Recall that the Soyuz capsules use essentially the same approach although the 'soft landing engines' are quite a bit less sophisticated than the Super Dracos.
An interesting aside, the Falcon / SuperDraco system could be repurposed to a general non manned lander for Mars, Venus and the other smaller planets. Might make for some 'economies of scale' to have a basic platform that worked.
Then you can run around being all up tight and paranoid. Much easier than thinking, planning or following that pesky Constitutional framework called The Law.
They're not even signs of being a terrorist. To call them signs of being a terrorist is like saying breathing is a sign of being a terrorist, because terrorists breathe.
Have you seen any anaerobic terrorists? Well, have you?
Your pitiful libertarian Taliban-loving communist leaning socialist inspired arguments pale in the face of cold, hard logic.
"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match." -- JFK
You're reading the wrong script again.
"You'll dress only in attire specially sanctioned by MiB special services. You'll conform to the identity we give you, eat where we tell you, live where we tell you. From now on you'll have no identifying marks of any kind. You'll not stand out in any way. Your entire image is crafted to leave no lasting memory with anyone you encounter. You're a rumor, recognizable only as deja vu and dismissed just as quickly. You don't exist; you were never even born. Anonymity is your name. Silence your native tongue. You're no longer part of the System. You're above the System. Over it. Beyond it. We're "them." We're "they." We are the Men in Black. "
Nothing but undeveloped, unevolved, barely conscious pond scum, totally convinced of their own superiority as they scurry about their short, pointless lives.
We do have a 'cure' for scurvy - vitamin C, as well as Pellegra (a vitamin B deficiency). So, Snowgirl is correct - we can cure those diseases simply by replacing the missing vitamin. That's about as good a cure as you're going to get. The disease can reoccur if you run out of the vitamin so if you define cure as treating a disease so that it cannot ever come back, well, then the only disease we can really cure is life itself.
The laser and shark meme is tired, unoriginal, old, and far overused. Any discussion on this site involving lasers has the majority of the posts referencing the same unoriginal, old, and tired meme. And for some reason, all of you mod them well up to +5 funny when they should all be modded redundant or offtopic.
Slashdot is complete stagnated. There is no longer intelligent or worthwhile discussion here.
Presumeably, if / when they get this perfected, the squad Sargent ( or whomever ) paints the bad guy with a computer controlled laser (the Navy version, of course, uses a shark) and the rest of the grunts pull the trigger on their AR-18 turbo rifles. The computer ( or shark )keeps track of the victim running away or getting into their tank. Then splat. $10,000 dollars down the drain. But we've used lasers. So it's cool.
The chips are not available from digikey, only directly from broadcom, in large numbers.(tens of thousands)
Well, given the fact that you'll waste a few getting your technique up, probably not such a big issue. Besides, once you get them put together, you'll want to give one to everyone on your Christmas list!
The article isn't a whole lot better. Basically whining that 'science' doesn't produce shineys on regular, repeatable intervals that we can bank on.
In particular, the idea that we understand much about the incredibly complex interactions in human biology is just magical thinking. Just because the CEO of a large drug company managed to hoodwink some investors, the world isn't ending. Nor is science.
Yes, we rely on 'correlation is related to causation' a lot. We do so because it often works, and when it doesn't it often gives us directions to go next. But 'often' isn't 'always'. I read TFA more as a cautionary tale to investors not to believe marketing blurbs based on complicated science and technology.
If you're hell bent on remaining outside of the control of the evil US-USSR-China axis, then it would be an excellent idea to shut up and not threaten hell fire and brimstone on everyone else.
Otherwise you appear psychotic and dangerous to the psychotic and dangerous ruling triumvirate. Yapping and nipping at your heels like a rabid Chihuahua only works if you're cute.
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, it's a bit of a fun drive to head out to Prineville and play "Spot the Datacenter." It's so out of place it's real easy to spot. It took me all of about 10 minutes of driving around to find it.
Wow. Things must be getting pretty dull down there if is it's a 'bit of fun' to go look for a datacenter. Don't you all have Starbucks or anything?
Slashdot Mirror
Likely.
Recall that the Soyuz capsules use essentially the same approach although the 'soft landing engines' are quite a bit less sophisticated than the Super Dracos.
An interesting aside, the Falcon / SuperDraco system could be repurposed to a general non manned lander for Mars, Venus and the other smaller planets. Might make for some 'economies of scale' to have a basic platform that worked.
"Suspicious or coded writings, use of code word sheets, cryptic ledgers, etc"
To the average citizen, most programming languages would fit this.
To the average (US) citizen, simple declarative English sentences would fit this.
It's an easy hole to fall into:
Everybody is suspicious.
Then you can run around being all up tight and paranoid. Much easier than thinking, planning or following that pesky Constitutional framework called The Law.
