In my experience, the best and most enlightening learning has come through study of both the arguments for and against a specific topic, theory, solution, etc. I feel more confident in my opinions when I have heard all arguments and seen all evidence. If any of the evidence or arguments are hokey, let me be the judge of that. If I judge that argument A is a joke and B is correct, my conviction regarding B will be stronger than if a counter argument to B were never presented to me.
There is a much cheaper solution. Just issue a dashboard placard based on vehicle, driver age and gender. It will forcast the conditions just prior to any accident. Here are some examples:
1) Male, age 35-50, sedan: 4th gear, 40mph, 2,300rpm, failure to stop, talking on phone with office, mishandling hot beverage. 2) Female, age 25-35, SUV/van, 4th gear, 36mph, failure to yield, comforting toddler in back-seat. 3) Male, age 17-25, import hatchback, 2nd gear, 6,400rpm, 50mph, failure to negotiate turn. Excessive speed. 4) Female, age 17-25, compact coupe, 3rd gear, 3,000rpm, 42mph, failure to stop. Texting and shuffling music CDs. 5) Male/Female, age 78-88, large domestic sedan or Toyota Avalon, 1st gear, 4,500rpm, 12mph, indicating right turn while accelerating through store front.
I scrolled through all the traffic looking to see if anyone else was thinking this too. I've had snakes as a kid and had friends with various species of snake. None would ever eat carrion. If it didn't twitch or scamper it was off the menu.
There are over 30,000 commercial flights per day in the USA alone. Assuming the article is only discussing fires on US carriers (doesn't specify, but we'll give it to them). That means that even if all 22 fires happened this year the chances of a fire on a flight is 0.0002009%. Or in other words less than 1 in 497,727 thousand flights. The simple answer is know where the fire extinguisher is. Problem solved. Since in actuality only 1/2 the 22 fires were in the past 3 years the odds today are about 1 in 2.98 million. Compare that to the odds of me having to share a row with a fatty or a stinker which are about 1 in 3.
Hi everybody. Just wanted to stop by and say you are welcome. My now obsolete Eee non-touchscreen netbook was delivered yesterday. My decision to finally purchase thus ushered in this new generation of netbook (2 days later) for you all to enjoy. I'm getting tired of waiting for Android phones too so I better go buy a G1 so that 3 new Android phones will be released the next day. Otherwise we'll just have to keep waiting indefinitely.
I'd approach it this way. Ask yourself what applications require similar power transfers. The first two things that come to mind are riding lawn-mowers and agricultural food handling. A transmission off an old riding mower would give you a great start. Forward/reverse, and several ratios. Also don't rule out belt driven systems. They are cheap and easy to work with. Go to your local 'motor, pump, & power transmission' shop where you'll find an endless supply of axles (custom made & off the shelf), pillow-block bearings, and pulleys (but call them "shivs" or the guy behind the counter will know you're a noob)
Here's how I'd do the "Osjedi flying car" right now: (2) low mileage E36 BMW M3 (voted Best handling car anywhere at any price by Motortrend Magazine) - $10,000-$12,000 each. (1) 1970-something Cessna 172 (reasonably well equipped) - $30,000
Drive your excellent BMW M3 #1 to the airport. Park it and fly your Cessna to your destination airport. Tie down the plane and drive BMW #2 to the office. At the end of the day reverse the steps. You get a BETTER car(s), and a BETTER aircraft, and have almost $100,000 left over. Put the $100k in a 5% CD and you get a $417 per month stream of income to pay for gas and parking.
Imagine how much lower the cost would be if I'd used old Geo Metros in the example instead of M-series BMWs. My point is even doing this in luxury is orders of magnitude cheaper and more practical than a dual-purpose flying bumpercar with 10" wheels.
