Being able to duplicate an experiment is important to science, so we obviously need many people to build Large Hadron Colliders. I'm not doing anything this weekend, so where's the party?
Obviously a ruse by yet another/. geek to get an invite to a party. Forgetaboutit!
I'm no rocket scientist, but I think the numbers look something like this:
Escape Velocity KPH:27,342
Escape Velocity Meters PH:27,341,848
Escape Velocity meters per minute:455,697
EV meters per second:7,595
Length of loop in kilometers:50 (this is an obviously arbitrary length; the longer the loop, the smaller the G force will be for a given velocity)
# loops per second @ escape velocity:0.152
radians per second @ ev:55
Astronaut mass:81.64kg (this is the FAA standard 180 pounds)
Formula: F = m x r x (2 x Pi x N/60)^2
Force in newtons:1032.857058
Kiloponds/Kilograms:105.234713
or 1.28g
That's ten loops around a 27 mile closed circuit; exactly the circuit that LHC makes. Even better, since it's a closed loop, you don't even need to accelerate at 6g...
And when we couldn't find the key for the storehouse then obviously Bush must have thrown it down the well. Even after somebody found it under a grain sack...
My girlfriend is a grain sack you insensitive clod! She was completely traumatized when that toady Bush came back and put his hands all over her and then hid that accursed key under hey lovely body.
And this, in a nutshell, is why it is judges who set the punishment for offenders and not victims or relatives of victims.
Agreed. If it were my kid, I'd still agree... just so long as the judge sets the punishment to a thousand years in a pound-me-in-the-ass prison. If he doesn't, I reserve the right to kill the motherfucker. Not legal, arguably not even moral... but highly satisfying to the father.
How quickly you forget his broken promise on accepting public funds for his campaign. Oh sure, he had all sorts of good reasons for reneging . . . but none of those reasons where unknown when he made the vow. In short, he blatantly lied.
Lie? You don't know that he claimed position N while secretly believing position X. All you know is he changed positions. Looking at the consensus of this thread, that appears to be something people agree with -- that is, being flexible with your positions as you learn new things.
Anyway, I flip flop 20-30 times just going to the grocery store. I WANT a candidate to change their mind on just about everything except a very small handful of moral convictions, which are declared inviolable.
Perhaps there's some other theories out there as to the reasons such companies aren't drilling (or drilling more) on their currently leased locations, but I think the simplest solution here is the correct one. No Profits = No Drilling.
You missed the important strategic point in GP's post that answers your question.
We know (a) Oil is a limited resource (b) it is a practical necessity for the manufacture or plastics and other derivatives that make our modern life possible, (c) When it's gone, we aren't getting more of it, ever. (synthetics are part of this equation, but ancillary to the point of this post, so let's leave that for another time).
My point is, keep the oil in the ground. Use the oil from the rest of the world before our own - we have a man made strategic reserve, but also a nature made one as well.
While I'm not happy with what I pay for gas, oddly enough, I want it this way. I remember the "crying indian" commercial as a kid talking about how it was the responsibility of parents to keep the planet healthy for their children. Now I'm a parent, and I bear this responsibility in mind.
This brings me to why I want high prices. As long as prices are high, there is an economic incentive to shift toward non-oil/renewable energy sources... it's happening even now. Eventually, there will be enough shift so that (hopefully) our oil consumption will resemble a caravan moving through an endless desert, husbanding their water because they know to run out is to die.
The first part of this shift has already begun, and required nothing more than the proper economic conditions we see today. The remainder of the shift -- continuing the transition to the point where we do not rely on oil at all for things as "pedestrian" as transportation or energy -- will require political will this country has never demonstrated. When the drop in oil demand causes prices to fall, people will again consume more oil. We -- I -- have failed to take to heart the first lesson of the 70s oil embargo (that oil is absolutely critical to our society). I am cynical about the chances that we will learn the second lesson -- that the strategic value of energy is far more valuable than the dollars needed to make ourselves fully energy independent.
It is at that crucial pass/fail, live/die moment -- that day when oil again becomes cheaper than renewable alternatives -- that we should all look at our children and remember our responsibilities.
You WANT Linux support, so you rationalize to death. Because YOU don't want support, you say EVERYONE doesn't want support.
