Enjoyable reading if you want to get some idea of what it might take to colonize Mars. All the problems listed are addressed there along with a bunch of others.
A Mars colony will be a Biodome project. They need to be as self-sufficient as possible since there's no alternative waiting outside the door.
I've got a business making gaming miniatures and while I prefer the look of hand sculpted ones 3D printing is what's becoming more common. Gee thanks for making it more tempting to get a 3D printer.
I don't see anywhere in the article where they don't have enough fuel to escape the moon's gravity. They've stated that they don't expect to be able to monitor the landing for any additional research. So have them head out into the great unknown instead of smashing them into the moon.
I guess this says all that needs to be said about our cultural mindset. "We don't need it any more, just toss it over there."
I didn't read the requirements but since I'm on medications I need to take for the rest of my life my guess is that I wouldn't even make the first cut. I also don't have any specialized skills to begin setting up a colony.
About the "suicide mission" thing. Life is a suicide mission if you really think about it. I don't have any problem with wanting to be part of something bigger even if it means I won't live to see the results.
My company uses IP phones and almost no one has a direct outside line since most of us have no reason for non-employees not to go through the main number-extension. However since we're spread out across geographic regions and have a lot of conference calls/meetings it makes perfect sense to use the company network to make the internal calls and keep them completely in-house.
It's also a heck of a lot easier to pick up the phone and dial extension 3456 than to call the main number, put in the extension and have the person on the other end have no idea who is calling them.
My personal cell phone has limited landline minutes and I'd much rather not use them on company business if I can avoid it.
We have corporate IM which is heavily used but sometimes it's quicker and easier to pick up the phone and make the call.
Let's face it. Somehow they're going to get a tax passed for internet purchases. At least purchases made from companies based/shipped from the US.
Rather than deal with it at a state level why not do a flat tax regardless of the buyer location? I'd say 2% is reasonable. Of course changes to this tax would require a supermajority in both houses over two separate sessions separated by an election. (I can dream on that part).
This bypasses the entire situation of county-level tax tables and if any state doesn't want the revenue it can go towards the VA or some other non-pork and essential project.
It sure would be nice to know which congresscritters are introducing these provisions and trying to attach them to unrelated legislation so they go under the radar. A nice letter writing campaign could persuade them to stop that kind of crap.
I'm burning mod points to state what I consider to be the obvious answer.
Contact your senators and tell them you want them to vote against this. They're supposed to represent the citizens of their state so make your voice heard. Of course there's no guarantee they'll listen but it's your responsibility to tell them how you want them to represent you.
If all you do is bitch about it on a website but make no effort to tell your senator (or worse, didn't vote at all) then you're not doing anything at all. This is supposed to be a representative government so pretend it still is and do your part.
A second term president has no real reason to care about the public since they can't be elected again. Things that would have been a factor in trying to gain that second term no longer apply. They can try to do anything and everything they feel like doing without the possibility of serious repercussions.
Expect even more unpopular, unsupported and unsustainable things coming out of the White House in the form of Executive Orders that bypass the entire legislative process.
My definition of self documenting code is code I've documented myself. Yes, there's things that are horribly obvious and don't need documentation. Then there's the other 95% of what's in the file. If nothing else saying the function of the next section of code and dependencies can really help when I have to go into it 6 months after it was written and change something.
I also use headers to document changes but that's a slightly different topic. At least a general idea of the changes (with defect number) is available for the next person so they can keep track of who did what, when they did it and why. There's some terrible changes that were made but were necessary due to whatever reason was in the defect.
Descriptive variable names (within reason) and decent whitespace also go a long way to making the code more easily understood.
If the next person doesn't want to read the comments then that's their decision. I put them in as part of how I code.
Wonderful. The new hardware is out. Now where's my Android app to let me use the Amazon Prime features? Is there some kind of insurmountable technical reason why they can create one for the iPad but not for an Android phone? Notice I said ~technical~, not ~financial~.
Why should an insurance company have to make you rich?
Believe it or not, you *don't* have a right to free money in this world.
