Re: "vacuum is an insulator"
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Solder in Space
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"I thought that maintaining heat would be a problem, too. Then it was pointed out by another slashdotter that vacuum is an insulator."
Yes, but I wasn't thinking of heat being lost to the vacuum of space (during EVA). I'm thinking about heat being lost to anything which is directly or indirectly connected to the workpiece, because *they* would be cold (at least if not facing the sun).
Re:If you don't use rosin...
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Solder in Space
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"the only reason I could see rosin being necessary is if the soldering would take place inside the space vessel"
I think that was the general idea: the behavior of solder when lacking *gravity*, not when lacking *oxygen*.
I don't imagine that a lot of EVA repair work would involve soldering: anything *outside* the capsule had better use stronger connections than solder.
I wonder if soldering EVA would also run into a problem in maintaining the necessary heat.
a previous poster complained: "links are being incorperated directly into content because the web advertising model isn't working. There are many reasons for this, but certainly one of them is that people like you block adverts. Why do you do it? Do you think that servers and bandwidth pay for themselves? How do you expect sites to put up impartial (read: not sponsored) content without some way for the site owners to make enough money to pay the bills?"
Errrmmm . . . how about just using plain text embedded in the content? It could be made impossible to block, the sponsor knows that it always gets seen, and all they lose is the ability to use annoying graphics, pop-upos, balloons, flash, etc.
naive wifi technology/config question
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Semper WiFi
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If a bunch of these people (Marines or whatever) are briefly gathered arbitrarily "close" to each other, can they communicate with each other over wifi, WITHOUT a hotspot or other infrastructure, i.e. using only their personal portable devices (e.g., PDAs or laptops)?
Can such a wifi swarm form-up easily and on short notice, spanning any/all change in the set of initial participants?
Is there particularly terminology associated with this kind of usage, so I can google it?
of provisioning I.T. -- the stereotypical horror stories of serial cost overruns ending in project abandonment, vendor lawsuits, and legislature post-mortem scandal hearings. IIRC, the worst involved EDS and the DMV.
First read the comment from the guy who works at the Fed, where he talks about what kind of data WILL now be going over the public net.
Question: in view of everything which has changed in the last three years regarding powers to do secret searches and wire-taps without a warrant, how does this news change what kinds of banking data will now be secretly sniffable by the DHS & FBI without technically violating inter-agency restrictions?
"the quality of plastics used for the key mounts are less than optimal. After about 6 months, mine began to wear down enough that keys would occasionally jam or not register."
I guess that you're new to Belkin products. My experience is that they're built like toys, shoddy work, poor (or no) QC -- even for the products which DON'T have moving parts!
Where's Senator Orrin Hatch when you need him?
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CAN-SPAM Is A Bust
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I believe it it was he who proposed legislation to make it legal to hack people's machines remotely, surreptitiously and destructively, if the machines contain (or are used for) unauthorized file-copying.
I think it's notable that no one of his ilk has stepped up to suggest something similar which would legalize hacking of spammers to benefit the PUBLIC (versus legislation benefiting large political financial contributors like the RIAA or the Direct Marketing Association).
The other responders covered it, except that #3 is Gold Bond Foot Powder.
My post was a whim, to test the question, "If a commercial is sufficiently irritating or offensive, will the public remember the sponsor well enough to reject the brand-name at the *moment* of the purchasing decision?"
Billy Mays is especially irritating -- always SHOUTING, in a grating voice.
I'm surprised that being in TJ keeps you from hearing these. Don't you still get bombarded by USA broadcasters?
"Past attempts at solving the problem have failed. Therefore all present and future attempts must fail too."
Sure, why not? After all, if fractals can be used to forecast future trends from past events, then isn't the fact that "Past attempts at solving the problem have failed" itself a past event which can be used to demonstrate that "all present and future attempts must fail too"?;-)
Oh, really? The Nature article clearly says at the beginning: "The technique involves cells called primordial germ cells (PGCs), which are found in embryos." And later: "theoretically, even if a species **goes** extinct, we can transplant the cells into a closely related species."
Where is John Hammond (JPark founder) going to get dino *embryos*?
And, OTOH, if the "some day" merely refers to using DNA (versus PGCs), then how is this news?
"How often do you make the decision to NOT buy something form a company because you know they engage in spamming activities?"
