My question is why can't I exclude stories by category now? I went to block Ask Slashdot from my list of stories I'll accept and it just plain didn't work.
The attraction of the space colony is that it's believed to be an elite, gated community which by virtue of its extreme expense and difficulty, would attract only a "high class of colonist" along the lines of the first generation of US astronauts: university PhD educated, military trained, logical scientific thinkers, in the peak of physical fitness. Given such a genetic pool of "the right stuff", the space myth goes, these super-demigods couldn't help but create a new Utopia of scientific wonders, even given the huge resource disadvantage they started from.
Except the first colonies will more resemble an off-shore oil rig than a gated community. They will be more along the lines of places where work gets done as opposed to where decisions are made.
The problem is, utopias simply don't work like that. There've been many attempts at creating closed, self-selected communities, and they always go bad. Not even thinking about cults, have you ever seen a university, political activist movement, or high-tech company in action? Have you seen the kind of petty squabbles that occur in our elite institutions? Do you really think things will be different in space?
Yes, I have lived in a commune, or as they are more commonly called nowdays an organic community. You nailed it.
I do think of space colonization of taking place at least 200 years in the future and you bring up some really good points.
On the disaster side though, if we prepare for a disaster we can weather it, if we are not prepared then we could be fucked. If a major disaster happens it won't matter that living on Earth is easier than living on Mars if how we currently live on Earth is sensitive to disasters. It could happen that an asteroid hits Yellowstone or something else comically unlikely that would kill a very large percentage of the people and make growing food outdoors very very hard. Greenhouses wouldn't work cause the sun is blocked out, you would have to grow entirely indoors using artificial light.
We can survive that, but if we had off world colonies then the colonies could help the people on Earth and make things much less end of the worldy.
And the problem is, it ISN'T and WON'T be more attractive to live in space
I can definitely agree with the ISN'T, not so much with the WON'T. If you are living in your little habitat in the Atacama desert then living in your little habitat in space might be looking about equal depending on if you can get a job there.
A) The "what if" scenarios that have the Earth being destroyed, if we aren't off the Earth by then humankind is done.
So what? I mean if I have a chance to escape it then great by why does the long term survival of humanity really matter?
B) We will run out of room, and life extension is only going to make us run out of room quicker. We run out of room and WW1 and WW2 are going to look like small scuffles in comparison.
This is a more reasonable driver as it will cause great amounts of suffering that might be avoided and it is in our very nature to avoid suffering but still in the cosmic level scheme of things...so what?.
You will die someday so you might as well commit suicide.
You seem to be thinking of this in terms of next week. This is something that might not happen for another 200 years and I accept that.
By the time that we are moving significant amount of people into space we will have already colonized the easy parts of the ocean and made life in deserts sustainable. We will have to have had the technology to make it possible for us to live anywhere on the planet for us to even start to think about actual colonization of space.
The reason Space Nutters keep saying we need to get off this rock is not because there is nothing left to explore, but mainly for two other reasons.
A) The "what if" scenarios that have the Earth being destroyed, if we aren't off the Earth by then humankind is done.
B) We will run out of room, and life extension is only going to make us run out of room quicker. We run out of room and WW1 and WW2 are going to look like small scuffles in comparison.
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The family that cantaloupes are part of also includes pumpkins, pumpkins can weigh in excess of a ton. It makes sense to compare to a specific melon rather than all of them due to variety.
Just because you have no fucking idea of what something is doesn't mean it is the fault of the person who wrote the summary, it is the fault of the person who doesn't know what something is.
This is a website devoted to news for nerds, nerd up motherfucker.
Cheaper than a new TV, and it is compatible with just about all consumer level AV equipment and is updated with new products all the time. You can also "teach" it new commands from other remotes.
It may be more than what most people are willing to spend on the problem, but if they are willing to spend any money at all on the problem then this is most likely the cheapest solution.
Some very basic functionality that should exist (but I havenâ(TM)t seen) would be that the TV should detect a signal on an input and auto switch to it via some kind of hierarchy. Turn on the DVD player.. input should go to that.. turn it off.. back to digital box.. turn that off, back to analog cable. This seems basic and maybe it has been done, but when I looked I couldnâ(TM)t find a TV that supported this.