The insurance companies evaluated the risks involved and set what was quoted as "astronomically high" premiums (nice contextual reference, btw) for coverage. Insurance is gambling. The insurance company is betting on nothing going wrong, you're betting something will.
The insurance companies made the call here and the astronauts didn't want to pay the premiums involved. They decided not to gamble with formal insurance. Instead they gambled on their autographs being valuable and marketable enough to provide for their families in case they didn't come back.
Would it be possible to treat this like the propane tanks people use for outdoor grills and such? Then the issues of refill time and heat during the refill become non-issues for the users. Swap out the empty tank for a full one.
They would be a heck of a lot easier to fill in central locations and distribute to existing markets so that you don't have the "100 miles from a special station" problem. That would increase the practical usage of the vehicle.
Obviously this doesn't address the problems with air powered cars but by taking the complicated problem of refilling out of the equation it could make manufacturers more interested in research.
If the state of Kentucky doesn't agree with the questions on the ACT don't let their students take the test. Simple. Then when their kids can't get into college because they don't meet the admission guidelines they can deal with the results.
Is this fair to the kids? Nope. Is not teaching evolution fair to the kids? Nope. Domino effect.
This dude is absolutely right. It's absolutely worth it to muster up all the will power and motivation you have to seeing a doctor and working with them to find medication that works for you without giving you more problems than you started off with.
Assuming the doctor is able to do that, and willing to expend the time and effort. You could also get a medication that makes you worse. You could end up with a diagnosis which is a social stigma, and makes it harder for you to find work or deal with the authorities. You may get a diagnosis or treatment without knowing it, because the doctor either forgets or doesn't think it's important to tell you when he changes either of them. Once you seek mental health care, people around you tend to treat you as less reliable and dismiss everything you say, which makes it even harder to get the right treatment.
Yes and no. The adjustment period for starting/changing medications can be horrendous and if you've already pushed everyone away you're on your own. Which does not help the situation at all.
I don't care if people have issues with my diagnosis. It's not my 'fault' - it's my chemistry. It's as much a part of me as my eye color. If they can't understand that then they're not going to understand just how much this impacts every aspect of my life.
I'm bi-polar. See? No problem telling people about it. I haven't seen much impact on my social or professional life. My medications make me functional and that's about the best I hope for now. I don't wear a sign but the people who should know do know.
It's my responsibility to monitor what my doctor is doing. I ask questions. Lots of questions. If he can't answer them then it doesn't happen. If he wants to try something different I ask for the reasons, the potential impact, and what studies have caused him to consider this as a viable treatment for me. Again, lack of solid answers means I don't accept it. It's my choice. And if the doctor takes offense or gets condescending I'll get a new doctor. I demand respect and give it in return.
It sounds like they were already doing something similar by running multiple variations of the environment data. If the goal is to get to the payload then running the hash just seems like an obvious extension of that process.
I never expected the data to 'reveal' the correct value in the correct place. It's another brute force method to try to find the key. My question is why the hash itself isn't the value that's used instead of the source value.
If the malware is looking for a specific MD5 hash why not look for the possible variations on that instead of the source of the hash? Once that's identified then the research can go both ways - looking for the source and looking for the next hash.
I freely admit I've never done any cryptography but from a process perspective this seems like a reasonable way to approach the problem.
I look forward to hearing why this can't work. Honestly I do. It will help my understanding of how these things are picked apart by the experts.
If the IRS is allowed to impose fines and penalties for tax return issues shouldn't they have the same fines and penalties imposed on them for accepted fraudulent tax returns? Simple enough - once they find AND correct the error they apply the same formula they use for the taxpayers and tack it on as NON-TAXABLE income to the correct return.
That would be some incentive for them to look into and resolve problems quickly.
I feel that every bill should have a one page, 12 point text summary. If it isn't in the summary it can't be in the bill. That would really cut down on all the various and sundry things that they tack onto these both because of space limitations and seeing it right there.
Even better, that summary must be made public (on the internet just so it won't be one of those "Beware of the leopard" things) for 30 days before they can vote.
The last thing these guys want is for it to be blindingly obvious what they're doing. And when they try the traditional response of "It's too complicated for the voters to understand" then they're admitting that they don't understand it either.
