" This sounds ominous, like the plot from a book I read a few months ago called The Terminal Man"
Yes, I read that book a month or two ago. It was crazy. The man was a computer engineer and he believed that Machines were taking over. When he got the implant his phsycotic nature only got worse.
A really good book -- hopefully they won't use a "pleasure" implant to disrupt the depression here?
FOr others who like me, weren't aware of what Peltier chips were, basicall they're a chip that moves heat from one side of the cooler to another. One side gets hot, the other is cold.
I guess these kids put the cold sides all around each other to form a duct, and air blows through it making the air cold. You put a large fan around the outside of the duct with a heatsink, to keep the chips cool.
It's genius really, but unfortunately companies are already considering buying their idea. I'd suggest they patent the idea and sell the patent rights of it -- instead of being stupid and selling such valuable idea in full to some company.
Ahh, I "read the fucking article" and now I understand. The main article makes you think a couple of chips save the day, and makes A/C's last longer. They do, in a way, but the article on./ here should have quoted the real article, instead of trying to paraphrase.
"Today, the young inventors say, U.S. drivers use about 7.9 billion gallons of fuel each year to run their air-conditioners, which draw power from the engine. By adopting their contraption - which taps into the electrical system, using fans to blow hot air through five Peltier chips and then releasing cold air - they say the country stands to save 3.9 billion gallons of fuel annually, or about $10 billion based on current gas prices."
This article sounds like its stretching the truth. How can a couple of chips make an air conditioner last 20 to 30 years longer, and make it not use Freon (R12)
I can see how the chips can last longer, but how can a couple of microchips make the entire unit last 30 years longer? What about the compressor, it's mechanical. What about oxidation rusting away parts? Is the chip made to protect against this? "Have no fear this chip is here!"
Seems like a chip can't change the coolant your A/C uses, nor can it do anything above what a chip can do.
This would be like if we saw an article posted that said "New chip made that makes mechanical hard drives no longer fail due to mechanical wear and tear!"
Really, a chip can't make a compresser last longer, and it can't make freeon none ozone depleting. Anyways, they've replaced R12 (bad ozone) with a safe one anyways (R13 I think it's called now?)
"So the scientist in this case didn't think that he was doing anything illegal or immoral. I would agree. He was doing science. Blaming a nuclear scientist for creating a bomb would be like blaming Phil Zimmerman for creating PGP which was used by terrorists in the 9/11 attacks. Phil was under tremendous pressure for a while, both from outside groups as well as his own conscience. But Phil also recognizes that PGP can be used for good, and this letter [philzimmermann.com] demonstrates that it can even be used to save lives."
I still think it's different. If you're building an atomic bomb, you're not building it to demolition buildings or move tree stumps. You're doing it as a weapon of mass destruction.
Phil made PGP for uses like LexisNexus SHOULD have used. He didn't intend it to be used for child porno communication or other things.
If the scientists who made the bomb thought "This will change the world, someone will never find a treestump they can't uproot again" then they were truely near sighted.
A A-BOMB has: * A wide explosion radius * Large amounts of the entire radioactive spectrum are emitted * Widespread destruction ensues
You cant use it to: * Move a treestump in your front yard * Clear out a town so you can rebuild it (why bother, the after radation will kill you) * Mow the lawn when it grows too high
What in the world could they have used it for good? No matter where you drop the bomb you'll kill thousands of people, a huge radius, and make an area unsuitable to live for a very long time.
"I am in no way ashamed of what I had done in any way, shape, matter or form. I did what I was told to do. I did it to the best of my ability."
Frequent user on Slashdot PCMANJON was a professional hitman for 20 years, killing over 1024 people before being sent to prison. The slashdot news crew visited him and got some comments:
"I am in no way ashamed of what I have done in any way shape or form... I mean, I did what I was told to do, right? And I did it to the BEST of my ability."
Somhow I think most people would be thinking about PCMANJON "What a discusting peice of scum" "That guy is really morbid and wrong"
But if it's an ex gov't employee -- kudo's to him, and the government. That's completley different. It is, really!
My opinion stands the guy in the article to me, for what you people would think of me if I happened to be that professional hitman interviewed by slashdot.
Yeah, after GNAA troll posts, I had to see what it was all about. I watched the movie and it was so horrible I had to stop half way through. It was HORRIBLE. It wasn't even funny!
"I could understand a company killing a product that competes with its own more modern systems, but how do continued OS/2 sales hurt IBM more than orphaning some existing customers?"
It's probably because keeping up with the support/packaging/distribution was starting to cost more than they made from sales and support profits.
"As an observation, some services still seem to be kicking in after the basic desktop has been displayed. (Windows is similar, but because the multitasking in OS/X seems to be implemented a bit better in terms of integration with the desktop,"
Ahh, that explains it then. Yes, windows isn't as good at this because it has a poor use of multithreading support.
