Please accept my sincere apology for this travesty. Rest assured, several spell checkers have been uninstalled with extreme prejudice as an example to others.
Yes, but those results are for a water impact, not land. Impact on water is vastly different against a land hit, where debris ejection is a certainty regardless of asteroid composition due to this ones size.
I used the water inputs since that is what constitutes majority of the planet's surface, thus most likely outcome. I would also assume that small rock hitting water will produce more casulties than same small rock hitting land, since tsunami will be global rather than local damage impact. These numbers are aiming at the worst results of the most probably case.
Also, there is that 22.1ft amplitude tsunami at the 100km link. Pretty good surf at the beach, if your up for it! Did you even read your links all the way through?
Yes, I did see the 7 meter tsunami wave in the results, but that does not sound very significant. Sure standing on the beach will be deadly, but it shouldn't make it that far ashore. 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were 30 meter waves. 2011 TÅhoku trunami was 40 meters. Compared to these numbers, that is not impressive at all!
Come on Samantha, come to our rescue! Please put the information into simple terms and give us a car analogy because this summary badly needs one.
Is caffein like normal unleaded fuel which you need lots to acheive top performance.and exercise is high octane thus more efficient to get the same results? What are those Metabolic Genes? Are they like accellerator inputs to the engine? Help us out!
- We are hit with 140 meters perfect sphere of dense stone - Speed of projectile is 17 km/s (Calculator states that it is the typical speed for asteroid impace) - Entry angle of 45% (Again based on the caluculator stated most likely) - Rock lands into 1000 meter depth water. Random figure
140 meters diameter doesn't sound like much. Depends on the composition and speed, it will be reduced even further before making it to the ground. I immagine it shouldn't be much worse than a Tunguska event and seeing how majority of the planet is uninhabited, chances are good that no major number of lifes will be lost.
And if it occurs at a location where we can monitor/record, it will bring awareness that rocks in space do indeed end up on our planet in our lifetimes, thus worthwile to think about. Therefore having this pebble hit us might not be such a bad thing after all.
If you tell someone that the government is putting up cameras on street corners, most people shrug it off, but if you say that the government is putting up cameras that record their every move at a nearby intersection, they get interested. If you tell them that the government is reading people's emails to stop terrorists, they don't mind - but if you tell them that their personal email is being read they suddenly take interest.
Telling someone something for the fifteenth time means you aren't getting the message through. Try using a different message to get the same meaning across:)
That just sounds like manipulation to get them on your side. Essentially you are morphing the neutral fact ("Government is putting up cameras on street corners") into a fear-inducing statement ("Government is putting up cameras that record your every move at a nearby intersection"). This is the very definition of FUD.
Thus the question becomes: Is FUD and propaganda the only way to reach an apathetic person? Will this work on people that are exhausted from all the constant sensational bombartment from the media?
True for porn as well, only difference that it is still passable without the sound.
Try it. With just the sound of moaning/screaming/etc your immagination will fill in the rest of the experience in some instances much better than the same-old penetrated plastic-boobs dolls. You can substitue whatever turns you on to the sound quite effectively. Now try to do the same without the sound and you will really notice its absence. You will tend to focus much more on the face of the actors trying to almost lip-read their expressions with your immagination.
So yeah... This really is quite a strange site to have such a conversation happening.
In this fast paced platformer RPG set in a medieval world where magic-meets-steampunk our protagonist has been badly injured when Cyborg Raiders ransacked her home and killed her parents. Facing foreclosure of her inherited property due to her inability to work, she decides to take up a crazy inventor's proposition have her wooden peg-leg replaced with a cybernetic ethereal-piston driven leg which allows her to leap tall buildings in a single bound, skate short distances at great speeds, and much more through its power slots & upgrades.
While our heroin quests to pay back her debt to the inventor, she uncovers a dark plot to end all magic and science in the name of purity. Will she seek revenge on the all cyborgs for her parents deaths, will she delve into the depths of wizardry and/or cybernetics in the process, find peaceful balance in them both, or forever remain a troubled self loathing wretch while seeking any form of purity while not being fully human, cybernetic or ethereal?
Reads almost but not quite the setting of Arcanum. If you haven't played it: Get it.
Very old game for PS1. Horrible graphics, terrible gameplay but awesome story and atmosphere. Storytelling was mostly done through cinematics and voice overs.
