Now, this is more obescure then all those Farscape, Soy Green and B5 references, but what you describe sounds like one of the ways they 'built' houses in the Future of Kir Bulychev books.
Does this case have much wider implications (as summary hints at) for the software licensing at large? I haven't read the article yet, but it seems so.
Oh, right. On Linux, you just recompile your soft against security enhanced libraries et al. You have the source for most apps, and large percentage of it has patches that allow it to run in locked down environment. Still, for some things you'll have to write your own patches, I guess quite a bit of FOSS also won't run 'off the shelf' for such an environment (but does it have to? Such environments are more common in *nix, and most anything that is supposed to run on very secure boxes does). Still, if you do have something that noone else to execute in such an environment, you have much easier time doing that. In contrast on windows, you have to contact the developers of the software in question and hope the patches it will be in next release (yeah, right).
Thats Japanese we're talking about. There was a joke about ships around WW2 (and earlier) era. Where American ship has extra lavatory, Russian has an extra gun. Japanese? Two guns.
I use a really cheap Philips phone (~$30 equivalent), because I need my phone just to have conversations, and sometimes write an odd sms. And it has a huge battery life. No camera on this one. There is an FM radio (that I haven't used for about a year).
I don't know what the people there are thinking, if there are no mobile PHONES, and not Camera+MP3player+blah-blah-blah-blah-blah+'oh, it also allows you to make phonecalls!' monstrocities.
I am about half way through the article in the second link, and it is really interesting, and informative.:> Maybe not news, but it is worth your time (or at least mine).
From the article: The Russian Institute of Biophysics at the Moscow State Research Centre has been experimenting with single shocks rather than a long series. Their aim is to have an effect that is "instant or nearly so", but that incapacitates the target for a prolonged period. In tests on animals they have shown that with the right sort of electrical pulse (frequency appears to be the key), a shock lasting less than a hundredth of a second causes an electroconvulsive reaction that knocks the animal out for 20 seconds.... Western researchers have not validated the safety and effectiveness of this type of shock, but there is known to be work on similar technology in the US.... Nemtyshkin's next project, the Leyden Gun, will deliver a short shock with lasting effects... with a magazine of thirty rounds. The projectiles are simple needles rather than elaborate barbed darts, as they do not stick to the target but administer a single jolt from a high-voltage capacitor.... The lightweight darts are effective out to 30 metres... Longer range will make it harder to guarantee a hit, so the Leyden Gun can fire a burst of three shots with each trigger pull to improve the odds. -----
Oh, sounds just wonderful. 3 hits with "a single jolt from a high-voltage capacitor" that "causes an electroconvulsive reaction that knocks" you out for 20 seconds, sounds much more non lethal and less dangerous to me! [/sarcasm]
Is it just me, or does this 'burst shock', that persists longer increase the danger involved? I second this it sounds 'not so non-lethal anymore' motion.
True that, but while I don't want to imply that you must be new here, it has been used to measure almost anything, of almost any unit. For example, see below.
Yeah, true that. But, don't want to imply that you must be new here, but it has been used here on Slashdot for measuring almost anything of any unit.
See below.
Are YOU implying that it is YOU that is causing the Global Warming? I request that you kindly stop doing it, or people might start throwing rocks on you!
Yeah, but I wasn't talking about regenerative braking. AFAIK the trolleybuses (at least ones that we have here in Moscow), use active electrical braking, which is NOT regenerative.
On other hand they have different movement context. They are tethered to the power lines, and they were not designed to reach speeds, that cars can reach.
Do electromobiles use ICE style brakes? The trolleybuses (that use electric engines and have been using them since 1882) just reverses engine revolution to stop (or somesuch). Same principle could be used in electric cars as well.
Yeah, true.
But let me illustrate some: Some income reports for 2009, for State Duma deputies (including some from the Forbes richest list).
For comparison, the minimal monthly wage in Russia is 4330 rubles (thats around 96 Euros).
A lot of interesting comparisons from those numbers can be done.
“We have here a merger between a criminal element and the government power which is unacceptable and inadmissible in any civilized society,” Ponomarev wrote.
I don't see how it is much different from most of the rest of the system. In Russia, mostly the corruption is not just in the system. It is more like THE system. Quite a bit of Russian news coverage (mostly internal) is all about that.
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A flight of B-17s bombarding Redmond with air-dropped lawyers.
Hmm, Paratrooper remake with lawyers? :>
Do they serve you C&D when there are four?
Now, this is more obescure then all those Farscape, Soy Green and B5 references, but what you describe sounds like one of the ways they 'built' houses in the Future of Kir Bulychev books.
Many a PHB was made that way.
Also, it is one of the reasons that USSR crumbled [citation needed?]. ;->
For me great MMO was Underlight. :-P But that was more people based. :>
For me also a great MMO was Discworld MUD.
Does this case have much wider implications (as summary hints at) for the software licensing at large?