The Harmony remote by Logitech does some of that. Hit the button for "Watch TV" it turns on the TV, selects the input, and turns on the cable box. Hit the button for "Watch Movie" it changes the input, turns off the cable box, and turns on the bluray player.
No, I think that the company would hire someone who could, and then charge the hacker for the expense of them having to hire someone competent and then probably charge them everything it takes to secure the system on top of that.
I can say for sure how I mod..........or at least did when I was getting 30 or so points a week, haven't had mod points in forever even with excellent karma, anyway I look for posts that I agree with, I'm not looking with an agenda in mind and I don't look for posts I don't agree with. I would rather post in a thread that I know little about than mod a thread that I know little about.
They may or may not be correct, but since you stated it as a fact, I'll ask for some evidence.
Here is my evidence then, I cannot find a suitable post where the person was both informative and a complete asshole.
I would agree with you that cocaine should not be legal - and there's no amount of research on that subject that could sway my opinion one way or the other. It's physically, mentally, and socially detrimental.
I think part of the problem with this subject is what people think of when they think of something being "legal". Currently the only way that the government can restrict illegal drugs is though trying to destroy it's distribution channels and scare people away from using them, that doesn't work.
Think about how much harder it is to find illegal prescription drugs vs street drugs. If legal pathways are made then the illegal trade would be severely hampered. Why buy from your dealer when you could get arrested over it, vs getting it from the pharmacy after a prescription. It is controlled and has medical supervision which is about the best you can do for the drugs that are currently illegal.
And yes I am talking about all illegal drugs from pot to crack. One of my parents is a crackhead so I know that the current method just plain does not work.
It's a signal to noise ratio kind of issue. Some people have a problem of talking a lot of shit if they think they are right, and because they think they are right they may not explain things very well. There are those two issues and they compound each other.
Very rarely do you come across a well though out response where the person is both informative and a total asshole.
Yes you do have to do your research and make sure you purchase a compatible motherboard, that is true whether you are dealing with Intel, AMD, or VIA.
125W is still the highest of the desktop chips from AMD, but many AMD motherboards are rated at 140W. You can buy a motherboard that only supports up to 95W, but why would you do that?
I wonder if the editors might be responsible for some of these "bury brigades"?
from the faq
Do Editors Moderate?
The Slashdot Editors have unlimited mod points, and we have no problem using them.
Our moderations represent about 3% of all moderation, and according to Meta Moderation, the fairness of these moderations are either statistically indistinguishable from non-admin users, or substantially better. The raw numbers are: 95.1% of non-admin upmods are fair, and 94.7% of admin upmods are fair. 79.1% of non-admin downmods are fair, and 83.6% of admin downmods are fair.
The editors tend to find crapfloods and moderate them down: a single malicious user can post dozens of comments, which would require several users to moderate them down, but a single admin can take care of it in seconds. This tends to remove the obvious garbage from the discussion so that the general population can use their mod points to determine good. Otherwise, a few crapfloods could suck a lot of moderator points out of the system and throw things out of whack.
You can argue that allowing admins unlimited moderation is somehow inherently unfair, but one of the goals of Slashdot is to produce readable content for a variety of readers with a variety of reading habits. I believe this process improves discussions for the vast majority of Slashdot Readers, so it will stay this way.
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My question is why can't I exclude stories by category now? I went to block Ask Slashdot from my list of stories I'll accept and it just plain didn't work.
The attraction of the space colony is that it's believed to be an elite, gated community which by virtue of its extreme expense and difficulty, would attract only a "high class of colonist" along the lines of the first generation of US astronauts: university PhD educated, military trained, logical scientific thinkers, in the peak of physical fitness. Given such a genetic pool of "the right stuff", the space myth goes, these super-demigods couldn't help but create a new Utopia of scientific wonders, even given the huge resource disadvantage they started from.
Except the first colonies will more resemble an off-shore oil rig than a gated community. They will be more along the lines of places where work gets done as opposed to where decisions are made.
