But all it would take to reduce the idiot flux in a particular place (say my office) would be to place an idiot detecting demon at the front door. When an idiot approaches the demon closes the door. When a non-idiot approaches the demon opens the door.
Thats a good point. I had better not upset Chopper. I sometimes go to the Collingwood swap meet to buy computer bits and I wouldn't want to lose some bits in the process.
Another post says the old proximity sensor was in the location of the new camera, adjacent to your ear during the call. So maybe they should use the camera as the proximity sensor: if all the camera can see is ear, disable the buttons.
Yeah, airships should absolutely no longer be allowed to use helium for buoyancy. They ought to use hydrogen, hot-air, or, heck, even nitrogen.
Well... maybe hot nitrogen. Nitrogen at STP won't get you off the ground. But you missed an important possibility: vacuum. You just need a gas tight sphere, strong enough to take outside pressure.
Looks like I should do that before the price goes up.
Or, you could explain to him about the situation with helium that you wouldn't want to waste a rare, precious resourse that might be unavailable to future generations even for more important uses, should we continue to use it frivolously today.
Considering the amount of helium lost from weather balloons and airships I doubt my experiments will have an impact.
No thats Helium 3. The best sources of Helium are in the four gas giants but I think the price locally would have to rise by a factor in the billions to make extraction economical.
On a personal note my eight year old son asked me the other day how helium balloons work and could we get a bottle of helium to play around with. Looks like I should do that before the price goes up.
And I wonder exactly how dangerous it would be to use hydrogen for party balloons? The density in the balloon will be low, but the bottle of hydrogen might be dangerous, but possibly no worse than propane.
But note that the public transit system is also a privilege and therefore can be revoked at any time and for any reason.
If that was true where I live peoples right to use transit would be revoked all the time for being black, indian, etc. Good thing its not true. Transit officials can call the police and they can make an arrest but they have to face up in court.
>>>hat being said, the purpose of a speeding ticket is not to take away your privilege to drive.
Clearly you don't understand. A cop does not have the power to detain you, personally, but he DOES have the power to make you step out of your car, leave it by the side of the road, and walk home..... anytime he feels like it
Not where I live (Victoria, Australia). Police can arrest you but they have to justify that action in court. They can detain you in the process of investigating an offense (to do a breath test, for example) and transit officials can detain you to check your ticket. But if no offense is found they have to let you go.
This is a Problem In Chair Not In Computer problem. If users are stupid enough to respond to the iTunes phishing scams that circulate then they shouldn't be surprised when someone uses their details.
My suggestions: 1. Report any fraudulent transactions to your credit card company/bank so the transactions are stopped. And get your card cancelled. 2. Login and choose a secure password morons
But with your average person the problem is in the chair. You can give lots of good advice, but the market is still going to be corrupt because it provides avenues for theft. A corrupt market is bad for all of us.
Imagine a little rotating mirror on a chip of some kind. A photon hits it. The mirror flips into a different state and the photon goes off in a particular direction. Another photon hits it. The mirror flips again and the photon goes off in a different direction. In each case you can selectively flip the mirror back to restore the state of that "bit".
Sound good? Can we make it faster and smaller than working with electrons?
...lots of people do it in Australia, especially in work places. Maybe you get a small prize if you guess best. Anyway one year we had this French manager who won the competition by a mile. All he had was a table of match results and a copy of excel. He was also the software metrics guru so knowing how to drive the spreadsheet helped as well.
I think the secret of his success was what he left out of his model. It wasn't smart at all. Just that when teams A and B play, what is the probability that A will win, or something simple like that.
How about phones just print the dB signal loss and be done with it? A number should be far easier for someone to tell about signal strength than guessing by 0-5 bars.
Brings to mind the early Ericsson phones which reported battery condition in volts.
Don't post mercurial repositories to slashdot. Its a fantastic version control system and I use it for all my personal work and a lot of my professional stuff, but exposing a python runtime to slashdotting is not going to work very well.
If I did it again I would just point directly to the source files and let anybody who really needs to see the revision history search for it.
The wiki article describes Diaspora as an open source personal web server, but for a lot of people their home machine, if they have one, is about the most insecure place to put things. For a lot of other people they have a work machine they never install stuff on, and an iphone, on which the userland belongs to Steve Jobs.
I have a personal web server. It serves http and rss. But I am not normal and I can't see myself installing this thing.
Slashdot Mirror
But all it would take to reduce the idiot flux in a particular place (say my office) would be to place an idiot detecting demon at the front door. When an idiot approaches the demon closes the door. When a non-idiot approaches the demon opens the door.
Now to explain this to management...
Replace the atmosphere with water and floating becomes dead easy.
Thats a good point. I had better not upset Chopper. I sometimes go to the Collingwood swap meet to buy computer bits and I wouldn't want to lose some bits in the process.
