Not to troll, but MySQL isn't the most diligent ANSI SQL follower either. If you're going to point fingers, make sure you're not in a pot/kettle scenario first.
Grammar Nazi's are one thing, making silly errors like "collage" in a post that's supposed to express a pejorative tone over the education level of others voids your "it was a typo" defense. Suck it up and take it like a man.
Genuflecting fanboy, much? Also, how about having a fair outlook on the world, rather than relying on some internal pre-conceived set of values? Wait, this is Slashdot, why am I bothering?
You mean like wax paper? That's what I was implying with plastic cladding. There are many materials in use in engineering that are susceptible to the compounds in their environments, but have the appropriate physical characteristics for the job. Materials technology has many, many ways of protecting chemically sensitive but physically strong substrates from chemical attack, and physically strong but chemically reactive substrates from chemically active substances.
Why are people so willing to say "deal with Linux and its failures or make use of one of your many alternatives" in response to genuine missteps by the Linux Dev community, yet people carry on about MS in some masochistic self-inflicted orgy of bitchiness.
If you're so hell bent on bringing MS's flaws into the bright light of community awareness, then stand up, be a fucking man, and apply that same attitude to Linux, or one day you'll wake up and Linux will be just as big a bug ridden piece of shit thanks to you stripping away the very system of honest objective peer review that has kept both the codebase and community bug free.
Not sure if you're aware of this, but they have invented other things that could be used to cover it. Like this new stuff called "plastic". They could use "plastic" cladding to protect carbon nanopaper from "rain".
From my earlier post, I reject any misuse of Occam or Hanlon. I see your two razors, and raise you one of my own, which is only partly in jest: Never use a razor if you don't know how to use it safely.
In this day and age, yes, it is. But in this case, in my original post I mentioned tinfoil hats which should have indicated that I was aware that I was stretching it a bit.
Oh, and I reject any misuse of Occam or Hanlon. I see your two razors, and raise you one of my own, which is only partly in jest: Never use a razor if you don't know how to use it safely.
I disagree with Hanlon's razor in all cases where someone has something to gain. Rare indeed is the case that someone accidentally allocates themselves or someone else a windfall.
My initial tinfoil hat response is this: Someone on the outside was paying the $125 consultant for the data, so the consultant set up that little scenario so his buddies on the outside could get their hands on the data, making what was an espionage job look like a little bit of regular garden variety bureaucratic incompetence.
Security Monitor Guy into walkie talkie: Hmm... Jim, I'm seeing JANE_2 and SAM_12 at exactly the same location in some shrubbery behind the dunes. Perhaps they're lost. Security Patrolman: Yea I'm watching them now. Security Monitor Guy: Why does your voice sound distant? Security Patrolman: The walkie talkie is on the ground coz my hands are... occupied.
Given that OpenBSD is a fork of a fork of the parent of FreeBSD, it's more like OpenBSD is FreeBSD's nit picking, purist pain in the ass nephew while FreeBSD is the sagely, less idealistic uncle. I guess that makes NetBSD is the slut Aunty for running on everyone's hardware.
If you think that's unacceptable, try ordering an Alienware laptop. 12 week turnaround. Yes, 12, as in a dozen. 3 months if you will.
I don't care how many geek points it'll earn me, I'm not waiting a quarter of a year, so I bought an Asus W2PC instead. Far better unit anyway, as it happily turns out.
Perhaps. I also assumed they only needed a 65K delta to explode, 100-35. You're probably right, they are probably already hotter than ambient, but with mortar rounds which are gas propelled, I doubt much hotter.
The really big mistake I think I'm going to find (if anyone who knows anything about this stuff) is the detonation temp. I'm pretty sure that the stuff won't be exploding at 100, or else spilling a kettle onto the shells would blow them up. I suspect it's far, far higher.
But as I said, I was pushing wild assumptions into the formulas, so meh:P
Yea, now they're going to say "Your time is over you 75% by mass water-containing carbon-based life forms, the time of the 12% lubricating fluid by mass carbon-based life forms has arrived!"
