Too bad the guys at Enron didn't hold off on their scams...they could have really used stuff like this! If it does become widespread, and I can certainly see possible uses for it, what is the image quality like? The example in the article looks eerily like it was from one of those old mimeograph/Ditto machines that our homework was printed on in Elementary school.
Ken Lay: Hey, Jeffrey! We don't have to shred anything anymore! With this stuff, the paper trail just disappears----- and it won't be out fault!":::::does little dance through the office:::::
Please. Microsoft hatesthe term blackmail. Hell, they may even patent it to keep people from saying this patent equates to it.
Oh, and Microsoft doesn't like to think of it as 'Blackmail'. They like to think of it as a 'Compulsory Donation'.
The direction we continue to head in: Californians have now threatened to sue anyone who uses the term 'Blackmail' under the Hate Crimes Bill because they say it refers to a negative racial stereotype. The postal service has now banned the use of the term under pressure from black lawmakers who say it is discriminatory, and after all, most pieces of mail are white.
Either he was really stupid or really smart, using a Commodore 64... But, taking fro mthe recent rash of events that took place in his now-ended life, I'm leaning more towards stupid.
The police should know that the only way to recover the data is to translate it into BetaCrypt-3, where there is even less of a chance where it will be understood.
Maybe I should start encrypting my files in Linear-B.
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"Now this is what I call a 1000 years of progress: A Bavarian Cream Dog that's also self-microwaving!" ----- Phillip J. Fry
Ugh..... This is the kind of crap that I have to deal with living here in the People's Republik of Kalifornia..... People who are too stupid to be using Wi-Fi in the first place should be allowed to find out about the vulnerabilities on their own. Any one with half a walnut for a brain knows that their ARE vulnerabilities that can be exploited by using WiFi. If you are using something, ANYTHING to communicate, and you are the slightest bit smarter than a worm, then you would intuitively know that your system can be exploited.
I call it the Tobacco Effect. That effect is as follows:
People who believed the tobacco companies' claims that smoking was not hazardous to your health, and possibly, a benefit to your health. Yet, millions of idiots believed this, despite the fact that they KNEW THEY WERE INHALING *SMOKE*. Now, anybody who believs that inhaling smoke could in any way be healthful is just plain stupid, but, it is politically incorrect to say that someone is stupid, so we give them lots of money in a lawsuit.
How does the Tobacco Effect apply to this article? Simple: People who use a technology that they know nothing about and/or do not research it BEFORE using are asking for trouble. And, if you ask for trouble, and you get it, you should be the only one liable, responsible, and accountable for damages caused by *YOUR* failure to resonably understand the technology you were using.
I know this is troll bait, but here in California, idiots are never at fault for what they do.
Oh dear God. Someone was actually stupid enough to do this? Man, I wish I was there, but not as another employee, to witness this whole thing go down. I'll bet the young employee who refused to let her sighn the contract won't be getting that $100.00 check from Grandma and Grandpa this Christmas. If I were one of his grandparents, I'd just give him socks for his birthdays and Christmas's for the rest of his life.
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Scientologists are among some of the dumbest people on Earth. They believe in a "religion" THAT WAS CREATED BY A SCIENCE FICTION WRITER! HOW MUCH MORE OBVIOUS DOES IT NEED TO BE?!?!?!
*MY* body thetans can beat up your body thetans.....
The hell you can't heat an apartment with a CPU. I get, and keep, my room at a comfy 75 degrees even (at least it feels like that, even with the window open. Shorts, no shirt, no shoes...no problem.). Running a Tyan motherboard with dual AMD Opteron 246 CPU's (only one of which is currently installed), an ATI 9800PRO All-In-Wonder graphics card, and a 500W PSU in an open case. I know, I SHOULDN'T be letting them run like that, but when my system is running 24/7, the heat it cranks out will keep it toasty, even if it is, literally, freezing outside. More still, a buddy of mine had a graphic arts class in high school where the room was at around 80-85 degrees because of all the rendering they were doing. They would have to run the AC in the WINTER just to make class somewhat bearable.
Yes, *YOU CAN* do it, but it will take a little longer, obviously, than a gas-fired or electrically-fired furnace. Some of us were just geeky enough to do it. Belive me. I can.
