My neighbor now uses one for his mobile phone and then he uses bluetooth to take the call so he can leave his handset in there.
I was just thinking about this, as I have a friend who lives in a valley with terrible signal (and no landline). Doesn't the sieve (or wok) block the bluetooth signals from the other direction though?
Frankly they could withdraw the stock on the shelves and restock the shelves for virtually nothing. The thing that is on the shelf does not cost $$$ to make.
You don't need to reply to the post you wrongly moderated to undo the moderation. Neither do you need to use your karma bonus to make sure that your comment is ranked highly to start with. If you must correct your stupidity in this way, do not compound it, reply to the story directly and click the 'No Karma Bonus' button so that your drivel is lost in the noise down on page 2 which nobody ever reads. Even better would be to make a proper contribution, you have a karma bonus in the first place so I guess you are capable of it and you did have an interest in the story at least.
tl;dr We don't want to see your useless apologies at the top of the comments.
Native support for ZFS is a good reason to choose FreeBSD over Linux. You can make even your root partition ZFS. The reason ZFS is not in the Linux kernel is due to licensing, though.
And yet, the Linux kernel supports MS-DOS filesystems does it not? The reason for that is that although the original implementation license was incompatible with the Linux kernel, a reimplementation was possible. Is it not possible for ZFS? I suggest that if the code is open enough to be included in FreeBSD, the data structures must be documented enough to have an alternative version written.
I'm not saying its not a lot of work, just that it is possible if the desire is there..
if i shout fire in a crowded theatre, and this leads to someone's death, than i am criminally culpable
Forgive me because I'm not even an american citizen but it seems that this is an inflated example. If you shout "fire" in your own home, that is not a criminal act. If you shout it in the middle of the town square that is not a criminal act. If you shout it in a crowded theatre that is not a criminal act. (you could do it on stage, as part of the show). If you shout it in the middle of the audience it is not strictly a criminal act either - it could be that you are at a show with audience participation and two clowns are on stage with blunderbusses asking what to do. What would be criminal about such actions is that little thing "Incitement to Riot" and that is not related to the contents or location of your speech, but has everything to do with your intention to cause a riot.
In a similar vein, pushing an electrical switch is not a criminal act. Millions of people do it all the time, but perhaps pushing a switch that you know will cause a riot (eg, set off the fire alarm in a crowded theatre) is criminal because of that same reason "Incitement to Riot" and no restrictions need be placed on your button pushing abilities to prosecute you for it.
Of course, as a non-american I don't know if "Incitement to Riot" is actually a prosecutable offence. It is fairly obvious that it is no good reason to riot, and neither is it a good excuse. I don't know, in a theatre riot situation, if the person who pushes another to their death over the balcony in a blind panic is excused in favour of the person who started rioting, or the person who incited the riot. For a car analogy, if there was a situation where several cars were driving slowly or stopped but one ploughed into the back at high speed, causing a bump forward effect that damaged all the cars and the guy at the front was unlucky enough to get whiplash injuries, who is liable for them? The guy behind who had no control, the guy at the back who didn't put on his hazard warning lights or the guy who was driving too fast while not paying attention?
If you don't void the user agreement by jailbreaking your iPhone, you don't have this problem. Apple set up the environment. As it's designed, users are protected. If you choose to negate that design, you may have problems.
Also, if you jailbreak (and thereby opt out of Apples managed environment) - you can run an anti-virus if you want, if you can find it, right?
Osmosis does not create or destroy any salt content. Fresh river water is mixed with salt water from the sea and discharged EXACTLY where it would have been discharged by nature with the EXACT same average salinity as the mixed water at the rivers mouth.
You might count me as an evironmentalist because I can see the problem with your argument. A river discharges into the sea and there is a certain amount of fresh water and a certain amount of salinity. But, a local study would always have to be done. A river is not a tap discharging into a basin, often the tide moves in and out and the salinity varies accordingly. Also, there will be brackish water that is warmer or cooler or muddier than the open sea or the upstream river and having a power plant that takes the fresh and mixes it inside the power plant with the salt and emits it at a fixed place would change all that. In the olden days you could just build it and be done but these days we recognise that sometimes local effects have far reaching consequences. For instance if you block the salmon from swimming upstream, then several years down the line - no more salmon. There could be an ecosystem locally that you would like to keep for whatever reason (marshland bird sanctuary?)
I'm not in any way raising an objection to such a power plant and perhaps it would be a good thing (sounds pretty cool), but for sure I say that care should be taken to understand the costs and risks involved before taking them. (Banking industry take note!)
