Butcha can't force current through a body without raising voltage. Your body is fairly resistive, and 45 volts _probably_ wouldn't hurt you, because I=V/R
-Jesse - plays with 45 volts underwater occasionally.
Though that is a very intersting point that I hadn't thought of. I've been looking to build an electric (only) powered car to get me to work and back, to save wear and tear on my gasoline powered car (and so if it breaks, I have another way to get to work) and to "Save the Environment!"(tm).
Perhaps, if you assembled enough parts, such as a CPU, some sort of board with all the CPU trimmings on it, a little bit of memory, a keyboard, some sort of display device, and an operating system, you could use this to store all of your computer's passwords... oh wait.:D Not meant to be a flame, just silliness
I was thinking about a similar fix to the politically-correct nonsense sweeping the nation. I bet if we complained about everything collectively, eventually the people who are _supposed_ to be representing us would realize that it is inane, irresponsible, and unnecessary to police our ears, eyes, and mouths.
It all came to me after someone complained about the 'slave' and 'master' settings for IDE drives, supposedly offended that those terms were used.
My boss thinks we should complain about 'male' and 'female' plugs, and connectors, and then there's the whole 'gender-changer' sockets too. That's a whole can of worms just waiting to be opened:D
>True, but the turbocharged (= high compression ratio at high rpm) 8! liter capacity of the engine doesn't help.
Actually, the compression ratio is unaffected by turbocharging. The compression ratio is a static number which represents the ratio of largest cylinder volume to smallest cylinder volume, depending on where the piston is.
If you add a turbocharger into it, you haven't changed the volume of the cylinders, just how much air is filling them. The Ratio is still the same.
Point of interest though, there are some manufacturers out there that have been developing variable compression ratio engines. This is useful in turbocharging applications, because when off the boost, you can run a nice, high, efficient compression ratio, for good gas mileage. When you romp on the happy pedal, and the turbos spool, the compression ratio will drop, allowing a higher boost pressure, because a lower compression ratio is less succeptable to knocking. It is generally the case that more power is available from turbocharging than from compression ratio.
I had both an 85 and an 86. I worked for two days as a carnie, 12 hour shifts, got paid in a stack of "brand new" ones (may not have been real) and paid for the 86 with those ones rolled up into a wad with an elastic band.
Come to think of it, I'm not exactly sure why I bought the 86... But I used to use it all the time, and I think I actually ran the 85 out of memory with all the programs I had written for different things.
Anybody else go to "math meets" and write programs to solve problems brute-force while you worked on the other problems you could get to with brain-power only? Good times.
I always preferred the 85/86 to the 83/82. The "UI" of the 85/86 is just... better. The buttons are organized the way they should be, and not grouped according to if you're doing your taxes or not.
What about those ones? According to ticalc.org, they're the "engineering" oriented calculators, maybe that explains the above paragraph...
Then there was also the 92/89 pair, but that always seemed a bit silly... I don't need to have 3d graphics, thank you:D
I have a rotary phone that I've used within the past week (It's in my living room). It's great too, when I call up an automated phone service, and they say "press 1 for blah" I just use the rotary, and I get a real person immediately!
I dislike cellphones entirely. I got a bulky large one for HS graduation, and I used it maybe 3 or 4 times. It was one of those giant ones that would get really hot when you did talk on it. I'm not tied to my desk either, That's what the answering machine is for. If it's important, they'll leave a message, if it's not, then I don't have to worry. I hate it when I'm talking to someone, and am interrupted by the cellphone. If someone does that to me, that gives me permission to ignore them at will.
I also don't even own a television. I ordered cable just last week, but only for the internet connection (it was cheaper to get internet+tv+telephone than just internet alone, weird).
I don't feel the need for a new phone, I don't feel the need for a cell, and I don't feel the need to have a TV to watch all the shoddy programming. Maybe I'm the odd one out though.
Sorry for the obvious troll bait. But comeon people... First off, PCs have TONS of electromagnets in them. Ever put a screwdriver up to the small speaker often found in cases? It sticks!!!111oneone. WTF do you think all of the motors in the computer are powered by?
