I recall an incident at an Australian military base recently where some guy shot at a friend assuming that he was firing blanks, and discovered one ohnosecond later that he was firing live rounds. On that occasion blank rounds were banned completely so that the users could assume that any ammo is live ammo. Its safer that way. Even safer to never fire at a human, unless you mean too.
For one thing OS X is a *nix, with full shell/root access. Tricky to lock that down, not to mention all the people who use it because of that would quickly switch to Linux.
So are the iPhone, etc. The only difference is the ability to boot the hardware from a device which will install a different OS. Maybe future macintoshes won't let you do that.
they'll be calling your upstream carrier within a couple of minutes to get your BGP session shut down
I wonder what would happen if there were no voice circuits anymore and everybody used VOIP? Would network operators use dedicated radio circuits to coordinate operations? I have this vision of them pulling up their own 80 metre antennas to ensure voice communication or maybe RTTY.
Reportedly many communities in Alaska are serviced by power generated by massive diesel generators.
Well of course they are. Diesel is the default conservative power source for remote communities in Australia but photovoltaics are moving in. Solar power may not work as well in Alaska but wind power may do the job instead. Combine that with a BoB and you have a good reliable power supply.
I spent 75 aud on a robot arm kit from Jaycar. 20 aud on an atmel atmega8 and about 20 aud on transistors, etc. That and about a weeks work got me a robot which can feed my fish when I am away from home.
Staying with the atmel idea I could build an eye to detect spots of light with a mechanically scanning photodiode. Then the robot arm just has to push a lever left and right.
The main limitation is that the plastic gears in the robot arm are not good for continuous operation. I have considered squirting lubricant into them but I expect their life is limited.
Maybe this could be an offshoot of my sexbot construction project.
Well you got modded down as you presumably intended but your post is still going to be archived. I like the fact that short of extreme measures from the CoS and dodgy database design posts on/. stay there forever.
I didn't like the ability of editors to delete posts from Technocrat yet I posted there. I don't like it on boing boing either.
A moderation system is a better way to suppress posts.
Perhaps Slashdot should be included. But as a counter example.
But then if a slashdot post refers to a Library of Congress as a unit for measuring data, that actual post will change the definition of a LoC so the LoC could never be meaningful on slashdot anymore.
There is no practical way to generate enough light to alert people on the ground of an approaching disaster. At best they would see a bright light if they looked in the right direction.
But.
Solar sails in orbit could be used to illuminate the surface of the Earth and I have seen proposals to use them to illuminate disaster areas where infrastructure has been destroyed. The idea was to give people light to work by until the sun comes up but I suppose you could illuminate the location of an anticipated disaster in advance and give people a warning of sorts.
But these days mobile phones are all over the place and can be used to warn people. If you want to predict the part of the tsunami then something which can get the Doppler shift from water a metre or so under the surface would be invaluable. Maybe a long wave radar, in orbit and pointing down.
This was to set a humerus in place. It was way out of position before that. The ends didn't meet.
That's pretty funny!
Two weeks earlier I had been to my GP (my normal doctor) because I was having balance problems. He said stay off the bike for a while and I said no way I'll be fine. So I turn up at his office with a huge cast and prescriptions for serious pain killers. Both of us had to try hard not to laugh. It wasn't easy.
My experience was medical and the dose was high enough to pretty much knock me out.
But I did get high after a CT scan once, presumably because of the contrast they dripped into me. To this day nobody has been able to explain how it happened.
But at the time I did notice that the nurses who put the drip in got to work late and gave more attention to a conversation about what one of them had done last night than to the job at hand, so maybe a mistake was made.
Slashdot Mirror
Okay, I could see a problem if it were a female breast ... but who the fuck thinks that sending a picture of a male breast is "sexting"?
Women? Gay people?
Now we have LZO, an algorithm that has relatively poor compression
No kidding. We compress trace files with LZO at my day job and the compressed versions still have large human readable chunks.
You'll be surprised, but WebOS and Android are the same OS. It's just applications which makes it look different.
And the shell
Once I write something, Free or not Free, I prefer that it stays written, unless there are good reasons for the underlying system to change.
I'm not worried! A lot of the info I have posted online is false!
Including this?
I have seen it on cable TV in Korea. Whole channels dedicated to computer gaming with commentators, etc.