It's irrelevant. I get 100-300 pieces of spam daily. For all but 5-10 pieces, all I ever see is the sender and the subject line, not the body. Even if there's a recognizable brand-name in the subject line, the spam's usually from a sender who's NOT associated with the brand-name (e.g., Viagra).
In the few cases where the sender+subject plausibly *seems* like it might be from the legitimate brand, I never confirm it by opening the mail, for fear of whatever security vulnerability it might contain.
So I virtually never know that the brand-owner should be blamed for the spam.
"He's not fucking smart enough to think that we need to play perestroika with the Olympics"
Perhaps you meant 'glasnost'?
Re:Embed Linux? It's not an ideal choice.
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How to Embed Linux
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"There are many other options far better suited to the problem domain. QNX, for example."
Sure. I expect you'll be sending me a check to cover the license cost any day now.
I'd love to get my hands on QNX, WindRiver, MontaVista, Lineo, LynuxWorks, MetroWerks, etc. But get real: for garage hackers like me, what else is there except OSS?
Re:What, you want me to put wallpaper on my window
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"Hershey, of chocolate fame, pioneered the windowless office. Not that many people have anything good to say about getting a corner office without a window.."
"will this be a blessing in disguise for Apple, making their DRM format the defacto standard, or will it be the downfall of the mighty iTunes Music Store?"
What it WILL be, is a perfect reason for Virgin to buy up Real -- who recently reverse-engineered FairPlay -- as a new outlet for Virgin's catalogue, bypassing Apple.
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"I thought that maintaining heat would be a problem, too. Then it was pointed out by another slashdotter that vacuum is an insulator."
Yes, but I wasn't thinking of heat being lost to the vacuum of space (during EVA).
I'm thinking about heat being lost to anything which is directly or indirectly connected to the workpiece, because *they* would be cold (at least if not facing the sun).
"the only reason I could see rosin being necessary is if the soldering would take place inside the space vessel"
I think that was the general idea: the behavior of solder when lacking *gravity*, not when lacking *oxygen*.
I don't imagine that a lot of EVA repair work would involve soldering: anything *outside* the capsule had better use stronger connections than solder.
I wonder if soldering EVA would also run into a problem in maintaining the necessary heat.
"water once flowed in a region of Mars that has looked curiously dry until now"
um, excuse me, but what is "curious" about any part of Mars looking dry?
. . . directly to the visual cortex?
"some governments have banned any person who has had laser eye surgery from driving at all"
sources/referenes, please
"some governments have banned any person who has had laser eye surgery from driving at all"
sorces/referenes, please?
I'm surprised that no one has raised the *legal* issue of external interference (intentional or otherwise) from other devices.
... keeping things simple:
a previous poster complained:
"links are being incorperated directly into content because the web advertising model isn't working. There are many reasons for this, but certainly one of them is that people like you block adverts.
Why do you do it? Do you think that servers and bandwidth pay for themselves? How do you expect sites to put up impartial (read: not sponsored) content without some way for the site owners to make enough money to pay the bills?"
Errrmmm . . . how about just using plain text embedded in the content?
It could be made impossible to block, the sponsor knows that it always gets seen, and all they lose is the ability to use annoying graphics, pop-upos, balloons, flash, etc.
If a bunch of these people (Marines or whatever)
are briefly gathered arbitrarily "close" to each other,
can they communicate with each other over wifi,
WITHOUT a hotspot or other infrastructure,
i.e. using only their personal portable devices (e.g., PDAs or laptops)?
Can such a wifi swarm form-up easily and on short notice,
spanning any/all change in the set of initial participants?
Is there particularly terminology associated with this kind of usage, so I can google it?
of provisioning I.T. -- the stereotypical horror stories of serial cost overruns ending in project abandonment, vendor lawsuits, and legislature post-mortem scandal hearings.
IIRC, the worst involved EDS and the DMV.
First read the comment from the guy who works at the Fed, where he talks about what kind of data WILL now be going over the public net.
Question: in view of everything which has changed in the last three years regarding powers to do secret searches and wire-taps without a warrant, how does this news change what kinds of banking data will now be secretly sniffable by the DHS & FBI without technically violating inter-agency restrictions?
