My first thought was "Cow Pie!!!"
My second is having them stationed in Lake Michigan off Wisconsin, to supply the Wisconsin Whale Cheese industry
My third is a bunch of divers having to get up for the 4am milking!
Of course, if such a list DID end up on a haX0rz site, the AF would have plausible deniability. Did any of you 1337's see such a list crop up since then? No? Well, maybe we could make our own. If they can't tell us such things, they can't say that those IPs and servers on NOT on their "wish list".
General Lord just couldn't say anything. He had COOS (Commanding Officer Over Shoulder)
I have often wondered what life would be like if we didn't have the phrases "Orwellian" or "mark of the beast" in our vocabulary? Is our life (in America) better, more free because of our mindset from reading Orwell? Or is it worse because our paranoia about becoming "orwellian" hampers real progress in using technology to improve our lives? Thus also "mark of the beast?" If it were not for the stigma (pun intended) of being subjugated to a totalitarian government/economic system, how much better could commerce and governance be with a "master table" of PIDs?
Go for it: List the pros or cons of each scenario... But just remember, all those pros go away when the people controlling the database go bad. And they do.
I have long thought that trains (real trains) should play a part. Have a system where people drive their cars and get them ferried into the city. Maybe not practical from Livonia to Detroit, but what about Seneca, MI to Detroit? One stop in Seneca, one in Britton, one in Milan... terminus in Detroit. Those towns gain revenue, fuel is saved. People can live in the country and work in the city without puking CO2 4 hours a day. yay.
Even better if they are hauling motorcycles and Segways. Yes, I know it's starting to sound like the Battle Droid landing craft from SWEp1:TPM, but it's better than the commute I used to have.
please see my above reply about "optimium velocity" rather than speed limit.
An interim step to the "robotic algorithms take over the world" is better training and some robotic help in a truly tough task... MERGING.
I have observed that merging is the biggest culprit in traffic jams. Interchanges add two flows together. This is NOT a problem in kinetic gas flow because the molecules KNOW how to find their own way. We could fix this with "assisted merge" or "automerge"
The problems with merging are:
Mainstream velocity: It maybe be doing 90 and you are about to become a perturbation
Merging velocity: There may be a line of you doing 70 (a hazard in itself) approaching a 90 stream
The difference between the two: You have to judge the gap into which you are GOING to merge. It may not be here yet.
visibility: You have to look back AND look forward, so you find the coming gap without ramming the guy in front of you who panicked and spiked his brakes.
Temperature: Not the air, but the "mean distance between molecules" If you insert yourself into a gap, you have raised the kinetic energy of that space. The person behind you may not be receptive
If you had an array of sensors (small, cheap) which knew where you were (like the autoparking) you could press a button, floor it, and the merging would watch your back, your front, control your speed and cue your turning. And here's the best part... You train people on this using an XBox/PS3 game. Instead of playing Tokyo Drift, you play "Detroit Commute"
I didn't say "which speed limit". I wanted to say "mean molecular velocity", which is akin to a mass flow rate in a gas. I live near Detroit and have had a 90 minute (good day) commute. I-696 has many long, sweeping curves on hills where you can see for at least a mile, and then BAM! A traffic jam. It would be great to see the yellow lights advancing toward me from around the hilly curve.
Yes, for real, there would have to be some optimum velocity, measured and calculated constantly by sensors in the road and beamed back to the GPS units in the car. This would be the velocity at which the traffic would flow smoothly under the conditions. These conditions closely parallel kinetic theory of gases...
Density: The number of cars per unit length of road, with some consideration of number of lanes.
Temperature: Not the air temp, but the amount of agitation and lane changing. I'm sure that rises in rush hour, esp. when people are going to be late.
Gas Constant: This is a level of caffeination. Just as Helium sound waves are faster than air, so too does road rage level affect the wave speed.
Pressure: Although this doesn't directly affect the speed of sound in gas (sqrt(gamma R T)) it does affect the temperature in a pressure vessel, which freeways are. When the drivers are under pressure (late for work, dodging weather, trying to beat the rush) then pressure rises, temperature (risk taking) increases.
viscosity: Entropic factors such as weather conditions, visibility, traction, construction all have an effect on wave propagation.
geometry: Just as choking flow expanding into a nozzle allows supersonic flow, so too does necking 4 lanes down to 2, then back up into 4 allows people to floor it.