The specific heat capacity of stainless steel is 500j/Kg and from this site I'm going to assume the specific heat capacity of the explosive is the same as "sandy clay" (poor assumption, but this is/. and I can't be bothered doing more research) which is 1381j/Kg.
Lets assume a 5Kg mortar is 40% propellant, 30% explosive and 30% shell, and that you don't have to heat the propellant. The specific heat capacity of a 2.5Kg object with a 50/50 mix of steel and clay by weight is given by:
(2.5 / 2) * 0.5(500 + 1381) = 2351.25 Kj/K/Kg
Lets also say we want to heat the thing from ambient (35 degrees Celcius, coz remember we're in the desers of Iraq) to 100 degrees (I have no idea about explosives, despite the fact that I am a Muslim) in order to detonate it.
100 - 35 = 65 degree delta
Assuming that all energy is absorbed evenly, the formula for energy required is:
e = 65K(delta) * 4.7025 Kj/K/Kg = 152.83125 Kj
Given that watts are a measure of joules per second, assuming you have a quarter of a second "paint time" of the laser on the round, your lazer will need to emit:
(1/0.25) * 152.83125 Kj = 611.325 W
(Please note: My assumptions are completely bullshit and this figure is probably way off, but it was fun doing them anyway.)
To put this into perspective, a 20g chocolate biscuit yeilds about 2,200 Kj. So really, forget the billion dollar laser program, just start lobbing chocolate biscuits at your enemy.
If this post wasn't bizarre enough, if you lob that chocolate biscuit fast enough at your enemny for e = mc^2 to come into play, then that same chocolate biscuit will yield:
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Not to troll, but MySQL isn't the most diligent ANSI SQL follower either. If you're going to point fingers, make sure you're not in a pot/kettle scenario first.
Grammar Nazi's are one thing, making silly errors like "collage" in a post that's supposed to express a pejorative tone over the education level of others voids your "it was a typo" defense. Suck it up and take it like a man.
Reading comprehension is the soul of... umm... not making an ass of yourself on Slashdot by totally misinterpreting the point of someone's post.
I guess it's clear, that I'm no Shakespeare.
"if there have been any"
Genuflecting fanboy, much? Also, how about having a fair outlook on the world, rather than relying on some internal pre-conceived set of values? Wait, this is Slashdot, why am I bothering?
You mean like wax paper? That's what I was implying with plastic cladding. There are many materials in use in engineering that are susceptible to the compounds in their environments, but have the appropriate physical characteristics for the job. Materials technology has many, many ways of protecting chemically sensitive but physically strong substrates from chemical attack, and physically strong but chemically reactive substrates from chemically active substances.
"The" can be mistyped as "teh" or even "thw", but mistyping it as "thc" is a sure sign of a stoner :P
Why are people so willing to say "deal with Linux and its failures or make use of one of your many alternatives" in response to genuine missteps by the Linux Dev community, yet people carry on about MS in some masochistic self-inflicted orgy of bitchiness.
If you're so hell bent on bringing MS's flaws into the bright light of community awareness, then stand up, be a fucking man, and apply that same attitude to Linux, or one day you'll wake up and Linux will be just as big a bug ridden piece of shit thanks to you stripping away the very system of honest objective peer review that has kept both the codebase and community bug free.
Not sure if you're aware of this, but they have invented other things that could be used to cover it. Like this new stuff called "plastic". They could use "plastic" cladding to protect carbon nanopaper from "rain".
Now try claiming your dog ate your homework!
Your line of argument doesn't seem to stop everyone else here holding Bill Gates personally responsible for every single Windows flaw.
From my earlier post, I reject any misuse of Occam or Hanlon. I see your two razors, and raise you one of my own, which is only partly in jest: Never use a razor if you don't know how to use it safely.
In this day and age, yes, it is. But in this case, in my original post I mentioned tinfoil hats which should have indicated that I was aware that I was stretching it a bit.
Oh, and I reject any misuse of Occam or Hanlon. I see your two razors, and raise you one of my own, which is only partly in jest: Never use a razor if you don't know how to use it safely.