Are 4 people really enough to start the process? Yes the plan is to send up more people on a regular basis but what can 4 people really accomplish with very limited resources?
This project keeps reminding me of "Red Mars" with the one-way trip, the original settlers working to start the process, etc. However those fictional characters were experts in the fields necessary to the process and had a huge infrastructure behind them with more than sufficient equipment and resources waiting for them on arrival. Oh, and there were 100 of them.
Have a look at the amount of sugar in an equivalent size can/bottle of fruit juice. It can have even more sugar than the soda. Are they going to tax fruit juice as well? How about all the foods that have sugar in them that aren't snack food? Have a look at food labels and ~gasp~ they have sweeteners!
Stop with the meaningless gestures that are nothing but tax grabs in the name of "Think of the children" already! If you want more tax money just say so and let the voters decide. Of course they may just decide to bounce your worthless butts out of public office so roll the dice and take your chances.
Just because you have tons of digital pictures doesn't mean you need all of them in a physical format. The plus side of digital is that you can take as many pictures as you want because they don't cost anything. If it doesn't turn out, delete it.
I would recommend taking the best/favorite pictures and getting those printed commercially. A small photo album is a lot better than boxes of unsorted photos.
A similar recommendation would be a selection of pictures in a digital picture frame. Again you're choosing the ones you like best and displaying them.
Honestly think about how often you'll be looking back at those pictures. 50 photos of your son's first birthday party aren't going to be that interesting in 20 years. A few photos for family memories are a lot more likely to be treasured.
Back to the original question - any place that prints digital on photo paper with dye sub will work fine.
I noticed during checkout that the bottom seal on a cordless phone I was buying was torn open, upon opening and unpacking it while the manager was telling me loudly not to...
So did you then hand it to the manager to open? Did you go back and get a box that hadn't been opened? Or were you an asshat and caused a fuss because "you knew best"?
There were several non-confrontational ways to handle this and you chose none of them. Congrats. You're an asshat.
If an open source data aggregator (my bad if that's the wrong way to phrase it) can use open source and non-copyrighted material to product almost the exact same result as a copyrighted textbook does that mean the copyrighted textbook is infringing on open source and non-copyrighted material? Seems to me that unless they can prove that they came up with those facts themselves then they're just gathering up the same information.
"Look and feel" is another concept entirely. Ask Lotus how that one worked out for them.
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Enjoyable reading if you want to get some idea of what it might take to colonize Mars. All the problems listed are addressed there along with a bunch of others.
A Mars colony will be a Biodome project. They need to be as self-sufficient as possible since there's no alternative waiting outside the door.
I've got a business making gaming miniatures and while I prefer the look of hand sculpted ones 3D printing is what's becoming more common. Gee thanks for making it more tempting to get a 3D printer.
I don't see anywhere in the article where they don't have enough fuel to escape the moon's gravity. They've stated that they don't expect to be able to monitor the landing for any additional research. So have them head out into the great unknown instead of smashing them into the moon.
I guess this says all that needs to be said about our cultural mindset. "We don't need it any more, just toss it over there."
I didn't read the requirements but since I'm on medications I need to take for the rest of my life my guess is that I wouldn't even make the first cut. I also don't have any specialized skills to begin setting up a colony.
About the "suicide mission" thing. Life is a suicide mission if you really think about it. I don't have any problem with wanting to be part of something bigger even if it means I won't live to see the results.
My company uses IP phones and almost no one has a direct outside line since most of us have no reason for non-employees not to go through the main number-extension. However since we're spread out across geographic regions and have a lot of conference calls/meetings it makes perfect sense to use the company network to make the internal calls and keep them completely in-house.
It's also a heck of a lot easier to pick up the phone and dial extension 3456 than to call the main number, put in the extension and have the person on the other end have no idea who is calling them.
My personal cell phone has limited landline minutes and I'd much rather not use them on company business if I can avoid it.
We have corporate IM which is heavily used but sometimes it's quicker and easier to pick up the phone and make the call.
Let's face it. Somehow they're going to get a tax passed for internet purchases. At least purchases made from companies based/shipped from the US.