What you do not seem to understand is that once the security of a system is compromised, _everything_ in that system is suspect. Forensics must be performed to attempt to determine what exactly happened, which information was compromised, what kind of backdoors or rootkits were placed, etc. Security auditors are not cheap. Wiping and rebaselining computers could result in loss of information that took lots of money to gather (scientists are not cheap either). Do this across enough systems and $700k is quite possible.
I think you are right, but when your own network engineer comes to you and says eg
'We have been running for years with all the root passwords set to "password" and available to log in from the internet. I can of course change them but I cannot tell if anybody has ever logged in there and planted anything'
you need to do all that regardless and its because of your own stupidity. If some idiot from another country brings it to your attention by actually logging in and looking around, it doesn't mean he caused the expense in any way..
The entire Wikipedia section on the production of titanium is a little under 4 kilobytes, which would take a bit over an hour to transmit at those rates. Imagine an alien species has a new ultra-efficient titanium refining process - would you wait a day to get the summary of it downloaded for your scientists? I sure as hell would.
In the science fiction story "Dragons Egg" by Robert L Forward (who was incidentally a physics professor and described the book as "a textbook on neutron star physics disguised as a novel"), a spaceship beams the entire contents of their encyclopedia to creatures living on the surface of a neutron star at high speed. By the time they are halfway through, several hundred generations have passed and the creatures have solved all the problems that remain to be sent, have built spaceships of their own and are knocking on the hull. One of my favourite books ever, describing the postive viewpoint of giving knowledge away for free.
There are negative viewpoints though, such as presented by Gregory Benford (also a physics prof, and another of my favourite authors) where broadcasting anything attracts the attention of machines whose only purpose is to destroy organic life.
I'm not sure which theory is more likely to be proved. I would prefer the first (and I release my own code under the BSD licence) but I'm afraid that it only takes one civilisation to construct self-replicating terminators that could take over the galaxy at a significant fraction of the speed of light. Furthermore, since we only have one civilisation to study and our usual response seems to have been "We come in peace, shoot to kill" I'm not desperately confident for the long term future of the human race. After all, it doesn't seem likely that we are the first..
Global Warming is a fraud, designed to gain tax free government grants.
Yeah, see also Michael Chrichton's novel "State of Fear", wherein he presents that argument.
Understandably though in my opinion, because where government grants exist, there will be people conniving to take advantage of them. Where there is any money to be made, there will be people climbing over each other to get the most. However, this doesn't mean that the message is invalid! It just means that some people are greedy..
assert() for that on entry to the function and it becomes immediately clear when your assumptions about elsewhere were lacking
It will assert on entry of course, but only in a debug build, and only when the proper input conditions are met.
C99 specification says that defining a NDEBUG symbol can be used to prevent compiling the assert() into the program. That means it is not a debug option, and should normally be present even in release code unless specifically disabled. Far far better for the program to fail with a meaningful error that the development team can track than allow program code to hang just frustrating the user who doesn't know anything..
People make mistakes. Perhaps the coders of the loop thought that input protection located in code elsewhere would prevent this from ever being a problem.
assert() for that on entry to the function and it becomes immediately clear when your assumptions about elsewhere were lacking
Not quite. We do know the rules of chemistry well enough to model proteins, the problem is that the amount of sheer number crunching is enormous. As for water, that's also not quite true. We have the equations for interactions between molecules worked out it's just a matter of doing the math which is a lot... It took weeks to simulate proton jumping using similar equations in superacids for a time period of less than a microsecond. There's a lot of math involved but it's math that we know how to do.
Of course, birds would not be happy smacking the big dome window and if I were working for big sprinkler I would definitely endorse this (a 1 mile x 1 mile zone that needs sprinkler systems for irrigation? sign me up).
Why would it need irrigation, because of lack of rain? I mean, its a town not a farm.. on the other hand, parks exist but the dome will catch rain and all it needs is a way to channel runoff to the appropriate place.
Actually, I can see it getting pretty dirty inside with no wind and rain. My home doesn't have wind and rain and dust builds up pretty quick if I don't sweep regularly.
not to mention that even in a 1sq mile area if you cut out the wind noise and road noise, you will hear internal combustion engines at quite a distance. I can often hear cars on the main road which is well over a mile away if I wake up before dawn..
It's the not so obvious problems, like the effect of sealing in plants that are dependant upon migratory pollenators and sealing out predators that feast on insects. What's going to happen to the ladybug population, for example?
Perhaps when the climate is unchanging (inside the dome), the migratory pollenators won't migrate?
As for predators and ladybugs (black and red spotted beetles? we call them ladybirds here), there will be some inside or you can import some if you find an aphid population explosion. There is no need to fix a dome up as a sealed biosphere..