You say "a lot of the APIs are at least comparable", which translated means "all the APIs have at least some non-trivial differences", meaning they need to be coded, tested, debugged and supported differently than the "mainstream" base... for a trivial potential increase in sales... in other words, a guaranteed money loser... but that's ok so long as YOU'RE happy.
How many different distros should be supported? RedHat? Suse? BSD? Xenix? If I get the top ten, but still miss yours, you'll still hate my company.
You give people an option for rewarding you in a manner that EVERYONE agrees is fair
There is no such this in the entire universe as something that everyone agrees on. There are those who hate Santa Claus. Those who hate money. Those who hate sex. Those who hate the very fucking air they breathe.
Whats this crap about HTML in the database? It's a damn SQL server, not a web server. If HTML is stored in the DB ala a content manager, how the hell would this attack know the schema of the DB to be able to alter the rows to to the extent necessary to inject it's code? If it's a well known CMS such as Nuke, fine, but even that's a stretch.
Well, perhaps not. As I think off-the-cuff, I'd say that you can't simply store the value alone on the card. No matter how you look at it, if you store the number "$250" once, you can store the same encrypted bit pattern again and the system will always read $250.
If all you were storing is the string "250.00", then yes, you have a known value to compare the encrypted value to. But anyone with half a brain is going to combine that number with a known set of salts to make repeated encryptions come up with different texts for the same value. This can be a combination of selecting one of 20 keys each bus carries at random and/or taking the 3rd digit of the card number and adding it to the 9th and dividing it by the fourth; that is, using the card number in a non-obvious way to create a hash.
Layers make a good security system. Many layers of different locks.
Holy crap, this is about the best post I've seen on/. in months. This shit of it is, I HAVE mod points, but I've already posted to this thread, and you're +5 anyway.
So, your argument is that the people created the corporation specificially to make shareholders rich without benifit to society at all?
Well, that might be what most people think it is today, that's not what they were designed to be and I personally think it's way past time to start reigning them back in.
While I agree with your sentiment completely, people DID create corporations specifically to make shareholders rich, with the only benefit to society being that society benefits when its members are wealthy.
Corporations exist solely to profit (yea yea, I know what a non profit is... not my point). I'm not saying that's right or just, it's just how it is. If you want to take the lead in reigning 'em in, know that I'll be right behind you.
Ok, I agree the car analogy thing is flawed. The important point is the ONE mission these machines have is to count votes, or not, but in NO case ever leave the user with the impression that they have voted when in fact their vote is lost. This was their mission, and they failed.
I don't care much about spelling errors, user interface errors and the like and long as the machine is 100% accurate doing it's raison d'et.
FWIR about 1/3 of Iran's population is blonde haired and blue eyed. The Caucuses mountain range (from which we get the term Caucasian) is partly in Iran. So if Iran or part of their population (the government) is evil that whole profiling thing starts to not work real fast.
How about the government leaves us alone and sees to its actual responsibilities and, oh i don't know, obeys its own laws and attempts to embody American ideals? Just a suggestion.
Heretic!!! I hope you're dressed for Gitmo, talking that way! Himmler would be so ashamed of you!
Every Linksys router I've seen lately has something called "mac clone", which is explicitly designed to spoof a Mac address -- I assume that's actually useful somewhere. (I've used it when my ISP doesn't want to let go of my DHCP lease.)
FYI, there are often ISPs that will not let you NAT, or have more than one computer on your broadband service. They get a MAC from you and that's the only one they let talk on the network. Therefore, using the clone MAC feature on the Linksys gets around that problem...
They also have hundreds of capped wells that they don't pump from "because it isn't profitable". At north of $120 a barrel they still use that excuse.
The supply constraints are artificial; always have been. Pass a law that says any party can pump oil from any capped well on public land, with some minor compensation to the lease owner and see how much the supply goes up.
No it doesn't. That is why we are in the FUBARed situation we are in. The Founding Fathers forgot to say that they meant the rights to be absolute. Unfortunately, the anti-Federalists were right and should be revered for their wisdom.
So you've interviewed Mr. Jefferson have you? Mr. Adams told you from the grave "d'oh! I knew there was something I left out!!".