Remember on Windows 2K -- nothing would happen until the sound was finished (aka, desktop wouldn't load until after start sound.) Thats because the entire thing was on a single thread. Had they have used one thread for loading the desktop other items, and another thread for playing the sound -- they'd both be able to happen at the same time. XP is better about this, but leaves things to be desired.
"I don't see how even an order of magnitude increase in CPU power could shorten boot times to the extent described here.
There must be other factors. "
Actually, POST, and everything else the BIOS does to get from being off to handing it to the bootloader all takes time. If you could remove those elements, it'd speed up the boot process vastly.
I don't know how quick Mac OS takes to go from Bootloader to desktop though. I assume OSX starts services and everything just like Linux? That takes a while, unless you disable most of the INIT services.
"#1, get rid of the laugh track. It is not funny when a character comes on stage. I don't need a pre-recorded laughing sound to know when to laugh or what is funny. Are people that stupid that most laugh because they hear laughing? Once you hear the laugh track, and you become aware of it, it will ruin all your shows. It will become very annoying."
It's been scientifically proven that hearing laughing makes you mentally want to join in and laugh too. There's research for it. Google it.
"There used to be a whole cable TV channel devoted to nerds called Tech TV. (The name, but not the shows or people was sold in 2004.)"
Wanna be nerds, actually. They didn't talk enough about Linux, BSD, or anything. Hell, the whole thing was "windows" oriented.
Did you ever notice the "cool program of the day" suprisingly was never an Linux app (and never a Mac apple too I believe)
And the commercials, they'd play MS commercials all the time.
If they don't include Linux as an important part of their program -- then they are NOT a show for geeks. Any true geek has heard of Linux/UNIX/BSD -- and an uber geek uses them.
Interesting, because we host 5 counter strike gaming servers and about 19 websites.
We use it for file storage backup and development.
It's just an AMD 2600 processor with 1 GB of ram. The motherboard is just a cheap soyo. It's co-located in a datacenter on a gigabit network (and has a gigabit card)
All this runs on the machine fine. I don't see why you need something like a high end SGI for this.
I hate to downplay the organisation, as they are an OSS development group, but doesn't this sound a lot like what lokitorrent pulled?
I mean, what type of computer costs 3000? You can get a good rackmount for $1200. Usually, all it takes to host a website is a high end desktop at up to $950.
"A communications device which cannot be traced back to a person and can also be used as a very handy little detonator..."
Your wrong, Humorously_Inept. I've investigated the remains of remote detonated bombs, and usually there is little if nothing left.
You wouldn't be able to tell if what detonated the bomb was a verizon phone, cingular phone, or some sort of self-built device. There's usually nothing left at all of the bomb or any of its components.
Your point would be valid if you could actually find the smartcard that programs the phone (has customer ID, other information to trace it) But in that case, it'd have to be completley intact. A stick of memory is no good if it's a broken stick of memory.
They've been doing this for years in other countries. What most people don't realise is that most of these stories you hear about personal information/security breaches (Lexis Nexis, etc etc etc) usually goes to thugs like this.
These thugs sell this information to people in the black market. This isn't new stuff neither, the news just seems to hover on this and "identity theft" a lot recently. It's been happening since the 80's.
"At least it is for me. I click '/' and type, and it finds what I am looking for. Thanks for reminding me about the feature though - it is one of those I know exists but keep forgetting when I want to use it."
CTRL-F opens up the same thing as hitting / for me. How can you forget a feature as simple as CTRL-F (Control Find, get it?)
This even works in IE, although the search isn't "while you type"
You see, that website is run by Linux security experts, and so consequently, they feature Linux exploits more oftne.
If you must look at it cynically -- Apache 2 in my opinion is a POS. The rest of the net must agree too, because rarely to I find webservers running Apache 2, mostly just Apache 1.x
Theres very cheap services you can contract to port the data. I know some who will work for 13/hour. My work used somebody like this to migrate port our stuff over to the new system.
You should really set up a network using it sometime. If you RTFA you'll see why people like it.
It was ahead of its time, but when TCP/IP came along, it was favored instead as it's simple to set up, and it wasn't made by 1 company but rather several partnering -- so several large companies used it.
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" This sounds ominous, like the plot from a book I read a few months ago called The Terminal Man"
Yes, I read that book a month or two ago. It was crazy. The man was a computer engineer and he believed that Machines were taking over. When he got the implant his phsycotic nature only got worse.
A really good book -- hopefully they won't use a "pleasure" implant to disrupt the depression here?
FOr others who like me, weren't aware of what Peltier chips were, basicall they're a chip that moves heat from one side of the cooler to another. One side gets hot, the other is cold.
I guess these kids put the cold sides all around each other to form a duct, and air blows through it making the air cold. You put a large fan around the outside of the duct with a heatsink, to keep the chips cool.
