Yes, I certainly do believe that they are people too, and don't doubt that their motivations are quite complex. And I've read that article already, but thanks -- it's appropriate here.
However, if they simply want to "live their lives like everybody else" I don't think blowing themselves up is a good way to achieve that goal, do you?
Quit whining and either a) get an electric car, b) promote electric vehicle charging stations in your community, or c) both.
Or just keep driving his own petrol powered car, but quit saying it can't work for anybody else, because obviously it can.
If gas prices keep going up and electricity prices stay low, we will see a whole lot more electric cars on the road, even without the ability to charge quickly away from home (and if that ability does come, we'll see even more of them.)
Have you people even considered that they didn't make an atomic device because they don't want to?
They're people too you know? They want to live their lives like everybody else.
Even the suicide bombers, the guys who blow themselves up with a bunch of civilians who have nothing to do with anything? Do they just want to live their lives?
But yes, I'm talking about nuclear bombs in NYC or Washington DC, not in the middle east. I certainly do believe that if the same terrorists that hijacked planes and used them as weapons could have made and used nuclear weapons, they would have done so. Yes, it might be hard to smuggle it into the US, but I imagine they can do it, and if the bomb is detected -- detonate it. (It won't be as effective as doing it in Washington DC, but it's still pretty good.)
I believe that the know-how to make nuclear bombs is well known. I believe that the explosives needed to do so are relatively easy to find. But the nuclear material, that must be harder to obtain. And I hope it stays that way, because if the terrorists ever get the ability to make nuclear weapons and blow up a few in key areas -- that would make all the changes that happened after 9/11 look like nothing.
Which means little - you can get twice the nominal range out of a Prius, using hypermiling techniques.
Even more fundamental than that... you can stop your Prius at a gas station and refuel to get another 400 miles out of it. This also works with a Hummer, or big truck or most other vehicles on the road. Even a guy on a bicycle can stop and buy a cheeseburger to provide more fuel to go.
Current electric cars work because most people don't have to drive hundreds of miles in a day -- a few dozen miles, max. If you do, an electric car is not for you, at least not now.
And on the rare occasions that an electric car owner does have to make a long trip, they can rent a car, or swap their car with a relative or friend for a few days, etc. We don't see more of them because the economics don't favor them that much yet, but if the price of gas keeps going up and the price of electricity stays low... I'd expect to see a lot more of them.
"Why haven't they, yet?" Good question. Then again, we had airliners for 30+ years before someone thought to use them as a weapon and then had the audacity to actually carry it out. I'm betting the audacity is the key component.
Well, I'm pretty sure they have considered that an atomic bomb would be useful as a weapon, and knew this back in September 2001.
They had enough audacity to hijack planes and fly them into buildings then, and I imagine a nuclear bomb would be even more effective but not require significantly more audacity, so all this suggests to me that the limiting factor must not be audacity.
(I think it's getting the needed nuclear material -- I think it's harder to get than simply going to North Korea with a case of good cognac.)
But beyond that... smart people who don't work in the field have basically known how to make atomic bombs for a long time now. Basically it all revolves around taking two (or more) sub-critical masses and mashing them together in such a way that they will go critical *and* will stay critical long enough for some good fission to happen before they're all blown apart again. This is where the chemical explosives come in -- they force it all together very quickly.
If you don't do it right, it starts to go critical but that blows the parts apart again before it makes a significant explosion. So it'll kill everybody in the room with radiation, but not everybody within a few miles.
It is clear from the episode that they were highlighting the issue of charging. 16 hours from a wall socket and a 200 mile range. As noted, it would take days to go from one end of the country to another.
It is a fact therefore, that the car does not really work in any practical sense.
I would disagree. Such a car works, in a practical sense -- just not for crossing the country.
If you never drive more than 100 miles a day and go home every night and recharge... it sounds like the car works in a very practical sense.
But you wouldn't use it to drive 3000 miles any more than you'd use it to haul eight kids to a soccer game. (It also sounds like you wouldn't use it on a race track for any race over 40 miles, but most sports cars never make it to a race track either so that's probably fine.)
Does it really need to be said that the Japanese lost control of exactly 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000% of their nuclear fuel.
You've got so many zeros here that not even a single atom could have escaped if you replaced the last 0 with a 1 (with several orders of magnitude to spare.) Reminds me of these guy's message and they're only talking 10^23...