Forgive the sarcasm, but I'm trying to point out that you are making an assumption of the Founding Fathers intent was based on what your personal desires are.
IMO our Constitution is so amazing not for what it says, but for what it leaves out and makes us figure out for ourselves, every decade or so. This ensures it is a living document, continually updated by those living under its authority, never a dead document forced on the living by those long dead.
IMO, Ben, George, James and the rest forgot nothing, least of all that they were doing an incredibly dangerous thing -- trying to predict the future, and how that future might best be governed. They knew that every word could just as easily be a noose as a gift.
I really like this idea... so of course I don't have any modpoints at the moment.
Seriously, just add a "troll" flag to the users table; trolls always see all posts, everyone else sees only non-troll posts.
As far as the troll knows, his stuff is going up just fine; for some reason nobody is answering it. Of course, this won't work too well if the site allows anonymous users.
Why do they always contact governments when they come to Earth so they can cover it up?
It's simple. Our governments exist to create and maintain social stability. In that context, it's easy for any person, especially a politician, to rationalize keeping a discovery like this secret.
If I were an alien ambassador, I would propose a 75-100 year transition and acclimation period so that the revealing, when it comes, does not bring untold strife and madness from everyone who would have an agenda to put forward.
Start with sightings. Nobody believed them at first; now many people do, and many more are willing to accept that it's possible; very few people outright believe that extrasolar life just plain doesn't exist.
Next, as technology matures, we begin to detect extrasolar planets, and the notion becomes even more plausible.
So here we are in about year 50 of the plan... what sorts of things remain for us to "discover" before the big reveal?
Discovery of earth-like extrasolar planets.
A theory for faster-than-light travel. It doesn't have to be provable, just plausible.
Intercepts from radio telescopes that cannot be proven to be alien in origin (you want doubters at this point).
IMO, mathematically speaking it is impossible for there NOT to be life of other planets. In our universe and planet, we have never observed there to be a single instance of ANYTHING. Ergo, in an infinite universe, where there is one instance of life, there must be more than one.
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So does that mean Texas can change the tax instead? Because right now no one is paying the tax, and that's how it ought to be.
Fixed that for ya
Being able to duplicate an experiment is important to science, so we obviously need many people to build Large Hadron Colliders. I'm not doing anything this weekend, so where's the party?
Obviously a ruse by yet another /. geek to get an invite to a party. Forgetaboutit!
- The boys at the frat house
If I'm dying and I have a part of my brain implanted in you, are "you" legally married to your pre-op spouse, my pre-op spouse, or both of them?
Which one is hotter?
I'm no rocket scientist, but I think the numbers look something like this:
Escape Velocity KPH:27,342
Escape Velocity Meters PH:27,341,848
Escape Velocity meters per minute:455,697
EV meters per second:7,595
Length of loop in kilometers:50 (this is an obviously arbitrary length; the longer the loop, the smaller the G force will be for a given velocity)
# loops per second @ escape velocity:0.152
radians per second @ ev:55
Astronaut mass:81.64kg (this is the FAA standard 180 pounds)
Formula: F = m x r x (2 x Pi x N/60)^2
Force in newtons:1032.857058
Kiloponds/Kilograms:105.234713
or 1.28g
That's ten loops around a 27 mile closed circuit; exactly the circuit that LHC makes. Even better, since it's a closed loop, you don't even need to accelerate at 6g...
And when we couldn't find the key for the storehouse then obviously Bush must have thrown it down the well. Even after somebody found it under a grain sack...
My girlfriend is a grain sack you insensitive clod! She was completely traumatized when that toady Bush came back and put his hands all over her and then hid that accursed key under hey lovely body.
And this, in a nutshell, is why it is judges who set the punishment for offenders and not victims or relatives of victims.
Agreed. If it were my kid, I'd still agree... just so long as the judge sets the punishment to a thousand years in a pound-me-in-the-ass prison. If he doesn't, I reserve the right to kill the motherfucker. Not legal, arguably not even moral... but highly satisfying to the father.
How quickly you forget his broken promise on accepting public funds for his campaign. Oh sure, he had all sorts of good reasons for reneging . . . but none of those reasons where unknown when he made the vow. In short, he blatantly lied.
