Table salt has a 1:1 correlation to sodium chloride. Therefore no additional information is conveyed using the chemical name. While I appreciate your desire to be geeky, may I point out that "table salt" is 33% more efficient at conveying the intended information?
Gas Turbines, and Diesel-Electrics both require oxygen and fuel. As for fuel, a nuclear sub needs to be refueled less often. More importantly, it doesn't breathe air. That means it can run deeper and longer than any other design (pending storing your own oxygen).
Are you unaware of the signal behavior of a cell phone shortly before it receives a call? I have noticed on several dozen occasions that if a cell phone is located near an unshielded speaker or speaker signal wire (a headphone cable, for instance), the speaker will emit a series of beeps in a particular pattern.
Obviously, the cell phone is inducing current into the wire. The man's behavior is not psychosomatic in nature, necessarily. The cell phone does behave differently when it is negotiating a new call.
As for your tests, I whole-heartedly agree that this would be the best way to prove it. However, finding a scientific method of doing it is somewhat hard to do, since any experiment must be repeatable, and the experiment matter may be hard to find (i.e. is not believed to exist at all by some people). Also, it is hardly humane to conduct experiments on a person who negatively reacts to a cell phone; if he was telling the truth, and the radiation knocked him unconcious, who knows what further radiation might do?
Okay, as they say, blood is thicker than water. As well-meaning as these kind folks on Slashdot are, you and I know that you cannot get out of a support role. In truth, it is a meaningful service you can provide. But, since you're commited, why not examine ways to reduce your problems?
Sure, there are lots of software options, but I'm more of a hardware kind of guy. I bought a $100 router with twin hardware firewalls. Even using free ZoneAlarm under Windows XP Professional, I have had zero spyware, malware, viruses, rootkits, etc. In well over a year. That's with four windows XP machines and 3 Ubuntu machines on the network, plus printer, XBOX360, etc. I lock my wireless network to MAC-only and leave it otherwise open and unencrypted.
You raise good points, but let me question one of your assumptions. First lets suppose that we do in fact spend $88 Billion on our military annually. You are right to refer to our military as "a dormant lion of a military that needs nothing more than a twitchy trigger finger on its leash to free an unholy uproar of annihilation and chaos", in fact, most militaries are. If you ever studied the Roman Empire you might remember that the biggest problems in government happened when the the military had nothing to do. If they weren't needed, could you cut military spending? Um... no. Because soldiers like to get paid. If they don't, things like government coups happen. I seriously doubt we are completely immune to this.
So, basically, since we have a military, we must maintain it and feed it money so it doesn't turn around and gnaw our faces off.
I agree that noise in space is an issue, but the issue of lasers is a bit more complex. Star Wars does not have lasers. Rather it is a form of plasma, much like the matter that makes up a light-saber. Now I suspect that as plasma travels through space it radiates heat and light, much like any other super-heated compound would do in a vacuum.
fascinating. I know that I've experienced bit rot w/ a lot of cds and dvds in the past. But I've been using T-Y since 2004, and haven't had a bad disk since. If you wish to consider taiyo-yuden cd/dvd in the future, I buy from supermediastore.com.
That depends. a CD-R will fail over time due to scratches, and chemical/physical decay. The organic dye used as a writing surface typically is rated for only 10 years or so, but most people are unaware of this. I buy taiyo-yuden brand cd/dvd media because they are chemically stable for about 70-100 years if stored properly. Avoid scratches or coat it with a some super polymer and you're golden. Also keep out of sun and microwaves. As to whether you can make a cassette last 70-100 years, how bout you try yours, and I'll try mine, and our grandkids can settle it, eh?
I think you should decide now what type of work you are going to do after university and make sure you can directly benefit from the extra time you spend on your education.
This is impossible for most people to do, I would guess. I myself graduated from Computer Engineering a year ago. After being immersed in academia for 5 years, there is no way I could have figured out what I wanted to do, as far as my career goes. And I had already had 4 years of internship experience on top of that. I had considered getting a masters, and a Ph.D.
I decided that I would try and pay off some student loans before continuing. One thing He is probably NOT AWARE OF (if he's reading this), is just how much in debt he is... the amount of money they let you borrow is quite high, and getting more in debt from a master's degree is dangerous.
Weapons-grade plutonium is made by refining nuclear waste in a reactor. This process reduces nuclear waste by 95%, but is frowned upon by the major nuclear powers because it produces weapons-grade plutonium, and no one wants to be manufacturing bomb-making material. They've been doing it since the 1940's so its not new or anything. The problem is also that such manufacture is illegal on an international scale.
