Glad you're here to speak for the rest of us, anonymous coward. As a physicist and longtime slashdotter, I've always been willing to learn about new tech. I may be young, but this is the most impressive thing I've seen FOSS do in my lifetime. Anyone who thinks bitcoin is unfair/a ponzi scheme, or whatever, then by all means release your source code - show us the "correct" way to build a new currency and I'm sure people will use it.
That depends on how much he's invested in it. Most of the people who get into bitcoin are hobbyists. They spend a lot of time reading up on the technology, and once they grasp its potential they get a little excited. The truth is people will submit stories about things they're into. Bitcoin is no exception. Personally, I've invested about $120 in bitcoins. If I cashed out now, I'd have about $200 worth. Does that make my arguments are invalid?
The default transaction fee was lowered with the most recent update. Also, money isn't supposed to have intrinsic value. That's one reason bills are made out of paper.
Goddard's Community Coordinated Modeling Center just released a space weather app that lets you track solar activity in real-time. It also has data and simulation predictions for the solar surface, the solar wind, and Earth's magnetosphere/ionosphere. Really slick interface too:)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nasa-space-weather/id422621403?mt=8
By the way, the whole point of OpenLeaks is that you choose who gets your submission. So, if it's a local news story about your school board, you can send it to your local paper, and if they don't run the story within your time frame then you can choose for it to go public. This avoids the problem of only catching the biggest leaks. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsIhiUHoNLA5
The only brave person surrounding Wikileaks appears to Assnage...
To find other brave wikileaks activists, just look at the names on the subpeona: Jacob Appelbaum @ioerror -Tor spokesman who subbed in for Julian Assange at the HOPE conference, and a lot has been written about him elsewhere, including Rolling Stone. He's on the way back from Iceland to Seattle today, so hopefully he won't be detained again. There's a crowd of wikileaks supporters waiting for him. Rop Gonggrijp @rop_g - Hacker/activist who helped produce and release the Collateral Murder video. He no longer works for wikileaks since he's spending most of his time cracking voting machines in India/Brazil.
Birgitta Jónsdóttir @birgittaj - The Icelandic Parliament Member with an impressive history of activism.
All of these people have done more for the spread of democracy and freedom of speech than most of us ever will. No wonder they are under investigation by the DOJ.
Of the releases we've seen so far, yes. But we still have 200,000 to go. I'd be surprised if some of those didn't cover the months leading up to the Iraq invasion.
Maybe I can interest you in this very illuminating talk by Seth Schoen and Jacob Appelbaum. Jacob is the Tor spokesman and the only American working for wikileaks. Seth is on the HTTPS Everywhere project. http://thenexthope.org/talks-list/
The Tor project has seen an increased focus on Internet censorship as many more users adopted Tor to get around blocking. In the past year, Tor was a popular means of bypassing censorship in Iran, China, and around the world. Firewall operators have been noticing. Tor has also had to contend with new organized efforts to block access to the network, and has rolled out the “bridges” blocking-resistance system in earnest. Alongside the perpetual need to get more Tor nodes, it’s become important to get users to run bridges – and to experiment with ways of communicating bridge addresses to users affected by censorship.
The current censorship landscape will be explored, along with the bridge mechanism and efforts to recruit more bridges. There will also be an update on how Tor developers are responding to the growing pains and dealing with scaling challenges associated with Tor’s popularity. You’ll also hear about the challenge of counting the number of users on an anonymity network, and how client software can force the use of encryption to protect users from some attacks after their traffic leaves the Tor network.
Who would have thought there would be several different ways of looking at multi-national dramas;) Don't forget, even Godwin's law allows for legitimate references to Hitler where they apply.
Had the present leaks occurred when we were still considering war with Iraq, do you think we'd be in the mess we are today? As I recall, the media published only what the government wanted us to hear, that the rest of the world supported us. Because the public bought it, the congressmen bought it, and the debate was over before it began. Would you rather us wait until the next war starts?
You're saying that the reason that you're not doing the job that I'm paying you to do is that you don't have a job to do? Is that what you're saying? What are you trying to convince me of, exactly? That you're as useless as an asshole right here? Well guess what, Buddy. I think, you just fucking convinced me!