Lie? You don't know that he claimed position N while secretly believing position X. All you know is he changed positions. Looking at the consensus of this thread, that appears to be something people agree with -- that is, being flexible with your positions as you learn new things.
Anyway, I flip flop 20-30 times just going to the grocery store. I WANT a candidate to change their mind on just about everything except a very small handful of moral convictions, which are declared inviolable.
Fix welfare? I thought Clinton did a pretty good job of that.
Perhaps there's some other theories out there as to the reasons such companies aren't drilling (or drilling more) on their currently leased locations, but I think the simplest solution here is the correct one. No Profits = No Drilling.
You missed the important strategic point in GP's post that answers your question.
We know (a) Oil is a limited resource (b) it is a practical necessity for the manufacture or plastics and other derivatives that make our modern life possible, (c) When it's gone, we aren't getting more of it, ever. (synthetics are part of this equation, but ancillary to the point of this post, so let's leave that for another time).
My point is, keep the oil in the ground. Use the oil from the rest of the world before our own - we have a man made strategic reserve, but also a nature made one as well.
While I'm not happy with what I pay for gas, oddly enough, I want it this way. I remember the "crying indian" commercial as a kid talking about how it was the responsibility of parents to keep the planet healthy for their children. Now I'm a parent, and I bear this responsibility in mind.
This brings me to why I want high prices. As long as prices are high, there is an economic incentive to shift toward non-oil/renewable energy sources... it's happening even now. Eventually, there will be enough shift so that (hopefully) our oil consumption will resemble a caravan moving through an endless desert, husbanding their water because they know to run out is to die.
The first part of this shift has already begun, and required nothing more than the proper economic conditions we see today. The remainder of the shift -- continuing the transition to the point where we do not rely on oil at all for things as "pedestrian" as transportation or energy -- will require political will this country has never demonstrated. When the drop in oil demand causes prices to fall, people will again consume more oil. We -- I -- have failed to take to heart the first lesson of the 70s oil embargo (that oil is absolutely critical to our society). I am cynical about the chances that we will learn the second lesson -- that the strategic value of energy is far more valuable than the dollars needed to make ourselves fully energy independent.
It is at that crucial pass/fail, live/die moment -- that day when oil again becomes cheaper than renewable alternatives -- that we should all look at our children and remember our responsibilities.
Um, pardon my French, but HORSESHIT.
You WANT Linux support, so you rationalize to death. Because YOU don't want support, you say EVERYONE doesn't want support.
You say "a lot of the APIs are at least comparable", which translated means "all the APIs have at least some non-trivial differences", meaning they need to be coded, tested, debugged and supported differently than the "mainstream" base... for a trivial potential increase in sales... in other words, a guaranteed money loser... but that's ok so long as YOU'RE happy.
How many different distros should be supported? RedHat? Suse? BSD? Xenix? If I get the top ten, but still miss yours, you'll still hate my company.
You give people an option for rewarding you in a manner that EVERYONE agrees is fair
There is no such this in the entire universe as something that everyone agrees on. There are those who hate Santa Claus. Those who hate money. Those who hate sex. Those who hate the very fucking air they breathe.
TFA doesn't mention nearly enough details.
Let's see you slice bread with an AK-47.
Maybe not bread, but how do you think they make swiss cheese?
Well, perhaps not. As I think off-the-cuff, I'd say that you can't simply store the value alone on the card. No matter how you look at it, if you store the number "$250" once, you can store the same encrypted bit pattern again and the system will always read $250.
If all you were storing is the string "250.00", then yes, you have a known value to compare the encrypted value to. But anyone with half a brain is going to combine that number with a known set of salts to make repeated encryptions come up with different texts for the same value. This can be a combination of selecting one of 20 keys each bus carries at random and/or taking the 3rd digit of the card number and adding it to the 9th and dividing it by the fourth; that is, using the card number in a non-obvious way to create a hash.
Layers make a good security system. Many layers of different locks.
Holy crap, this is about the best post I've seen on /. in months. This shit of it is, I HAVE mod points, but I've already posted to this thread, and you're +5 anyway.
So, your argument is that the people created the corporation specificially to make shareholders rich without benifit to society at all?