DrBuzzo is correct. They are using an irradiation facility at Pacific Northwest National Lab. Basically you've got a shielded room containing a shielded radiation source. Place things in the room, seal it up, and then using remote control the radiation source is exposed for the pre-determined exposure time and then re-shielded. When the room is no longer 'hot' you can go in and get your stuff out. The facility they are using is used to calibrate dosimeters and other equipment.
It's nice to see my home-town being used for such an awesome mythbusters episode. : )
This is osjedi, reporting live from Tri-Cities, WA. Home of the world's best apples, grapes, hopps, cherrys, and weapons grade plutonium.
I view MS as a committee which behind closed doors makes decisions regarding my behavior and use of a computer. To implement these policies they strategically place obstacles in my path to steer me in their desired direction of computer use. I object to being steered by use of obstacles. I prefer to be lured by attractive and useful features, not turned by locked doors and roadblocks as if I were a rat in a maze being observed from above.
I also object to the MS business model of ceasing all effort to improve product once a target market has been captured. For example, Internet Explorer was actively developed until it captured the market from Netscape. Then all improvement ceased for years. This has not been my experience using open-source software, which tends toward steady and incremental improvement over time.
This post scared the crap out of me! I thought for a minute that it was April 1st and that I had completely missed February/March! Imagine my releif to realize that I hadn't jumped forward in time to an April fools joke, but that it was simply end of the world.
"Crack Found in Shuttle Tank".....Well, that's going to be an interesting police investigation. Intoxicated airline pilots will be releaved to have some of the heat taken off them by these drug-trafficing astronauts.
General aviation is dead because of liability suits and settlements. A gyro fails in a 45yr old airplane and the pilot's widow sues and gets $20 million. Airplane manufacturer can either hike up the price of the planes to cover the liability insurance costs, or go out of business. Thanks a lot you greedy old b*tch. Now all I can afford is a rotting old 1967 C172.
Flying cars will be the same. You think insurance is high on your '98 Civic? Ha! Call GIECO and ask for a insurance quote on your new flying Honda. Insurance will be more than your car payment! And the car will cost more than we expect because the manufacturer will have to insure its self against greedy widows.
Marine snipers could take longer shots
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My pulse is my biggest hurdle when taking high-power rifle shots at long rages (>600 meters). Without a pulse I could hold steady on a much smaller target. If you've never shot a scoped rifle, your pulse makes the crosshairs bounce with each heartbeat. You can slow your heart-rate down and time the beats, but it would still be nice to be able to hold steady on a 1,000 meter target and not have any movement. If you get excited it all goes out the window - if your pulse quickens you might as well be riding on the back of a horse.
I imagine there are other tasks besides shooting that are impacted by pulse. I'm sure there are types of micro-surgery for example that could be negatively impacted by the surgeon's pulse.
Here we are trying to educate the whole non-geek populace of planet earth that breaking into a computer, network, or application is 'Cracking', not 'Hacking', and WE CAN'T EVEN GET IT RIGHT AMONG OURSELVES!!!!!!! ARRRRRRGGGG!!!!! I give up.
Story is only a few minutes old and mecca of Internet caching has already been slashdotted. Maybe someone kid with an old P5 266mhz under his desk can mirror the site for us.
You will track more deer than hikers
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Deer, elk, moose, etc. will frequent those trails more than humans will. (They get out of the way when they hear us coming). You'll get a bunch of traffic on your sensors at dusk and dawn. I don't think you'll have very good data - too much noise.
I strongly believe that the most effective way to end this would be to scan for compromised nodes, identify them, and KNOCK THEM OUT. Then the user can call the local home-computer fixit guy to come fix their computer. He'll see it's infected with malware and fix it. User gets his computer fixed, fixit guy makes a buck, and one less node is spewing out sh*t.
Yes, I know this approach would be illegal. A felony computer crime in fact. I want legislation to make it legal and justified. I see it as self defense. Compromised nodes are clogging the internet with crap and the best defense is to knock them off-line. If I were standing in the middle of the freeway, clogging traffic and causing accidents the police would come remove me, by force if necessary. I see zombie nodes on the internet the same way.