It does seem likely that a few atoms of their primary nuclear fuel escaped at some point. Not through the zircalloy containers (though I guess even that's not 100% certain), but probably when they were loaded or built -- a few atoms could have gotten on the outside, and only escaped recently. And of course if there is any actual damage to the containers, it's possible that something leaked -- a tiny amount hopefully, but way more than a few atoms.
The concrete walls of the structure probably contain more uranium than the 0.00... with lots of significant digits you've given above -- all it takes is one atom in the entire structure to totally blow your claim.
That said, I agree that no significant amount of their nuclear fuel has escaped -- unless the reports are incorrect. But to give so many significant digits to imply that not even a single atom could have ever escaped... that's too certain.
Go for it. I'm sure they could use your assistance there.
Not unless he can speak and read Japanese. If he can't, he'd be just another illiterate guy in the way who can't take orders.
And I'm also guessing that he has no special expertise in disaster management or nuclear reactor repair (even if his claim is accurate, which I believe it is.)
This situation is very, very different from what happened at Chernobyl.
I don't think the situations really are comparable.
Suing for 75 trillion, 75 billion or 75 million is likely to not make any difference... it's not clear that Limewire has the money to pay any of those judgments. All suing for 75 trillion does is 1) draw attention to the law that permits that absurd amount of money, and 2) make the RIAA look greedy.
Not really... many (most?) prisoners don't serve their entire sentence -- they're let out early for parole or good behavior. In that case, two life sentences or 100 years rather than one life sentence or 70 years often means they're in jail longer.
Seems to me the answer should be simple -- the consoles should sell a keyboard (perhaps just something with remappable keys rather than a full keyboard if they don't want it used as an actual keyboard on a computer) and mouse for their units, and suggest that game developers support it.
Then people have the choice. Of course, this will hobble those who use controllers in FPS games -- they'll get pwned -- so they'll all have to switch. A pain? Maybe, but I think the limitation should be my own skill and reflexes, not my interface.
"Z-Pac" -- Azithromycin -- is already available in generic form and it's relatively cheap (especially since only five or six pills total are needed) and effective. As for cheap, I see it available online at six pills for $7.50 -- I'm not sure how reliable that is, as many online pill vendors are shady as prescriptions are required, but I do recall it being less than my $20 copay at Walgreens.
And at least around here, doctors are very scared of giving antibiotics for everything as it will help speed along the production of resistant strains. Instead, they'll test rather than give antibiotics up front. If you have a bacterial infection, they'll give you the antibiotics, but they like to test first -- even if the test costs $100 and the antibiotics $15 and they have almost no side-effects.
Erythromycin and Azithromycin (at least in a Z-pack -- no idea bout other delivery systems) seem to have similar costs.
Maybe I wasn't clear... when you just pay the ticket, you basically plead "guilty" and waive your right to a trial. You have lost, and the "court fees" are part of the fine you have to pay.
But... if you go to court and win, or you get them to dismiss the charges somehow, then you've won, and you do not have to pay court fees or anything else. (Any money you paid for a lawyer or expert witnesses is gone, of course.)
Perhaps it's not fair that you have "court fees" if you never went to court, but the court still has some paperwork and stuff to do on your behalf, and you've been found guilty (if you just pay the fees) and so they charge you the penalty. Consider them to be part of the fine.
If you do actually go to court and lose, the court fees could cost a lot more, especially if you had a jury trial. (The specifics would vary from place to place.)
In general you don't pay any court fees if you are found not guilty, or the case is dropped or dismissed.
If you lose (i.e. you just pay the fine, you take defensive driving, you go to court and lose) then you pay the court fees, and whatever other fines are imposed on you.
Not that I even know what state you're in, but I've never heard of one where you had to pay court costs when you prevail in court.
If your ISP is preventing 25 outbound, you don't have an ISP.
You are picking nits, but that setup for end users is quite common.
In most cases, 25/tcp isn't totally blocked outbound -- you can usually connect to the ISP's mail server and use it to relay your mail. That way, they get to make sure you're not spamming (and can monitor and control your mail if they want, though they could just do that by sniffing the network if they wanted too.)
Because as soon as you telnet smtp.example.com 25 they will do the same to the source address and if they don't get a HELO with the matching hostname in it they will not accept your mail.
Please, give me some examples of mail servers that do this.
I've never seen this happen, and I would expect this sort of filtering to be full of problems -- not everybody does outbound and inbound SMTP from the same IP addresses.