The problem is, utopias simply don't work like that. There've been many attempts at creating closed, self-selected communities, and they always go bad. Not even thinking about cults, have you ever seen a university, political activist movement, or high-tech company in action? Have you seen the kind of petty squabbles that occur in our elite institutions? Do you really think things will be different in space?
Yes, I have lived in a commune, or as they are more commonly called nowdays an organic community. You nailed it.
I do think of space colonization of taking place at least 200 years in the future and you bring up some really good points.
On the disaster side though, if we prepare for a disaster we can weather it, if we are not prepared then we could be fucked. If a major disaster happens it won't matter that living on Earth is easier than living on Mars if how we currently live on Earth is sensitive to disasters. It could happen that an asteroid hits Yellowstone or something else comically unlikely that would kill a very large percentage of the people and make growing food outdoors very very hard. Greenhouses wouldn't work cause the sun is blocked out, you would have to grow entirely indoors using artificial light.
We can survive that, but if we had off world colonies then the colonies could help the people on Earth and make things much less end of the worldy.
And the problem is, it ISN'T and WON'T be more attractive to live in space
I can definitely agree with the ISN'T, not so much with the WON'T. If you are living in your little habitat in the Atacama desert then living in your little habitat in space might be looking about equal depending on if you can get a job there.
A) The "what if" scenarios that have the Earth being destroyed, if we aren't off the Earth by then humankind is done.
So what? I mean if I have a chance to escape it then great by why does the long term survival of humanity really matter?
B) We will run out of room, and life extension is only going to make us run out of room quicker. We run out of room and WW1 and WW2 are going to look like small scuffles in comparison.
This is a more reasonable driver as it will cause great amounts of suffering that might be avoided and it is in our very nature to avoid suffering but still in the cosmic level scheme of things...so what?.
You will die someday so you might as well commit suicide.
You seem to be thinking of this in terms of next week. This is something that might not happen for another 200 years and I accept that.
By the time that we are moving significant amount of people into space we will have already colonized the easy parts of the ocean and made life in deserts sustainable. We will have to have had the technology to make it possible for us to live anywhere on the planet for us to even start to think about actual colonization of space.
Okay, I'll rephrase his question: Will we be irradiated by a plant run by PHBs?
Luckily PHB's magnify incompetence and therefor it is unlikely that the plant will ever be operational, so in that regard we may be safe.
This 'fission' technology sounds interesting, but is it safe?
Depends on what your definition of safe is.
The reason Space Nutters keep saying we need to get off this rock is not because there is nothing left to explore, but mainly for two other reasons.
A) The "what if" scenarios that have the Earth being destroyed, if we aren't off the Earth by then humankind is done.
B) We will run out of room, and life extension is only going to make us run out of room quicker. We run out of room and WW1 and WW2 are going to look like small scuffles in comparison.
Dream on, you delusional fruitcake.
I shall.
Even though it likely will not happen in my lifetime, I still like to dream.
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Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types of skin.
When not in use, Happy Fun Ball should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of Happy Fun Ball, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company, Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
Happy Fun Ball has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is also being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
Happy Fun Ball comes with a lifetime guarantee.
Prototypes are currently being tested in earth orbit.
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The family that cantaloupes are part of also includes pumpkins, pumpkins can weigh in excess of a ton. It makes sense to compare to a specific melon rather than all of them due to variety.
Just because you have no fucking idea of what something is doesn't mean it is the fault of the person who wrote the summary, it is the fault of the person who doesn't know what something is.
This is a website devoted to news for nerds, nerd up motherfucker.
Don't like his stories? Then exclude his submissions.
I figure if enough people block a useless editor then we might be able to force him out.
Either that or they keep score. "Woohoo! I just passed Timothy for most accounts excluding my submissions!"
Cheaper than a new TV, and it is compatible with just about all consumer level AV equipment and is updated with new products all the time. You can also "teach" it new commands from other remotes.
It may be more than what most people are willing to spend on the problem, but if they are willing to spend any money at all on the problem then this is most likely the cheapest solution.
Finally my Twin-Turbo video card will pay off!
http://www.msi.com/product/vga/NX8600GT-Twin-Turbo.html
vroom vroom
Word of warning, do not hit the little red button when the computer is on.