-Larry Gomez
Asteroids are not that radioactive, but there's a lot of radiation due to cosmic rays. high energy particles from the solar wind are also extremely dangerous, not to mention those coming from transient events like coronal mass ejections. If you don't have a magnetic field to deflect particles or a thick atmosphere to absorb them, then you're at risk. Even shielding of a spacecraft (or aircraft) can make matters worse by causing secondary collisions that interact more strongly with human tissue than the incoming high energy particles. I have heard that if you bury yourself with a few inches of dirt inside an asteroid or the lunar regolith, then you should be fine. It's the commute that kills.
The moonwalkers knew it was prudent to wait for the moon to be full before making the trip, so that they would be shielded by the earth's magnetotail. However, this was before space physics models existed - they didn't know that they could end up effectively sitting in the solar wind if the interplanetary magnetic field shifted southward, and that's something that occurs rather frequently even during low solar activity. So they apparently drew their cards right. However, if we're planning to leave the earth's magnetosphere entirely then we'll really have to come up with something fancy.
The radiation problem is a big one, and I think the public doesn't yet realize how big of a problem it is. I mean, flight attendants and pilots are exposed to about as much or more than someone working in a nuclear power plant, so shouldn't they be wearing radiation badges? http://iopscience.iop.org/0952-4746/21/1/003
Now fast forward 50 yrs, with asteroid mining profits starting to take off. Will similar health risks get swept under the rug?
I mean, you could blindly aim a spaceship through the belt, and as long as it can take collisions with pebble size objects, it'll almost certainly make it through unscathed.
Don't forget, we need a pretty good estimate of the velocity distribution out there before setting up shop. A pebble-sized object moving at 500 km/s can really ruin your day.
The article's summary is a bit narrow-minded. My suspension of disbelief for the exploding ring has less to do with the distribution of mass (almost spherically symmetric) and more to do with the distribution of energy. The fact that a lot of astrophysical objects have a clear axis of symmetry should hint that a man-made object capable of destroying a planet could also have an axis of symmetry.
Why is it that in the engineering world, current still flows from positive to negative poles? Should be simple to get in there and change the convention, shouldn't it?
Granted, I really liked wave. I recently got around to setting up a global warming debate amongst the physicists in my program, via wave, and then the news hits... Part of me wishes/. would have tried it out as a real-time commenting system for a couple days.
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Glad you're here to speak for the rest of us, anonymous coward. As a physicist and longtime slashdotter, I've always been willing to learn about new tech. I may be young, but this is the most impressive thing I've seen FOSS do in my lifetime. Anyone who thinks bitcoin is unfair/a ponzi scheme, or whatever, then by all means release your source code - show us the "correct" way to build a new currency and I'm sure people will use it.
Protein folding doesn't require a supercomputer. Check out Fold.it
That depends on how much he's invested in it. Most of the people who get into bitcoin are hobbyists. They spend a lot of time reading up on the technology, and once they grasp its potential they get a little excited. The truth is people will submit stories about things they're into. Bitcoin is no exception. Personally, I've invested about $120 in bitcoins. If I cashed out now, I'd have about $200 worth. Does that make my arguments are invalid?
How exactly do you get a new currency adopted without providing incentives? If you can think of a better way, please let us know.
The default transaction fee was lowered with the most recent update. Also, money isn't supposed to have intrinsic value. That's one reason bills are made out of paper.
Goddard's Community Coordinated Modeling Center just released a space weather app that lets you track solar activity in real-time. It also has data and simulation predictions for the solar surface, the solar wind, and Earth's magnetosphere/ionosphere. Really slick interface too :)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nasa-space-weather/id422621403?mt=8
I'm guessing they mean 'put it online', except they don't intend to publish by default.
By the way, the whole point of OpenLeaks is that you choose who gets your submission. So, if it's a local news story about your school board, you can send it to your local paper, and if they don't run the story within your time frame then you can choose for it to go public. This avoids the problem of only catching the biggest leaks. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsIhiUHoNLA5
The only brave person surrounding Wikileaks appears to Assnage...
To find other brave wikileaks activists, just look at the names on the subpeona: Jacob Appelbaum @ioerror -Tor spokesman who subbed in for Julian Assange at the HOPE conference, and a lot has been written about him elsewhere, including Rolling Stone. He's on the way back from Iceland to Seattle today, so hopefully he won't be detained again. There's a crowd of wikileaks supporters waiting for him. Rop Gonggrijp @rop_g - Hacker/activist who helped produce and release the Collateral Murder video. He no longer works for wikileaks since he's spending most of his time cracking voting machines in India/Brazil. Birgitta Jónsdóttir @birgittaj - The Icelandic Parliament Member with an impressive history of activism.