I recall an incident at an Australian military base recently where some guy shot at a friend assuming that he was firing blanks, and discovered one ohnosecond later that he was firing live rounds. On that occasion blank rounds were banned completely so that the users could assume that any ammo is live ammo. Its safer that way. Even safer to never fire at a human, unless you mean too.
Apple's policies in now way effect other platforms.
Yes they do. I bought an openmoko and an HTC+android phone because of apple.
Incidently and OT: I wonder if apple have seen palmtop devices sold under the name "Apple Tree" in Malaysia?
For one thing OS X is a *nix, with full shell/root access. Tricky to lock that down, not to mention all the people who use it because of that would quickly switch to Linux.
So are the iPhone, etc. The only difference is the ability to boot the hardware from a device which will install a different OS. Maybe future macintoshes won't let you do that.
they'll be calling your upstream carrier within a couple of minutes to get your BGP session shut down
I wonder what would happen if there were no voice circuits anymore and everybody used VOIP? Would network operators use dedicated radio circuits to coordinate operations? I have this vision of them pulling up their own 80 metre antennas to ensure voice communication or maybe RTTY.
Uranium is fossil fuel, and will run out eventually.
Yeah that kit is not very precise. But fun to experiment with all the same.
Reportedly many communities in Alaska are serviced by power generated by massive diesel generators.
Well of course they are. Diesel is the default conservative power source for remote communities in Australia but photovoltaics are moving in. Solar power may not work as well in Alaska but wind power may do the job instead. Combine that with a BoB and you have a good reliable power supply.
I spent 75 aud on a robot arm kit from Jaycar. 20 aud on an atmel atmega8 and about 20 aud on transistors, etc. That and about a weeks work got me a robot which can feed my fish when I am away from home.
Staying with the atmel idea I could build an eye to detect spots of light with a mechanically scanning photodiode. Then the robot arm just has to push a lever left and right.
The main limitation is that the plastic gears in the robot arm are not good for continuous operation. I have considered squirting lubricant into them but I expect their life is limited.
Maybe this could be an offshoot of my sexbot construction project.
fell from the roof of his Los Angeles apartment.
Just like a falling asteroid no less.
Well you got modded down as you presumably intended but your post is still going to be archived. I like the fact that short of extreme measures from the CoS and dodgy database design posts on /. stay there forever.
I didn't like the ability of editors to delete posts from Technocrat yet I posted there. I don't like it on boing boing either.
A moderation system is a better way to suppress posts.
Perhaps Slashdot should be included. But as a counter example.
But then if a slashdot post refers to a Library of Congress as a unit for measuring data, that actual post will change the definition of a LoC so the LoC could never be meaningful on slashdot anymore.
Are you crazy? That sub is nothing more than a bunch of lines now.
Squiggly ones at that.
Yeah also I thought about using little ROVs to pull airbags into the interior, then inflating them once secured.
Looks like they could just patch a few holes and pump air in to refloat it.
(and yeah that might just be how it looks).
There is no practical way to generate enough light to alert people on the ground of an approaching disaster. At best they would see a bright light if they looked in the right direction.
But.
Solar sails in orbit could be used to illuminate the surface of the Earth and I have seen proposals to use them to illuminate disaster areas where infrastructure has been destroyed. The idea was to give people light to work by until the sun comes up but I suppose you could illuminate the location of an anticipated disaster in advance and give people a warning of sorts.
But these days mobile phones are all over the place and can be used to warn people. If you want to predict the part of the tsunami then something which can get the Doppler shift from water a metre or so under the surface would be invaluable. Maybe a long wave radar, in orbit and pointing down.
This was to set a humerus in place. It was way out of position before that. The ends didn't meet.
That's pretty funny!
Two weeks earlier I had been to my GP (my normal doctor) because I was having balance problems. He said stay off the bike for a while and I said no way I'll be fine. So I turn up at his office with a huge cast and prescriptions for serious pain killers. Both of us had to try hard not to laugh. It wasn't easy.
My experience was medical and the dose was high enough to pretty much knock me out.
But I did get high after a CT scan once, presumably because of the contrast they dripped into me. To this day nobody has been able to explain how it happened.
But at the time I did notice that the nurses who put the drip in got to work late and gave more attention to a conversation about what one of them had done last night than to the job at hand, so maybe a mistake was made.
WMMV. It was my right humerus and putting it back in place would have been very painful.
This was to set a humerus in place. It was way out of position before that. The ends didn't meet.