are radio frequency transmitting/receiving communication devices using digitized packet switching, which simulate copper-wire based telephone service but fails due to the lack of true full duplex and high latency.
For those of you who are too young to remember talking on a 20th century circuit-switching copper landline telephone system, I will describe the experience: it was like talking to another person in real life. You talk and they talk, sometimes simultaneously, and both parties could hear and understand everything... in real time.
I also remember gas was 95 cents a gallon back in 1995. Now get off my lawn.
and the old guard is regulated by federal consumer protection laws... they have to remove your bad credit after 7 years and give you a free report every year, etc.
unfortunately Ender's Game didn't age well. It was awesome when I read it in the early 90's. Now, not so sure.
Some of the main plot points depend on us believing that a smart psychopath 13-year old assumes great powers by posting wise articles on the Net. Well the Net is really here, and we have Slashdot and Twitter and blogs... we can post wisdom until cows come home and no great powers will have been gained.
Radar instruments on orbiting spacecraft allow some study of the ice, but close-up observations are needed to confirm any findings, says Speyerer.
Why don't they put a satellite in a really close orbit around the moon and take a look with color cameras? By close I mean like 1km altitude (as opposed to earth satellites which need several hundred km altitude due to the atmosphere).
Ice is white, lunar surface is dark, should be easy to know for sure.
Yes because computerizing stuff increases efficiency. Look under the hood of your car, all those chips and sensors are helping your engine make a lot more horsepower for the same amount of fuel than engines from 30 years ago. (Or, same amount of power for less fuel consumption)
What we should really be asking is, does everything need to connect to the internet? And is enabling USB ports on critical systems so that workers can bring infected USB stick from home to bridge an air gap a good idea?
Element 115, for example, can be bombarded with protons to create element 116.... which is unstable and immediately decays, releasing antimatter. This antimatter is used in a total annihilation reaction to fuel the spacecraft.
Thousand years from now, someone looking at computer data storage devices might be completely oblivious to what they were meant for.
"Ah, those crazy ancient people, obsessed with making ornamental plastic/metal boxes!"
I would say from an archeological perspective, any digital archive that requires a computer to read is a big no-no. Stone tablets are good, as even in the worst dark ages people will understand their purpose (even if they can't decipher the text). However stone tablets are limited in data density, so you can't write much on them.
I propose writing on titanium or aluminum sheets. Most of the writing would be in tiny microscopic font to get some decent data density -- like microfilm of the 80's, but with better long-term durability.
On the first page we could put normal-size writing as sort of a primer. Then the text would get progressively smaller until it's microfilm-sized, so the reader would get the point that the rest of the tablet is in tiny letters. We could put a diagram explaining the properties of a magnifying glass, and how to make one.
Subsidy does not mean what you think it means. Protip: government agency buying desktops from Dell is not a subsidy. Even though Dell is "building private profit" with your tax dollars.
yeah those are pretty common. But personally they annoy me because anyone can DOS your account.
This is what happened to me: somebody tried to log into my online game account (called MapleSEA) and failed multiple times, so my account got locked down automatically. I had to call them on the phone (they're located in Singapore) and try to convince them that I'm the real owner and that they should open my account again. Which was not easy because they wanted my national ID number, which I don't have because I'm not a Singaporean... (when I initially registered, I just made up a fake one which I couldn't remember).
I think an IP-based login tracking system would be better to prevent this type of a hassle. Every time a failed login attempt takes place, system keeps track of the IP address. After X number of failed logins from that IP address, system bans that IP address for, say, 60 minutes.
Here is an informative article, a must-read if you're interested in diamonds. It's old (written in 1982) but everything still applies. In fact it's amazing that the public still hasn't gotten wise to the diamond racket in the 30 years since the article.
get off your little couches and your home gaming rigs, and find someone outside the office.
Church is recommended for the ~1% of Slashdotters who actually have a religion. Lots of normal females to meet there.
For the 99% who are atheists, I recommend music. If you played a musical instrument in middle/high school, go to a local community college and enroll in a performing class. If you're actually (still) proficient, you can join some kind of a community orchestra.
There was no SF Bay when that mammoth was walking around. Evil humans hadn't begun changing the climate and melting glaciers yet, so the sea level was at its optimum. SF and NY were hundreds of miles inland, so real estate prices were affordable. Chicago was under several kilometers of ice, thank goodness.
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as much as Google likes to believe its algorithms are infallible, they're not.
are radio frequency transmitting/receiving communication devices using digitized packet switching, which simulate copper-wire based telephone service but fails due to the lack of true full duplex and high latency.
For those of you who are too young to remember talking on a 20th century circuit-switching copper landline telephone system, I will describe the experience: it was like talking to another person in real life. You talk and they talk, sometimes simultaneously, and both parties could hear and understand everything... in real time.
I also remember gas was 95 cents a gallon back in 1995. Now get off my lawn.
and the old guard is regulated by federal consumer protection laws... they have to remove your bad credit after 7 years and give you a free report every year, etc.
unfortunately Ender's Game didn't age well. It was awesome when I read it in the early 90's. Now, not so sure.