Well, that might be what most people think it is today, that's not what they were designed to be and I personally think it's way past time to start reigning them back in.
While I agree with your sentiment completely, people DID create corporations specifically to make shareholders rich, with the only benefit to society being that society benefits when its members are wealthy.
Corporations exist solely to profit (yea yea, I know what a non profit is... not my point). I'm not saying that's right or just, it's just how it is. If you want to take the lead in reigning 'em in, know that I'll be right behind you.
Ok, I agree the car analogy thing is flawed. The important point is the ONE mission these machines have is to count votes, or not, but in NO case ever leave the user with the impression that they have voted when in fact their vote is lost. This was their mission, and they failed.
I don't care much about spelling errors, user interface errors and the like and long as the machine is 100% accurate doing it's raison d'et.
FWIR about 1/3 of Iran's population is blonde haired and blue eyed. The Caucuses mountain range (from which we get the term Caucasian) is partly in Iran. So if Iran or part of their population (the government) is evil that whole profiling thing starts to not work real fast.
How about the government leaves us alone and sees to its actual responsibilities and, oh i don't know, obeys its own laws and attempts to embody American ideals? Just a suggestion.
Heretic!!! I hope you're dressed for Gitmo, talking that way! Himmler would be so ashamed of you!
True, but I've yet to come across a blowjob
there, fixed that for ya
there, fixed that for ya
Every Linksys router I've seen lately has something called "mac clone", which is explicitly designed to spoof a Mac address -- I assume that's actually useful somewhere. (I've used it when my ISP doesn't want to let go of my DHCP lease.)
FYI, there are often ISPs that will not let you NAT, or have more than one computer on your broadband service. They get a MAC from you and that's the only one they let talk on the network. Therefore, using the clone MAC feature on the Linksys gets around that problem...
They also have hundreds of capped wells that they don't pump from "because it isn't profitable". At north of $120 a barrel they still use that excuse.
The supply constraints are artificial; always have been. Pass a law that says any party can pump oil from any capped well on public land, with some minor compensation to the lease owner and see how much the supply goes up.
No it doesn't. That is why we are in the FUBARed situation we are in. The Founding Fathers forgot to say that they meant the rights to be absolute. Unfortunately, the anti-Federalists were right and should be revered for their wisdom.
So you've interviewed Mr. Jefferson have you? Mr. Adams told you from the grave "d'oh! I knew there was something I left out!!".
Forgive the sarcasm, but I'm trying to point out that you are making an assumption of the Founding Fathers intent was based on what your personal desires are.
IMO our Constitution is so amazing not for what it says, but for what it leaves out and makes us figure out for ourselves, every decade or so. This ensures it is a living document, continually updated by those living under its authority, never a dead document forced on the living by those long dead.
IMO, Ben, George, James and the rest forgot nothing, least of all that they were doing an incredibly dangerous thing -- trying to predict the future, and how that future might best be governed. They knew that every word could just as easily be a noose as a gift.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
I really like this idea... so of course I don't have any modpoints at the moment. Seriously, just add a "troll" flag to the users table; trolls always see all posts, everyone else sees only non-troll posts. As far as the troll knows, his stuff is going up just fine; for some reason nobody is answering it. Of course, this won't work too well if the site allows anonymous users.
Why do they always contact governments when they come to Earth so they can cover it up?
It's simple. Our governments exist to create and maintain social stability. In that context, it's easy for any person, especially a politician, to rationalize keeping a discovery like this secret.
If I were an alien ambassador, I would propose a 75-100 year transition and acclimation period so that the revealing, when it comes, does not bring untold strife and madness from everyone who would have an agenda to put forward.
Start with sightings. Nobody believed them at first; now many people do, and many more are willing to accept that it's possible; very few people outright believe that extrasolar life just plain doesn't exist.
Next, as technology matures, we begin to detect extrasolar planets, and the notion becomes even more plausible.
So here we are in about year 50 of the plan... what sorts of things remain for us to "discover" before the big reveal?
IMO, mathematically speaking it is impossible for there NOT to be life of other planets. In our universe and planet, we have never observed there to be a single instance of ANYTHING. Ergo, in an infinite universe, where there is one instance of life, there must be more than one.