Despite all its flaws, I consider it a great game and replayed it several times. Shame that all the sequels were just terrible.
Or hey, take Alpha Centauri, and the quotes in it.
You are a very evil person.
It took me years to get back on track with my life after that legendary perfection of a game absolutely consumed me. Now with that single sentence you brought it all back, all the memories that I worked so long to supress. Now I know that when I get back from work and install it, no one will hear from me for months!
But I will have my revenge on you: Planescape Torment. Play that and you too will be gripped kicking and screaming until you complete it several times over. After that get your hands on Freespace 2. Both games have absolutely unbelivably good story and awesome gameplay with the perfect balance between both. You can get them from Good Old Games.
Author of this article needs to play at least the following:
- Thief 1 or 2 - System Shock 2 - Planescape Torment - Deus Ex - Alpha Centauri - The Longest Journey
and then be asked again if having a story is detrimental or if it adds a dimention of awesomeness of its own.
Security researchers really are the unsung heroes.
If there are anyone reading Slashdot who works in that area: I would like to express my deepest gratitude for all the efforts you go through in combatting this global problem. Thank you so much for making the web a less shit place to be.
By far the biggest hurdle to overcome is people's apathy.
There is revolution talk here in nearly every YRO story. Does anything comes out of it? Maybe Slashdoters are passionate, but we are the minority compared to the population at large. Not to mention that noone outside of tech circles gives a shit about the functioning of Internet or the government policies towards it. Do you honestly expect people to put their lives on a line because of government regulations towards these computer thingies?
Until the police state will start to really affect everyday basic living, don't expect to see anything changed. Hell, TSA are molesting people in airports and asking for papers on roads and trains and I haven't even heard of any protests against it!
Another annoying thing about these revolution threads is that they keep going on about the fighting, but never what happens after. What happens after you shoot all the current authority figures and their pets?
What will be the new policies? Who will be the new leaders and how will they be different? What will be the new safeguards that will prevent the same issues as the previous ways? What things will be changed? How is the new regime be better than the old? What are the detailed plans for the new governement structure? Why are your ideals worth dying for? Etc.
If someone can come up with extensive, comprehensive and thorough answers to the above questions and have some charisma, then you might have a start to try to work on people's apathy and conservatism. Without this it is all just talk that can go on without any change for decades.
I am curious about the origin of the sacrificial goat expression. Whenever there is any talk of non-human sacrifice it is this particular animal that is immediately brought up. Is it because goats are more commonly available? Why not cows? If I remember correctly, the bible mentions male sheep as the sacrifices used. So where did the goat originate from?
I know that if I was a god, I would prefer something more exotic and harder to obtain in order for my followers to prove their devotion. Farm animals and humans are so easily obtained that it would be boring and routine. For my sacrifices I would require something rare like an albino tiger or dangerous to obtain like young, fully grown elephant. My blessings are not cheap!
Basically, if you've ever had a loan or grant, credit card, bank account, paid a utility bill, child support or been in prison then we have that data. Your address, phone number, social security number, bank account information, etc.
The majority of this information is stored unencrypted on systems that are accessible to any employee, often with 777 permissions. While the majority of the systems are patched pretty regularly, many aren't. I recently had to convert over an old apache 1.3 server that hadn't been patched since 2006 - there's another similar server that is regularly used by outside contributors to drop off customer information.
Well, looks like I won't be able to sleep ever again.
What country is this in? My only hope is that it is not where I reside and things are much more secure here. Please don't shatter my illusion! Looks like ignorance really is bliss.
Reminds me of a Russian folk tale where a guy convinces a stingy woman to give him all the soup ingredients by telling her that a woodsmen axe is an integral part of the recipy.
Slashdot Mirror
Please accept my sincere apology for this travesty. Rest assured, several spell checkers have been uninstalled with extreme prejudice as an example to others.
Yes, but those results are for a water impact, not land. Impact on water is vastly different against a land hit, where debris ejection is a certainty regardless of asteroid composition due to this ones size.
I used the water inputs since that is what constitutes majority of the planet's surface, thus most likely outcome. I would also assume that small rock hitting water will produce more casulties than same small rock hitting land, since tsunami will be global rather than local damage impact. These numbers are aiming at the worst results of the most probably case.
Also, there is that 22.1ft amplitude tsunami at the 100km link. Pretty good surf at the beach, if your up for it! Did you even read your links all the way through?