Some of the main plot points depend on us believing that a smart psychopath 13-year old assumes great powers by posting wise articles on the Net. Well the Net is really here, and we have Slashdot and Twitter and blogs... we can post wisdom until cows come home and no great powers will have been gained.
and after it disappears as many dot-coms do, you won't have to hear about it again either.
maybe Diaspora can have the perverts.
but they don't know for sure.
Radar instruments on orbiting spacecraft allow some study of the ice, but close-up observations are needed to confirm any findings, says Speyerer.
Why don't they put a satellite in a really close orbit around the moon and take a look with color cameras? By close I mean like 1km altitude (as opposed to earth satellites which need several hundred km altitude due to the atmosphere).
Ice is white, lunar surface is dark, should be easy to know for sure.
how this happen in a freedom-loving liberal socialist paradise such as Sweden? I thought only evil USA does stuff like this.
that's great and all, but wake me up when the monkeys can sprout adamantium claws.
Yes because computerizing stuff increases efficiency. Look under the hood of your car, all those chips and sensors are helping your engine make a lot more horsepower for the same amount of fuel than engines from 30 years ago. (Or, same amount of power for less fuel consumption)
What we should really be asking is, does everything need to connect to the internet? And is enabling USB ports on critical systems so that workers can bring infected USB stick from home to bridge an air gap a good idea?
Element 115, for example, can be bombarded with protons to create element 116.... which is unstable and immediately decays, releasing antimatter. This antimatter is used in a total annihilation reaction to fuel the spacecraft.
there was only one true screen resolution: 640 x 480
Back then the only thing you had to worry about was whether to support 256 colors or stick with 16.
according to TFA, Toys R Us copied their butterfly-shaped case, not rectangle. See pic in TFA.
Thousand years from now, someone looking at computer data storage devices might be completely oblivious to what they were meant for.
"Ah, those crazy ancient people, obsessed with making ornamental plastic/metal boxes!"
I would say from an archeological perspective, any digital archive that requires a computer to read is a big no-no. Stone tablets are good, as even in the worst dark ages people will understand their purpose (even if they can't decipher the text). However stone tablets are limited in data density, so you can't write much on them.
I propose writing on titanium or aluminum sheets. Most of the writing would be in tiny microscopic font to get some decent data density -- like microfilm of the 80's, but with better long-term durability.
On the first page we could put normal-size writing as sort of a primer. Then the text would get progressively smaller until it's microfilm-sized, so the reader would get the point that the rest of the tablet is in tiny letters. We could put a diagram explaining the properties of a magnifying glass, and how to make one.
Greek government is blaspheming against Zeus, the true god of Greece. Time to arrest them all and put Sam Worthington (son of Zeus) in charge.
George Lucas is in jail??!
Subsidy does not mean what you think it means. Protip: government agency buying desktops from Dell is not a subsidy. Even though Dell is "building private profit" with your tax dollars.
yeah those are pretty common. But personally they annoy me because anyone can DOS your account.
This is what happened to me: somebody tried to log into my online game account (called MapleSEA) and failed multiple times, so my account got locked down automatically. I had to call them on the phone (they're located in Singapore) and try to convince them that I'm the real owner and that they should open my account again. Which was not easy because they wanted my national ID number, which I don't have because I'm not a Singaporean... (when I initially registered, I just made up a fake one which I couldn't remember).
I think an IP-based login tracking system would be better to prevent this type of a hassle. Every time a failed login attempt takes place, system keeps track of the IP address. After X number of failed logins from that IP address, system bans that IP address for, say, 60 minutes.
for failed login attempt checks. This can be bypassed simply by using a different cookie each time, and brute-forcing can take place.
They should've used an IP-based check maybe?
article submitter's name sounds familiar... can't quite place my finger on it though.
Remember the old MS Slashdot icon? That was Bill wearing one of these!
Here is an informative article, a must-read if you're interested in diamonds. It's old (written in 1982) but everything still applies. In fact it's amazing that the public still hasn't gotten wise to the diamond racket in the 30 years since the article.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you-ever-tried-to-sell-a-diamond/304575/1/?google_editors_picks=true
get off your little couches and your home gaming rigs, and find someone outside the office.
Church is recommended for the ~1% of Slashdotters who actually have a religion. Lots of normal females to meet there.
For the 99% who are atheists, I recommend music. If you played a musical instrument in middle/high school, go to a local community college and enroll in a performing class. If you're actually (still) proficient, you can join some kind of a community orchestra.
1. write an app that disguises streaming porn as a DNS request
2. ???
3. Profit!
There was no SF Bay when that mammoth was walking around. Evil humans hadn't begun changing the climate and melting glaciers yet, so the sea level was at its optimum. SF and NY were hundreds of miles inland, so real estate prices were affordable. Chicago was under several kilometers of ice, thank goodness.
All in all, a wonderful time.