Ok, what you just described is not a turbo, it's what is know as Exhaust Gas Recirculation (or EGR for short). It's a technique used to reduce automotive emissions. Turbo sounds cooler, but it's still a lame perversion of the true meaning.
They should just call it multi-pass decoding or something logical like that IMHO. My shop air-compressor has an intake, a compressor, and an exhaust, but I don't call it a jet engine.
This is one of my biggest peeves. Unless the power output of your product is increased by using a turbine pump, driven by exhaust gasses to increase the density of the intake charge IT'S NOT A TURBO. STOP USING THE WORD TURBO TO DESCRIBE ANY DESIGN OR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT!!!!!!
I'd think a pair of professors could do better than that, French or not.
I'm sure this will get flamed to a crisp, but too bad, I have to say it....
The only way to kill the spam is to openly and agressively retaliate against the source nodes. The spam is coming from open mail relays, hijacked ip blocks, and Aunt Bessie's exploited cable-internet connected Windows98 pc.
If we want to stop the spam we have to shut down these nodes. In any other aspect of life this would be called "self defense", but in the digital world this would be a fellony /me rolls eyes
I want a law passed that says my smtp server can scan an incoming message, and if identified as spam by a network of peers... DDOS the node it came from. Aunt Bessie will notice her internet stoped working and will call 'Mobile Comuter Fixit Guy' who will check her box and find it running everything from Back Orofice to MyDoom. He'll fix it for her and we're all better off, Aunt Bessie included.
If you knock out the offending nodes, someone will notice and go fix them. Otherwise they continue to spew spam indefinitely.
You can spout all the moral arguments you want, but this is the only way it's going to be stopped.
Now, I haven't done this, won't do it, and don't advocate it - it would be a crime. I'm saying I wish it wasn't.
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In my experience, the best and most enlightening learning has come through study of both the arguments for and against a specific topic, theory, solution, etc. I feel more confident in my opinions when I have heard all arguments and seen all evidence. If any of the evidence or arguments are hokey, let me be the judge of that. If I judge that argument A is a joke and B is correct, my conviction regarding B will be stronger than if a counter argument to B were never presented to me.
There is a much cheaper solution. Just issue a dashboard placard based on vehicle, driver age and gender. It will forcast the conditions just prior to any accident. Here are some examples:
1) Male, age 35-50, sedan: 4th gear, 40mph, 2,300rpm, failure to stop, talking on phone with office, mishandling hot beverage.
2) Female, age 25-35, SUV/van, 4th gear, 36mph, failure to yield, comforting toddler in back-seat.
3) Male, age 17-25, import hatchback, 2nd gear, 6,400rpm, 50mph, failure to negotiate turn. Excessive speed.
4) Female, age 17-25, compact coupe, 3rd gear, 3,000rpm, 42mph, failure to stop. Texting and shuffling music CDs.
5) Male/Female, age 78-88, large domestic sedan or Toyota Avalon, 1st gear, 4,500rpm, 12mph, indicating right turn while accelerating through store front.
"The Internet? We are not interested in it"
-- Bill Gates, 1993
I scrolled through all the traffic looking to see if anyone else was thinking this too. I've had snakes as a kid and had friends with various species of snake. None would ever eat carrion. If it didn't twitch or scamper it was off the menu.
Yep...
I have a personal acquaintance who's a falconer. He's had a bird abatement contract with the USAF since I first met him 16 years ago.
There are over 30,000 commercial flights per day in the USA alone. Assuming the article is only discussing fires on US carriers (doesn't specify, but we'll give it to them). That means that even if all 22 fires happened this year the chances of a fire on a flight is 0.0002009%. Or in other words less than 1 in 497,727 thousand flights. The simple answer is know where the fire extinguisher is. Problem solved. Since in actuality only 1/2 the 22 fires were in the past 3 years the odds today are about 1 in 2.98 million. Compare that to the odds of me having to share a row with a fatty or a stinker which are about 1 in 3.