If you give your dog the left overs from the table , instead of throwing it in the garbage can , i can't see it consume any natural resources.
Eh? It consumes approximately the same amount of natural resources as if you didn't prepare too much food and throw it away and instead spent that saving on food more suited to the dogs digestive system.. In fact you might even make a saving because dog food is often based on discarded cuts of meat, intestines, eyeballs, ground up bone, offal etc that was unsaleable as human food..
I know that, but if you read my post I said that you'd have to buy an adapter or charger. Either way you'd still end up paying money. However I suppose if you brought a laptop (it's certainly the sort of thing I'd take to America) then you could charge using USB.
Frankly, after reading stories on slashdot, I wouldn't recommend you take a laptop to America anyway but if you did, how were you proposing to charge it without a travel adaptor? Its a different country and there is always going to be some expense when travelling..
In fact, the HTC models use a proprietary 11-pin connection that happens to be backwardly compatible with the 5-pin micro-USB. The extra 4 pins are for audio, presumably because providing a USB stack would be a bit expensive for a headset..
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I was just thinking about this, as I have a friend who lives in a valley with terrible signal (and no landline). Doesn't the sieve (or wok) block the bluetooth signals from the other direction though?
Frankly they could withdraw the stock on the shelves and restock the shelves for virtually nothing. The thing that is on the shelf does not cost $$$ to make.
You don't need to reply to the post you wrongly moderated to undo the moderation. Neither do you need to use your karma bonus to make sure that your comment is ranked highly to start with. If you must correct your stupidity in this way, do not compound it, reply to the story directly and click the 'No Karma Bonus' button so that your drivel is lost in the noise down on page 2 which nobody ever reads. Even better would be to make a proper contribution, you have a karma bonus in the first place so I guess you are capable of it and you did have an interest in the story at least.
tl;dr We don't want to see your useless apologies at the top of the comments.
Well if you, you know, tried to integrate with the people instead of just dominating them with guns it might go a little better..
And yet, the Linux kernel supports MS-DOS filesystems does it not? The reason for that is that although the original implementation license was incompatible with the Linux kernel, a reimplementation was possible. Is it not possible for ZFS? I suggest that if the code is open enough to be included in FreeBSD, the data structures must be documented enough to have an alternative version written.
I'm not saying its not a lot of work, just that it is possible if the desire is there..
Forgive me because I'm not even an american citizen but it seems that this is an inflated example. If you shout "fire" in your own home, that is not a criminal act. If you shout it in the middle of the town square that is not a criminal act. If you shout it in a crowded theatre that is not a criminal act. (you could do it on stage, as part of the show). If you shout it in the middle of the audience it is not strictly a criminal act either - it could be that you are at a show with audience participation and two clowns are on stage with blunderbusses asking what to do. What would be criminal about such actions is that little thing "Incitement to Riot" and that is not related to the contents or location of your speech, but has everything to do with your intention to cause a riot.
In a similar vein, pushing an electrical switch is not a criminal act. Millions of people do it all the time, but perhaps pushing a switch that you know will cause a riot (eg, set off the fire alarm in a crowded theatre) is criminal because of that same reason "Incitement to Riot" and no restrictions need be placed on your button pushing abilities to prosecute you for it.
Of course, as a non-american I don't know if "Incitement to Riot" is actually a prosecutable offence. It is fairly obvious that it is no good reason to riot, and neither is it a good excuse. I don't know, in a theatre riot situation, if the person who pushes another to their death over the balcony in a blind panic is excused in favour of the person who started rioting, or the person who incited the riot. For a car analogy, if there was a situation where several cars were driving slowly or stopped but one ploughed into the back at high speed, causing a bump forward effect that damaged all the cars and the guy at the front was unlucky enough to get whiplash injuries, who is liable for them? The guy behind who had no control, the guy at the back who didn't put on his hazard warning lights or the guy who was driving too fast while not paying attention?
Also, if you jailbreak (and thereby opt out of Apples managed environment) - you can run an anti-virus if you want, if you can find it, right?
You might count me as an evironmentalist because I can see the problem with your argument. A river discharges into the sea and there is a certain amount of fresh water and a certain amount of salinity. But, a local study would always have to be done. A river is not a tap discharging into a basin, often the tide moves in and out and the salinity varies accordingly. Also, there will be brackish water that is warmer or cooler or muddier than the open sea or the upstream river and having a power plant that takes the fresh and mixes it inside the power plant with the salt and emits it at a fixed place would change all that. In the olden days you could just build it and be done but these days we recognise that sometimes local effects have far reaching consequences. For instance if you block the salmon from swimming upstream, then several years down the line - no more salmon. There could be an ecosystem locally that you would like to keep for whatever reason (marshland bird sanctuary?)
