This makes me wonder if you couldn't do something along the lines of hemodialysis - slowly feed in a synthetic ceribro-spinal fluid, and then drain off the contaminated CSF.
This is not a device that can form an image from an object at a non-trivial distance from the display - this is a device that only images an object placed against it.
I would expect the primary intent of a device like this would be in a web-pad type device. Picture a clipboard, but thicker. Your customer hands you a printed item (work order, recept, whatever). You place the item face down against the display and push a button on the side. You remove the item from the display, and verify the scan took, then hand the item back to the customer.
This would no more allow your monitor to image what is going on in the room than putting your flat bed scanner up on edge and leaving the top open would.
Record nothing you wouldn't want on the 6 o'clock news
If you are going to set up a blog, and you are concerned about your employer finding out about it, then don't do it. You should assume that if they care, they can find out who is behind the blog.
They can, you know. They just claim that the blog has some DMCA prohibited content, get a takedown notice, go to the ISP, and find out where the wire leads. Even if you host on some East Elbownian server, they can find out who is behind it if they care badly enough.
You are concerned that your employer might find out. OK, you can do one of two things that can work:
You go to your employer, and tell them what you want to do up front. You inform them that you will be exercising your right of freedom of speech, and that you will not post private company information. You see what they do. If they are such bastards that they will give you grief over this, do you really want to work for them?
You do this anyway, keeping meticulous logs and notes. If your company ever gives you grief over this, you are prepared to fight this out in court.
But trying to do this anonymously and hoping your boss doesn't find out is a losing proposition.
Given that this drug increases the production of white blood cells, what would the effects of giving it to an AIDS patient be?
On the one hand, you increase their white count, allowing them to fight off other infections better.
On the other hand, you increase the very cells the virus infects.
Also, since this drug would increase the production of white cells, in the presense of radiation damage would that not also increase the likelyhood of creating cancer cells?
Sure, you survive the initial exposure, but then you die of leukemia.
I suggest we remove that galaxy from our list of places to go to when we have FTL - I doubt there is much life left after an event like this happens in your galaxy.
Even give 2 billion years to recover, I'll bet that galaxy is just a bit thin on life.
Conceptually, this is the same trick almost ALL accurate clocks use - it's called "discipline".
Consider where I work - we have a very accurate 10 MHz reference to sync all our RF gear to. We need that ref to be tracable to the National Bureau of Standards. Now, it would be somewhat impractical to check with the Bureau 10 million times a second (anybody want to run a fiber from Boulder to Wichita just for the time sync?).
Before I go on, let me point out the difference between precision, accuracy, and repeatability.
Precision is how many decimal places you can put on a reading. Saying "it's 12:00" is not as precise as saying "it's 12:00:00.0001".
Accuracy is how close you are to the right answer. Saying "it's 12:00:00.001" is not as accurate as saying "it's 13:00" if in truth it really is 13:01.
Repeatability is a measure of how close you are to your previous readings - if you say "it's 12:00:00.0001", "It's 12:00:01.035","It's 12:00:01.002" when read several times in one millisecond, then you aren't very repeatable.
From a metrological standpoint, having more accuracy than repeatability is useless. Having more precision than accuracy is also useless. (Ignoring tricks like averaging for the moment.)
Back to the example. What we do is to have a very high precision and stable oscillator (we used to use a rubidium standard). It has a long term stability of about 10E-9 and a short term stability of 10E-12. In other words, over a short period of time the thing will drift not more than one part per trillion, and over the long term (days) it will drift about one part per billion.
Now, that is running next to a GPS receiver that gives us a time tick synced to the Bureau. Every second the GPS time is compared to the local time standard, and an error value is computed. That error value is averaged over a long period of time, and used to gently tweak the rubidium standard. Thus, over the long run the drift is reduced to level of the cesium clocks, about 10E-13.
So we have atomic clock accuracy but rubidium clock precision and repeatability.
Now, if you used the same sort of technique on a pendulum clock - measure the error between the clock and the GPS, average, filter, and apply - you would have atomic clock accuracy with pendulum clock precision. Granted, I would not want to use the clock's time for reporting astronomic phenomena where the precision must be very high, but for normal use this would be quite good enough.