Hi everybody. Just wanted to stop by and say you are welcome. My now obsolete Eee non-touchscreen netbook was delivered yesterday. My decision to finally purchase thus ushered in this new generation of netbook (2 days later) for you all to enjoy. I'm getting tired of waiting for Android phones too so I better go buy a G1 so that 3 new Android phones will be released the next day. Otherwise we'll just have to keep waiting indefinitely.
I'd approach it this way. Ask yourself what applications require similar power transfers. The first two things that come to mind are riding lawn-mowers and agricultural food handling. A transmission off an old riding mower would give you a great start. Forward/reverse, and several ratios. Also don't rule out belt driven systems. They are cheap and easy to work with. Go to your local 'motor, pump, & power transmission' shop where you'll find an endless supply of axles (custom made & off the shelf), pillow-block bearings, and pulleys (but call them "shivs" or the guy behind the counter will know you're a noob)
What is it?
I have felt a disturbance in the force. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in joy...
The proposed design is really only practical for commuters. And commuters always travel between the same two points.
Here's how I'd do the "Osjedi flying car" right now:
(2) low mileage E36 BMW M3 (voted Best handling car anywhere at any price by Motortrend Magazine) - $10,000-$12,000 each.
(1) 1970-something Cessna 172 (reasonably well equipped) - $30,000
Drive your excellent BMW M3 #1 to the airport. Park it and fly your Cessna to your destination airport. Tie down the plane and drive BMW #2 to the office. At the end of the day reverse the steps. You get a BETTER car(s), and a BETTER aircraft, and have almost $100,000 left over. Put the $100k in a 5% CD and you get a $417 per month stream of income to pay for gas and parking.
Imagine how much lower the cost would be if I'd used old Geo Metros in the example instead of M-series BMWs. My point is even doing this in luxury is orders of magnitude cheaper and more practical than a dual-purpose flying bumpercar with 10" wheels.
DrBuzzo is correct. They are using an irradiation facility at Pacific Northwest National Lab. Basically you've got a shielded room containing a shielded radiation source. Place things in the room, seal it up, and then using remote control the radiation source is exposed for the pre-determined exposure time and then re-shielded. When the room is no longer 'hot' you can go in and get your stuff out. The facility they are using is used to calibrate dosimeters and other equipment.
It's nice to see my home-town being used for such an awesome mythbusters episode. : )
This is osjedi, reporting live from Tri-Cities, WA. Home of the world's best apples, grapes, hopps, cherrys, and weapons grade plutonium.
I view MS as a committee which behind closed doors makes decisions regarding my behavior and use of a computer. To implement these policies they strategically place obstacles in my path to steer me in their desired direction of computer use. I object to being steered by use of obstacles. I prefer to be lured by attractive and useful features, not turned by locked doors and roadblocks as if I were a rat in a maze being observed from above.
I also object to the MS business model of ceasing all effort to improve product once a target market has been captured. For example, Internet Explorer was actively developed until it captured the market from Netscape. Then all improvement ceased for years. This has not been my experience using open-source software, which tends toward steady and incremental improvement over time.
This post scared the crap out of me! I thought for a minute that it was April 1st and that I had completely missed February/March! Imagine my releif to realize that I hadn't jumped forward in time to an April fools joke, but that it was simply end of the world.
"Crack Found in Shuttle Tank" .....Well, that's going to be an interesting police investigation. Intoxicated airline pilots will be releaved to have some of the heat taken off them by these drug-trafficing astronauts.
General aviation is dead because of liability suits and settlements. A gyro fails in a 45yr old airplane and the pilot's widow sues and gets $20 million. Airplane manufacturer can either hike up the price of the planes to cover the liability insurance costs, or go out of business. Thanks a lot you greedy old b*tch. Now all I can afford is a rotting old 1967 C172.