Yes, I did see the 7 meter tsunami wave in the results, but that does not sound very significant. Sure standing on the beach will be deadly, but it shouldn't make it that far ashore. 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were 30 meter waves. 2011 TÅhoku trunami was 40 meters. Compared to these numbers, that is not impressive at all!
Right. She is still with us and active.
Come on Samantha, come to our rescue! Please put the information into simple terms and give us a car analogy because this summary badly needs one.
Is caffein like normal unleaded fuel which you need lots to acheive top performance.and exercise is high octane thus more efficient to get the same results? What are those Metabolic Genes? Are they like accellerator inputs to the engine? Help us out!
True, but the remaining variables are the composition and how much actually makes it down to the surface.
Lets use some numbers in the calculator from the quick Google search:
http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/
- We are hit with 140 meters perfect sphere of dense stone
- Speed of projectile is 17 km/s (Calculator states that it is the typical speed for asteroid impace)
- Entry angle of 45% (Again based on the caluculator stated most likely)
- Rock lands into 1000 meter depth water. Random figure
Results:
1 km away
20 km away
100 km away
Reading the descriptions, it honestly doesn't sound like such a calamity. At 100 km distance it is hardly felt.
140 meters diameter doesn't sound like much. Depends on the composition and speed, it will be reduced even further before making it to the ground. I immagine it shouldn't be much worse than a Tunguska event and seeing how majority of the planet is uninhabited, chances are good that no major number of lifes will be lost.
And if it occurs at a location where we can monitor/record, it will bring awareness that rocks in space do indeed end up on our planet in our lifetimes, thus worthwile to think about. Therefore having this pebble hit us might not be such a bad thing after all.
Yeah, where's that "I am a biologist, ask me questions" person?
That is a good question. She was a very good contributer to the discussions. Anyone remembers her username?
If you tell someone that the government is putting up cameras on street corners, most people shrug it off, but if you say that the government is putting up cameras that record their every move at a nearby intersection, they get interested. If you tell them that the government is reading people's emails to stop terrorists, they don't mind - but if you tell them that their personal email is being read they suddenly take interest.
Telling someone something for the fifteenth time means you aren't getting the message through. Try using a different message to get the same meaning across :)
That just sounds like manipulation to get them on your side. Essentially you are morphing the neutral fact ("Government is putting up cameras on street corners") into a fear-inducing statement ("Government is putting up cameras that record your every move at a nearby intersection"). This is the very definition of FUD.
Thus the question becomes: Is FUD and propaganda the only way to reach an apathetic person? Will this work on people that are exhausted from all the constant sensational bombartment from the media?
Last time you tried that it was an embarasment and they managed to burn the White House to the ground.
True for porn as well, only difference that it is still passable without the sound.
Try it. With just the sound of moaning/screaming/etc your immagination will fill in the rest of the experience in some instances much better than the same-old penetrated plastic-boobs dolls. You can substitue whatever turns you on to the sound quite effectively. Now try to do the same without the sound and you will really notice its absence. You will tend to focus much more on the face of the actors trying to almost lip-read their expressions with your immagination.
So yeah... This really is quite a strange site to have such a conversation happening.
Amen brother!
Because these discussions are much like talking to whining women: They are not looking for answers, but just to have your attention and sympathy.
Of course! Why do you think anyone would take them then? Surely not for the garbage that is written on them!
In this fast paced platformer RPG set in a medieval world where magic-meets-steampunk our protagonist has been badly injured when Cyborg Raiders ransacked her home and killed her parents. Facing foreclosure of her inherited property due to her inability to work, she decides to take up a crazy inventor's proposition have her wooden peg-leg replaced with a cybernetic ethereal-piston driven leg which allows her to leap tall buildings in a single bound, skate short distances at great speeds, and much more through its power slots & upgrades.
While our heroin quests to pay back her debt to the inventor, she uncovers a dark plot to end all magic and science in the name of purity. Will she seek revenge on the all cyborgs for her parents deaths, will she delve into the depths of wizardry and/or cybernetics in the process, find peaceful balance in them both, or forever remain a troubled self loathing wretch while seeking any form of purity while not being fully human, cybernetic or ethereal?
Reads almost but not quite the setting of Arcanum. If you haven't played it: Get it.
Play Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.