I disagree with Hanlon's razor in all cases where someone has something to gain. Rare indeed is the case that someone accidentally allocates themselves or someone else a windfall.
My initial tinfoil hat response is this:
Someone on the outside was paying the $125 consultant for the data, so the consultant set up that little scenario so his buddies on the outside could get their hands on the data, making what was an espionage job look like a little bit of regular garden variety bureaucratic incompetence.
Great idea. Take a moment what a crowd of Mexicans running frantically North with their eyes closed and their arms in front feeling their way.
I don't know about you, but the way I'm imagining it would look is freakin' hilarious.
Apparently people who can spell correctly are also a dying breed.
Mod me down and prove me right.
Security Monitor Guy into walkie talkie: Hmm... Jim, I'm seeing JANE_2 and SAM_12 at exactly the same location in some shrubbery behind the dunes. Perhaps they're lost.
Security Patrolman: Yea I'm watching them now.
Security Monitor Guy: Why does your voice sound distant?
Security Patrolman: The walkie talkie is on the ground coz my hands are... occupied.
Given that OpenBSD is a fork of a fork of the parent of FreeBSD, it's more like OpenBSD is FreeBSD's nit picking, purist pain in the ass nephew while FreeBSD is the sagely, less idealistic uncle. I guess that makes NetBSD is the slut Aunty for running on everyone's hardware.
If you think that's unacceptable, try ordering an Alienware laptop. 12 week turnaround. Yes, 12, as in a dozen. 3 months if you will.
I don't care how many geek points it'll earn me, I'm not waiting a quarter of a year, so I bought an Asus W2PC instead. Far better unit anyway, as it happily turns out.
Perhaps. I also assumed they only needed a 65K delta to explode, 100-35. You're probably right, they are probably already hotter than ambient, but with mortar rounds which are gas propelled, I doubt much hotter.
:P
The really big mistake I think I'm going to find (if anyone who knows anything about this stuff) is the detonation temp. I'm pretty sure that the stuff won't be exploding at 100, or else spilling a kettle onto the shells would blow them up. I suspect it's far, far higher.
But as I said, I was pushing wild assumptions into the formulas, so meh
Yea, now they're going to say "Your time is over you 75% by mass water-containing carbon-based life forms, the time of the 12% lubricating fluid by mass carbon-based life forms has arrived!"
Not according to Litvinenko.
Yea, it's one step forward after the 2,401,323 steps we've taken back in the last few years!
Actually, you may want to comment on my ridiculously rudimentary assessment in another comment. I'd like to know how close my fumbling around was :)
I concluded that you need 152 Kj to blow up the projectile, requiring 611W emission from a laser, assuming no attenuation.
Close? Or was I way off?
Let's do the math, just coz I'm bored.
The specific heat capacity of stainless steel is 500j/Kg and from this site I'm going to assume the specific heat capacity of the explosive is the same as "sandy clay" (poor assumption, but this is /. and I can't be bothered doing more research) which is 1381j/Kg.
Lets assume a 5Kg mortar is 40% propellant, 30% explosive and 30% shell, and that you don't have to heat the propellant. The specific heat capacity of a 2.5Kg object with a 50/50 mix of steel and clay by weight is given by:
Lets also say we want to heat the thing from ambient (35 degrees Celcius, coz remember we're in the desers of Iraq) to 100 degrees (I have no idea about explosives, despite the fact that I am a Muslim) in order to detonate it.
100 - 35 = 65 degree deltaAssuming that all energy is absorbed evenly, the formula for energy required is:
Given that watts are a measure of joules per second, assuming you have a quarter of a second "paint time" of the laser on the round, your lazer will need to emit:
(Please note: My assumptions are completely bullshit and this figure is probably way off, but it was fun doing them anyway.)
To put this into perspective, a 20g chocolate biscuit yeilds about 2,200 Kj. So really, forget the billion dollar laser program, just start lobbing chocolate biscuits at your enemy.
If this post wasn't bizarre enough, if you lob that chocolate biscuit fast enough at your enemny for e = mc^2 to come into play, then that same chocolate biscuit will yield:
Just sayin'.