Not to mention it's beyond fakery, and you can't get out more power than you put in.
Holy crap, this is the most craptastic crap-fest I've ever seen on Slashdot.
Still incorrect though. Using this logic, you could hook one motor to another, using one as a generator. Take the power from the generator, and use it to power the first motor, which makes more wattage than you put in, which spins the armature faster, which makes more current... Until you have an infinitely fast spinning infinite energy generator.
It's fake if this is true, I can't get to the article to verify myself.
Did you read the article? It said that in Washington, a guy in an ICQ conversation got caught in much the same way, but by default ICQ comes with logging enabled, which the guy must have known, and thus, that was his form of concent of recording the conversation. So, apparently if your software does that by default, you're in the clear.
Well... What I'm thinking of is this: You originally have two "black boxes" one sending photons, and the other receiving. I'm assuming that the receiving black box can actually read the info it's supposed to be getting, right?
Now... Assume you wanted to transmit that data further than the 100 km. the spec lays out. You would need three black boxes, one in the middle to receive from the first, and re-transmit the data as photons to the next black box.
Can that be done? Or am I just lacking in knowledge about quantum physics (which I know I am, but I like to think I have some grasp of it). What I was proposing is that someone wanting to intercept the key could just break the line, play "man-in-the-middle", and to each side, it looks like the photons are getting through un-molested.
I was looking at this, and reading about it, and read how you cannot determine the state of the photons without changing their state, so someone cannot "watch" the photons fly past without affecting them. I'm assuming the black box on the other end is somehow able to read the original photons correctly?
However... What if someone were to have their own "black box", break the fiberoptic line, put one end into the receiver of their black box, and the other end out. That way you wouldn't be watching the photons go by, and affecting them. You could read them with your own black box, then re-transmit the correct photon.
Admittedly, this would be expensive, but if you are in dire need of reading something that had to be secured with quantum encryption, then money probably isn't of much concern.
Is this an incorrect assumption, or analysis on my part? I'm not a quantum physicist by any means, but I couldn't glean enough info from the articles to tell otherwise.
Will someone find out MS managed to make ascii text files a vulnerability? YARR! I never thought I'd be in with this crowd, but I'm looking to "make the switch" soon... -Jesse
Wow... That's some interesting thinking right there. What a neat concept (though I was thinking more along the lines of F-zero when you mentioned it, hehe). -Jesse
I'm currently involved in writing assembly for my car's ECU. It's a 92 DSM Turbo AWD. The difficult thing is it's a proprietary OEM variant of a Motorola HC11, with lots of unknown opcodes, but there's a good movement to try and figure them all out.
Right now, I've written a stutterbox, and other people have figured out where all of the timing, and fuel maps are, and where the variables for injector sizes are.
It's pretty great. Writing assembly is fun, and ha>0ring my car is even more fun:)
-Jesse
That is one of the most frightening things I have ever set eyes on in my entire life. I can't imagine that a baby would have been even _more_ terrifying. Look at the cover of the book. It resembles the aliens from "Mars Attacks" to me.
Also, according to the article, Frankenstein is a robot? I always thought he was a meat-bag like us?
And, do we all have to refer to the hour-too-long movie "AI" every time Artificial Intelligence is referenced? Would it be infringement otherwise?
Yeesh, I can't stop looking at that train wreck of a face... haunt me all night.
-Jesse
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With the kind of Amp-Hours that battery packs for Hybrids and other Electric vehicles "discharge prematurely" would be an event to say the least.
You can't just discharge that much potential quickly without starting a few fires.
-Jesse
Butcha can't force current through a body without raising voltage. Your body is fairly resistive, and 45 volts _probably_ wouldn't hurt you, because I=V/R
-Jesse - plays with 45 volts underwater occasionally.
You turkey, that's not what it says :)
Though that is a very intersting point that I hadn't thought of. I've been looking to build an electric (only) powered car to get me to work and back, to save wear and tear on my gasoline powered car (and so if it breaks, I have another way to get to work) and to "Save the Environment!"(tm).
