be allowed to VPN across the firewall. I suppose we may as well start planning our workarounds for that, too.
thats pretty interesting. Is a possible countermeasure against this, parking your tank behind two nearly perpendicular mirrors so the beam path between the two mirrors is like 100 miles?
Or would parking your tank behind a mirror make the terrain behind the tank look just like the terrain in front of the tank, but backwards... that might be too easy to detect after all...
If you have a rare and expensive quad channel scope, watch the TX and RX, AND the hardware control lines and have fun telling them how fast their interrupt service routines are, this used to completely freak out OS/device driver developers (so... you mean you just look on a scope, instead of hand counting theoretical instructions?)
I will admit you are correct, if you have way too much money you can buy direct non undersampling digital scopes. Or I suppose if you're only monitoring audio speed signals or whatever.
Exactly. How do you see a photon?
If its high enough energy / high enough freq / low enough wavelength we call it a gamma particle and you watch ionized air particles it left behind as it passes thru.
Thats kinda abstract because we're not looking at "it" but more what it did to the air as it wooshed by.
Maybe a closer example would be cerenkov radiation, essentially a visual sonic boom as one goes thru something with a lower speed of light (some plastics have a really low speed of light, which makes them pretty good lens material). I guess if you make a plastic scintilator type of thingy with a continuously changing refractive index so the particle continuously emits cerenkov radiation then you could kinda argue you're seeing "it", although we're destroying it in the process of seeing it so...
Cerenkov radiation is what leads to 2nd order BS WRT the color of radiation. Comic books trained kids radioactive stuff glows green, thats the 1st order BS. Actually visiting a test or experimental reactor quickly trains them to the 2nd order BS that radiation is blue (inspiration for star trek tng engines, I guess). Trust me, neutrons, by themselves, are not actually green or blue.
I really, really doubt they can see a photon...
If not photons, what are you using to see? The "photons moving across the scene" doesn't mean you see one moving from A to B, it means you see one presumably came from A because it was a pitch black room, hits B, bounces off and hits yer eye or camera. There is some geometrical / trig foolishness to correct the actual speed, but to the simplest approximation if you suddenly turn on a light at A, the position of B moves away around the speed of light. (Bonus points for calculating how fast imaginary construct point B moves when a beam of light hits a nearly perpendicular mirror "warp speed" here we come)
Well they can, just not individual photons or individual photon events.
It's exactly the same as an oscilloscope -- you also don't see the shape of an individual pulse. You under-sample, and then add the samples together assuming it was always the same pulse.
Only with digital scopes. With analog that's exactly how it works, you can, if you want, see literally one pulse. Not much analog scopes on professional desktops anymore... they're all on hardware hackers basement desks now, like mine. Thats why I bring it up, on average across /. readership there are probably more analog scope users than digital scope users. That would make an interesting /. poll,
1) I use an analog scope
2) I use a digital scope
3) Cowboy Neal is a my scope
4) Whats an oscilloscope?
Sure you can. I've seen the nuke test footage. I'm not talking about the stereotypical "wind gust front" but actual "light" output. The first few frames are classified and I have not seen them, because they show asymmetries that imply various things about internal construction, but once the fireball gets a couple feet across its pretty much perfectly spherical and that's the unclassified frames I've seen. If there were a useful way to search youtube / google / archive.org for a description like this, I'd give you a link to the actual movie. You can distinctly see the disk of light hit the ground and expand very rapidly circularly underneath the slowly growing fireball, well, slowly growing compared to the speed of light, anyway. There are not many frames to this "movie" probably synchronization of the cameras and the "bang" was harder back in the 50s. The footage is many decades old.
I believe the relevant part of the story is this might be the first "trillion fps" camera that isn't classified and is owned by "civilians"
Jesus fucking H Christ... Sometimes I understand mass murderers...
who? oh you mean the environmentalists. Just a thin sickly sweet veneer of respectability on some pretty gross motivations.