I remember back in the day when DN3D was first released, and all us Linux folks ask 3D Realms to make a port (pointing at Doom).
Back then, the response was "Would all you people go away!?!" (which I always felt was stupid - if you are getting enough requests for it to be an annoyance, perhaps it is worth doing?)
Now, look at it.
My, how times have changed.
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This could be used not only for fabrics but for any surfaces that can have the "daggers" bonded to them, creating long-lasting antiseptic surfaces.
However, for clothing I have a question - how would the oils in sweat affect the surface? Would they occupy all the "daggers" and prevent the microbes from being penetrated?
An oft-heard term in anti-spamming circles is "freedom of speach" - this refers to the spammers' arguements that "I gots my rites! I gots freedom of speach! If you sets up a mail server, I gots the rite to send my messages to it!"
Folks like this forget the following:
Freedom of speech protects you from the GOVERNMENT inhibiting your speech, not private citizens.
Your freedom of speech does not obligate me to provide you with a forum in which to speak.
Your freedom of speech ends where my property begins.
Does this guy expect to be allowed into Intel's buildings to deliver his messages? If he does not, then why does he feel he has the right to enter their mail server?
However, most folks regard "freedom of speach" as "I gits to say whutever I want - so you can shut the fuck up!"
Now, if this guy wants to set up a web server with a "why I hate Intel" page, great! But spamming somebody else's mail server is wrong.
The Mozilla team really need to break Mozilla up into smaller, more focused parts. That is one area I will give Microsoft credit for - they made IE and Outlook seperate programs.
The ideal for Mozilla would be (IMHO) a browser, a mail client, a download client, an IM client, and a composer. Each should be replacable - I should be able to tie the browser into whatever download agent I want, have whatever email client I want be pulled up when I click on a mailto: link, etc.
I'd even go so far as to have a caching program that the browser and downloader could talk to (to unify the disk cache system), but then I already run Squid on my systems.
Of course, all the Moz bits could and should access the same DLLs (.so's) to keep the disk and memory footprint down.
This raises an interesting question in my mind: How many people who have received tongue piercings have had complications?
After all, you are punching a hole through a body part that spends all of its time in a wet place full of food and other items, plenty of bacteria, and that moves around enough to push all of that into the hole.
It's one thing to inject drugs into the tongue to numb it during required oral surgery, but to put a permanent hole in it for cosmetic and sexual reasons seems just a bit foolish to me.
Before we start griping about a Flash player for PPC Linux, how about we gripe about a Flash player that works decently under ANY Linux?
Specifically, I have noticed that Flash under Linux runs like Unreal on a 286, even on my Dual-P3 1GHz with a AIW7500. CPU load during playback is not close to 100% of one CPU, but I get a slideshow poorly synced with the sound. Of course, on Windows running on one processor of the same machine I get a very smooth playback well synced to the sound (as well as a dirty, slimey feeling that showering just doesn't get rid of).
I'm not running ESD or any other sound daemon, so that's not it.
And don't tell me that "X is slow" - bullshit. I work on an X based test instrument and can shove more graphics down the card than the DSPs can generate. It's just that Slackromediocre have put no effort into making Flash run worth a crap on anything that has a lower case x in the name.
Now, given that they have started this effort to make Flash the "thin-client solution", don't you think they ought to make it work well on a thin client?
So damn uncreative - not the RFC, which was quite good, but the/. crew.
I'd emailed Rob with the perfect April Fool's joke to play on the/. crowd - fake a new release of Geeks In Space, consisting of nothing but low-level ambient noise for 20 minutes followed by a loud "April Fool!" at the end.
Consider the purpose of an IPO - in exchange for selling off part of the company, you get a temporary influx of capital.
Unless you NEED capital, why do this?
If you need capital, you can incur debt to get it. When you pay off the debt, you OWN your company.
The only reason I see to IPO is for the company founders to make a quick buck off the IPO. Once they have done this, there is little incentive for them to stick around.
Consider it like this: I just bought a house. Would it make more sense for my to finance this by a) incurring debt (a mortage), or b) selling 49% of myself into slavery. Remember, my new owners will own 49% of me until such time as I buy myself back. But since they own me, they will do their level best to see to it I never buy back that 49%.
