I get extremely creative during the beginning of a manic phase (I'm bipolar). I know full well what it feels like to have creativity, have it go hay-wire (not make much sense) and then feel dumb (depressed). For me, my creativity is best when I'm well rested, under little stress, and enthused about what I am doing. Too little sleep and my ideas start to make less and less sense and are less practical which just frustrates me and increases my stress level; I've also found that sleep helps with thinking outside the box. Being enthused about whatever you are doing can be tricky, it's all about attitude and how you approach the problem. Writing a program that controls various stages of a sewage treatment plant? Instead of being bummed out look at it differently: how many computer programs are there that perform the same function? I bet I could make something that's more efficient and better documented. ..Whatever you do, don't sacrifice your health for a burst of creativity.
Currently I'm depressed, so I'm sure my post could have been much more creative and charismatic had I posted it a few months ago:-D
Most states even have provisions to let younger teens drive (like, 13) if there are "special circumstances" like supporting a parent or being emancipated or no other way to get to school. I think those special licenses have restrictions on where you can go though.
While an 18-year-old is by no mean (emotionally) an adult
I haven't changed much emotionally since I was 16. ..what does that mean?:-p I think people underestimate "kids" too much.
"While the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 failed to pass in the House of Representatives, two other bills of interest to this community are currently moving through the US lawmaking process.
Yes, and it also appears you mistakenly thought you were somehow voted into representing the Slashdot community's "interests".
Raise your hand if you're completely fed up with the Olympics. Raise your hand if you think it's time that the IOC/USOC-bought legislation "protecting" the Olympic "trademark" was repealed.
Uhh, I know how us slashdotters are supposed to hate big-corp buying laws and whatnot, but if anything deserves an exception I think it would be the olympics. I mean, because it's such a massive international event there has to be some leeway between nations to make it all work, otherwise each olympics would be tied up in litigation across the globe. ..yeesh.
... who wants to spend THEIR money on YOUR culture.
I use the term "culture" loosely. (If that gets me a troll mod, so be it.)
Uhh. ..last I checked, the American culture pretty much defined much of "western" culture, and is our No. 1 export. Ask any random person in the world about McDonalds, Britney Spears, Hollywood. Then ask them about counterparts from other cultures.
Kinda scary once you think about how much influence the US has through those inadvertent means, here I thought government was responsible for international politics...
Will old people at the bus stop be killed by predator drones because their walk is 95% similar to OBL's?
Depends, what's the probability that a completely automated decision does identification, kill order, and execution? As far as I can tell this is simply identification. Now when you start to daisy-chain things without a single human eye looking at it, you get modernization. ..hmm, good point.
Not all viruses die in a dry environment. When my dad was in the hospital for 5 months back in 1998, he was colonized by VRE. When Infectious Disease came to talk to us about it, they said that it will stay alive on virtually any surface for an indefinite amount of time. I've also heard that MRSA acts the same way. The only way to kill it is by sterilization.
Both VRE and MRSA are caused by bacteria. Bacteria can form spores that can survive the vacuum of space and live (virtually) indefinitely. To my knowledge, no virus is this strong, and they die relatively quickly when they are exposed to the environment outside of a living body.
Uh, I would imagine any that support GSM/SIM. My cell phone company has no clue what phone I am using on their network (HTC Hermes) and it works just fine.
Why not Stradivarius was the best violin craftsmen? Ever.
Because there were several other people living in the same town at the same time who made comparable violins.
They were probably drinking buddies and shared trade secrets after having a few too many.
...how do we know the white substance is not frozen CO2 (dry ice) instead of frozen water? Answer: Phoenix's landing site is too warm for dry ice. The average daily temperature is about -70 F while dry ice requires temperatures lower than about -109 F."
Yeah, except one thing that wasn't addressed was the pressure of the dirt on top of the so-called "water". As we all know from elementary chemistry, increased pressure raises the temperature that CO2 can remain solid. Once the dirt was removed, the pressure was reduced (temperature remaining in the same range as before) and the CO2 started to sublimmate. Furthermore, there is essentially no water vapor in the atmosphere on Mars, so how would water have gotten there in the first place? Atmospheric CO2 can condense when conditions are right. Atmospheric water can't condense if it doesn't exist.
There's some bait, lets see if anyone will bite:-D
On the way to mars you just tether the habitat part of the spacecraft and the spent booster stage together and have them swing around one another, you could easily get 1g from this. Once on mars, you can do extra exercise (like they do already on the ISS) and there are probably some fancy drugs you could take too, I seem to recall there being one in the works for losing calcium but don't quote me on that.
Uhh, I'm pretty sure it's talking about the surface area to volume ratio. A pine needle is very thick, little surface area and high volume, it will lose heat slower than a maple leaf, which is ridiculously thin and has much more surface area for it's volume.