I'm not in any way raising an objection to such a power plant and perhaps it would be a good thing (sounds pretty cool), but for sure I say that care should be taken to understand the costs and risks involved before taking them. (Banking industry take note!)
I think you are right, but when your own network engineer comes to you and says eg
'We have been running for years with all the root passwords set to "password" and available to log in from the internet. I can of course change them but I cannot tell if anybody has ever logged in there and planted anything'
you need to do all that regardless and its because of your own stupidity. If some idiot from another country brings it to your attention by actually logging in and looking around, it doesn't mean he caused the expense in any way..
In the science fiction story "Dragons Egg" by Robert L Forward (who was incidentally a physics professor and described the book as "a textbook on neutron star physics disguised as a novel"), a spaceship beams the entire contents of their encyclopedia to creatures living on the surface of a neutron star at high speed. By the time they are halfway through, several hundred generations have passed and the creatures have solved all the problems that remain to be sent, have built spaceships of their own and are knocking on the hull. One of my favourite books ever, describing the postive viewpoint of giving knowledge away for free.
There are negative viewpoints though, such as presented by Gregory Benford (also a physics prof, and another of my favourite authors) where broadcasting anything attracts the attention of machines whose only purpose is to destroy organic life.
I'm not sure which theory is more likely to be proved. I would prefer the first (and I release my own code under the BSD licence) but I'm afraid that it only takes one civilisation to construct self-replicating terminators that could take over the galaxy at a significant fraction of the speed of light. Furthermore, since we only have one civilisation to study and our usual response seems to have been "We come in peace, shoot to kill" I'm not desperately confident for the long term future of the human race. After all, it doesn't seem likely that we are the first..
Yes, there are boatloads of greedy people there already and the competition is harder. As with any business, find yourself a niche and occupy it well
Yeah, see also Michael Chrichton's novel "State of Fear", wherein he presents that argument.
Understandably though in my opinion, because where government grants exist, there will be people conniving to take advantage of them. Where there is any money to be made, there will be people climbing over each other to get the most. However, this doesn't mean that the message is invalid! It just means that some people are greedy..
GP didn't state it correctly, but was referring to the Barber paradox
C99 specification says that defining a NDEBUG symbol can be used to prevent compiling the assert() into the program. That means it is not a debug option, and should normally be present even in release code unless specifically disabled. Far far better for the program to fail with a meaningful error that the development team can track than allow program code to hang just frustrating the user who doesn't know anything..
assert() for that on entry to the function and it becomes immediately clear when your assumptions about elsewhere were lacking
If only you had a bunch of rocks, and plenty of time..
No, the irony is that you guys don't have a left wing, or even a middle of the road party, its all far to the right.
Why would it need irrigation, because of lack of rain? I mean, its a town not a farm.. on the other hand, parks exist but the dome will catch rain and all it needs is a way to channel runoff to the appropriate place.
Actually, I can see it getting pretty dirty inside with no wind and rain. My home doesn't have wind and rain and dust builds up pretty quick if I don't sweep regularly.
not to mention that even in a 1sq mile area if you cut out the wind noise and road noise, you will hear internal combustion engines at quite a distance. I can often hear cars on the main road which is well over a mile away if I wake up before dawn..
Perhaps when the climate is unchanging (inside the dome), the migratory pollenators won't migrate?
As for predators and ladybugs (black and red spotted beetles? we call them ladybirds here), there will be some inside or you can import some if you find an aphid population explosion. There is no need to fix a dome up as a sealed biosphere..
necessary spin is necessary
"fear"
"safe"
Just gives an empty box, what do I type?
:wq
hmm
^D
meh
^X^C
nope.. ah, "Submit"?
Eh? It consumes approximately the same amount of natural resources as if you didn't prepare too much food and throw it away and instead spent that saving on food more suited to the dogs digestive system.. In fact you might even make a saving because dog food is often based on discarded cuts of meat, intestines, eyeballs, ground up bone, offal etc that was unsaleable as human food..
Frankly, after reading stories on slashdot, I wouldn't recommend you take a laptop to America anyway but if you did, how were you proposing to charge it without a travel adaptor? Its a different country and there is always going to be some expense when travelling..
In fact, the HTC models use a proprietary 11-pin connection that happens to be backwardly compatible with the 5-pin micro-USB. The extra 4 pins are for audio, presumably because providing a USB stack would be a bit expensive for a headset..