I propose the nano-pinhead - one billionth the area of a pinhead (the sewing kind, not the AC kind - the AC kind is the basis for the new unit of stupidity, the morone).
This can be combined with the LOC for a new unit of areal density - the LOC/nano-pinhead.
You posted your allegation that Outblaze is running 'open mail servers...
Actually, if you read my post you will see that I was questioning the way the article was written - I was saying that the article implied Outblaze was running open servers.
you provided a set of rules that was used by sendmail and which allows spammers to abuse it... No, because were my rules implemented the only ways a spammer could use the system would be to either spam the users of that system only, or to be a user of that system. Unfortunately, no ruleset will stop a spammer from abusing an SMTP server in that fashion.
You, and several others, overlooked something about my post.
Notice that I didn't specify how the mail server would determine "if (sender is one of my users)" - ideally this would be a combination of SMTPAUTH, source address checks, possibly even an SSH style public/private keypair system.
Please clarify a few things - specifically what you mean by "children" - are we talking 6, 12, 16, what?
For little kids ( say below 12 years of age), you want something to captivate them. Definitely things like Lego Mindstorms, Technixs, and anything else that moves. Remember that before 12 years of age, kids' logic is not the best.
Now, if you are talking about 12 or so, then what you want is something that will let the kid start making useful programs. I'd suggest something interpreted - kids that age learn by trying things out first, and a "edit compile link run curse debug repeat" cycle isn't likely to get them hooked. I'd suggest BASIC, TCL, Python, Forth and the like.
Teach them the VERY basics first - modularity first. Teach them to do little chunks they can build upon, rather than trying to cram the whole thing into main(). Teach them the value of a few well-placed (print|puts) statements.
Only when they have those fundementals down should you even THINK about more advanced languages.
I've a co-worker who's kid is learning on one of the programmable calculators that's out now - the thing's Z-80 based. I cut my teeth on a Z-80 (TRS-80 Model 1 Level 1) - nice and simple machine to work with. That may be a fruitful approach.
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This makes me wonder if you couldn't do something along the lines of hemodialysis - slowly feed in a synthetic ceribro-spinal fluid, and then drain off the contaminated CSF.
Any doctors in the house?
Well, it is now officially Thursday. Aa I've said before, I think there should be an
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This is not a device that can form an image from an object at a non-trivial distance from the display - this is a device that only images an object placed against it.
I would expect the primary intent of a device like this would be in a web-pad type device. Picture a clipboard, but thicker. Your customer hands you a printed item (work order, recept, whatever). You place the item face down against the display and push a button on the side. You remove the item from the display, and verify the scan took, then hand the item back to the customer.
This would no more allow your monitor to image what is going on in the room than putting your flat bed scanner up on edge and leaving the top open would.
If you are going to set up a blog, and you are concerned about your employer finding out about it, then don't do it. You should assume that if they care, they can find out who is behind the blog.
They can, you know. They just claim that the blog has some DMCA prohibited content, get a takedown notice, go to the ISP, and find out where the wire leads. Even if you host on some East Elbownian server, they can find out who is behind it if they care badly enough.
You are concerned that your employer might find out. OK, you can do one of two things that can work:
But trying to do this anonymously and hoping your boss doesn't find out is a losing proposition.
Given that this drug increases the production of white blood cells, what would the effects of giving it to an AIDS patient be?
On the one hand, you increase their white count, allowing them to fight off other infections better.
On the other hand, you increase the very cells the virus infects.
Also, since this drug would increase the production of white cells, in the presense of radiation damage would that not also increase the likelyhood of creating cancer cells?
Sure, you survive the initial exposure, but then you die of leukemia.
Gosh, I feel so bad about what is happening to this spammer. Perhaps I will send him a box of chocolates to make him feel better.
C.O.D.
"Coffee? Tea? What can I get you, sir?"
"I'll have a rum and Coke, and my computer will have a vodka."
I suggest we remove that galaxy from our list of places to go to when we have FTL - I doubt there is much life left after an event like this happens in your galaxy.