Veteran *nix admins certainly do *know* vi -- after all, with a freshly installed system or a system that's not theirs, it may be all that's available -- but many do prefer emacs and use it regularly. Nice job of the article to throw religion into the mix, to give their own belief as if it was the One True Belief.
It is right about pico, however -- even if a masochistic admin did prefer it for some strange reason, they'd never admit it:)
Lots of corporate sites, intranet and extranet, use java. Java is extremely strong there. Some of these sites are small, some are huge.
Ultimately, most sites hide what language they're written in -- you have to go looking for it. To be more precise, they don't intentionally hide it, it's just that their sites tend to not make it obvious. (php is often more obvious than many others, however.)
php is used for more smaller sites it seems -- if you install your own blogging or forum package, odds are good it's php. java seems more popular with larger commercial sites. Certainly, these aren't hard and fast rules -- Facebook uses php very heavily (but it has some java in there too) and more than a few personal sites use java.
Which is used for more "major internet sites"? Got me -- but first you'd have to define that term. I would fully expect that php is used in far more sites total than java, however.
Mathematics, on the other hand, teaches us that power without oversight will ALWAYS lead to abuse and corruption, given sufficient time.
And in exactly the same vein, mathematics has also taught us that if you flip a coin over and over and over and over forever, eventually you'll get heads.
Mathematics isn't the proper teacher here. Human nature would be better.
Actually it's PHP that powers most internet sites, but thanks for playing.
It's not clear who the bigger player is -- php or java -- but both are huge.
And he didn't say "most internet sites" -- he said "majority of major internet sites" -- a subjective measure which makes such a claim difficult to prove or disprove.
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Have you people even considered that they didn't make an atomic device because they don't want to?
They're people too you know? They want to live their lives like everybody else.
Even the suicide bombers, the guys who blow themselves up with a bunch of civilians who have nothing to do with anything?
Yes, believe it or not, suicide bombers are people too: http://muslimmatters.org/2008/04/19/the-psychology-of-the-suicide-bomber/
Yes, I certainly do believe that they are people too, and don't doubt that their motivations are quite complex. And I've read that article already, but thanks -- it's appropriate here.
However, if they simply want to "live their lives like everybody else" I don't think blowing themselves up is a good way to achieve that goal, do you?
Quit whining and either a) get an electric car, b) promote electric vehicle charging stations in your community, or c) both.
Or just keep driving his own petrol powered car, but quit saying it can't work for anybody else, because obviously it can.
If gas prices keep going up and electricity prices stay low, we will see a whole lot more electric cars on the road, even without the ability to charge quickly away from home (and if that ability does come, we'll see even more of them.)
Have you people even considered that they didn't make an atomic device because they don't want to?
They're people too you know? They want to live their lives like everybody else.
Even the suicide bombers, the guys who blow themselves up with a bunch of civilians who have nothing to do with anything? Do they just want to live their lives?
But yes, I'm talking about nuclear bombs in NYC or Washington DC, not in the middle east. I certainly do believe that if the same terrorists that hijacked planes and used them as weapons could have made and used nuclear weapons, they would have done so. Yes, it might be hard to smuggle it into the US, but I imagine they can do it, and if the bomb is detected -- detonate it. (It won't be as effective as doing it in Washington DC, but it's still pretty good.)
I believe that the know-how to make nuclear bombs is well known. I believe that the explosives needed to do so are relatively easy to find. But the nuclear material, that must be harder to obtain. And I hope it stays that way, because if the terrorists ever get the ability to make nuclear weapons and blow up a few in key areas -- that would make all the changes that happened after 9/11 look like nothing.
Which means little - you can get twice the nominal range out of a Prius, using hypermiling techniques.
Even more fundamental than that ... you can stop your Prius at a gas station and refuel to get another 400 miles out of it. This also works with a Hummer, or big truck or most other vehicles on the road. Even a guy on a bicycle can stop and buy a cheeseburger to provide more fuel to go.
Current electric cars work because most people don't have to drive hundreds of miles in a day -- a few dozen miles, max. If you do, an electric car is not for you, at least not now.
And on the rare occasions that an electric car owner does have to make a long trip, they can rent a car, or swap their car with a relative or friend for a few days, etc. We don't see more of them because the economics don't favor them that much yet, but if the price of gas keeps going up and the price of electricity stays low ... I'd expect to see a lot more of them.
"Why haven't they, yet?" Good question. Then again, we had airliners for 30+ years before someone thought to use them as a weapon and then had the audacity to actually carry it out. I'm betting the audacity is the key component.