An ounce of data is worth a pound of analysis. If I could see these waves coming, I could react sooner, better, less. And just glide...
I have long thought that if there was a pair of LED's in the upper left corner of the vehicle, that indicated "at/above speed limit" or "below speed limit" this would solve many problems. The problem is that, like sound in gas, the notification to slow down is given by the car in front of you only (the molecule about to bump you).
But I could see a half a mile of cars all with little green lights, I could see (at the speed of light) the wave of yellow lights approaching and ease off the gas. The wave would be absorbed by this 'viscosity'. Traffic would flow near the speed limit or average flow rate, whichever the LED's were keyed to.
And don't even get me started on those GPS nav screens. Don't show me were I am. Show me where everyone else is. Let me see the compression 2 miles ahead and I'll chill (heh heh kinetic gas pun).
Descendants of the former in habitants of Petra are suing for the loss of revenue when their ancestors' city became uninhabitable due to climate change. Defendants in the suit include the Italian Government, citing that two major events under their ancestors' rule were contributing factors in their decline, namely:
The burning of Christian martyrs by Nero
The burning of Rome itself under Nero
The Government of Pompeii for failing to properly mitigate the greenhouse gas footprint of Mount Vesuvius.
They also filed a Friend of the Court brief on behalf of the Clovis populations, pending the location of the culpable party or parties for the meteor, or Clovis descendants for that matter.
Ok, seriously folks... We hear so much about how these "native peoples", what Daniel Quinn in Ishmael called "The Leavers" live in balance with nature. But nature changes, with or without our helf. And change they must... or else. I am neither a Global Warming Nay Sayer, nor DoomSayer. Global warming happens. It's part of nature. WE are part of nature. Get over it. If you have to, move on. Try Houghton, Michigan. You might like it. They have a university there where you can learn technical skills to combat global warming (or prove it doesn't exist, I don't care which) And they have a great hockey team.
"There are only two level of security, those which keep out small governments, and those which keep out your little brother." I have the same issue here at work, except that these people are LESS likely to remember a strong password than a 7-yo;-) So, I made a "word search" matrix, and told each of them their Row/Colum/Direction/Length.
For example: G3, up-right, 7 = l0P3n4f. I even let them post this matrix on their desk. One person put a highlighter dot on her starting point, but that still leaves too many possibles for a easy crack to the intruder sitting at her desk. The only real threat (since the building is secure also) is the greasy smudges as people run their finger over their password.
Sample matrix: not perfect, but keeps the employees kids off their computers;-)
_ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A d x 9 C c x 4 Y f x
B 6 e x 4 B j x 4 N q
C x 8 m x 9 Z n x 0 W
D t x 2 p x 3 Q q x 9
E p x x p P x 8 G v x
F 0 t x 0 w a x 6 A c
G % 5 l x 7 i q x x Z
H a $ 7 l x 4 d g x 6
I t x 3 N r x 3 a f x
J x 7 x x 4 I b x i D disclaimer: actual matrix is larger, x's used to bypass/. Lameness Filter for junk characters.
And why shouldn't they. In "The Fib from Outer Space" episode, Larry Boy's sidekick Albert accidentally unplugs the computer just as the answer is arriving. Upon reboot, you see that the CucumberComputer's big happy face is that of a MAC! HA!
What, you guys don't ever code in front of the TV with the kids?
I use an entirely different portion of the brain to code than to write. (I've written novels, so I have somewhat of a sample size here). I was amazed at what I realized that I was typing AUTOMAGICALLY. Once I had to think about it and translate it into graphite... it was lost.;-)
As a DOT NET developer, I use MS VS. Why not? I love the autocomplete and the list of Properties and Events for each control once I type the name of the control. Makes me look like a wizard when the boss is watching me code (urk) and I toss in a SqlDataSource, a DropDownList, type "ddlGetStates." and select Databind, save, alt-tab, refresh BAM!!! States DDL... (ok, before you mod me MS Fan-boi, keep reading...)
But then I go home, and having thought of a great feature on the drive home, I FTP into my site, open with a text editor, (insert notepad/BBedit/eMacs/Vi here to taste), and write the code by hand. Even if that means copying an pasting, I... how shall I say this... ***still have to know what I'm doing***. Yeah, all you n00bs, you drag and drop those controls and use F4 to set the properties...Go 'head...