Anyone who says you can't heat a room or apartment with a CPU is using an abacus.
That is because Homestarrunner.com is actually entertaining enough for people to want to buy their DVDs and CDs. The problem isn't necessarily a business model, but rather content that people will actually want to buy. Cheap content is disposable, and MAYBE something that people will want to download, but not something that captivates and entertains them enough to want to buy it.
Movies, are a different story. The price of theater tickets is very high (around $10.00 where I live), not to mention the fact that a large popcorn, 2 large Cokes, and nachos cost me $17.50 (yes, sadly, I actually paid that). People do not feel that they want to risk the price of a ticket on the gamble that they may either be genuinely entertained (a positive outcome), or they may end of wasting the price of a ticket (or more, depending on how many tickets they bought) and however much time the spent in the theater insted of doing something that they would have enjoyed much more. So, logic prevailing, people have begun to pirate the movies they think they may want to see, and if they like them, they are satisfied. If they don't like them, then they didn't waste any money. Hollywood has gotten into a rut of churning out crappy, boring, cinemagraphic commercial hack-work. Nobody wants to go through the trouble to see a movie that they will more likely than not, consider a waste of time, energy, and money. Music is the same way. When you buy a cd, chances are (unless it is the Beatles or Rolling Stones) that you are only buying it for one, two, or even three songs on the disc. What's more still, is that finding singles CDs with just the song you want is pretty rare, and also costs around $3.99 for ONE song. If you decide that you don't like most of the music on the CD, except for a few songs, then you just shelled out $19.99 for only 2 or 3 songs. So, if I download a song illegally, and I don't like it, I didn't lose anything in the gamble (c'mon...no jokes now). If I like it, then I keep it (yes, it is still illegal). I don't have to spend a ton of money on something that is mostly what I don't want. It's the same reason some people decide to build their own computers - You get what you want, and you get what you pay for.
Homestarrunner.com offers stuff that people enjoy enough to want to pay for, and are mostly satisfied with it.
The MPAA and RIAA are starting to realize the hard way, that people have figured out how to get what they want, not what they are offering.
AOL has ALWAYS been regarded as "badware" by anyone who can use a toothpick. AOL falls into every kind of malicious software category there is. Malware, Adware, Spyware, Spamware...AOL fits all of those pretty damn well, and the new title of "Badware" just goes to show how horrible the program and service is. I hope AOL stock tanks and the business goes belly up. It DESERVES to. AOL is a marketing ploy in the purest sense.
AOL is:
Malware: AOL has elements in it that allow it to hijack the MSN Explorer web browser (which is why I use Mozilla FireFox). AOL programs also have a habit of installing countless time-consuming updates, which are just nothing more that a few actual programming patches mixed in among more desktop internet shortcuts for marketing tie-ins. Also, as I have experienced in some of my previous systems, it can cause conflicts with Windows (yeah, I know...Linux) that are more often than not, caused by the AOL program self-installing bundled software (more marketing tie-ins).
Spyware: Well, we already have heard plenty about that one so I don't need to explain it.
Spamware: Customers are routinely sent emails for new services. Each new "service" is the same thing with a new name.
Adware: Serves up a smorgasbord of advertisements with each new window opened. Windows abound with cheap gimmicks that only lead to the user being asked to purchase something. Most "news" stories or information has some kind of marketing/sales tie-in, as do just about every service AOL offers. Customers (I once was, when 14.4 dialup was the rage) are constantly poked and prodded with sales pitches. Each new "service is actually just another sales pitch/marketing scheme with a fresh new wrapper on it.
Badware: If you read all of the above, you get the point. If you still dont't get it, you will be lucky to master a beltbuckle.
AOL just doesn't get it..... People are leaving them because they are just wayyy too obsessed with advertising. AOL has made itself the society's posterchild of advertising run amok.
I can't believe that the detective started to take the conversation in the direction he did. I know for sure I would have definitely let the smart-ass side of me show, and would probably have been arrested for causing the detective to realize just how tupid his questions were. It reminds me of the times when I was little and flew from Oakland, CA, to Medford, OR and the lady at the ticket counter would ALWAYS ask if I had packed my bags myself. Every time they asked, I would have to fight the urge to say (whith a big smile) "Nope!.....(pause).....my mom did!