Rather than deal with it at a state level why not do a flat tax regardless of the buyer location? I'd say 2% is reasonable. Of course changes to this tax would require a supermajority in both houses over two separate sessions separated by an election. (I can dream on that part).
This bypasses the entire situation of county-level tax tables and if any state doesn't want the revenue it can go towards the VA or some other non-pork and essential project.
It sure would be nice to know which congresscritters are introducing these provisions and trying to attach them to unrelated legislation so they go under the radar. A nice letter writing campaign could persuade them to stop that kind of crap.
I'm burning mod points to state what I consider to be the obvious answer.
Contact your senators and tell them you want them to vote against this. They're supposed to represent the citizens of their state so make your voice heard. Of course there's no guarantee they'll listen but it's your responsibility to tell them how you want them to represent you.
If all you do is bitch about it on a website but make no effort to tell your senator (or worse, didn't vote at all) then you're not doing anything at all. This is supposed to be a representative government so pretend it still is and do your part.
A second term president has no real reason to care about the public since they can't be elected again. Things that would have been a factor in trying to gain that second term no longer apply. They can try to do anything and everything they feel like doing without the possibility of serious repercussions.
Expect even more unpopular, unsupported and unsustainable things coming out of the White House in the form of Executive Orders that bypass the entire legislative process.
My definition of self documenting code is code I've documented myself. Yes, there's things that are horribly obvious and don't need documentation. Then there's the other 95% of what's in the file. If nothing else saying the function of the next section of code and dependencies can really help when I have to go into it 6 months after it was written and change something.
I also use headers to document changes but that's a slightly different topic. At least a general idea of the changes (with defect number) is available for the next person so they can keep track of who did what, when they did it and why. There's some terrible changes that were made but were necessary due to whatever reason was in the defect.
Descriptive variable names (within reason) and decent whitespace also go a long way to making the code more easily understood.
If the next person doesn't want to read the comments then that's their decision. I put them in as part of how I code.
Wonderful. The new hardware is out. Now where's my Android app to let me use the Amazon Prime features? Is there some kind of insurmountable technical reason why they can create one for the iPad but not for an Android phone? Notice I said ~technical~, not ~financial~.
The insurance companies evaluated the risks involved and set what was quoted as "astronomically high" premiums (nice contextual reference, btw) for coverage. Insurance is gambling. The insurance company is betting on nothing going wrong, you're betting something will.
The insurance companies made the call here and the astronauts didn't want to pay the premiums involved. They decided not to gamble with formal insurance. Instead they gambled on their autographs being valuable and marketable enough to provide for their families in case they didn't come back.
I fail to see where there's free money here.
Would it be possible to treat this like the propane tanks people use for outdoor grills and such? Then the issues of refill time and heat during the refill become non-issues for the users. Swap out the empty tank for a full one.
They would be a heck of a lot easier to fill in central locations and distribute to existing markets so that you don't have the "100 miles from a special station" problem. That would increase the practical usage of the vehicle.
Obviously this doesn't address the problems with air powered cars but by taking the complicated problem of refilling out of the equation it could make manufacturers more interested in research.
If the state of Kentucky doesn't agree with the questions on the ACT don't let their students take the test. Simple. Then when their kids can't get into college because they don't meet the admission guidelines they can deal with the results.
Is this fair to the kids? Nope. Is not teaching evolution fair to the kids? Nope. Domino effect.
Yes and no. The adjustment period for starting/changing medications can be horrendous and if you've already pushed everyone away you're on your own. Which does not help the situation at all.
I don't care if people have issues with my diagnosis. It's not my 'fault' - it's my chemistry. It's as much a part of me as my eye color. If they can't understand that then they're not going to understand just how much this impacts every aspect of my life.
I'm bi-polar. See? No problem telling people about it. I haven't seen much impact on my social or professional life. My medications make me functional and that's about the best I hope for now. I don't wear a sign but the people who should know do know.