-Jesse
Perhaps, if you assembled enough parts, such as a CPU, some sort of board with all the CPU trimmings on it, a little bit of memory, a keyboard, some sort of display device, and an operating system, you could use this to store all of your computer's passwords... oh wait. :D Not meant to be a flame, just silliness
-Jesse
I was thinking about a similar fix to the politically-correct nonsense sweeping the nation. I bet if we complained about everything collectively, eventually the people who are _supposed_ to be representing us would realize that it is inane, irresponsible, and unnecessary to police our ears, eyes, and mouths.
:D
It all came to me after someone complained about the 'slave' and 'master' settings for IDE drives, supposedly offended that those terms were used.
My boss thinks we should complain about 'male' and 'female' plugs, and connectors, and then there's the whole 'gender-changer' sockets too. That's a whole can of worms just waiting to be opened
-Jesse
>True, but the turbocharged (= high compression ratio at high rpm) 8! liter capacity of the engine doesn't help.
Actually, the compression ratio is unaffected by turbocharging. The compression ratio is a static number which represents the ratio of largest cylinder volume to smallest cylinder volume, depending on where the piston is.
If you add a turbocharger into it, you haven't changed the volume of the cylinders, just how much air is filling them. The Ratio is still the same.
Point of interest though, there are some manufacturers out there that have been developing variable compression ratio engines. This is useful in turbocharging applications, because when off the boost, you can run a nice, high, efficient compression ratio, for good gas mileage. When you romp on the happy pedal, and the turbos spool, the compression ratio will drop, allowing a higher boost pressure, because a lower compression ratio is less succeptable to knocking. It is generally the case that more power is available from turbocharging than from compression ratio.
-Jesse
I wish :( *goes back to "coding" coldfusion* wah.
-Jesse
According to Microsoft's add on the frontpage of /. Linux is actually _more_ expensive than Windows... Are they now conceding that it is better? :D
-Jesse
Not to be a grammar weenie, but you might wanna run your sig through a grammar checker.
-Jesse
I had both an 85 and an 86. I worked for two days as a carnie, 12 hour shifts, got paid in a stack of "brand new" ones (may not have been real) and paid for the 86 with those ones rolled up into a wad with an elastic band.
Come to think of it, I'm not exactly sure why I bought the 86... But I used to use it all the time, and I think I actually ran the 85 out of memory with all the programs I had written for different things.
Anybody else go to "math meets" and write programs to solve problems brute-force while you worked on the other problems you could get to with brain-power only? Good times.
-Jesse
I always preferred the 85/86 to the 83/82. The "UI" of the 85/86 is just... better. The buttons are organized the way they should be, and not grouped according to if you're doing your taxes or not.
:D
What about those ones? According to ticalc.org, they're the "engineering" oriented calculators, maybe that explains the above paragraph...
Then there was also the 92/89 pair, but that always seemed a bit silly... I don't need to have 3d graphics, thank you
-Jesse
I have a rotary phone that I've used within the past week (It's in my living room). It's great too, when I call up an automated phone service, and they say "press 1 for blah" I just use the rotary, and I get a real person immediately!
I dislike cellphones entirely. I got a bulky large one for HS graduation, and I used it maybe 3 or 4 times. It was one of those giant ones that would get really hot when you did talk on it. I'm not tied to my desk either, That's what the answering machine is for. If it's important, they'll leave a message, if it's not, then I don't have to worry. I hate it when I'm talking to someone, and am interrupted by the cellphone. If someone does that to me, that gives me permission to ignore them at will.
I also don't even own a television. I ordered cable just last week, but only for the internet connection (it was cheaper to get internet+tv+telephone than just internet alone, weird).
I don't feel the need for a new phone, I don't feel the need for a cell, and I don't feel the need to have a TV to watch all the shoddy programming. Maybe I'm the odd one out though.