Yeah, I guess the idea is to take the energy that would normally be dissipated as heat/friction and harness that. I'm still wondering if the cost of this technology makes it worth it or not. 6,500 lightbulbs may sound like a lot but if it costs millions...Also if the floor is springy it would be a chore to walk on; that could get really annoying.
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Well, this is what happens when you let the proletariat control the media. No I'm not a communist, I'm trying to be ironic while using a form of satire to criticize the shortcomings of the firehose. Yes I used "ironic" "criticize" and "satire" in the same sentence.
I wonder how this revenue is calculated. Is it done the same way that RIAA calculates lost revenue? If I install Open Office on my laptop, that doesn't mean that I would have bought proprietary software and put that on there if there were no Open Source options. Plus, is this factoring in the lower cost to develop software by using open source utilities?
Not really though. A good team of social engineers (con men) and CS people can accomplish many many things...How can you prevent such things? Ridiculously strong security? Require the security guard at my place of employment to scan my ID each and every time I walk in the building? Is he supposed to also stop law enforcement from going in without clearance from HQ? I'm quite serious, what would be an effective way to stop these tactics? Everything I think of is either too impractical for most situations or prone to the same failures, but at different points.
They were using older equipment. LORAN IIRC. I also think they were using the (mostly deprecated) old analog frequencies that car-phones and brick phones used to use. Also I think that they were spamming noise with and RF source (in the appropriate band) during some of the tests rather than using just the cellphone.
I'd have to re-watch the episode to make sure, but as I recall it was an extremely unlikely chain of events that is essentially impossible today with our GSM phones and GPS navigation.
Thats it, I say webservers move to SSL only transactions. All other plaintext transmissions should get encrypted at the endpoints transparently. Then when the government whines about not being able to find the terrorists they can blame datamining companies that paid for their election campaign. Then they can make a law that forces a back-door, which would create a need for some nifty-ass steganography which would lead to massively excessive processor and network overhead (encryption and steganography respectively) for the most basic of transactions which would lead to NSA funded algorythms to find these hidden messages which would. ..holy shit it's almost 10AM, I need to hit the sack.
Except you vote in a whole cabinet too. I'll agree that the presidency isn't what it used to be, but I think the bigger problem is that noone is stepping in and doing anything. Sure the judicial branch nibbles at parts of the patriot act, but I don't think that's enough. The big problem is that knee-jerk reactions and fear paralyze people to all sorts of stupid things; it's human nature. IT's sad that everything is set up so that anyone who tries to step in the way of the president gets scorned, don't count on your elected senators moving to impeach the president for trying to save us from terrorists. Thank God the judicial branch is doing something.
The real question: Can Americans calm down and undo the damage that was done in the hysteria or will we grow comfortable with the "new" way things are done.
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I get extremely creative during the beginning of a manic phase (I'm bipolar). I know full well what it feels like to have creativity, have it go hay-wire (not make much sense) and then feel dumb (depressed). For me, my creativity is best when I'm well rested, under little stress, and enthused about what I am doing. Too little sleep and my ideas start to make less and less sense and are less practical which just frustrates me and increases my stress level; I've also found that sleep helps with thinking outside the box. Being enthused about whatever you are doing can be tricky, it's all about attitude and how you approach the problem. Writing a program that controls various stages of a sewage treatment plant? Instead of being bummed out look at it differently: how many computer programs are there that perform the same function? I bet I could make something that's more efficient and better documented. . .Whatever you do, don't sacrifice your health for a burst of creativity.
:-D
Currently I'm depressed, so I'm sure my post could have been much more creative and charismatic had I posted it a few months ago
Well, you need atleast two so one of them can get jealous. Once you have a flock the possibilities really open up. Think about it.
I haven't changed much emotionally since I was 16. . .what does that mean? :-p I think people underestimate "kids" too much.
Yes, and it also appears you mistakenly thought you were somehow voted into representing the Slashdot community's "interests".
Raise your hand if you're completely fed up with the Olympics. Raise your hand if you think it's time that the IOC/USOC-bought legislation "protecting" the Olympic "trademark" was repealed.
Uhh, I know how us slashdotters are supposed to hate big-corp buying laws and whatnot, but if anything deserves an exception I think it would be the olympics. I mean, because it's such a massive international event there has to be some leeway between nations to make it all work, otherwise each olympics would be tied up in litigation across the globe. . .yeesh.
... who wants to spend THEIR money on YOUR culture. I use the term "culture" loosely. (If that gets me a troll mod, so be it.)
Uhh. . .last I checked, the American culture pretty much defined much of "western" culture, and is our No. 1 export. Ask any random person in the world about McDonalds, Britney Spears, Hollywood. Then ask them about counterparts from other cultures.
Kinda scary once you think about how much influence the US has through those inadvertent means, here I thought government was responsible for international politics...
Will old people at the bus stop be killed by predator drones because their walk is 95% similar to OBL's?