Very old game for PS1. Horrible graphics, terrible gameplay but awesome story and atmosphere. Storytelling was mostly done through cinematics and voice overs.
Despite all its flaws, I consider it a great game and replayed it several times. Shame that all the sequels were just terrible.
Or hey, take Alpha Centauri, and the quotes in it.
You are a very evil person.
It took me years to get back on track with my life after that legendary perfection of a game absolutely consumed me. Now with that single sentence you brought it all back, all the memories that I worked so long to supress. Now I know that when I get back from work and install it, no one will hear from me for months!
But I will have my revenge on you: Planescape Torment. Play that and you too will be gripped kicking and screaming until you complete it several times over. After that get your hands on Freespace 2. Both games have absolutely unbelivably good story and awesome gameplay with the perfect balance between both. You can get them from Good Old Games.
Author of this article needs to play at least the following:
- Thief 1 or 2
- System Shock 2
- Planescape Torment
- Deus Ex
- Alpha Centauri
- The Longest Journey
and then be asked again if having a story is detrimental or if it adds a dimention of awesomeness of its own.
Compare the size of Germany to the United States as a whole. Some states are larger than Germany.
Also population is much more centralized compared to US, thus it is much easier and cheaper to deliver the benefits.
I am sure those people that have real and dangerous jobs also hyperbole and complain for the humour of it.
Give a mechanic/builder a cheap, chinese knock-off tools and force them to work with them and they will certanly react the same way.
You either laugh or you cry.
No OS is immune to the dancing pig problem.
Security researchers really are the unsung heroes.
If there are anyone reading Slashdot who works in that area: I would like to express my deepest gratitude for all the efforts you go through in combatting this global problem. Thank you so much for making the web a less shit place to be.
Touche
Alright. Let us hear what is your suggestion. Just sitting here whining and doing nothing?
By far the biggest hurdle to overcome is people's apathy.
There is revolution talk here in nearly every YRO story. Does anything comes out of it? Maybe Slashdoters are passionate, but we are the minority compared to the population at large. Not to mention that noone outside of tech circles gives a shit about the functioning of Internet or the government policies towards it. Do you honestly expect people to put their lives on a line because of government regulations towards these computer thingies?
Until the police state will start to really affect everyday basic living, don't expect to see anything changed. Hell, TSA are molesting people in airports and asking for papers on roads and trains and I haven't even heard of any protests against it!
Another annoying thing about these revolution threads is that they keep going on about the fighting, but never what happens after. What happens after you shoot all the current authority figures and their pets?
What will be the new policies? Who will be the new leaders and how will they be different? What will be the new safeguards that will prevent the same issues as the previous ways? What things will be changed? How is the new regime be better than the old? What are the detailed plans for the new governement structure? Why are your ideals worth dying for? Etc.
If someone can come up with extensive, comprehensive and thorough answers to the above questions and have some charisma, then you might have a start to try to work on people's apathy and conservatism. Without this it is all just talk that can go on without any change for decades.
Why is it always a goat?
I am curious about the origin of the sacrificial goat expression. Whenever there is any talk of non-human sacrifice it is this particular animal that is immediately brought up. Is it because goats are more commonly available? Why not cows? If I remember correctly, the bible mentions male sheep as the sacrifices used. So where did the goat originate from?
I know that if I was a god, I would prefer something more exotic and harder to obtain in order for my followers to prove their devotion. Farm animals and humans are so easily obtained that it would be boring and routine. For my sacrifices I would require something rare like an albino tiger or dangerous to obtain like young, fully grown elephant. My blessings are not cheap!
Basically, if you've ever had a loan or grant, credit card, bank account, paid a utility bill, child support or been in prison then we have that data. Your address, phone number, social security number, bank account information, etc.
The majority of this information is stored unencrypted on systems that are accessible to any employee, often with 777 permissions. While the majority of the systems are patched pretty regularly, many aren't. I recently had to convert over an old apache 1.3 server that hadn't been patched since 2006 - there's another similar server that is regularly used by outside contributors to drop off customer information.
Well, looks like I won't be able to sleep ever again.
What country is this in? My only hope is that it is not where I reside and things are much more secure here. Please don't shatter my illusion! Looks like ignorance really is bliss.
Reminds me of a Russian folk tale where a guy convinces a stingy woman to give him all the soup ingredients by telling her that a woodsmen axe is an integral part of the recipy.