Now that I am thinking of stupid, yet technically correct, "jokes" that people said at the airport, does anybody remember the clever idiot who replied to a security agent that he had a "...dirty bomb in his pants"? THAT deserves some kind of Big Cajones award. Stupid, yet fucking brilliant.
By the way, can you legally refuse to answer such deviant questions?
I think it's clear, from your choice of words that you, frankly, don't have a clue about any of the processes involved in either nucler power or nuclear weapons.
Oooooh! Someone read the newspaper and is now a scholar on nuclear processes! Don't think too hard.....your head may explode.
The noise is not due to the fast cylinder pressure rise. The reason diesels are loud is because, unlike in a gasoline engine, the fuel detonaes rather than burns. The diesel "knock" is the sound of diesel fuel detonating because of the extreme temperatures created by very high and very fast compression ratios. The knock itself is the detonation of diesel. That's where the noise comes from. The same loud knock can be heard in gasoline engines that are overheating because the fuel instantaneously detonates when it enters an overheated cylinder, instead of deflagrating in the course of normal combustion. Diesel fuel detonates, gasolind deflagrates. That is why diesel engines are chracteristically louder in operation than gasoline engines. Also, diesels operate at a far lower speed than gasoline engines, so the pressure rise in the cylinders is slower. It is the extremely high compression ratios that allows for the fuel to detonate. I have an International Harvester Corporation "Navistar" engine that redlines at 3.5 krpm, and idles around 500 rpm. The cylinder pressure doesn't necessarily rise faster, it just rises more.
Diesel efficiency comes from the fact that it is an extremely rich-running engine that uses a fuel that is exceedingly higher in energy density and content per volume than gasoline. Average energy efficiency (percentage of the energy generated that is converted into useful work) is along the order of 25%, versus 12% for gasoline engines. Also, diesel engines can withstand higher turbo boost pressures, which means more air can be crammed into a larger cylinder, generating even more power. Efficinecy over gasoline engines also comes from the fact that the fuel detonates rather than burns. This, combined with the extreme compression ratios and energy-dense fuel, is what gives diesels a higher level of efficiency over gasoline engines. Also, since diesel contains far more energy than gasoline, a smaller volume generates more energy (both because of chemical composition and method of combustion), and therefore an engine that uses such a fuel is obviously going to be more efficient. The power generated by diesel engines is significantly increased when a 2-stroke engine is used, versus a four stroke engine.
However, the efficiency of an engine, regardless of fuel type, is relative to the application and environment in which it is operated in.
Addtionally, how on Earth is is legal for corporations to exist that have the sole purpose of trademarking everything just so they can for people to buy licences from them? It's one thing to protect a product or service from being copied and abused by competitors, but a completely different thing to try to trademark generally used terms as a means of profiting principally from the use of the term itself, not the service or product.
Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0
Ooooops! It looks like I didn't give credit to the creator of the word and number grouping Web 2.0 . Argh! I did it again! Please Satan, forgive me! Why has today become the Age Of The Lawsuit? It seems like now, it is legal and justified to sue anybody for anything over anything. People, and companies, need to get a grip on their lawyers, and lawyers need to understand they are not God.
Ok.... This has REALLY gotten out of control. You can now award a patent for a method of social networking?!?!?! This is ridiculous, and the idiot who awarded the patent should be publicly humiliated. I mean, REALLY humiliated, because we now allow methods of making freinds a patentable concept. I hope that someone with cajones flagrantly challenges the legitimacy of this law and it is thrown ou, because the patent process has clearly gotten out of control.
Windows had a problem with a bad memory leak. If you ran your computer for days at a time, you would have to completely shut it down and reboot it if you wanted to use any remotely burdening programs. Supposedly, the memory leak was fixed, but I'm still not so sure.....
Detective: So, Doctor, what caused this man to die?
Coroner: Apparently, God created him as a Windows machine and he suffered a massive core dump. It's a chronic occurance in people loaded with Windows. We tried to ask God to fix the problem, but he says that it's normal. We, however, think that he reclassified the bugs as security features just to make the ship date.
Detective: Um.....ok... so, what happens when a core dump occurs in a Windows person?
Coroner: Well, their eyes turn bright blue, their body freezes up, and their bowels relax causing copious amounts of code to be evacuated from their body.