"reduce growth" = people freezing to death under highway overpasses
"reduce pollution" = we won't need those sewage treatment plants once the residents are dead.
If the environmentalists had the courage to admit their convictions, that their plan for measurable reduction is a bloodbath, then, although I'd continue to disagree with them, at least I'd respect them for their successful introspection.
Speaking out against enviromentalism in the 10's is, literally, like speaking out against nazism in the 30s. Maybe this time we'll be civilized enough to avoid another holocaust?
LOL as the voice of experience as a member of the married over a decade club, the only time the wife complains more than spending $500 on something, is when I spend $500 on something right after spending $200 on something because the $200 one isn't any good. The premise of the article is people are returning the fire at a fast pace. I can tolerate the wifely reaction to buying a fire OR an ipad, but I don't wanna hear about it twice. Its "safer" just to buy the ipad because I know it'll be good and not need to be returned.
The other part is some people make fun of the ipad as being "just a big ipod touch / iphone". Yet that is the killer feature. I donno what a "kindle fire" is like other than everyone tells me its nothing like the "plain ole kindle" at all. But I love my ipod touch and the iphones I've been able to borrow, in fact the only way to improve my ipod touch would be to make a bigger screen for it, because sometimes its needed... just like an ipad. So once again it's safer to buy an ipad, because I and everyone I know already loves the older smaller ipod touch / iphone.
In summary if you're married its much safer to buy the ipad.
Gotta put "worked" in quotes for Newcomen, efficiency was awful, and I believe there were historical hydrolock incidents although given the insanely low speed and low power output and low operating pressures, damage wasn't too severe (mostly a lot of yelling, WTF why isn't the water pump working, etc).
It's not that they want to produce dreck - it's that they want to produce consistency.
McDonald's would happily make you a quality hamburger, if they could find a way for all their staff across their worldwide empire to make that burger at a decent price. But studies have shown that what customers want is consistency - they're happy to be able to walk into any Mickey D's in the world, order a Big Mac, and get the exact same burger, whether they're at home or halfway around the world.
I call bogus on that.
What makes it apparently trivial for 500 Culvers burger joints to produce really tasty food consistently (I've traveled the midwest and eaten at a good fraction of the 500, and they're all really good).
There was a gyro place in my hometown that had two sites, one local, and one 10 miles away, and the 10 mile away site sucked. Supposedly it should be easier to be consistent with a whopping two sites, but they just couldn't pull it off.
I'm just not thinking its a scalability problem. You can apparently execute "dish make a good burger" across the whole cluster of restaurants in a heck of a lot less than polynomial time.
Aluminum corrodes in oxygen. I don't think it does in the Martian atmosphere that is mostly CO2.
Just moving to mars doesn't mean we'll stop breathing oxygen. Thats the problem.
If you assume that most of the people will spend most of their time indoors, then the outside appearance doesn't really matter anyway.
LOL yeah right. That's exactly what we did after 9-11, glass the cities of the worlds biggest oil exporter, saudi arabia. No wait, instead we invaded a couple of their neighbors instead. LOL. I agree, if NK launched even a dud or a test at the continental US, we'd probably attack, probably attack Iran, I mean.
You are correct that many printers deployed in schools are misconfigured not to do any authentication, authorization, or accounting. That doesn't mean they must remain so.
LOL yes, yes it does. Schools are semi-legendary for not having resources to take care of simple things like this, and kids are legendary for reconfiguring things they have physical access to.
On /. and among the delinquent types like myself, the port 9100 thing is known. Out in the world, your average minimum wage cable puller has no idea he needs to do anything other than plug it in and configure the name.
Also I've seen devices like printers dropped off the IT support list... its just like a dvd player, you take care of it yourself, someone locally is assumed to be smart enough to replace the toner, the whole works comes out of your budget not the "IT" budget.