Depends, what's the probability that a completely automated decision does identification, kill order, and execution? As far as I can tell this is simply identification. Now when you start to daisy-chain things without a single human eye looking at it, you get modernization. . .hmm, good point.
Dude, you're worse, you got modded up, which caused me to expand the parents. Good job to you too....
Not all viruses die in a dry environment. When my dad was in the hospital for 5 months back in 1998, he was colonized by VRE. When Infectious Disease came to talk to us about it, they said that it will stay alive on virtually any surface for an indefinite amount of time. I've also heard that MRSA acts the same way. The only way to kill it is by sterilization.
Both VRE and MRSA are caused by bacteria. Bacteria can form spores that can survive the vacuum of space and live (virtually) indefinitely. To my knowledge, no virus is this strong, and they die relatively quickly when they are exposed to the environment outside of a living body.
Uh, I would imagine any that support GSM/SIM. My cell phone company has no clue what phone I am using on their network (HTC Hermes) and it works just fine.
They were probably drinking buddies and shared trade secrets after having a few too many.
Furthermore, there is essentially no water vapor in the atmosphere on Mars, so how would water have gotten there in the first place? Atmospheric CO2 can condense when conditions are right. Atmospheric water can't condense if it doesn't exist.
There's some bait, lets see if anyone will bite
On the way to mars you just tether the habitat part of the spacecraft and the spent booster stage together and have them swing around one another, you could easily get 1g from this. Once on mars, you can do extra exercise (like they do already on the ISS) and there are probably some fancy drugs you could take too, I seem to recall there being one in the works for losing calcium but don't quote me on that.
Uhh, I'm pretty sure it's talking about the surface area to volume ratio. A pine needle is very thick, little surface area and high volume, it will lose heat slower than a maple leaf, which is ridiculously thin and has much more surface area for it's volume.
Yeah, I guess the idea is to take the energy that would normally be dissipated as heat/friction and harness that. I'm still wondering if the cost of this technology makes it worth it or not. 6,500 lightbulbs may sound like a lot but if it costs millions...Also if the floor is springy it would be a chore to walk on; that could get really annoying.
Well, this is what happens when you let the proletariat control the media. No I'm not a communist, I'm trying to be ironic while using a form of satire to criticize the shortcomings of the firehose. Yes I used "ironic" "criticize" and "satire" in the same sentence.
I wonder how this revenue is calculated. Is it done the same way that RIAA calculates lost revenue? If I install Open Office on my laptop, that doesn't mean that I would have bought proprietary software and put that on there if there were no Open Source options. Plus, is this factoring in the lower cost to develop software by using open source utilities?
Say it with me: "I misinterpreted the rules. Good! Again...I misinterpreted the rules. I mis..."
Precisely! That's why they provide an example instead.
Hawkings is no Titan, he is simply a God.
That's easy, which one has signed their organ donor card?
Not really though. A good team of social engineers (con men) and CS people can accomplish many many things...How can you prevent such things? Ridiculously strong security? Require the security guard at my place of employment to scan my ID each and every time I walk in the building? Is he supposed to also stop law enforcement from going in without clearance from HQ? I'm quite serious, what would be an effective way to stop these tactics? Everything I think of is either too impractical for most situations or prone to the same failures, but at different points.
They were using older equipment. LORAN IIRC. I also think they were using the (mostly deprecated) old analog frequencies that car-phones and brick phones used to use. Also I think that they were spamming noise with and RF source (in the appropriate band) during some of the tests rather than using just the cellphone.
I'd have to re-watch the episode to make sure, but as I recall it was an extremely unlikely chain of events that is essentially impossible today with our GSM phones and GPS navigation.
Thats it, I say webservers move to SSL only transactions. All other plaintext transmissions should get encrypted at the endpoints transparently. Then when the government whines about not being able to find the terrorists they can blame datamining companies that paid for their election campaign. Then they can make a law that forces a back-door, which would create a need for some nifty-ass steganography which would lead to massively excessive processor and network overhead (encryption and steganography respectively) for the most basic of transactions which would lead to NSA funded algorythms to find these hidden messages which would. . .holy shit it's almost 10AM, I need to hit the sack.
Except you vote in a whole cabinet too. I'll agree that the presidency isn't what it used to be, but I think the bigger problem is that noone is stepping in and doing anything. Sure the judicial branch nibbles at parts of the patriot act, but I don't think that's enough. The big problem is that knee-jerk reactions and fear paralyze people to all sorts of stupid things; it's human nature. IT's sad that everything is set up so that anyone who tries to step in the way of the president gets scorned, don't count on your elected senators moving to impeach the president for trying to save us from terrorists. Thank God the judicial branch is doing something.
The real question: Can Americans calm down and undo the damage that was done in the hysteria or will we grow comfortable with the "new" way things are done.