They're not even signs of being a terrorist. To call them signs of being a terrorist is like saying breathing is a sign of being a terrorist, because terrorists breathe.
Have you seen any anaerobic terrorists? Well, have you?
Your pitiful libertarian Taliban-loving communist leaning socialist inspired arguments pale in the face of cold, hard logic.
When I hear "boing boing" I just think "TITS!", but apparently it's a new aggregator..
The two concepts are not mutually exclusive. In fact ....
"Oh Wilbur, go on back to your bicycles....
That thing will never fly."
"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match."
-- JFK
You're reading the wrong script again.
"You'll dress only in attire specially sanctioned by MiB special services. You'll conform to the identity we give you, eat where we tell you, live where we tell you. From now on you'll have no identifying marks of any kind. You'll not stand out in any way. Your entire image is crafted to leave no lasting memory with anyone you encounter. You're a rumor, recognizable only as deja vu and dismissed just as quickly. You don't exist; you were never even born. Anonymity is your name. Silence your native tongue. You're no longer part of the System. You're above the System. Over it. Beyond it. We're "them." We're "they." We are the Men in Black. "
Don't you just respawn?
Where is the list of bugs introduced with this upgrade?
In the "What's New" Section of Firefox 11.
Do people like Al Gore count too? Or does he get a pass because he's not a Republican? Just asking.
Manbearpig isn't a plant. Get your biology straight, man.
Nothing but undeveloped, unevolved, barely conscious pond scum, totally convinced of their own superiority as they scurry about their short, pointless lives.
We do have a 'cure' for scurvy - vitamin C, as well as Pellegra (a vitamin B deficiency). So, Snowgirl is correct - we can cure those diseases simply by replacing the missing vitamin. That's about as good a cure as you're going to get. The disease can reoccur if you run out of the vitamin so if you define cure as treating a disease so that it cannot ever come back, well, then the only disease we can really cure is life itself.
So her examples are quite spot on.
The laser and shark meme is tired, unoriginal, old, and far overused. Any discussion on this site involving lasers has the majority of the posts referencing the same unoriginal, old, and tired meme. And for some reason, all of you mod them well up to +5 funny when they should all be modded redundant or offtopic.
Slashdot is complete stagnated. There is no longer intelligent or worthwhile discussion here.
Don't let the shark bite you on your way out!
I like the way you think.
Better hurry up and subscribe to his newsletter, he's not going to be around for very long.
Air Force has got you both beat. Nuke it from orbit.
Presumeably, if / when they get this perfected, the squad Sargent ( or whomever ) paints the bad guy with a computer controlled laser (the Navy version, of course, uses a shark) and the rest of the grunts pull the trigger on their AR-18 turbo rifles. The computer ( or shark )keeps track of the victim running away or getting into their tank. Then splat. $10,000 dollars down the drain. But we've used lasers. So it's cool.
Hard to says who is dumber here - your boss, Apple or BMW.
Let's call it a tie and move on.
The chips are not available from digikey, only directly from broadcom, in large numbers.(tens of thousands)
Well, given the fact that you'll waste a few getting your technique up, probably not such a big issue. Besides, once you get them put together, you'll want to give one to everyone on your Christmas list!
Here's how I do it:
Order the damn Raspberry PI board.
I win!
The article isn't a whole lot better. Basically whining that 'science' doesn't produce shineys on regular, repeatable intervals that we can bank on.
In particular, the idea that we understand much about the incredibly complex interactions in human biology is just magical thinking. Just because the CEO of a large drug company managed to hoodwink some investors, the world isn't ending. Nor is science.
Yes, we rely on 'correlation is related to causation' a lot. We do so because it often works, and when it doesn't it often gives us directions to go next. But 'often' isn't 'always'. I read TFA more as a cautionary tale to investors not to believe marketing blurbs based on complicated science and technology.
If you're hell bent on remaining outside of the control of the evil US-USSR-China axis, then it would be an excellent idea to shut up and not threaten hell fire and brimstone on everyone else.
Otherwise you appear psychotic and dangerous to the psychotic and dangerous ruling triumvirate. Yapping and nipping at your heels like a rabid Chihuahua only works if you're cute.
So, a bit off topic, but hope it contributes to the larger discussion.
Perhaps you should post it on Facebook.
I would think you could de dup Facebook and get what, 10 MB of unique content. That's if you included the passwords.
If I were a historian 500 years from now and had to read through a couple of days of Facebook posts, I'd commit suicide.
I mean really, 10 minutes and you're there. And back again.
This.
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, it's a bit of a fun drive to head out to Prineville and play "Spot the Datacenter." It's so out of place it's real easy to spot. It took me all of about 10 minutes of driving around to find it.
Wow. Things must be getting pretty dull down there if is it's a 'bit of fun' to go look for a datacenter. Don't you all have Starbucks or anything?