It's unethical for MacGuyver to accurately depict how to make a bomb or explosives from common household materials. They should flub the details a bit so that people who actually try it at home don't kill themselves.
However, if new ATMs could be easily opened with a paperclip and rubber band yet governments are beginning to MANDATE they be installed, then it's in the public's best interest to publish these simple instructions as far and wide as possible until people finally sit up, take notice, and get rid of the damned things, rather than obediently dropping their money in the slot.
It's civil disobedience. Hack every single one of these machines you find. Change all the votes to write-ins for "Mickey Mouse" or "Bugs Bunny." Or at least scream at the top of your lungs what a fraud and a sham these machines are. These machines are so insecure and unverifiable I can't imagine the design flaws are anything less than deliberate. Let the manufacturers get their wish. Break them.
What other nation or organization has a spacecraft capable of servicing Hubble within 24-36 months? Bear in mind, Hubble was designed to be serviced by the shuttle. Everyone else is pretty much using capsules exclusively, which aren't nearly as EVA-friendly nor do they have the necessary robotic arm.
"Lab Created" diamonds don't have the same ring as "Natural" diamonds. I've heard some of the lab-diamond manufacturers are aiming to be allowed to call them "cultured" diamonds, which would be a marketing masterstroke. "Look honey, for the same money I got you an even better cultured diamond that didn't fund any of those nasty wars in Africa!"
a good air conditioner can "make" 3 or 4 units of cool using one unit of electricity (in other words, they can move several Joules of heat from one place to another using 1 Joule of energy), while even the most efficient heater can only approach 1 to 1. (Electric heaters are 100% efficient, for all practical purposes.)
This goes round and round slashdot nearly everytime HVAC comes up. Heat pumps are more than 100% electrically efficient. As you said, they're moving heat around rather than directly heating the air. This can work in either direction (warming or cooling a building) and be several times more efficient than straight electric heat as far as your power bill is concerned.
However, in the context of a datacenter, the electrically generated heat those racks are putting off is because the machines are doing otherwise useful work. You can get cheaper heating systems, but if you've got extra heat to toss around, might as well make some use of it and pump it into the offices when it's cold outside.
The still do not need access to the text of the email.
Sorry, but here are quite a number of methods by which the admin could track down an errant email or such without knowing its contents.
That depends on who you work for/with. My boss likes to ask for things like:
"Can you print me a copy of that e-mail I sent about our new sales strategy a few months ago? I think I deleted it."
"Do you remember who you sent it to?
"No."
"Do you remember the date you sent it?"
"Oh, a while ago."
"What was it about?"
"Sales."
So anyway, when you work for people who routinely ask you questions that are about as specific as: "Hey, can you find me the thing I wrote about something just the other day?" it's helpful to be able to do fulltext searches and keep blunt throwable objects out of arm's reach.
Depends. Age/Disease immortality doesn't mean we're immune to starvation, getting smooshed or suffocated. So we'd still need to build a ship that can propel itself between stars, and carry enough fuel and energy to generate the food and work reliably for the hundreds and thousands of years a trip would take yet still spend fewer resources than such a mission could realistically bring back. Plenty of hurdles left methinks.
Not only is this a brilliant idea from a liability standpoint, preventing children from engaging in these sorts of dangerous games can reduce bruising and other possible damage during their critical growth period.
I propose that schoolchildren not be allowed to move at all. They should be hung via sturdy cloth from the ceiling, thus immobilized, and fed heartily whilst at school. I have been assured by a very knowing gentleman of my acquaintance in Boston, that a young healthy schoolchild well-fed is at elementary school age a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled . ..
Not all of them, no. But I'm not about to curl up under a tree and peruse a hard copy of "Fundamentals of Real Estate Investment Analysis" whilst sipping lemonade and putting daisies in my hair.
I just finished my college degree a few months ago. I would have much prefered carrying around a single e-book reader for all my textbooks than the 4 or 5 heavy books in my bag.
Heat pumps can be effectively more then 100% efficient
Perpetual motion machine anyone?
Key word is effectively. If you only look at the energy you have to pay $$ for, it appears to be more than 100% efficient. (the ambient heat is free. It's part of the system, but you don't care because you aren't paying for it.)
Cisco/Sci-At probably have indemnity clauses in their licensing agreements to the cable operators. That, and it would be monumentally stupid for them to sue for patent infringement by devices they've already provided to paying customers (they won't be paying customers any more!).
I always wondered what that meant! My cell phone charger has one on it and I always just figured it meant: "Please don't throw away your charger, or you can't charge your phone anymore."
Thankfully the RIAA is a cartel, *not* a monopoly. It would be illegal for them to collectively pressure Apple to change the pricing model. An individual studio could pull out of iTunes to their own peril, but if all of the big ones threatened to pull out at once, then Apple would have pretty clear grounds to sue.
It doesn't have to be a dead end fork. There's no reason the two projects can't cross-pollinate useful features between each other. When Qualcomm pulls the plug entirely (which they probably will eventually) the code is still out there and could probably be re-absorbed into the mainline Thunderbird project.
Besides, by the end of their life cycles, HD will be more common.
MS & Sony can't realistically add new controllers after the fact, but Nintendo can certainly release an HD-edition of the Wii down the road. The SD and HD edition can be 100% compatible (PC games support multiple resolutions and detail levels all the time). SD-era games won't look as good on an HD unit--but games always start to look dated after time.
Sony anticipated people putting things on top of it. That's why they shaped it like a George Foreman grill. Anything put on top with slide right of without a good balancing act.