Flying cars will be the same. You think insurance is high on your '98 Civic? Ha! Call GIECO and ask for a insurance quote on your new flying Honda. Insurance will be more than your car payment! And the car will cost more than we expect because the manufacturer will have to insure its self against greedy widows.
My pulse is my biggest hurdle when taking high-power rifle shots at long rages (>600 meters). Without a pulse I could hold steady on a much smaller target. If you've never shot a scoped rifle, your pulse makes the crosshairs bounce with each heartbeat. You can slow your heart-rate down and time the beats, but it would still be nice to be able to hold steady on a 1,000 meter target and not have any movement. If you get excited it all goes out the window - if your pulse quickens you might as well be riding on the back of a horse.
I imagine there are other tasks besides shooting that are impacted by pulse. I'm sure there are types of micro-surgery for example that could be negatively impacted by the surgeon's pulse.
Here we are trying to educate the whole non-geek populace of planet earth that breaking into a computer, network, or application is 'Cracking', not 'Hacking', and WE CAN'T EVEN GET IT RIGHT AMONG OURSELVES!!!!!!! ARRRRRRGGGG!!!!! I give up.
Story is only a few minutes old and mecca of Internet caching has already been slashdotted. Maybe someone kid with an old P5 266mhz under his desk can mirror the site for us.
Deer, elk, moose, etc. will frequent those trails more than humans will. (They get out of the way when they hear us coming). You'll get a bunch of traffic on your sensors at dusk and dawn. I don't think you'll have very good data - too much noise.
I strongly believe that the most effective way to end this would be to scan for compromised nodes, identify them, and KNOCK THEM OUT. Then the user can call the local home-computer fixit guy to come fix their computer. He'll see it's infected with malware and fix it. User gets his computer fixed, fixit guy makes a buck, and one less node is spewing out sh*t.
Yes, I know this approach would be illegal. A felony computer crime in fact. I want legislation to make it legal and justified. I see it as self defense. Compromised nodes are clogging the internet with crap and the best defense is to knock them off-line. If I were standing in the middle of the freeway, clogging traffic and causing accidents the police would come remove me, by force if necessary. I see zombie nodes on the internet the same way.
Ok, what you just described is not a turbo, it's what is know as Exhaust Gas Recirculation (or EGR for short). It's a technique used to reduce automotive emissions. Turbo sounds cooler, but it's still a lame perversion of the true meaning.
They should just call it multi-pass decoding or something logical like that IMHO. My shop air-compressor has an intake, a compressor, and an exhaust, but I don't call it a jet engine.
This is one of my biggest peeves. Unless the power output of your product is increased by using a turbine pump, driven by exhaust gasses to increase the density of the intake charge IT'S NOT A TURBO. STOP USING THE WORD TURBO TO DESCRIBE ANY DESIGN OR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT!!!!!!
I'd think a pair of professors could do better than that, French or not.
I've got no points today. Someone else do it.
I'm sure this will get flamed to a crisp, but too bad, I have to say it....
The only way to kill the spam is to openly and agressively retaliate against the source nodes. The spam is coming from open mail relays, hijacked ip blocks, and Aunt Bessie's exploited cable-internet connected Windows98 pc.
If we want to stop the spam we have to shut down these nodes. In any other aspect of life this would be called "self defense", but in the digital world this would be a fellony
I want a law passed that says my smtp server can scan an incoming message, and if identified as spam by a network of peers... DDOS the node it came from. Aunt Bessie will notice her internet stoped working and will call 'Mobile Comuter Fixit Guy' who will check her box and find it running everything from Back Orofice to MyDoom. He'll fix it for her and we're all better off, Aunt Bessie included.
If you knock out the offending nodes, someone will notice and go fix them. Otherwise they continue to spew spam indefinitely.
You can spout all the moral arguments you want, but this is the only way it's going to be stopped.
Now, I haven't done this, won't do it, and don't advocate it - it would be a crime. I'm saying I wish it wasn't.