But the minute you have to do that with your ARMPIT, you are sunk. I took a written (the process of leaving graphite trails on paper) test for ASP.NET once... Unless you know what your are doing, you are screwed. Use whatever tools you want, whatever LAMP/.NET. But make sure you learn what you are doing, and not just doing.
I'm not sure I believe that Eta Carina is producing natural laser, but if it is, I'll bet it's more powerful than the M-Go Blue Ray. And apparently has a very precise aiming mechanism to hit us so that we can detect it. If not, it's spewing all that radiation in all directions and we got lucky to detect it. That is more than 9 joules.
In case I ever run for public office and the dredge Slashdot for my positions on technology... "Neato" is a self-sarcasticating adjective. If I'm saying anything is 'neato', it prolly isn't. Ergo, Windows was 'neato', and 'more neato' than DOS.
Too bad we can't encase it in a big kevlar bubble first. That newfangled lens or chip you just "destroyed" is just another bullet at 7KPS when it hits an old school orbiter. Space junk begets space junk.
I still double click my title bar expecting the window to vanish, leaving the title bar there, beneath my mouse, so I can say 'thanks' click click. And be back to where I was.
We were so amazed when Windows 3.0 taught us to "minimize" and still have ***another application running*** (back when DOS was neato) that we didn't ask "ok, so, why do I have to reach to the very farthest point on the screen to get my window back?"
Yes, Exposé might be a cool way around that, and some Vista maven may say 'aeroglass', but click-click... click-click is about as simple as it can possibly get. And no motion sickness!
We've taken care of everything
The words you hear, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes
It's one for all and all for one
We work together, common sons
Never need to wonder how or why
We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls Although the logo of SYRINX is "red, not blue";-)
No, no, no, not First Person Shooter... Feet per second.
Is there ANY chance that this could become a simulator for Asteroid Defese? Role-play the intricacy, both physics and political of all that it will take, from threat determination to mitigation. Who pays for what? Who does what? Do we get to use nukes? Whose? Whose button? What if if fails, where do the people on the impact ellipse migrate to? "It will impact the Pacific. If we try to move it, we may fall short and it will land on India." US says "ok", India says "we will intercept your attempt..."
Aside from the benefits of simulation, it can also help educate the public on the realities. If nothing else, YouTubes of failed attempts will mass-drive the point home.
Slashdot Mirror
My first thought was "Cow Pie!!!"
My second is having them stationed in Lake Michigan off Wisconsin, to supply the Wisconsin Whale Cheese industry
My third is a bunch of divers having to get up for the 4am milking!
Of course, if such a list DID end up on a haX0rz site, the AF would have plausible deniability. Did any of you 1337's see such a list crop up since then? No? Well, maybe we could make our own. If they can't tell us such things, they can't say that those IPs and servers on NOT on their "wish list".
General Lord just couldn't say anything. He had COOS (Commanding Officer Over Shoulder)
W/E
Wake me when it hits version 6.61x!!! That would only leave us a month of monthly builds until The Prophecy is fulfilled!~
I have often wondered what life would be like if we didn't have the phrases "Orwellian" or "mark of the beast" in our vocabulary? Is our life (in America) better, more free because of our mindset from reading Orwell? Or is it worse because our paranoia about becoming "orwellian" hampers real progress in using technology to improve our lives? Thus also "mark of the beast?" If it were not for the stigma (pun intended) of being subjugated to a totalitarian government/economic system, how much better could commerce and governance be with a "master table" of PIDs?
Go for it: List the pros or cons of each scenario... But just remember, all those pros go away when the people controlling the database go bad. And they do.
Command!
ha~
I have long thought that trains (real trains) should play a part. Have a system where people drive their cars and get them ferried into the city. Maybe not practical from Livonia to Detroit, but what about Seneca, MI to Detroit? One stop in Seneca, one in Britton, one in Milan... terminus in Detroit. Those towns gain revenue, fuel is saved. People can live in the country and work in the city without puking CO2 4 hours a day. yay.
Even better if they are hauling motorcycles and Segways. Yes, I know it's starting to sound like the Battle Droid landing craft from SWEp1:TPM, but it's better than the commute I used to have.
An interim step to the "robotic algorithms take over the world" is better training and some robotic help in a truly tough task... MERGING.