It's genius really, but unfortunately companies are already considering buying their idea. I'd suggest they patent the idea and sell the patent rights of it -- instead of being stupid and selling such valuable idea in full to some company.
Ahh, I "read the fucking article" and now I understand. The main article makes you think a couple of chips save the day, and makes A/C's last longer. They do, in a way, but the article on ./ here should have quoted the real article, instead of trying to paraphrase.
"Today, the young inventors say, U.S. drivers use about 7.9 billion gallons of fuel each year to run their air-conditioners, which draw power from the engine. By adopting their contraption - which taps into the electrical system, using fans to blow hot air through five Peltier chips and then releasing cold air - they say the country stands to save 3.9 billion gallons of fuel annually, or about $10 billion based on current gas prices."
This article sounds like its stretching the truth. How can a couple of chips make an air conditioner last 20 to 30 years longer, and make it not use Freon (R12)
I can see how the chips can last longer, but how can a couple of microchips make the entire unit last 30 years longer? What about the compressor, it's mechanical. What about oxidation rusting away parts? Is the chip made to protect against this? "Have no fear this chip is here!"
Seems like a chip can't change the coolant your A/C uses, nor can it do anything above what a chip can do.
This would be like if we saw an article posted that said "New chip made that makes mechanical hard drives no longer fail due to mechanical wear and tear!"
Really, a chip can't make a compresser last longer, and it can't make freeon none ozone depleting. Anyways, they've replaced R12 (bad ozone) with a safe one anyways (R13 I think it's called now?)
"So the scientist in this case didn't think that he was doing anything illegal or immoral. I would agree. He was doing science. Blaming a nuclear scientist for creating a bomb would be like blaming Phil Zimmerman for creating PGP which was used by terrorists in the 9/11 attacks. Phil was under tremendous pressure for a while, both from outside groups as well as his own conscience. But Phil also recognizes that PGP can be used for good, and this letter [philzimmermann.com] demonstrates that it can even be used to save lives."
I still think it's different. If you're building an atomic bomb, you're not building it to demolition buildings or move tree stumps. You're doing it as a weapon of mass destruction.
Phil made PGP for uses like LexisNexus SHOULD have used. He didn't intend it to be used for child porno communication or other things.
If the scientists who made the bomb thought "This will change the world, someone will never find a treestump they can't uproot again" then they were truely near sighted.
A A-BOMB has:
* A wide explosion radius
* Large amounts of the entire radioactive spectrum are emitted
* Widespread destruction ensues
You cant use it to:
* Move a treestump in your front yard
* Clear out a town so you can rebuild it (why bother, the after radation will kill you)
* Mow the lawn when it grows too high
What in the world could they have used it for good? No matter where you drop the bomb you'll kill thousands of people, a huge radius, and make an area unsuitable to live for a very long time.
What good could come out of a weapon like this?
"I am in no way ashamed of what I had done in any way, shape, matter or form. I did what I was told to do. I did it to the best of my ability."
Frequent user on Slashdot PCMANJON was a professional hitman for 20 years, killing over 1024 people before being sent to prison. The slashdot news crew visited him and got some comments:
"I am in no way ashamed of what I have done in any way shape or form... I mean, I did what I was told to do, right? And I did it to the BEST of my ability."
Somhow I think most people would be thinking about PCMANJON "What a discusting peice of scum" "That guy is really morbid and wrong"
But if it's an ex gov't employee -- kudo's to him, and the government. That's completley different. It is, really!
My opinion stands the guy in the article to me, for what you people would think of me if I happened to be that professional hitman interviewed by slashdot.
Yeah, after GNAA troll posts, I had to see what it was all about. I watched the movie and it was so horrible I had to stop half way through. It was HORRIBLE. It wasn't even funny!
I wonder how long you managed to watch it for?
Is there any chance this guy can be called to the stand and QUESTION what he meant? Instead of the lawyers saying it was "LITERAL"?
"I could understand a company killing a product that competes with its own more modern systems, but how do continued OS/2 sales hurt IBM more than orphaning some existing customers?"
It's probably because keeping up with the support/packaging/distribution was starting to cost more than they made from sales and support profits.
"As an observation, some services still seem to be kicking in after the basic desktop has been displayed. (Windows is similar, but because the multitasking in OS/X seems to be implemented a bit better in terms of integration with the desktop,"
Ahh, that explains it then. Yes, windows isn't as good at this because it has a poor use of multithreading support.
Remember on Windows 2K -- nothing would happen until the sound was finished (aka, desktop wouldn't load until after start sound.) Thats because the entire thing was on a single thread. Had they have used one thread for loading the desktop other items, and another thread for playing the sound -- they'd both be able to happen at the same time. XP is better about this, but leaves things to be desired.