All of these people have done more for the spread of democracy and freedom of speech than most of us ever will. No wonder they are under investigation by the DOJ.
Of the releases we've seen so far, yes. But we still have 200,000 to go. I'd be surprised if some of those didn't cover the months leading up to the Iraq invasion.
The Tor project has seen an increased focus on Internet censorship as many more users adopted Tor to get around blocking. In the past year, Tor was a popular means of bypassing censorship in Iran, China, and around the world. Firewall operators have been noticing. Tor has also had to contend with new organized efforts to block access to the network, and has rolled out the “bridges” blocking-resistance system in earnest. Alongside the perpetual need to get more Tor nodes, it’s become important to get users to run bridges – and to experiment with ways of communicating bridge addresses to users affected by censorship. The current censorship landscape will be explored, along with the bridge mechanism and efforts to recruit more bridges. There will also be an update on how Tor developers are responding to the growing pains and dealing with scaling challenges associated with Tor’s popularity. You’ll also hear about the challenge of counting the number of users on an anonymity network, and how client software can force the use of encryption to protect users from some attacks after their traffic leaves the Tor network.
Who would have thought there would be several different ways of looking at multi-national dramas ;) Don't forget, even Godwin's law allows for legitimate references to Hitler where they apply.
That's the point of the insurance file, right? Although I've heard there's no way to tell if it's just a bunch of random 1's and 0's...
Had the present leaks occurred when we were still considering war with Iraq, do you think we'd be in the mess we are today? As I recall, the media published only what the government wanted us to hear, that the rest of the world supported us. Because the public bought it, the congressmen bought it, and the debate was over before it began. Would you rather us wait until the next war starts?
You're saying that the reason that you're not doing the job that I'm paying you to do is that you don't have a job to do? Is that what you're saying? What are you trying to convince me of, exactly? That you're as useless as an asshole right here? Well guess what, Buddy. I think, you just fucking convinced me! -Larry Gomez
Or, even more accurate: "Hawking modded down for massive flamebait"
Asteroids are not that radioactive, but there's a lot of radiation due to cosmic rays. high energy particles from the solar wind are also extremely dangerous, not to mention those coming from transient events like coronal mass ejections. If you don't have a magnetic field to deflect particles or a thick atmosphere to absorb them, then you're at risk. Even shielding of a spacecraft (or aircraft) can make matters worse by causing secondary collisions that interact more strongly with human tissue than the incoming high energy particles. I have heard that if you bury yourself with a few inches of dirt inside an asteroid or the lunar regolith, then you should be fine. It's the commute that kills.
I knew pisswasser was a real product.
The moonwalkers knew it was prudent to wait for the moon to be full before making the trip, so that they would be shielded by the earth's magnetotail. However, this was before space physics models existed - they didn't know that they could end up effectively sitting in the solar wind if the interplanetary magnetic field shifted southward, and that's something that occurs rather frequently even during low solar activity. So they apparently drew their cards right. However, if we're planning to leave the earth's magnetosphere entirely then we'll really have to come up with something fancy.
The radiation problem is a big one, and I think the public doesn't yet realize how big of a problem it is. I mean, flight attendants and pilots are exposed to about as much or more than someone working in a nuclear power plant, so shouldn't they be wearing radiation badges? http://iopscience.iop.org/0952-4746/21/1/003 Now fast forward 50 yrs, with asteroid mining profits starting to take off. Will similar health risks get swept under the rug?
I mean, you could blindly aim a spaceship through the belt, and as long as it can take collisions with pebble size objects, it'll almost certainly make it through unscathed.
Don't forget, we need a pretty good estimate of the velocity distribution out there before setting up shop. A pebble-sized object moving at 500 km/s can really ruin your day.
The article's summary is a bit narrow-minded. My suspension of disbelief for the exploding ring has less to do with the distribution of mass (almost spherically symmetric) and more to do with the distribution of energy. The fact that a lot of astrophysical objects have a clear axis of symmetry should hint that a man-made object capable of destroying a planet could also have an axis of symmetry.
Why is it that in the engineering world, current still flows from positive to negative poles? Should be simple to get in there and change the convention, shouldn't it?
Say the convention were flipped. Well, what happens when we start carrying current using holes instead of electrons ?
Granted, I really liked wave. I recently got around to setting up a global warming debate amongst the physicists in my program, via wave, and then the news hits... Part of me wishes /. would have tried it out as a real-time commenting system for a couple days.
Compared to google wave? All of them. Compared to going to the moon? None.