I have observed that merging is the biggest culprit in traffic jams. Interchanges add two flows together. This is NOT a problem in kinetic gas flow because the molecules KNOW how to find their own way. We could fix this with "assisted merge" or "automerge"
The problems with merging are:
- Mainstream velocity: It maybe be doing 90 and you are about to become a perturbation
- Merging velocity: There may be a line of you doing 70 (a hazard in itself) approaching a 90 stream
- The difference between the two: You have to judge the gap into which you are GOING to merge. It may not be here yet.
- visibility: You have to look back AND look forward, so you find the coming gap without ramming the guy in front of you who panicked and spiked his brakes.
- Temperature: Not the air, but the "mean distance between molecules" If you insert yourself into a gap, you have raised the kinetic energy of that space. The person behind you may not be receptive
If you had an array of sensors (small, cheap) which knew where you were (like the autoparking) you could press a button, floor it, and the merging would watch your back, your front, control your speed and cue your turning. And here's the best part... You train people on this using an XBox/PS3 game. Instead of playing Tokyo Drift, you play "Detroit Commute"Yes, for real, there would have to be some optimum velocity, measured and calculated constantly by sensors in the road and beamed back to the GPS units in the car. This would be the velocity at which the traffic would flow smoothly under the conditions. These conditions closely parallel kinetic theory of gases...
- Density: The number of cars per unit length of road, with some consideration of number of lanes.
- Temperature: Not the air temp, but the amount of agitation and lane changing. I'm sure that rises in rush hour, esp. when people are going to be late.
- Gas Constant: This is a level of caffeination. Just as Helium sound waves are faster than air, so too does road rage level affect the wave speed.
- Pressure: Although this doesn't directly affect the speed of sound in gas (sqrt(gamma R T)) it does affect the temperature in a pressure vessel, which freeways are. When the drivers are under pressure (late for work, dodging weather, trying to beat the rush) then pressure rises, temperature (risk taking) increases.
- viscosity: Entropic factors such as weather conditions, visibility, traction, construction all have an effect on wave propagation.
- geometry: Just as choking flow expanding into a nozzle allows supersonic flow, so too does necking 4 lanes down to 2, then back up into 4 allows people to floor it.
An ounce of data is worth a pound of analysis. If I could see these waves coming, I could react sooner, better, less. And just glide...We have these cars that automagically follow the car ahead at the same distance. What happens if you put a chain of them on the freeway?
I have long thought that if there was a pair of LED's in the upper left corner of the vehicle, that indicated "at/above speed limit" or "below speed limit" this would solve many problems. The problem is that, like sound in gas, the notification to slow down is given by the car in front of you only (the molecule about to bump you).
But I could see a half a mile of cars all with little green lights, I could see (at the speed of light) the wave of yellow lights approaching and ease off the gas. The wave would be absorbed by this 'viscosity'. Traffic would flow near the speed limit or average flow rate, whichever the LED's were keyed to.
And don't even get me started on those GPS nav screens. Don't show me were I am. Show me where everyone else is. Let me see the compression 2 miles ahead and I'll chill (heh heh kinetic gas pun).
- The burning of Christian martyrs by Nero
- The burning of Rome itself under Nero
- The Government of Pompeii for failing to properly mitigate the greenhouse gas footprint of Mount Vesuvius.
They also filed a Friend of the Court brief on behalf of the Clovis populations, pending the location of the culpable party or parties for the meteor, or Clovis descendants for that matter. Ok, seriously folks... We hear so much about how these "native peoples", what Daniel Quinn in Ishmael called "The Leavers" live in balance with nature. But nature changes, with or without our helf. And change they must... or else. I am neither a Global Warming Nay Sayer, nor DoomSayer. Global warming happens. It's part of nature. WE are part of nature. Get over it. If you have to, move on. Try Houghton, Michigan. You might like it. They have a university there where you can learn technical skills to combat global warming (or prove it doesn't exist, I don't care which) And they have a great hockey team.For example: G3, up-right, 7 = l0P3n4f. I even let them post this matrix on their desk. One person put a highlighter dot on her starting point, but that still leaves too many possibles for a easy crack to the intruder sitting at her desk. The only real threat (since the building is secure also) is the greasy smudges as people run their finger over their password.
Sample matrix: not perfect, but keeps the employees kids off their computers
_ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A d x 9 C c x 4 Y f x
B 6 e x 4 B j x 4 N q
C x 8 m x 9 Z n x 0 W
D t x 2 p x 3 Q q x 9
E p x x p P x 8 G v x
F 0 t x 0 w a x 6 A c
G % 5 l x 7 i q x x Z
H a $ 7 l x 4 d g x 6
I t x 3 N r x 3 a f x
J x 7 x x 4 I b x i D
disclaimer: actual matrix is larger, x's used to bypass
http://www.larryboy.com/
Larry Boy will KICK THESE GUYS/GALS A55!!!