"I don't see how even an order of magnitude increase in CPU power could shorten boot times to the extent described here.
There must be other factors.
"
Actually, POST, and everything else the BIOS does to get from being off to handing it to the bootloader all takes time. If you could remove those elements, it'd speed up the boot process vastly.
I don't know how quick Mac OS takes to go from Bootloader to desktop though. I assume OSX starts services and everything just like Linux? That takes a while, unless you disable most of the INIT services.
"#1, get rid of the laugh track. It is not funny when a character comes on stage. I don't need a pre-recorded laughing sound to know when to laugh or what is funny. Are people that stupid that most laugh because they hear laughing? Once you hear the laugh track, and you become aware of it, it will ruin all your shows. It will become very annoying."
It's been scientifically proven that hearing laughing makes you mentally want to join in and laugh too. There's research for it. Google it.
As for your other points, I agree completley.
"There used to be a whole cable TV channel devoted to nerds called Tech TV. (The name, but not the shows or people was sold in 2004.)"
Wanna be nerds, actually. They didn't talk enough about Linux, BSD, or anything. Hell, the whole thing was "windows" oriented.
Did you ever notice the "cool program of the day" suprisingly was never an Linux app (and never a Mac apple too I believe)
And the commercials, they'd play MS commercials all the time.
If they don't include Linux as an important part of their program -- then they are NOT a show for geeks. Any true geek has heard of Linux/UNIX/BSD -- and an uber geek uses them.
Interesting, because we host 5 counter strike gaming servers and about 19 websites.
We use it for file storage backup and development.
It's just an AMD 2600 processor with 1 GB of ram. The motherboard is just a cheap soyo. It's co-located in a datacenter on a gigabit network (and has a gigabit card)
All this runs on the machine fine. I don't see why you need something like a high end SGI for this.
I hate to downplay the organisation, as they are an OSS development group, but doesn't this sound a lot like what lokitorrent pulled?
I mean, what type of computer costs 3000? You can get a good rackmount for $1200. Usually, all it takes to host a website is a high end desktop at up to $950.
"A communications device which cannot be traced back to a person and can also be used as a very handy little detonator..."
Your wrong, Humorously_Inept. I've investigated the remains of remote detonated bombs, and usually there is little if nothing left.
You wouldn't be able to tell if what detonated the bomb was a verizon phone, cingular phone, or some sort of self-built device. There's usually nothing left at all of the bomb or any of its components.
Your point would be valid if you could actually find the smartcard that programs the phone (has customer ID, other information to trace it) But in that case, it'd have to be completley intact. A stick of memory is no good if it's a broken stick of memory.
They've been doing this for years in other countries. What most people don't realise is that most of these stories you hear about personal information/security breaches (Lexis Nexis, etc etc etc) usually goes to thugs like this.
These thugs sell this information to people in the black market. This isn't new stuff neither, the news just seems to hover on this and "identity theft" a lot recently. It's been happening since the 80's.
"At least it is for me. I click '/' and type, and it finds what I am looking for. Thanks for reminding me about the feature though - it is one of those I know exists but keep forgetting when I want to use it."
CTRL-F opens up the same thing as hitting / for me. How can you forget a feature as simple as CTRL-F (Control Find, get it?)
This even works in IE, although the search isn't "while you type"
" There is no problem with using consecutive line numbers. If you need to insert a line between two other lines, use fractional line numbers.
5½ GOTO 3.1
No renumbering required, problem solved!"
Uhh, you can't do that in BASIC?
What language can you do that in?
If you were being funny, well, you must not have been -- otherwise you would have been rated Score: 3 Funny
Yes, I used this service before as well -- last fall I think. The police were very unhelpful --
and Computrace wouldn't share the location of the stolen laptop, she was nice to tell me that they were online with it right now though.
Jesus Christ, it was a waste of money
Apache - 29 Advisories
IIS - 20 Advisories
Did I miss something?
Yes, you did.
You see, that website is run by Linux security experts, and so consequently, they feature Linux exploits more oftne.
If you must look at it cynically -- Apache 2 in my opinion is a POS. The rest of the net must agree too, because rarely to I find webservers running Apache 2, mostly just Apache 1.x
Theres very cheap services you can contract to port the data. I know some who will work for 13/hour. My work used somebody like this to migrate port our stuff over to the new system.
Security, and many other factors.
You should really set up a network using it sometime. If you RTFA you'll see why people like it.
It was ahead of its time, but when TCP/IP came along, it was favored instead as it's simple to set up, and it wasn't made by 1 company but rather several partnering -- so several large companies used it.
So what I am wondering is why don't they make hardware like that these days, and why isn't Linux as stable as those old operating systems were?
Why do you think the good stuff went the way of the dodo?
Perhaps he should shut down "Team Stealth" a hockey sports team.
http://www.sjstealth.com/