That's not much of a boycott - by buying a Kindle you've locked her into purchasing further e-books from Amazon (unless she buys all unprotected content that can be viewed on the Kindle). You should have gone for a Nook.
On /. of all places... believe it or not, its possible to download stuff for free off the internet. Not just music and movies, either.
Adding to the weirdness it depends what she's into, but Amazon "sells" a heck of a lot of zero price content from their storefront. If you're classically educated you can get pretty much a whole lifetime library downloaded for free. The final weirdness, if you read classics, see above, you can go to PG and perfectly legally download free (old) books and toss them on the kindle if amazon for whatever weirdness isn't offering them for free. Just select .mobi format on PG, plug the kindle in like a flash drive, save it there, all done. Not terribly difficult or stressful.
I will say this for my Kindle, despite the best efforts of astroturfers the e-ink display sucks and its glacially slow. But its bigger than my ancient ipod touch, and much lighter than my ipad, with wireless off it runs freaking forever, and its cheaper than dirt (a new non-spam kindle is about the cost of one college level hard cover textbook. ONE BOOK. not $600 or $200 or whatever)
I know a bunch of places I can get .. um.. any book I want for free. I know two places I can get legal kindle content, amazon and free stuff from PG. The astroturfers need to work harder to educate us about the nook because all I know is I assume you can get legal content from the b+n website, and thats it, don't know anything about these supposed 3rd party book vendors.
Another way to look at it is chronologically over a persons lifetime.
Large segments of my life, theres no way I could afford to blow $200 on a toy or even a useful $200 tool simply because there's no way I could scrape up that kind of cash. So who cares about the ipad or the fire. The question is more like "homemade mac n cheese" or "homemade pizza". Medical insurance would have been nice in my 20s as a college student, but crazy me, I decided to gamble I'll stay healthy, and eat instead. I'm sure if I stopped eating I'd soon need the health insurance.
Large segments of my life, basically the last 15 years or so, I can blow $500 on a toy without blinking too hard (as long as I don't make a regular habit of doing this kind of shopping weekly or monthly, I can do it without blinking, anyway). Years of shopping when I was poor at walmart taught me the whole "penny wise pound foolish" thing. So I don't buy junk, I'd rather wait a couple months and save for an ipad than buy something inferior. Which is exactly what I did WRT buying an ipad.
The interval of my life where I could afford to spend $200 on a toy, but cannot afford to spend $500 on a toy... Honestly, I donno, like maybe two whole weeks of my life? The two weeks between getting my first "real job" paycheck catching up on past bills etc and getting my second "real job" paycheck? Those two weeks would have been a great time to buy a Kindle Fire. The rest of my life I was either out of the market entirely, or I'm buying the gold standard aka the ipad.
Pretty much people are either cash flow negative or scraping along the bottom just barely not drowning for now, or they're cash flow positive and little expenses like this are no big deal... To me, as a homeowner, a big expense is replacing the water heater, $2000 of repair work. Or my beautiful $6000 roof job including replacing the water soaked attic insulation quickly before it molds. Or my $800 new dishwasher. Those are big expenses. Trying to excite me with an also ran for $200 instead of $500 isn't really ... exciting. Like trying to get me to buy the 25 cent case screws on my desktop instead of the turned brass thumbscrews holding my case together that cost about a buck each... obviously I spend the buck...
anyone who thinks they're going to get a 200 dollar product to replace a 500 dollar+ one is delusional.
Or involved, however tangentially, in the tech field. Like a /. reader. Where the "old $500+ thing" is supposed to be "$200" after a rather short time.
Kind of like how my new TV would have sold for about 10x what I just paid for it many years ago. Or I can't even buy a 4 GB SSD, but if they were out there, an extrapolation of current prices shows they'd sell for about a 50th what I paid for mine some years ago.
Its interesting that the latest ipod touch sells at exactly the same price as my ancient first ipod touch. i-devices don't seem to drop in price like everything else in the tech world, they just gain in performance.