Some very basic functionality that should exist (but I havenâ(TM)t seen) would be that the TV should detect a signal on an input and auto switch to it via some kind of hierarchy. Turn on the DVD player.. input should go to that.. turn it off.. back to digital box.. turn that off, back to analog cable. This seems basic and maybe it has been done, but when I looked I couldnâ(TM)t find a TV that supported this.
The Harmony remote by Logitech does some of that. Hit the button for "Watch TV" it turns on the TV, selects the input, and turns on the cable box. Hit the button for "Watch Movie" it changes the input, turns off the cable box, and turns on the bluray player.
No, I think that the company would hire someone who could, and then charge the hacker for the expense of them having to hire someone competent and then probably charge them everything it takes to secure the system on top of that.
I asked you to prove: "Very rarely do you come across a well though out response where the person is both informative and a total asshole."
I'm just asking you to back that up with evidence.
It's rare, but I think you just achieved it.
To ask me for evidence of something I say doesn't exist is not logical since I have already stated that it doesn't exist.
If your argument is that it does exist then the burden is on you to prove it exists.
The fact that you can't find it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
So you realize how ridiculous it was for you to ask me for evidence of something I say doesn't happen?
I can say for sure how I mod..........or at least did when I was getting 30 or so points a week, haven't had mod points in forever even with excellent karma, anyway I look for posts that I agree with, I'm not looking with an agenda in mind and I don't look for posts I don't agree with. I would rather post in a thread that I know little about than mod a thread that I know little about.
They may or may not be correct, but since you stated it as a fact, I'll ask for some evidence.
Here is my evidence then, I cannot find a suitable post where the person was both informative and a complete asshole.
Off topic reply:
I would agree with you that cocaine should not be legal - and there's no amount of research on that subject that could sway my opinion one way or the other. It's physically, mentally, and socially detrimental.
I think part of the problem with this subject is what people think of when they think of something being "legal". Currently the only way that the government can restrict illegal drugs is though trying to destroy it's distribution channels and scare people away from using them, that doesn't work.
Think about how much harder it is to find illegal prescription drugs vs street drugs. If legal pathways are made then the illegal trade would be severely hampered. Why buy from your dealer when you could get arrested over it, vs getting it from the pharmacy after a prescription. It is controlled and has medical supervision which is about the best you can do for the drugs that are currently illegal.
And yes I am talking about all illegal drugs from pot to crack. One of my parents is a crackhead so I know that the current method just plain does not work.
It's a signal to noise ratio kind of issue. Some people have a problem of talking a lot of shit if they think they are right, and because they think they are right they may not explain things very well. There are those two issues and they compound each other.
Very rarely do you come across a well though out response where the person is both informative and a total asshole.
Yes you do have to do your research and make sure you purchase a compatible motherboard, that is true whether you are dealing with Intel, AMD, or VIA.
125W is still the highest of the desktop chips from AMD, but many AMD motherboards are rated at 140W. You can buy a motherboard that only supports up to 95W, but why would you do that?
Intel has some 130W chips.
I wonder if the editors might be responsible for some of these "bury brigades"?
from the faq
Do Editors Moderate?
The Slashdot Editors have unlimited mod points, and we have no problem using them.
Our moderations represent about 3% of all moderation, and according to Meta Moderation, the fairness of these moderations are either statistically indistinguishable from non-admin users, or substantially better. The raw numbers are: 95.1% of non-admin upmods are fair, and 94.7% of admin upmods are fair. 79.1% of non-admin downmods are fair, and 83.6% of admin downmods are fair.
The editors tend to find crapfloods and moderate them down: a single malicious user can post dozens of comments, which would require several users to moderate them down, but a single admin can take care of it in seconds. This tends to remove the obvious garbage from the discussion so that the general population can use their mod points to determine good. Otherwise, a few crapfloods could suck a lot of moderator points out of the system and throw things out of whack.
You can argue that allowing admins unlimited moderation is somehow inherently unfair, but one of the goals of Slashdot is to produce readable content for a variety of readers with a variety of reading habits. I believe this process improves discussions for the vast majority of Slashdot Readers, so it will stay this way.