Another post says the old proximity sensor was in the location of the new camera, adjacent to your ear during the call. So maybe they should use the camera as the proximity sensor: if all the camera can see is ear, disable the buttons.
Yeah, airships should absolutely no longer be allowed to use helium for buoyancy. They ought to use hydrogen, hot-air, or, heck, even nitrogen.
Well... maybe hot nitrogen. Nitrogen at STP won't get you off the ground. But you missed an important possibility: vacuum. You just need a gas tight sphere, strong enough to take outside pressure.
Looks like I should do that before the price goes up.
Or, you could explain to him about the situation with helium that you wouldn't want to waste a rare, precious resourse that might be unavailable to future generations even for more important uses, should we continue to use it frivolously today.
Considering the amount of helium lost from weather balloons and airships I doubt my experiments will have an impact.
No thats Helium 3. The best sources of Helium are in the four gas giants but I think the price locally would have to rise by a factor in the billions to make extraction economical.
On a personal note my eight year old son asked me the other day how helium balloons work and could we get a bottle of helium to play around with. Looks like I should do that before the price goes up.
And I wonder exactly how dangerous it would be to use hydrogen for party balloons? The density in the balloon will be low, but the bottle of hydrogen might be dangerous, but possibly no worse than propane.
But note that the public transit system is also a privilege and therefore can be revoked at any time and for any reason.
If that was true where I live peoples right to use transit would be revoked all the time for being black, indian, etc. Good thing its not true. Transit officials can call the police and they can make an arrest but they have to face up in court.
>>>hat being said, the purpose of a speeding ticket is not to take away your privilege to drive.
Clearly you don't understand. A cop does not have the power to detain you, personally, but he DOES have the power to make you step out of your car, leave it by the side of the road, and walk home..... anytime he feels like it
Not where I live (Victoria, Australia). Police can arrest you but they have to justify that action in court. They can detain you in the process of investigating an offense (to do a breath test, for example) and transit officials can detain you to check your ticket. But if no offense is found they have to let you go.
You only get to that pressure if you have a diamond anvil. If you want to store enough to power a car you will need one hell of an anvil.
Why don't they just use an international cymbal
Too loud.
Brings to mind those "OUTGOING" posts we used to see. Could it have been a key distribution system?
Everyone knows the numbers from 0-9 too, but that doesn't mean we should go back to using numbers only instead of domain names.
Numbers work fine for me.
Joe Biden? I thought you were in Iraq?
This is a Problem In Chair Not In Computer problem. If users are stupid enough to respond to the iTunes phishing scams that circulate then they shouldn't be surprised when someone uses their details.
My suggestions:
1. Report any fraudulent transactions to your credit card company/bank so the transactions are stopped. And get your card cancelled.
2. Login and choose a secure password morons
But with your average person the problem is in the chair. You can give lots of good advice, but the market is still going to be corrupt because it provides avenues for theft. A corrupt market is bad for all of us.
Nothing prevents a C program to be translated to Java bytecode
...or running the executable in a virtual machine.
I think I can hear it now.
Imagine a little rotating mirror on a chip of some kind. A photon hits it. The mirror flips into a different state and the photon goes off in a particular direction. Another photon hits it. The mirror flips again and the photon goes off in a different direction. In each case you can selectively flip the mirror back to restore the state of that "bit".
Sound good? Can we make it faster and smaller than working with electrons?
...lots of people do it in Australia, especially in work places. Maybe you get a small prize if you guess best. Anyway one year we had this French manager who won the competition by a mile. All he had was a table of match results and a copy of excel. He was also the software metrics guru so knowing how to drive the spreadsheet helped as well.
I think the secret of his success was what he left out of his model. It wasn't smart at all. Just that when teams A and B play, what is the probability that A will win, or something simple like that.
How about phones just print the dB signal loss and be done with it? A number should be far easier for someone to tell about signal strength than guessing by 0-5 bars.
Brings to mind the early Ericsson phones which reported battery condition in volts.
Careful there: a whole bunch of fanboys will start keeping their phones in the fridge for a better facebook experience.
Don't post mercurial repositories to slashdot. Its a fantastic version control system and I use it for all my personal work and a lot of my professional stuff, but exposing a python runtime to slashdotting is not going to work very well.
If I did it again I would just point directly to the source files and let anybody who really needs to see the revision history search for it.
And people: please go light on this server.
Thats the word I wanted.
The wiki article describes Diaspora as an open source personal web server, but for a lot of people their home machine, if they have one, is about the most insecure place to put things. For a lot of other people they have a work machine they never install stuff on, and an iphone, on which the userland belongs to Steve Jobs.
I have a personal web server. It serves http and rss. But I am not normal and I can't see myself installing this thing.
Fuck that risk, I'll just send up a Roomba instead.
-Neil Armstrong
But how do you empty out the moon dust.
Window washers may also want to carry around a UPS on their backs.
Or a parachute.