I haven't read the article yet, but it seems so.
Oh, right. On Linux, you just recompile your soft against security enhanced libraries et al. You have the source for most apps, and large percentage of it has patches that allow it to run in locked down environment.
Still, for some things you'll have to write your own patches, I guess quite a bit of FOSS also won't run 'off the shelf' for such an environment (but does it have to? Such environments are more common in *nix, and most anything that is supposed to run on very secure boxes does).
Still, if you do have something that noone else to execute in such an environment, you have much easier time doing that. In contrast on windows, you have to contact the developers of the software in question and hope the patches it will be in next release (yeah, right).
Thats Japanese we're talking about. There was a joke about ships around WW2 (and earlier) era. Where American ship has extra lavatory, Russian has an extra gun. Japanese? Two guns.
They were culturally indoctrinated for years for stuff like this (random link to random giant robot anime ommited). I am not surprised.
I use a really cheap Philips phone (~$30 equivalent), because I need my phone just to have conversations, and sometimes write an odd sms. And it has a huge battery life.
No camera on this one. There is an FM radio (that I haven't used for about a year).
I don't know what the people there are thinking, if there are no mobile PHONES, and not Camera+MP3player+blah-blah-blah-blah-blah+'oh, it also allows you to make phonecalls!' monstrocities.
Speak about bloatware. :>
They need some user interface insight into sorting those symbols then.
It would improve the situation, but I have to point out that Chinese and Japanese use IME for their systems of iconographic characters. :>
In my experience end users always end up as guinea pigs in real world testing, one way or ther other...
While it is bad, it is mostly inevitable.
I am about half way through the article in the second link, and it is really interesting, and informative. :>
Maybe not news, but it is worth your time (or at least mine).
Good for them. Renewable energy. Lower cooling bills.
I wonder how large the datacenter needs to be to have a significant ecological impact?
From the article: ... ... ... with a magazine of thirty rounds. The projectiles are simple needles rather than elaborate barbed darts, as they do not stick to the target but administer a single jolt from a high-voltage capacitor. ... The lightweight darts are effective out to 30 metres ... Longer range will make it harder to guarantee a hit, so the Leyden Gun can fire a burst of three shots with each trigger pull to improve the odds.
The Russian Institute of Biophysics at the Moscow State Research Centre has been experimenting with single shocks rather than a long series. Their aim is to have an effect that is "instant or nearly so", but that incapacitates the target for a prolonged period. In tests on animals they have shown that with the right sort of electrical pulse (frequency appears to be the key), a shock lasting less than a hundredth of a second causes an electroconvulsive reaction that knocks the animal out for 20 seconds.
Western researchers have not validated the safety and effectiveness of this type of shock, but there is known to be work on similar technology in the US.
Nemtyshkin's next project, the Leyden Gun, will deliver a short shock with lasting effects
-----
Oh, sounds just wonderful. 3 hits with "a single jolt from a high-voltage capacitor" that "causes an electroconvulsive reaction that knocks" you out for 20 seconds, sounds much more non lethal and less dangerous to me! [/sarcasm]
Well, even slow firing tazers aren't all that safe.
Is it just me, or does this 'burst shock', that persists longer increase the danger involved?
I second this it sounds 'not so non-lethal anymore' motion.
True that, but while I don't want to imply that you must be new here, it has been used to measure almost anything, of almost any unit.
For example, see below.
Yeah, true that. But, don't want to imply that you must be new here, but it has been used here on Slashdot for measuring almost anything of any unit. See below.
Are YOU implying that it is YOU that is causing the Global Warming? I request that you kindly stop doing it, or people might start throwing rocks on you!
I thought it was "Libraries of Congress" as the universal slashdot omni-unit measure?
Yeah, but I wasn't talking about regenerative braking. AFAIK the trolleybuses (at least ones that we have here in Moscow), use active electrical braking, which is NOT regenerative. On other hand they have different movement context. They are tethered to the power lines, and they were not designed to reach speeds, that cars can reach.
Do electromobiles use ICE style brakes? The trolleybuses (that use electric engines and have been using them since 1882) just reverses engine revolution to stop (or somesuch). Same principle could be used in electric cars as well.
If they make a flying one, I'll even look into getting myself a driverspilots license!
Yeah, but you're yelling because they don't hear you on the other end, if you're not. They're on the rock concert and all that.
Yeah, true.
But let me illustrate some:
Some income reports for 2009, for State Duma deputies (including some from the Forbes richest list).
For comparison, the minimal monthly wage in Russia is 4330 rubles (thats around 96 Euros).
A lot of interesting comparisons from those numbers can be done.
“We have here a merger between a criminal element and the government power which is unacceptable and inadmissible in any civilized society,” Ponomarev wrote. I don't see how it is much different from most of the rest of the system. In Russia, mostly the corruption is not just in the system. It is more like THE system. Quite a bit of Russian news coverage (mostly internal) is all about that.