-Jesse
Sorry for the obvious troll bait. But comeon people... First off, PCs have TONS of electromagnets in them. Ever put a screwdriver up to the small speaker often found in cases? It sticks!!!111oneone. WTF do you think all of the motors in the computer are powered by?
Not to mention it's beyond fakery, and you can't get out more power than you put in.
Holy crap, this is the most craptastic crap-fest I've ever seen on Slashdot.
-Jesse
Still incorrect though. Using this logic, you could hook one motor to another, using one as a generator. Take the power from the generator, and use it to power the first motor, which makes more wattage than you put in, which spins the armature faster, which makes more current... Until you have an infinitely fast spinning infinite energy generator.
It's fake if this is true, I can't get to the article to verify myself.
-Jesse
The real Mini, or the new BMW biggie?
-Jesse
Ya know, I had the same thought :D
no... really...
-Jesse
Did you read the article? It said that in Washington, a guy in an ICQ conversation got caught in much the same way, but by default ICQ comes with logging enabled, which the guy must have known, and thus, that was his form of concent of recording the conversation. So, apparently if your software does that by default, you're in the clear.
-Jesse
Well... What I'm thinking of is this: You originally have two "black boxes" one sending photons, and the other receiving. I'm assuming that the receiving black box can actually read the info it's supposed to be getting, right?
Now... Assume you wanted to transmit that data further than the 100 km. the spec lays out. You would need three black boxes, one in the middle to receive from the first, and re-transmit the data as photons to the next black box.
Can that be done? Or am I just lacking in knowledge about quantum physics (which I know I am, but I like to think I have some grasp of it). What I was proposing is that someone wanting to intercept the key could just break the line, play "man-in-the-middle", and to each side, it looks like the photons are getting through un-molested.
-Jesse
I was looking at this, and reading about it, and read how you cannot determine the state of the photons without changing their state, so someone cannot "watch" the photons fly past without affecting them. I'm assuming the black box on the other end is somehow able to read the original photons correctly?
However... What if someone were to have their own "black box", break the fiberoptic line, put one end into the receiver of their black box, and the other end out. That way you wouldn't be watching the photons go by, and affecting them. You could read them with your own black box, then re-transmit the correct photon.
Admittedly, this would be expensive, but if you are in dire need of reading something that had to be secured with quantum encryption, then money probably isn't of much concern.
Is this an incorrect assumption, or analysis on my part? I'm not a quantum physicist by any means, but I couldn't glean enough info from the articles to tell otherwise.
-Jesse
Will someone find out MS managed to make ascii text files a vulnerability?
YARR!
I never thought I'd be in with this crowd, but I'm looking to "make the switch" soon...
-Jesse
Wow... That's some interesting thinking right there. What a neat concept (though I was thinking more along the lines of F-zero when you mentioned it, hehe).
-Jesse
I'm currently involved in writing assembly for my car's ECU. It's a 92 DSM Turbo AWD. The difficult thing is it's a proprietary OEM variant of a Motorola HC11, with lots of unknown opcodes, but there's a good movement to try and figure them all out. Right now, I've written a stutterbox, and other people have figured out where all of the timing, and fuel maps are, and where the variables for injector sizes are. It's pretty great. Writing assembly is fun, and ha>0ring my car is even more fun :)
-Jesse
LIBRIe It's acronym / prefix / postfix / marketing schluck gone horribly wrong! how the hell do you pronounce this? lie-bry-e? li-bree-ee? WTF marketers! K.I.S.S. -Jesse
That is one of the most frightening things I have ever set eyes on in my entire life. I can't imagine that a baby would have been even _more_ terrifying. Look at the cover of the book. It resembles the aliens from "Mars Attacks" to me. Also, according to the article, Frankenstein is a robot? I always thought he was a meat-bag like us? And, do we all have to refer to the hour-too-long movie "AI" every time Artificial Intelligence is referenced? Would it be infringement otherwise? Yeesh, I can't stop looking at that train wreck of a face... haunt me all night. -Jesse
Congratulations, you've passed the test! Though your sarcasm-detector seems to have failed catastrophically.