Detective: How are you sure this was a core dump that killed him?
Coroner: Well, the subject has bright blue eyes, a large amount of code in the pants, and facial trauma.
Detective: Facial trauma?
Coroner: Yes, facial trauma. It's caused by the person who was interacting with the subject when the core dump occured. The person isn't sure if what they said got thought to the subject, so they slapped the subject around, because they had the appearance of freezing up.
Detective: What can people do to avoid these things?
Ok... Here is a simple test to identify what is a planet and what is a moon:
Does the body in question primarily orbit the Sun, or does it primarily orbit another body?
THAT is as simple as it should be. It is a simple observation that can be made, and thus, a simple answer. But, these scientists have, somehow, managed to take such a simple idea and make it an extremely complicated analysis. An object either primarily orbits the Sun or it primarily orbits another planet. It is irrelevent where the barycenter is, because the object is still orbiting the planet. It's REALLY not that damn difficult to decide what the body is orbiting. The location of the barycenter is irrelevent. Of ourse, ALL of the objects in the Solar System are orbiting the Sun, but moons are orbiting objects that are orbiting the Sun. What object is orbing another object, and what object is having another object orbit around it? It's really quite that simple. But, alas, people who have spent the majority of their lives studying this have managed to screw it up.....badly.
This is a prime example of what happens when educated people try to make sure that everybody knows that they are smarter than everybody else in their field of "knowledge". The problem is, they just end up making idiots of themselves in the end.
15.8 billion years old. Excellent cond.! 1 owner. 180 billion light-years on original engine/trans. Heat, A/C, power seats, power windows, dual coffee holders. Runs strong, but 15% slower. Minor body damage/bondo work in sector ZZ PLURAL-Z ALPHA. $1500.00 obo but also willing to part out. Ask for Zaphod.
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I don't know which is worse--- Getting arrested for what he was doing, or having his name.
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Sig Sauer
Too bad the guys at Enron didn't hold off on their scams...they could have really used stuff like this! If it does become widespread, and I can certainly see possible uses for it, what is the image quality like? The example in the article looks eerily like it was from one of those old mimeograph/Ditto machines that our homework was printed on in Elementary school.
:::::does little dance through the office:::::
Ken Lay: Hey, Jeffrey! We don't have to shred anything anymore! With this stuff, the paper trail just disappears----- and it won't be out fault!"
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Sig Sauer
Please. Microsoft hatesthe term blackmail. Hell, they may even patent it to keep people from saying this patent equates to it.
Oh, and Microsoft doesn't like to think of it as 'Blackmail'. They like to think of it as a 'Compulsory Donation'.
The direction we continue to head in:
Californians have now threatened to sue anyone who uses the term 'Blackmail' under the Hate Crimes Bill because they say it refers to a negative racial stereotype.
The postal service has now banned the use of the term under pressure from black lawmakers who say it is discriminatory, and after all, most pieces of mail are white.
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Sig Sauer
w00t!
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Sig Sauer
Either he was really stupid or really smart, using a Commodore 64... But, taking fro mthe recent rash of events that took place in his now-ended life, I'm leaning more towards stupid.
The police should know that the only way to recover the data is to translate it into BetaCrypt-3, where there is even less of a chance where it will be understood.
Maybe I should start encrypting my files in Linear-B.
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"Now this is what I call a 1000 years of progress: A Bavarian Cream Dog that's also self-microwaving!" ----- Phillip J. Fry
Ugh..... This is the kind of crap that I have to deal with living here in the People's Republik of Kalifornia..... People who are too stupid to be using Wi-Fi in the first place should be allowed to find out about the vulnerabilities on their own. Any one with half a walnut for a brain knows that their ARE vulnerabilities that can be exploited by using WiFi. If you are using something, ANYTHING to communicate, and you are the slightest bit smarter than a worm, then you would intuitively know that your system can be exploited.
I call it the Tobacco Effect. That effect is as follows:
People who believed the tobacco companies' claims that smoking was not hazardous to your health, and possibly, a benefit to your health. Yet, millions of idiots believed this, despite the fact that they KNEW THEY WERE INHALING *SMOKE*. Now, anybody who believs that inhaling smoke could in any way be healthful is just plain stupid, but, it is politically incorrect to say that someone is stupid, so we give them lots of money in a lawsuit.