The article says that P-238 is used as a power source because of the heat is causes during decay. Surely someone could come up with a better power source for these probes than a rare isotope. I'm not even sure than this plutonium could be manufactured by refining nuclear waste, since that process produces P-239.
Yes sir, I do. 18000 mph is 5 miles/sec. What instruments do we have that can measure and track anything like that? If you were in a space craft, and something went past you at that speed, you would not be able to detect it at all. We can join craft together because we already know precisely where everything is, and how fast its going. And to be fair, we do know where a large number of space junk is, so you could in theory set up an operation to manually track down and grab anything that can be tracked from earth.
Okay, objects in geosynchronous orbit have a velocity of 18000 miles/hr or greater, and relative to each other than could even double (but if you were very good, you could match orbits). So, how exactly do you grab one?
I must point out, that this fellow claims to have been publishing on the internet for over 20 years. That means before 1989. How many people here published anything on the internet before 1989? He obviously has a passion for freedom of information, which is a large measure of our protection from the Government (any free people's protection from their Government, actually).
I keep a large document of all my passwords to anything stored online. Hey, I couldn't remember them all anyway. That document is open-document-text password-encrypted. I haven't examined the security rating of that encryption, but the file is readily secured and readily decryptable by just about anyone who knows the password. My password changes, but always fits a certain encoding scheme that is a well-known standard. So I can tell someone, "Matthew 5" is my master password, and they could figure out the exact greek-to-english spelling necessary to be my password.
Basically, you have to trust someone with your passwords. its not like my dad is going to search my files. But if I were to pass suddenly, he would know how to access my passwords
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Table salt has a 1:1 correlation to sodium chloride. Therefore no additional information is conveyed using the chemical name. While I appreciate your desire to be geeky, may I point out that "table salt" is 33% more efficient at conveying the intended information?
Both Russia and America are part of the same ecosystem; anything devastating enough to affect Russia at any scale would in turn affect us.
Remember that fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself; I bring you...
The Law Which Must Not Be Named
Gas Turbines, and Diesel-Electrics both require oxygen and fuel. As for fuel, a nuclear sub needs to be refueled less often. More importantly, it doesn't breathe air. That means it can run deeper and longer than any other design (pending storing your own oxygen).
DRM will always be an excercise in fail.... at least until human cyborg components are mandatory.
Are you unaware of the signal behavior of a cell phone shortly before it receives a call? I have noticed on several dozen occasions that if a cell phone is located near an unshielded speaker or speaker signal wire (a headphone cable, for instance), the speaker will emit a series of beeps in a particular pattern.
Obviously, the cell phone is inducing current into the wire. The man's behavior is not psychosomatic in nature, necessarily. The cell phone does behave differently when it is negotiating a new call.
As for your tests, I whole-heartedly agree that this would be the best way to prove it. However, finding a scientific method of doing it is somewhat hard to do, since any experiment must be repeatable, and the experiment matter may be hard to find (i.e. is not believed to exist at all by some people). Also, it is hardly humane to conduct experiments on a person who negatively reacts to a cell phone; if he was telling the truth, and the radiation knocked him unconcious, who knows what further radiation might do?
Okay, as they say, blood is thicker than water. As well-meaning as these kind folks on Slashdot are, you and I know that you cannot get out of a support role. In truth, it is a meaningful service you can provide. But, since you're commited, why not examine ways to reduce your problems? Sure, there are lots of software options, but I'm more of a hardware kind of guy. I bought a $100 router with twin hardware firewalls. Even using free ZoneAlarm under Windows XP Professional, I have had zero spyware, malware, viruses, rootkits, etc. In well over a year. That's with four windows XP machines and 3 Ubuntu machines on the network, plus printer, XBOX360, etc. I lock my wireless network to MAC-only and leave it otherwise open and unencrypted.
You raise good points, but let me question one of your assumptions. First lets suppose that we do in fact spend $88 Billion on our military annually. You are right to refer to our military as "a dormant lion of a military that needs nothing more than a twitchy trigger finger on its leash to free an unholy uproar of annihilation and chaos", in fact, most militaries are. If you ever studied the Roman Empire you might remember that the biggest problems in government happened when the the military had nothing to do. If they weren't needed, could you cut military spending? Um... no. Because soldiers like to get paid. If they don't, things like government coups happen. I seriously doubt we are completely immune to this. So, basically, since we have a military, we must maintain it and feed it money so it doesn't turn around and gnaw our faces off.