Will it also cook mouth-watering hamburgers to perfection in minutes with less fat?
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It's unethical for MacGuyver to accurately depict how to make a bomb or explosives from common household materials. They should flub the details a bit so that people who actually try it at home don't kill themselves.
However, if new ATMs could be easily opened with a paperclip and rubber band yet governments are beginning to MANDATE they be installed, then it's in the public's best interest to publish these simple instructions as far and wide as possible until people finally sit up, take notice, and get rid of the damned things, rather than obediently dropping their money in the slot.
It's civil disobedience. Hack every single one of these machines you find. Change all the votes to write-ins for "Mickey Mouse" or "Bugs Bunny." Or at least scream at the top of your lungs what a fraud and a sham these machines are. These machines are so insecure and unverifiable I can't imagine the design flaws are anything less than deliberate. Let the manufacturers get their wish. Break them.
What other nation or organization has a spacecraft capable of servicing Hubble within 24-36 months? Bear in mind, Hubble was designed to be serviced by the shuttle. Everyone else is pretty much using capsules exclusively, which aren't nearly as EVA-friendly nor do they have the necessary robotic arm.
"Lab Created" diamonds don't have the same ring as "Natural" diamonds. I've heard some of the lab-diamond manufacturers are aiming to be allowed to call them "cultured" diamonds, which would be a marketing masterstroke. "Look honey, for the same money I got you an even better cultured diamond that didn't fund any of those nasty wars in Africa!"
Problem solved.
This goes round and round slashdot nearly everytime HVAC comes up. Heat pumps are more than 100% electrically efficient. As you said, they're moving heat around rather than directly heating the air. This can work in either direction (warming or cooling a building) and be several times more efficient than straight electric heat as far as your power bill is concerned.
However, in the context of a datacenter, the electrically generated heat those racks are putting off is because the machines are doing otherwise useful work. You can get cheaper heating systems, but if you've got extra heat to toss around, might as well make some use of it and pump it into the offices when it's cold outside.
That depends on who you work for/with. My boss likes to ask for things like:
"Can you print me a copy of that e-mail I sent about our new sales strategy a few months ago? I think I deleted it."
"Do you remember who you sent it to?
"No."
"Do you remember the date you sent it?"
"Oh, a while ago."
"What was it about?"
"Sales."
So anyway, when you work for people who routinely ask you questions that are about as specific as: "Hey, can you find me the thing I wrote about something just the other day?" it's helpful to be able to do fulltext searches and keep blunt throwable objects out of arm's reach.
Depends. Age/Disease immortality doesn't mean we're immune to starvation, getting smooshed or suffocated. So we'd still need to build a ship that can propel itself between stars, and carry enough fuel and energy to generate the food and work reliably for the hundreds and thousands of years a trip would take yet still spend fewer resources than such a mission could realistically bring back. Plenty of hurdles left methinks.
Whoosh!
I prefer my articles with a dash of accuracy.
Not only is this a brilliant idea from a liability standpoint, preventing children from engaging in these sorts of dangerous games can reduce bruising and other possible damage during their critical growth period.
I propose that schoolchildren not be allowed to move at all. They should be hung via sturdy cloth from the ceiling, thus immobilized, and fed heartily whilst at school. I have been assured by a very knowing gentleman of my acquaintance in Boston, that a young healthy schoolchild well-fed is at elementary school age a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled . . .
You've clearly never seen my mom's purse.
I wonder what "Baby #300 million's" Slahshdot ID will be when it logs in for the first time.
Not all of them, no. But I'm not about to curl up under a tree and peruse a hard copy of "Fundamentals of Real Estate Investment Analysis" whilst sipping lemonade and putting daisies in my hair.
I just finished my college degree a few months ago. I would have much prefered carrying around a single e-book reader for all my textbooks than the 4 or 5 heavy books in my bag.
I second that one whole-heartedly! (unless there's already an extension?)
Cisco/Sci-At probably have indemnity clauses in their licensing agreements to the cable operators. That, and it would be monumentally stupid for them to sue for patent infringement by devices they've already provided to paying customers (they won't be paying customers any more!).
I always wondered what that meant! My cell phone charger has one on it and I always just figured it meant: "Please don't throw away your charger, or you can't charge your phone anymore."
Thankfully the RIAA is a cartel, *not* a monopoly. It would be illegal for them to collectively pressure Apple to change the pricing model. An individual studio could pull out of iTunes to their own peril, but if all of the big ones threatened to pull out at once, then Apple would have pretty clear grounds to sue.
Never. It's original name was "Spiced Ham," but the "spice" it refers to is salt.
It doesn't have to be a dead end fork. There's no reason the two projects can't cross-pollinate useful features between each other. When Qualcomm pulls the plug entirely (which they probably will eventually) the code is still out there and could probably be re-absorbed into the mainline Thunderbird project.
Is it just me, or does "Sunny Oh" sound like it should be a brand name of fried snack food?
MS & Sony can't realistically add new controllers after the fact, but Nintendo can certainly release an HD-edition of the Wii down the road. The SD and HD edition can be 100% compatible (PC games support multiple resolutions and detail levels all the time). SD-era games won't look as good on an HD unit--but games always start to look dated after time.
Isn't it obvious? Google and Novell rely very heavily on the internet, so of course they'd be big supporters of its inventor. =P
I was going to make a Soviet Yahoo pun . . . but my heart's just not in it.
Will it also cook mouth-watering hamburgers to perfection in minutes with less fat?