How does the Tobacco Effect apply to this article? Simple: People who use a technology that they know nothing about and/or do not research it BEFORE using are asking for trouble. And, if you ask for trouble, and you get it, you should be the only one liable, responsible, and accountable for damages caused by *YOUR* failure to resonably understand the technology you were using.
I know this is troll bait, but here in California, idiots are never at fault for what they do.
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Sig Sauer
Oh dear God. Someone was actually stupid enough to do this? Man, I wish I was there, but not as another employee, to witness this whole thing go down. I'll bet the young employee who refused to let her sighn the contract won't be getting that $100.00 check from Grandma and Grandpa this Christmas. If I were one of his grandparents, I'd just give him socks for his birthdays and Christmas's for the rest of his life.
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Scientologists are among some of the dumbest people on Earth. They believe in a "religion" THAT WAS CREATED BY A SCIENCE FICTION WRITER! HOW MUCH MORE OBVIOUS DOES IT NEED TO BE?!?!?!
*MY* body thetans can beat up your body thetans.....
The hell you can't heat an apartment with a CPU. I get, and keep, my room at a comfy 75 degrees even (at least it feels like that, even with the window open. Shorts, no shirt, no shoes...no problem.). Running a Tyan motherboard with dual AMD Opteron 246 CPU's (only one of which is currently installed), an ATI 9800PRO All-In-Wonder graphics card, and a 500W PSU in an open case. I know, I SHOULDN'T be letting them run like that, but when my system is running 24/7, the heat it cranks out will keep it toasty, even if it is, literally, freezing outside. More still, a buddy of mine had a graphic arts class in high school where the room was at around 80-85 degrees because of all the rendering they were doing. They would have to run the AC in the WINTER just to make class somewhat bearable.
Yes, *YOU CAN* do it, but it will take a little longer, obviously, than a gas-fired or electrically-fired furnace. Some of us were just geeky enough to do it. Belive me. I can.
Anyone who says you can't heat a room or apartment with a CPU is using an abacus.
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Sig Sauer
That is because Homestarrunner.com is actually entertaining enough for people to want to buy their DVDs and CDs. The problem isn't necessarily a business model, but rather content that people will actually want to buy. Cheap content is disposable, and MAYBE something that people will want to download, but not something that captivates and entertains them enough to want to buy it.
Movies, are a different story. The price of theater tickets is very high (around $10.00 where I live), not to mention the fact that a large popcorn, 2 large Cokes, and nachos cost me $17.50 (yes, sadly, I actually paid that). People do not feel that they want to risk the price of a ticket on the gamble that they may either be genuinely entertained (a positive outcome), or they may end of wasting the price of a ticket (or more, depending on how many tickets they bought) and however much time the spent in the theater insted of doing something that they would have enjoyed much more. So, logic prevailing, people have begun to pirate the movies they think they may want to see, and if they like them, they are satisfied. If they don't like them, then they didn't waste any money. Hollywood has gotten into a rut of churning out crappy, boring, cinemagraphic commercial hack-work. Nobody wants to go through the trouble to see a movie that they will more likely than not, consider a waste of time, energy, and money. Music is the same way. When you buy a cd, chances are (unless it is the Beatles or Rolling Stones) that you are only buying it for one, two, or even three songs on the disc. What's more still, is that finding singles CDs with just the song you want is pretty rare, and also costs around $3.99 for ONE song. If you decide that you don't like most of the music on the CD, except for a few songs, then you just shelled out $19.99 for only 2 or 3 songs. So, if I download a song illegally, and I don't like it, I didn't lose anything in the gamble (c'mon...no jokes now). If I like it, then I keep it (yes, it is still illegal). I don't have to spend a ton of money on something that is mostly what I don't want. It's the same reason some people decide to build their own computers - You get what you want, and you get what you pay for.
Homestarrunner.com offers stuff that people enjoy enough to want to pay for, and are mostly satisfied with it.
The MPAA and RIAA are starting to realize the hard way, that people have figured out how to get what they want, not what they are offering.
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Sig Sauer
How would turning off a light bulb save a thousand humpaback whales? Also confusing is how you connect a light bulb to rainforest demolition.