I agree that noise in space is an issue, but the issue of lasers is a bit more complex. Star Wars does not have lasers. Rather it is a form of plasma, much like the matter that makes up a light-saber. Now I suspect that as plasma travels through space it radiates heat and light, much like any other super-heated compound would do in a vacuum.
C) there are a lot more people who can run marathons than are competent in carpentry.
I am not competent at carpentry, in the sense that I am completely inexperienced and untrained, yet I was able to do work for habitat for humanity.
fascinating. I know that I've experienced bit rot w/ a lot of cds and dvds in the past. But I've been using T-Y since 2004, and haven't had a bad disk since. If you wish to consider taiyo-yuden cd/dvd in the future, I buy from supermediastore.com.
That depends. a CD-R will fail over time due to scratches, and chemical/physical decay. The organic dye used as a writing surface typically is rated for only 10 years or so, but most people are unaware of this. I buy taiyo-yuden brand cd/dvd media because they are chemically stable for about 70-100 years if stored properly. Avoid scratches or coat it with a some super polymer and you're golden. Also keep out of sun and microwaves. As to whether you can make a cassette last 70-100 years, how bout you try yours, and I'll try mine, and our grandkids can settle it, eh?
Sorry, it would have helped if you had clarified, perhaps by using a source like this, or spelled it out with capital letters.
technically, according to your logic, it would be a billion floating-point operations PER
You can, and in some places of the world, they do. Oil is mixed with mud and baked in the sun into cookies. This is actual sustenance for the poor in Haiti. See http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080130-AP-haiti-eatin_2.html
I think you should decide now what type of work you are going to do after university and make sure you can directly benefit from the extra time you spend on your education.
This is impossible for most people to do, I would guess. I myself graduated from Computer Engineering a year ago. After being immersed in academia for 5 years, there is no way I could have figured out what I wanted to do, as far as my career goes. And I had already had 4 years of internship experience on top of that. I had considered getting a masters, and a Ph.D.
I decided that I would try and pay off some student loans before continuing. One thing He is probably NOT AWARE OF (if he's reading this), is just how much in debt he is... the amount of money they let you borrow is quite high, and getting more in debt from a master's degree is dangerous.
Weapons-grade plutonium is made by refining nuclear waste in a reactor. This process reduces nuclear waste by 95%, but is frowned upon by the major nuclear powers because it produces weapons-grade plutonium, and no one wants to be manufacturing bomb-making material. They've been doing it since the 1940's so its not new or anything. The problem is also that such manufacture is illegal on an international scale.
The article says that P-238 is used as a power source because of the heat is causes during decay. Surely someone could come up with a better power source for these probes than a rare isotope. I'm not even sure than this plutonium could be manufactured by refining nuclear waste, since that process produces P-239.
Yes sir, I do. 18000 mph is 5 miles/sec. What instruments do we have that can measure and track anything like that? If you were in a space craft, and something went past you at that speed, you would not be able to detect it at all. We can join craft together because we already know precisely where everything is, and how fast its going. And to be fair, we do know where a large number of space junk is, so you could in theory set up an operation to manually track down and grab anything that can be tracked from earth.
Okay, objects in geosynchronous orbit have a velocity of 18000 miles/hr or greater, and relative to each other than could even double (but if you were very good, you could match orbits). So, how exactly do you grab one?
Or "This is a local website for local people. There's nothing for you here."
That should have been "Nothing to see here. Move along."
heat is light, more or less
I must point out, that this fellow claims to have been publishing on the internet for over 20 years. That means before 1989. How many people here published anything on the internet before 1989? He obviously has a passion for freedom of information, which is a large measure of our protection from the Government (any free people's protection from their Government, actually).
Absolutely! never trust any binary! I, of course, have designed my processor from scratch to run straight-up c++. No binaries for me!
(I have designed my own processor, and frankly, getting it to run 8 instructions was more than enough for me, lol)
I keep a large document of all my passwords to anything stored online. Hey, I couldn't remember them all anyway. That document is open-document-text password-encrypted. I haven't examined the security rating of that encryption, but the file is readily secured and readily decryptable by just about anyone who knows the password. My password changes, but always fits a certain encoding scheme that is a well-known standard. So I can tell someone, "Matthew 5" is my master password, and they could figure out the exact greek-to-english spelling necessary to be my password.
Basically, you have to trust someone with your passwords. its not like my dad is going to search my files. But if I were to pass suddenly, he would know how to access my passwords
The US is a sovereign nation. But there is no "we". The government is sovereign, the people are not.