For a young student, this was a creative and intelligent thing to do. But as a scientific investigation, it bites. The "experiment" was just not well designed.
I believe this project was better designed than most I have seen. So many of the projects are more "demonstrations" than "experiments". It disturbs me that kids who take a few science classes still don't understand the difference between trying to find out something for themselves and demonstrating something that someone else found out. This project was obviously designed to find new things out. I am willing to overlook a few design flaws when I see that persuit.
It sure beats the hell out of a model of the solar system made out of styrofoam balls and coat hangers.
I'd reccommend getting a box at rackspace.com or something similar. they take care of the hardware and connectivity and stuff and give you root. It's about $200 - $300 a month depending on what extras you want. Works well for me.
The odds are always in favor of the house, and if you don't like that, then don't bet.
The employer is betting the insurance company here. The employee has no choice in this case.
This could progress to the point where an employer may not hire someone because they "failed" a genetic test. At that point, I wonder if the employee gets the choice to tell the employer that they don't have to pay for disability insurance in order to get the job.
And sure, it has a throttle, but where are the brakes?
From the article:
Worryingly, there are no brakes and it seems the only way to perform an emergency stop is to fall off. But then, it's designed to be used on beaches and has a top speed of just 22mph, so you're unlikely to hurt yourself too much.
That does sound dangerous. 22 mph is a pretty fast clip. You could really get hurt. Try jumping out of your buddy's car at 22mph this weekend and see if you make it to work monday.
That being said, I think I have to get one. My goped has lost its charm.
Incidentally, if you've ever bought a blank tape you've subsidized the RIAA. What's so different about doing the same for CD-R(W)? Nothing.
I was pissed about it the first time, and I'm not going to change my mind this time. I should not be forced to pay a tax to some organization unrelated to either myself or the maufacturer of the media.
There's no reason to let the second violation of some rule go unnoticed because of previous violations.
I've heard that you could do that, but I've never tried it. Unfortunately, that takes the cooperation of the designer of the site, and it's not something that the user can do on his own.
for those of you who will not read the article:
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In case you don't read the article, silk does not just come shooting out of their tits. It's like this:
Their milk looks and tastes like the real thing, but once its proteins are filtered and purified into a fine white powder, they can be spun into tough thread.
If it matters, I personally consider this one to be the most important:
1.8 Provide a mechanism to allow authentication information to expire.
Many browsers allow configuration to save HTTP authentication [RFC2616, RFC2617] information ("remember my password"). They should also allow users to "flush" that authentication information
on request. For instance, the user may wish to leave the user agent running but tell it to forget the password to access the user's bank account.
Wrong: Most user agents consider that authentication information (e.g., password) provided by a user for a server/realm pair during a session is immutable for the duration of the session.
I don't think I'm the only one that finds it quite annoying to have to exit and restart my browser in order to make it forget my HTTP authemtication information. I believe Netscape and IE both have this problem.
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I believe this project was better designed than most I have seen. So many of the projects are more "demonstrations" than "experiments". It disturbs me that kids who take a few science classes still don't understand the difference between trying to find out something for themselves and demonstrating something that someone else found out. This project was obviously designed to find new things out. I am willing to overlook a few design flaws when I see that persuit.
It sure beats the hell out of a model of the solar system made out of styrofoam balls and coat hangers.
All your events are belong to us.
the DNS setup is a pretty good example of a distributed database.
All your events are belong to us.
so now you've got the data in a decent structure. Perhaps you could use graphviz webdot or something to automatically draw graphs from it.
All your events are belong to us.
I told my girlfriend that I had a valentine for her box and she got mad at me.
All your events are belong to us.
did you say rectal scan?
All your events are belong to us.
While I'm at it, can you have laser surgery and make your eyes look like someone else's?
All your events are belong to us.
Who said there was anything wrong with them?
All your events are belong to us.
One of the less-well known subtleties of slashdot is how to link to a comment in an archived story.
http://slashdot.org/science/01/01/22/1710234.shtml #23
All your events are belong to us.
I wouldn't imagine that anyone would consider an asteroid landing an obvious extention of a lunar landing.
All your events are belong to us.
I'd reccommend getting a box at rackspace.com or something similar. they take care of the hardware and connectivity and stuff and give you root. It's about $200 - $300 a month depending on what extras you want. Works well for me.
All your events are belong to us.
maybe it's a swamp cooler.
All your events are belong to us.
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue62/silva.html
I can't wait for my tuner card to get here.
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
What if you have a genetic predisposition to getting hit by buses?
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
It's because of people like you that employers like that are still able to find people to work for them. Stand up for yourself!
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
The employer is betting the insurance company here. The employee has no choice in this case.
This could progress to the point where an employer may not hire someone because they "failed" a genetic test. At that point, I wonder if the employee gets the choice to tell the employer that they don't have to pay for disability insurance in order to get the job.
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
I'd hate to be the guy who has to sniff all of the goatse.cx links on slashdot. Those have to smell horrible.
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
I was just getting in the bath to do some ironing, and I almost forgot to take off my clothes.
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
From the article:
That does sound dangerous. 22 mph is a pretty fast clip. You could really get hurt. Try jumping out of your buddy's car at 22mph this weekend and see if you make it to work monday.
That being said, I think I have to get one. My goped has lost its charm.
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
we are not suffering an energy crisis. Please quit spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
I was pissed about it the first time, and I'm not going to change my mind this time. I should not be forced to pay a tax to some organization unrelated to either myself or the maufacturer of the media.
There's no reason to let the second violation of some rule go unnoticed because of previous violations.
I would suggest France, Cuba, or China.
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
Thanks for the tip, though.
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
I think it gets denatured when it hits the acid and stuff in your stomach.
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
Also, there was a quite fitting quote at the bottom:
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
I don't think I'm the only one that finds it quite annoying to have to exit and restart my browser in order to make it forget my HTTP authemtication information. I believe Netscape and IE both have this problem.
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.