everyone uses 555-xxxx phone numbers. No one can possibly have that phone number, so they can use it without fear of undue harm coming to the owner of that number.
I wanted to submit "Ask Slashdot: Best technology scene in TV or movies" As an example I suggest the scene in Contact where the alien signal is first detected. Real computers being used in realistic ways.
I take a different view. Its easy to see were the flood myths came from. No need to invoke god to explain them. And anyway. I am an Australian. The disaster happened in Japan. The influence on US politics is not really relevant.
To drill a hole in a metal surface you need to start by creating a little depression so that the drill won't slide around. A manual center punch is a short steel rod. The sharp end goes against the metal surface. The blunt end you hit with a hammer. An automatic center punch has a spring between the sharp and blunt ends. You press the blunt end so that energy collects in the spring. When sufficient energy is collected the sharp end snaps out all at once and makes the dimple in the surface. Glass is brittle and fails catastrophically under concentrated load. If your car floods you may not be able to open a window because pressure will stop it sliding. My automatic center punch cost 12 aussie bucks at a hardware store. I keep it in my van, and another in my tool kit where it actually gets used for its intended purpose.
I wonder what would had been the best move in that situation
I think the best move in a flash flood would be to stay in the car for as long as possible but retain the ability to get out when it starts to sink. Judging by the Mythbusters episode this may not be an easy thing to do. The automatic center punch seems to be the best way to break a car window for quick egress.
Toyota Hilux after watching everything they can survive on top gear
I think its the only time they used a toyota in their junk car challenges because they want cars which will break down in amusing ways.
Last time I checked, a 20-foot wave would roll over the top of most two storey houses.
Hence the boat. But I am in Melbourne anyway. The wave would have to do a 270 degree turn around the eastern Victorian coast, traverse the heads of Port Philip bay, charge up the Yarra to Dights Falls, then surge up the Merri creek to East Brunswick, by which time I expect it to be about one micron high.
Bit of a problem for Taiwan and the Philippines though,
Meaning what? Neutrinos come from the core of the sun at a constant rate. They have nothing to do with solar flares, and the Earth is mostly transparent to them anyway. If they did dump energy into the rock on a small enough scale to cause something like this, then we would feel it too, in our bodies. We don't. Most of the radiation in the flare is stopped by the magnetosphere, the atmosphere and our bodies, where it damages DNA. I would be surprised if it penetrates 10 cm into rock, let alone 25 km.
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And a backdoor login is not only plausible but a real security concern.
In my experience it is usually called toor, and the password would be guessable if I knew who created the account.
The coats were just code. Nothing in the matrix was real. Like the infinite supply of guns and ammunition.
I wondered why the air conditioning vents at the CIA had to be big enough for Jean Reno to crawl through.
everyone uses 555-xxxx phone numbers. No one can possibly have that phone number, so they can use it without fear of undue harm coming to the owner of that number.
Is that a standard in the US?
But Trinity used sshnuke
I wanted to submit "Ask Slashdot: Best technology scene in TV or movies" As an example I suggest the scene in Contact where the alien signal is first detected. Real computers being used in realistic ways.
crashing into the Earth at the end would have finished pretty much finished us completely.
Maybe their mothership wasn't built the way we would build it? What if it was mostly holograms and force fields?
They should have called Stallman.
I take a different view. Its easy to see were the flood myths came from. No need to invoke god to explain them. And anyway. I am an Australian. The disaster happened in Japan. The influence on US politics is not really relevant.
I saw mention of a threat to British Columbia.
Year just a narrow punch really. I have different punches in different sizes.
And millions of homes already without power
And trains
The city closest to the epic center
epicenter
Its an 8.8 on the 7 point scale.
To drill a hole in a metal surface you need to start by creating a little depression so that the drill won't slide around. A manual center punch is a short steel rod. The sharp end goes against the metal surface. The blunt end you hit with a hammer. An automatic center punch has a spring between the sharp and blunt ends. You press the blunt end so that energy collects in the spring. When sufficient energy is collected the sharp end snaps out all at once and makes the dimple in the surface. Glass is brittle and fails catastrophically under concentrated load. If your car floods you may not be able to open a window because pressure will stop it sliding. My automatic center punch cost 12 aussie bucks at a hardware store. I keep it in my van, and another in my tool kit where it actually gets used for its intended purpose.
Look on the bright side - if the tsunami washes over Australia at least it'll put the bushfires out.
It was closer to the part of Australia that had the massive floods. The fires were on the far side of the country.
Just what Queensland needs.
You know I wondered why there was so much salt in Lake Eyre...
I wonder what would had been the best move in that situation
I think the best move in a flash flood would be to stay in the car for as long as possible but retain the ability to get out when it starts to sink. Judging by the Mythbusters episode this may not be an easy thing to do. The automatic center punch seems to be the best way to break a car window for quick egress.
Toyota Hilux after watching everything they can survive on top gear
I think its the only time they used a toyota in their junk car challenges because they want cars which will break down in amusing ways.
Double blow for Japan. They lost those students in Chch.
I'm okay. I have a double story house
Last time I checked, a 20-foot wave would roll over the top of most two storey houses.
Hence the boat. But I am in Melbourne anyway. The wave would have to do a 270 degree turn around the eastern Victorian coast, traverse the heads of Port Philip bay, charge up the Yarra to Dights Falls, then surge up the Merri creek to East Brunswick, by which time I expect it to be about one micron high.
Bit of a problem for Taiwan and the Philippines though,
more a sudden flood from the sea.
One could say, a flood of biblical proportions.
Meaning what? Neutrinos come from the core of the sun at a constant rate. They have nothing to do with solar flares, and the Earth is mostly transparent to them anyway. If they did dump energy into the rock on a small enough scale to cause something like this, then we would feel it too, in our bodies. We don't. Most of the radiation in the flare is stopped by the magnetosphere, the atmosphere and our bodies, where it damages DNA. I would be surprised if it penetrates 10 cm into rock, let alone 25 km.
Wave after wave, each mightier than the last
'Til last, a ninth wave, gathering half the deep
And full of voices, slowly rose and plunged
Roaring and all the wave was in a flame
Tennyson, "The Holy Grail"
(though I admit I copied the quite from "The Hounds of Love, by Kate Bush".)
I was waiting for something to happen after hearing about the massive solar flare yesterday, but nothing this big.
And how is that supposed to work?
I'm okay. I have a double story house. Maybe should keep my boat on the roof.
"this kind of manufacturing is still incredibly slow and expensive. This is still proof of concept for consumer items" .
Spoken like a non-cyclist
Dunno. This just looks like a different way to make a sloppy plastic frame. I can't imagine anybody riding 100km on the bike in the article.