"Arabs, technically, are caucasians. They're just curly haired, tanned white people. Not entirely unlike Italians."
;-)
WTF? Italians are white people?
"Hopefully, the problems I encountered with this n52 is a defect with this particular unit"
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I suspect not.
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11756
"the quality of plastics used for the key mounts are less than optimal. After about 6 months, mine began to wear down enough that keys would occasionally jam or not register."
I guess that you're new to Belkin products.
My experience is that they're built like toys, shoddy work, poor (or no) QC -- even for the products which DON'T have moving parts!
I believe it it was he who proposed legislation to make it legal
to hack people's machines remotely, surreptitiously and destructively,
if the machines contain (or are used for) unauthorized file-copying.
I think it's notable that no one of his ilk has stepped up
to suggest something similar which would legalize hacking of spammers to benefit the PUBLIC
(versus legislation benefiting large political financial contributors
like the RIAA or the Direct Marketing Association).
"Those police are probably too busy deleting the 80% spam from their email"
No, they're too busy checking our library records and p2p usage.
The other responders covered it, except that #3 is Gold Bond Foot Powder.
My post was a whim, to test the question,
"If a commercial is sufficiently irritating or offensive, will the public remember the sponsor well enough to reject the brand-name at the *moment* of the purchasing decision?"
Billy Mays is especially irritating -- always SHOUTING, in a grating voice.
I'm surprised that being in TJ keeps you from hearing these.
Don't you still get bombarded by USA broadcasters?
p.s. -- is Tharek still not eating?
"Past attempts at solving the problem have failed. Therefore all present and future attempts must fail too."
;-)
Sure, why not?
After all, if fractals can be used to forecast future trends from past events,
then isn't the fact that "Past attempts at solving the problem have failed"
itself a past event which can be used to demonstrate that
"all present and future attempts must fail too"?
"Jurrassic Park just came a step closer."
Oh, really?
The Nature article clearly says at the beginning:
"The technique involves cells called primordial germ cells (PGCs), which are found in embryos."
And later:
"theoretically, even if a species **goes** extinct, we can transplant the cells into a closely related species."
Where is John Hammond (JPark founder) going to get dino *embryos*?
And, OTOH, if the "some day" merely refers to using DNA (versus PGCs), then how is this news?
"For me, tv commercials already have such effect. For 90% of the junk there is, i remember it as NOT to buy."
Fill in the blanks.
1. "hey, BILLY MAYS HERE, TO TELL YOU ABOUT... "
2. "oh no, lost ANOTHER loan to..."
3. "Itchy feet? ssssssssssssweaty feet? SMELLY FEET? "
4. "eatin' gooooooooooood, in the neigh-bor-hood!"
5. "da-da-da-da daaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, I'm lovin' it"
6. "can they REALLY live with their heads cut off?"
"How often do you make the decision to NOT buy something form a company because you know they engage in spamming activities?"
It's irrelevant.
I get 100-300 pieces of spam daily. For all but 5-10 pieces, all I ever see is the sender and the subject line, not the body.
Even if there's a recognizable brand-name in the subject line, the spam's usually from a sender who's NOT associated with the brand-name (e.g., Viagra).
In the few cases where the sender+subject plausibly *seems* like it might be from the legitimate brand, I never confirm it by opening the mail, for fear of whatever security vulnerability it might contain.
So I virtually never know that the brand-owner should be blamed for the spam.
"He's not fucking smart enough to think that we need to play perestroika with the Olympics"
Perhaps you meant 'glasnost'?
"There are many other options far better suited to the problem domain. QNX, for example."
Sure. I expect you'll be sending me a check to cover the license cost any day now.
I'd love to get my hands on QNX, WindRiver, MontaVista, Lineo, LynuxWorks, MetroWerks, etc.
But get real: for garage hackers like me, what else is there except OSS?
"Hershey, of chocolate fame, pioneered the windowless office. Not that many people have anything good to say about getting a corner office without a window.."
That depends.
How much chocolate would I get?
"will this be a blessing in disguise for Apple, making their DRM format the defacto standard, or will it be the downfall of the mighty iTunes Music Store?"
What it WILL be, is a perfect reason for Virgin to buy up Real -- who recently reverse-engineered FairPlay -- as a new outlet for Virgin's catalogue, bypassing Apple.