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Sig Sauer
AOL has ALWAYS been regarded as "badware" by anyone who can use a toothpick. AOL falls into every kind of malicious software category there is. Malware, Adware, Spyware, Spamware...AOL fits all of those pretty damn well, and the new title of "Badware" just goes to show how horrible the program and service is. I hope AOL stock tanks and the business goes belly up. It DESERVES to. AOL is a marketing ploy in the purest sense.
AOL is:
Malware: AOL has elements in it that allow it to hijack the MSN Explorer web browser (which is why I use Mozilla FireFox). AOL programs also have a habit of installing countless time-consuming updates, which are just nothing more that a few actual programming patches mixed in among more desktop internet shortcuts for marketing tie-ins. Also, as I have experienced in some of my previous systems, it can cause conflicts with Windows (yeah, I know...Linux) that are more often than not, caused by the AOL program self-installing bundled software (more marketing tie-ins).
Spyware: Well, we already have heard plenty about that one so I don't need to explain it.
Spamware: Customers are routinely sent emails for new services. Each new "service" is the same thing with a new name.
Adware: Serves up a smorgasbord of advertisements with each new window opened. Windows abound with cheap gimmicks that only lead to the user being asked to purchase something. Most "news" stories or information has some kind of marketing/sales tie-in, as do just about every service AOL offers. Customers (I once was, when 14.4 dialup was the rage) are constantly poked and prodded with sales pitches. Each new "service is actually just another sales pitch/marketing scheme with a fresh new wrapper on it.
Badware: If you read all of the above, you get the point. If you still dont't get it, you will be lucky to master a beltbuckle.
AOL just doesn't get it..... People are leaving them because they are just wayyy too obsessed with advertising. AOL has made itself the society's posterchild of advertising run amok.
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Sig Sauer
I can't believe that the detective started to take the conversation in the direction he did. I know for sure I would have definitely let the smart-ass side of me show, and would probably have been arrested for causing the detective to realize just how tupid his questions were. It reminds me of the times when I was little and flew from Oakland, CA, to Medford, OR and the lady at the ticket counter would ALWAYS ask if I had packed my bags myself. Every time they asked, I would have to fight the urge to say (whith a big smile) "Nope!.....(pause).....my mom did!
Now that I am thinking of stupid, yet technically correct, "jokes" that people said at the airport, does anybody remember the clever idiot who replied to a security agent that he had a "...dirty bomb in his pants"? THAT deserves some kind of Big Cajones award. Stupid, yet fucking brilliant.
By the way, can you legally refuse to answer such deviant questions?
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Sig Sauer
At least the bad (as in low quality) jokes that Saget told didn't carry over from America's Funniest Home Videos.
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Sig Sauer
I think it's clear, from your choice of words that you, frankly, don't have a clue about any of the processes involved in either nucler power or nuclear weapons.
Oooooh! Someone read the newspaper and is now a scholar on nuclear processes! Don't think too hard.....your head may explode.
By the way, heavy water will FUSE, not fusion.
Mod +5 Intellectual Warning
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Sig Sauer
Is there an way to defy ICANN?
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Sig Sauer
The noise is not due to the fast cylinder pressure rise. The reason diesels are loud is because, unlike in a gasoline engine, the fuel detonaes rather than burns. The diesel "knock" is the sound of diesel fuel detonating because of the extreme temperatures created by very high and very fast compression ratios. The knock itself is the detonation of diesel. That's where the noise comes from. The same loud knock can be heard in gasoline engines that are overheating because the fuel instantaneously detonates when it enters an overheated cylinder, instead of deflagrating in the course of normal combustion. Diesel fuel detonates, gasolind deflagrates. That is why diesel engines are chracteristically louder in operation than gasoline engines. Also, diesels operate at a far lower speed than gasoline engines, so the pressure rise in the cylinders is slower. It is the extremely high compression ratios that allows for the fuel to detonate. I have an International Harvester Corporation "Navistar" engine that redlines at 3.5 krpm, and idles around 500 rpm. The cylinder pressure doesn't necessarily rise faster, it just rises more.