Well, I'm pretty sure they have considered that an atomic bomb would be useful as a weapon, and knew this back in September 2001.
They had enough audacity to hijack planes and fly them into buildings then, and I imagine a nuclear bomb would be even more effective but not require significantly more audacity, so all this suggests to me that the limiting factor must not be audacity.
(I think it's getting the needed nuclear material -- I think it's harder to get than simply going to North Korea with a case of good cognac.)
But beyond that ... smart people who don't work in the field have basically known how to make atomic bombs for a long time now. Basically it all revolves around taking two (or more) sub-critical masses and mashing them together in such a way that they will go critical *and* will stay critical long enough for some good fission to happen before they're all blown apart again. This is where the chemical explosives come in -- they force it all together very quickly.
If you don't do it right, it starts to go critical but that blows the parts apart again before it makes a significant explosion. So it'll kill everybody in the room with radiation, but not everybody within a few miles.
It is clear from the episode that they were highlighting the issue of charging. 16 hours from a wall socket and a 200 mile range. As noted, it would take days to go from one end of the country to another.
It is a fact therefore, that the car does not really work in any practical sense.
I would disagree. Such a car works, in a practical sense -- just not for crossing the country.
If you never drive more than 100 miles a day and go home every night and recharge ... it sounds like the car works in a very practical sense.
But you wouldn't use it to drive 3000 miles any more than you'd use it to haul eight kids to a soccer game. (It also sounds like you wouldn't use it on a race track for any race over 40 miles, but most sports cars never make it to a race track either so that's probably fine.)
Does it really need to be said that the Japanese lost control of exactly 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000% of their nuclear fuel.
You've got so many zeros here that not even a single atom could have escaped if you replaced the last 0 with a 1 (with several orders of magnitude to spare.) Reminds me of these guy's message and they're only talking 10^23 ...
It does seem likely that a few atoms of their primary nuclear fuel escaped at some point. Not through the zircalloy containers (though I guess even that's not 100% certain), but probably when they were loaded or built -- a few atoms could have gotten on the outside, and only escaped recently. And of course if there is any actual damage to the containers, it's possible that something leaked -- a tiny amount hopefully, but way more than a few atoms.
The concrete walls of the structure probably contain more uranium than the 0.00... with lots of significant digits you've given above -- all it takes is one atom in the entire structure to totally blow your claim.
That said, I agree that no significant amount of their nuclear fuel has escaped -- unless the reports are incorrect. But to give so many significant digits to imply that not even a single atom could have ever escaped ... that's too certain.
Go for it. I'm sure they could use your assistance there.
Not unless he can speak and read Japanese. If he can't, he'd be just another illiterate guy in the way who can't take orders.
And I'm also guessing that he has no special expertise in disaster management or nuclear reactor repair (even if his claim is accurate, which I believe it is.)
This situation is very, very different from what happened at Chernobyl.
I don't think the situations really are comparable.
Suing for 75 trillion, 75 billion or 75 million is likely to not make any difference ... it's not clear that Limewire has the money to pay any of those judgments. All suing for 75 trillion does is 1) draw attention to the law that permits that absurd amount of money, and 2) make the RIAA look greedy.
Not really ... many (most?) prisoners don't serve their entire sentence -- they're let out early for parole or good behavior. In that case, two life sentences or 100 years rather than one life sentence or 70 years often means they're in jail longer.
The original Xbox pretty much was a PC. A 733 MHz celeron (?) processor and a Geforce 3 video card.
I imagine we'll see some future consoles with Intel chips again, but PPC is a good choice as well. Don't know much about the PS3 chip.
Seems to me the answer should be simple -- the consoles should sell a keyboard (perhaps just something with remappable keys rather than a full keyboard if they don't want it used as an actual keyboard on a computer) and mouse for their units, and suggest that game developers support it.
Then people have the choice. Of course, this will hobble those who use controllers in FPS games -- they'll get pwned -- so they'll all have to switch. A pain? Maybe, but I think the limitation should be my own skill and reflexes, not my interface.
"Z-Pac" -- Azithromycin -- is already available in generic form and it's relatively cheap (especially since only five or six pills total are needed) and effective. As for cheap, I see it available online at six pills for $7.50 -- I'm not sure how reliable that is, as many online pill vendors are shady as prescriptions are required, but I do recall it being less than my $20 copay at Walgreens.