Even give 2 billion years to recover, I'll bet that galaxy is just a bit thin on life.
Come on guys, this shows up BACK TO BACK with Hemo's story.
/. crew does not have the "show all stories on all sections on the main page" option set, but they should.
Perhaps the
I've heard that if you have lots of iron in your water, it will kill the RO filter membrane. How's your luck been with that.
I, too, live in a rural area with a well. Chunky style water, anyone?
But then again, I don't have to worry about my iron or calcium levels.
Consider where I work - we have a very accurate 10 MHz reference to sync all our RF gear to. We need that ref to be tracable to the National Bureau of Standards. Now, it would be somewhat impractical to check with the Bureau 10 million times a second (anybody want to run a fiber from Boulder to Wichita just for the time sync?).
Before I go on, let me point out the difference between precision, accuracy, and repeatability.
From a metrological standpoint, having more accuracy than repeatability is useless. Having more precision than accuracy is also useless. (Ignoring tricks like averaging for the moment.)
Back to the example. What we do is to have a very high precision and stable oscillator (we used to use a rubidium standard). It has a long term stability of about 10E-9 and a short term stability of 10E-12. In other words, over a short period of time the thing will drift not more than one part per trillion, and over the long term (days) it will drift about one part per billion.
Now, that is running next to a GPS receiver that gives us a time tick synced to the Bureau. Every second the GPS time is compared to the local time standard, and an error value is computed. That error value is averaged over a long period of time, and used to gently tweak the rubidium standard. Thus, over the long run the drift is reduced to level of the cesium clocks, about 10E-13.
So we have atomic clock accuracy but rubidium clock precision and repeatability.
Now, if you used the same sort of technique on a pendulum clock - measure the error between the clock and the GPS, average, filter, and apply - you would have atomic clock accuracy with pendulum clock precision. Granted, I would not want to use the clock's time for reporting astronomic phenomena where the precision must be very high, but for normal use this would be quite good enough.
I remember back in the day when DN3D was first released, and all us Linux folks ask 3D Realms to make a port (pointing at Doom).
Back then, the response was "Would all you people go away!?!" (which I always felt was stupid - if you are getting enough requests for it to be an annoyance, perhaps it is worth doing?)
Now, look at it.
My, how times have changed.
This could be used not only for fabrics but for any surfaces that can have the "daggers" bonded to them, creating long-lasting antiseptic surfaces.
However, for clothing I have a question - how would the oils in sweat affect the surface? Would they occupy all the "daggers" and prevent the microbes from being penetrated?
Folks like this forget the following:
Does this guy expect to be allowed into Intel's buildings to deliver his messages? If he does not, then why does he feel he has the right to enter their mail server?
However, most folks regard "freedom of speach" as "I gits to say whutever I want - so you can shut the fuck up!"
Now, if this guy wants to set up a web server with a "why I hate Intel" page, great! But spamming somebody else's mail server is wrong.
Yes, you can detect life by looking for duplicate patterns.
But does this technique correctly identify evil life forms and set their headers appropriately?
And does this mean that Slashdot is alive, or merely that the Slashdot editors are alive?
The Mozilla team really need to break Mozilla up into smaller, more focused parts. That is one area I will give Microsoft credit for - they made IE and Outlook seperate programs.
The ideal for Mozilla would be (IMHO) a browser, a mail client, a download client, an IM client, and a composer. Each should be replacable - I should be able to tie the browser into whatever download agent I want, have whatever email client I want be pulled up when I click on a mailto: link, etc.
I'd even go so far as to have a caching program that the browser and downloader could talk to (to unify the disk cache system), but then I already run Squid on my systems.
Of course, all the Moz bits could and should access the same DLLs (.so's) to keep the disk and memory footprint down.
This raises an interesting question in my mind: How many people who have received tongue piercings have had complications?
After all, you are punching a hole through a body part that spends all of its time in a wet place full of food and other items, plenty of bacteria, and that moves around enough to push all of that into the hole.
It's one thing to inject drugs into the tongue to numb it during required oral surgery, but to put a permanent hole in it for cosmetic and sexual reasons seems just a bit foolish to me.