It's my responsibility to monitor what my doctor is doing. I ask questions. Lots of questions. If he can't answer them then it doesn't happen. If he wants to try something different I ask for the reasons, the potential impact, and what studies have caused him to consider this as a viable treatment for me. Again, lack of solid answers means I don't accept it. It's my choice. And if the doctor takes offense or gets condescending I'll get a new doctor. I demand respect and give it in return.
It sounds like they were already doing something similar by running multiple variations of the environment data. If the goal is to get to the payload then running the hash just seems like an obvious extension of that process.
I never expected the data to 'reveal' the correct value in the correct place. It's another brute force method to try to find the key. My question is why the hash itself isn't the value that's used instead of the source value.
If the malware is looking for a specific MD5 hash why not look for the possible variations on that instead of the source of the hash? Once that's identified then the research can go both ways - looking for the source and looking for the next hash.
I freely admit I've never done any cryptography but from a process perspective this seems like a reasonable way to approach the problem.
I look forward to hearing why this can't work. Honestly I do. It will help my understanding of how these things are picked apart by the experts.
If the IRS is allowed to impose fines and penalties for tax return issues shouldn't they have the same fines and penalties imposed on them for accepted fraudulent tax returns? Simple enough - once they find AND correct the error they apply the same formula they use for the taxpayers and tack it on as NON-TAXABLE income to the correct return.
That would be some incentive for them to look into and resolve problems quickly.
I feel that every bill should have a one page, 12 point text summary. If it isn't in the summary it can't be in the bill. That would really cut down on all the various and sundry things that they tack onto these both because of space limitations and seeing it right there.
Even better, that summary must be made public (on the internet just so it won't be one of those "Beware of the leopard" things) for 30 days before they can vote.
The last thing these guys want is for it to be blindingly obvious what they're doing. And when they try the traditional response of "It's too complicated for the voters to understand" then they're admitting that they don't understand it either.
I'm such a dreamer.
Kind of a drastic solution to get rid of the voices in your head but hey, if it works for you...
Are 4 people really enough to start the process? Yes the plan is to send up more people on a regular basis but what can 4 people really accomplish with very limited resources?
This project keeps reminding me of "Red Mars" with the one-way trip, the original settlers working to start the process, etc. However those fictional characters were experts in the fields necessary to the process and had a huge infrastructure behind them with more than sufficient equipment and resources waiting for them on arrival. Oh, and there were 100 of them.
Workaround - use a revolver. Casings stay in the revolver.
Have a look at the amount of sugar in an equivalent size can/bottle of fruit juice. It can have even more sugar than the soda. Are they going to tax fruit juice as well? How about all the foods that have sugar in them that aren't snack food? Have a look at food labels and ~gasp~ they have sweeteners!
Stop with the meaningless gestures that are nothing but tax grabs in the name of "Think of the children" already! If you want more tax money just say so and let the voters decide. Of course they may just decide to bounce your worthless butts out of public office so roll the dice and take your chances.
Just because you have tons of digital pictures doesn't mean you need all of them in a physical format. The plus side of digital is that you can take as many pictures as you want because they don't cost anything. If it doesn't turn out, delete it.
I would recommend taking the best/favorite pictures and getting those printed commercially. A small photo album is a lot better than boxes of unsorted photos.
A similar recommendation would be a selection of pictures in a digital picture frame. Again you're choosing the ones you like best and displaying them.
Honestly think about how often you'll be looking back at those pictures. 50 photos of your son's first birthday party aren't going to be that interesting in 20 years. A few photos for family memories are a lot more likely to be treasured.
Back to the original question - any place that prints digital on photo paper with dye sub will work fine.
So did you then hand it to the manager to open? Did you go back and get a box that hadn't been opened? Or were you an asshat and caused a fuss because "you knew best"?
There were several non-confrontational ways to handle this and you chose none of them. Congrats. You're an asshat.
If an open source data aggregator (my bad if that's the wrong way to phrase it) can use open source and non-copyrighted material to product almost the exact same result as a copyrighted textbook does that mean the copyrighted textbook is infringing on open source and non-copyrighted material? Seems to me that unless they can prove that they came up with those facts themselves then they're just gathering up the same information.
"Look and feel" is another concept entirely. Ask Lotus how that one worked out for them.