And at least around here, doctors are very scared of giving antibiotics for everything as it will help speed along the production of resistant strains. Instead, they'll test rather than give antibiotics up front. If you have a bacterial infection, they'll give you the antibiotics, but they like to test first -- even if the test costs $100 and the antibiotics $15 and they have almost no side-effects.
Erythromycin and Azithromycin (at least in a Z-pack -- no idea bout other delivery systems) seem to have similar costs.
Maybe I wasn't clear ... when you just pay the ticket, you basically plead "guilty" and waive your right to a trial. You have lost, and the "court fees" are part of the fine you have to pay.
But ... if you go to court and win, or you get them to dismiss the charges somehow, then you've won, and you do not have to pay court fees or anything else. (Any money you paid for a lawyer or expert witnesses is gone, of course.)
Perhaps it's not fair that you have "court fees" if you never went to court, but the court still has some paperwork and stuff to do on your behalf, and you've been found guilty (if you just pay the fees) and so they charge you the penalty. Consider them to be part of the fine.
If you do actually go to court and lose, the court fees could cost a lot more, especially if you had a jury trial. (The specifics would vary from place to place.)
In general you don't pay any court fees if you are found not guilty, or the case is dropped or dismissed.
If you lose (i.e. you just pay the fine, you take defensive driving, you go to court and lose) then you pay the court fees, and whatever other fines are imposed on you.
Not that I even know what state you're in, but I've never heard of one where you had to pay court costs when you prevail in court.
That's probably not true -- they probably are capable of them.
However, they're obviously also capable of ignoring these and similar things when ignoring these things helps push the agenda they're trying to push.
EXIM can be configured as such.
OK, but give me one real world site that actually works this way.
If your ISP is preventing 25 outbound, you don't have an ISP.
You are picking nits, but that setup for end users is quite common.
In most cases, 25/tcp isn't totally blocked outbound -- you can usually connect to the ISP's mail server and use it to relay your mail. That way, they get to make sure you're not spamming (and can monitor and control your mail if they want, though they could just do that by sniffing the network if they wanted too.)
Because as soon as you telnet smtp.example.com 25 they will do the same to the source address and if they don't get a HELO with the matching hostname in it they will not accept your mail.
Please, give me some examples of mail servers that do this.
I've never seen this happen, and I would expect this sort of filtering to be full of problems -- not everybody does outbound and inbound SMTP from the same IP addresses.
Veteran *nix admins certainly do *know* vi -- after all, with a freshly installed system or a system that's not theirs, it may be all that's available -- but many do prefer emacs and use it regularly. Nice job of the article to throw religion into the mix, to give their own belief as if it was the One True Belief.
It is right about pico, however -- even if a masochistic admin did prefer it for some strange reason, they'd never admit it :)
Yeah, sure, all those banks, Google, Twitter... PHP through and through.
Google uses everything.
Twitter started with ruby on rails, then moved to Ruby on Rails to deliver most user-facing web pages, and some of the back-end Ruby services with applications running on the JVM and written in Scala.
So which large sites use Java to power their site ?
Ebay
Amazon uses it, among other things
google uses it, among other things (you name it, they probably use it somewhere)
Lots of corporate sites, intranet and extranet, use java. Java is extremely strong there. Some of these sites are small, some are huge.
Ultimately, most sites hide what language they're written in -- you have to go looking for it. To be more precise, they don't intentionally hide it, it's just that their sites tend to not make it obvious. (php is often more obvious than many others, however.)
php is used for more smaller sites it seems -- if you install your own blogging or forum package, odds are good it's php. java seems more popular with larger commercial sites. Certainly, these aren't hard and fast rules -- Facebook uses php very heavily (but it has some java in there too) and more than a few personal sites use java.
Which is used for more "major internet sites"? Got me -- but first you'd have to define that term. I would fully expect that php is used in far more sites total than java, however.
Mathematics, on the other hand, teaches us that power without oversight will ALWAYS lead to abuse and corruption, given sufficient time.
And in exactly the same vein, mathematics has also taught us that if you flip a coin over and over and over and over forever, eventually you'll get heads.
Mathematics isn't the proper teacher here. Human nature would be better.
Actually it's PHP that powers most internet sites, but thanks for playing.
It's not clear who the bigger player is -- php or java -- but both are huge.
And he didn't say "most internet sites" -- he said "majority of major internet sites" -- a subjective measure which makes such a claim difficult to prove or disprove.
Isn't slashcode written in perl rather than java?
Oh ... I see what you did there!