I mean the Macromedia players versions 4,5, and 6, downloaded directly from Macromedia.com.
I have yet to see one of them that ran more than 6 frames/second.
Try going to the "Thomas Timberwolf" pages over at WB, and playing those.
Before we start griping about a Flash player for PPC Linux, how about we gripe about a Flash player that works decently under ANY Linux?
Specifically, I have noticed that Flash under Linux runs like Unreal on a 286, even on my Dual-P3 1GHz with a AIW7500. CPU load during playback is not close to 100% of one CPU, but I get a slideshow poorly synced with the sound. Of course, on Windows running on one processor of the same machine I get a very smooth playback well synced to the sound (as well as a dirty, slimey feeling that showering just doesn't get rid of).
I'm not running ESD or any other sound daemon, so that's not it.
And don't tell me that "X is slow" - bullshit. I work on an X based test instrument and can shove more graphics down the card than the DSPs can generate. It's just that Slackromediocre have put no effort into making Flash run worth a crap on anything that has a lower case x in the name.
Now, given that they have started this effort to make Flash the "thin-client solution", don't you think they ought to make it work well on a thin client?
So damn uncreative - not the RFC, which was quite good, but the /. crew.
/. crowd - fake a new release of Geeks In Space, consisting of nothing but low-level ambient noise for 20 minutes followed by a loud "April Fool!" at the end.
I'd emailed Rob with the perfect April Fool's joke to play on the
You all see the (absence of) result.
Why would anybody want to IPO their company?
Consider the purpose of an IPO - in exchange for selling off part of the company, you get a temporary influx of capital.
Unless you NEED capital, why do this?
If you need capital, you can incur debt to get it. When you pay off the debt, you OWN your company.
The only reason I see to IPO is for the company founders to make a quick buck off the IPO. Once they have done this, there is little incentive for them to stick around.
Consider it like this: I just bought a house. Would it make more sense for my to finance this by a) incurring debt (a mortage), or b) selling 49% of myself into slavery. Remember, my new owners will own 49% of me until such time as I buy myself back. But since they own me, they will do their level best to see to it I never buy back that 49%.
I propose the nano-pinhead - one billionth the area of a pinhead (the sewing kind, not the AC kind - the AC kind is the basis for the new unit of stupidity, the morone).
This can be combined with the LOC for a new unit of areal density - the LOC/nano-pinhead.
Let address your points in order:
You posted your allegation that Outblaze is running 'open mail servers...
Actually, if you read my post you will see that I was questioning the way the article was written - I was saying that the article implied Outblaze was running open servers.
you provided a set of rules that was used by sendmail and which allows spammers to abuse it...
No, because were my rules implemented the only ways a spammer could use the system would be to either spam the users of that system only, or to be a user of that system. Unfortunately, no ruleset will stop a spammer from abusing an SMTP server in that fashion.
You, and several others, overlooked something about my post.
Notice that I didn't specify how the mail server would determine "if (sender is one of my users)" - ideally this would be a combination of SMTPAUTH, source address checks, possibly even an SSH style public/private keypair system.
Please clarify a few things - specifically what you mean by "children" - are we talking 6, 12, 16, what?
For little kids ( say below 12 years of age), you want something to captivate them. Definitely things like Lego Mindstorms, Technixs, and anything else that moves. Remember that before 12 years of age, kids' logic is not the best.
Now, if you are talking about 12 or so, then what you want is something that will let the kid start making useful programs. I'd suggest something interpreted - kids that age learn by trying things out first, and a "edit compile link run curse debug repeat" cycle isn't likely to get them hooked. I'd suggest BASIC, TCL, Python, Forth and the like.
Teach them the VERY basics first - modularity first. Teach them to do little chunks they can build upon, rather than trying to cram the whole thing into main(). Teach them the value of a few well-placed (print|puts) statements.
Only when they have those fundementals down should you even THINK about more advanced languages.
I've a co-worker who's kid is learning on one of the programmable calculators that's out now - the thing's Z-80 based. I cut my teeth on a Z-80 (TRS-80 Model 1 Level 1) - nice and simple machine to work with. That may be a fruitful approach.