And why shouldn't they. In "The Fib from Outer Space" episode, Larry Boy's sidekick Albert accidentally unplugs the computer just as the answer is arriving. Upon reboot, you see that the CucumberComputer's big happy face is that of a MAC! HA!
What, you guys don't ever code in front of the TV with the kids?
I use an entirely different portion of the brain to code than to write. (I've written novels, so I have somewhat of a sample size here). I was amazed at what I realized that I was typing AUTOMAGICALLY. Once I had to think about it and translate it into graphite... it was lost. ;-)
I generally don't work at home. I have these things called kids, which are a result of... oh if I have to explain it, it's not worth it.
.NET site with a Blueberry iMac.
Besides, I get some snide satisfaction at working a
As a DOT NET developer, I use MS VS. Why not? I love the autocomplete and the list of Properties and Events for each control once I type the name of the control. Makes me look like a wizard when the boss is watching me code (urk) and I toss in a SqlDataSource, a DropDownList, type "ddlGetStates." and select Databind, save, alt-tab, refresh BAM!!! States DDL... (ok, before you mod me MS Fan-boi, keep reading...)
But then I go home, and having thought of a great feature on the drive home, I FTP into my site, open with a text editor, (insert notepad/BBedit/eMacs/Vi here to taste), and write the code by hand. Even if that means copying an pasting, I... how shall I say this... ***still have to know what I'm doing***. Yeah, all you n00bs, you drag and drop those controls and use F4 to set the properties...Go 'head...
But the minute you have to do that with your ARMPIT, you are sunk. I took a written (the process of leaving graphite trails on paper) test for ASP.NET once... Unless you know what your are doing, you are screwed. Use whatever tools you want, whatever LAMP/.NET. But make sure you learn what you are doing, and not just doing.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap971129.html
I'm not sure I believe that Eta Carina is producing natural laser, but if it is, I'll bet it's more powerful than the M-Go Blue Ray. And apparently has a very precise aiming mechanism to hit us so that we can detect it. If not, it's spewing all that radiation in all directions and we got lucky to detect it. That is more than 9 joules.
In case I ever run for public office and the dredge Slashdot for my positions on technology... "Neato" is a self-sarcasticating adjective. If I'm saying anything is 'neato', it prolly isn't. Ergo, Windows was 'neato', and 'more neato' than DOS.
Too bad we can't encase it in a big kevlar bubble first. That newfangled lens or chip you just "destroyed" is just another bullet at 7KPS when it hits an old school orbiter. Space junk begets space junk.
I still double click my title bar expecting the window to vanish, leaving the title bar there, beneath my mouse, so I can say 'thanks' click click. And be back to where I was.
We were so amazed when Windows 3.0 taught us to "minimize" and still have ***another application running*** (back when DOS was neato) that we didn't ask "ok, so, why do I have to reach to the very farthest point on the screen to get my window back?"
Yes, Exposé might be a cool way around that, and some Vista maven may say 'aeroglass', but click-click... click-click is about as simple as it can possibly get. And no motion sickness!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2112_(song)
We've taken care of everything
The words you hear, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes
It's one for all and all for one
We work together, common sons
Never need to wonder how or why
We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls
Although the logo of SYRINX is "red, not blue"
One of these two will win the Democratic Party Nomination! Continue to read at your own peril.
I have a Canadian Dollar here that says that this "update" is to shift the stats. As of right now, Firefox is p0wning IE6 OR IE7, but not IE6 AND IE7.
No, no, no, not First Person Shooter... Feet per second.
Is there ANY chance that this could become a simulator for Asteroid Defese? Role-play the intricacy, both physics and political of all that it will take, from threat determination to mitigation. Who pays for what? Who does what? Do we get to use nukes? Whose? Whose button? What if if fails, where do the people on the impact ellipse migrate to? "It will impact the Pacific. If we try to move it, we may fall short and it will land on India." US says "ok", India says "we will intercept your attempt..."
Aside from the benefits of simulation, it can also help educate the public on the realities. If nothing else, YouTubes of failed attempts will mass-drive the point home.
The user hanged himself after 2 weeks.