Diesel efficiency comes from the fact that it is an extremely rich-running engine that uses a fuel that is exceedingly higher in energy density and content per volume than gasoline. Average energy efficiency (percentage of the energy generated that is converted into useful work) is along the order of 25%, versus 12% for gasoline engines. Also, diesel engines can withstand higher turbo boost pressures, which means more air can be crammed into a larger cylinder, generating even more power. Efficinecy over gasoline engines also comes from the fact that the fuel detonates rather than burns. This, combined with the extreme compression ratios and energy-dense fuel, is what gives diesels a higher level of efficiency over gasoline engines. Also, since diesel contains far more energy than gasoline, a smaller volume generates more energy (both because of chemical composition and method of combustion), and therefore an engine that uses such a fuel is obviously going to be more efficient. The power generated by diesel engines is significantly increased when a 2-stroke engine is used, versus a four stroke engine.
However, the efficiency of an engine, regardless of fuel type, is relative to the application and environment in which it is operated in.
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Sig Sauer
I didn't think that SlashDot readers/writers had girlfriends.....
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Sig Sauer
Addtionally, how on Earth is is legal for corporations to exist that have the sole purpose of trademarking everything just so they can for people to buy licences from them? It's one thing to protect a product or service from being copied and abused by competitors, but a completely different thing to try to trademark generally used terms as a means of profiting principally from the use of the term itself, not the service or product.
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Sig Sauer
Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0
Ooooops! It looks like I didn't give credit to the creator of the word and number grouping Web 2.0 . Argh! I did it again! Please Satan, forgive me! Why has today become the Age Of The Lawsuit? It seems like now, it is legal and justified to sue anybody for anything over anything. People, and companies, need to get a grip on their lawyers, and lawyers need to understand they are not God.
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Sig Sauer
Ok.... This has REALLY gotten out of control. You can now award a patent for a method of social networking?!?!?! This is ridiculous, and the idiot who awarded the patent should be publicly humiliated. I mean, REALLY humiliated, because we now allow methods of making freinds a patentable concept. I hope that someone with cajones flagrantly challenges the legitimacy of this law and it is thrown ou, because the patent process has clearly gotten out of control.
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Sig Sauer
Windows had a problem with a bad memory leak. If you ran your computer for days at a time, you would have to completely shut it down and reboot it if you wanted to use any remotely burdening programs. Supposedly, the memory leak was fixed, but I'm still not so sure.....
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Sig Sauer
Detective: So, Doctor, what caused this man to die?
Coroner: Apparently, God created him as a Windows machine and he suffered a massive core dump. It's a chronic occurance in people loaded with Windows. We tried to ask God to fix the problem, but he says that it's normal. We, however, think that he reclassified the bugs as security features just to make the ship date.
Detective: Um.....ok... so, what happens when a core dump occurs in a Windows person?
Coroner: Well, their eyes turn bright blue, their body freezes up, and their bowels relax causing copious amounts of code to be evacuated from their body.
Detective: How are you sure this was a core dump that killed him?
Coroner: Well, the subject has bright blue eyes, a large amount of code in the pants, and facial trauma.
Detective: Facial trauma?
Coroner: Yes, facial trauma. It's caused by the person who was interacting with the subject when the core dump occured. The person isn't sure if what they said got thought to the subject, so they slapped the subject around, because they had the appearance of freezing up.
Detective: What can people do to avoid these things?
Coroner: (holds up a deer rifle)
Detective: (blink)
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Sig Sauer
Ok... Here is a simple test to identify what is a planet and what is a moon:
Does the body in question primarily orbit the Sun, or does it primarily orbit another body?
THAT is as simple as it should be. It is a simple observation that can be made, and thus, a simple answer. But, these scientists have, somehow, managed to take such a simple idea and make it an extremely complicated analysis. An object either primarily orbits the Sun or it primarily orbits another planet. It is irrelevent where the barycenter is, because the object is still orbiting the planet. It's REALLY not that damn difficult to decide what the body is orbiting. The location of the barycenter is irrelevent. Of ourse, ALL of the objects in the Solar System are orbiting the Sun, but moons are orbiting objects that are orbiting the Sun. What object is orbing another object, and what object is having another object orbit around it? It's really quite that simple. But, alas, people who have spent the majority of their lives studying this have managed to screw it up.....badly.
This is a prime example of what happens when educated people try to make sure that everybody knows that they are smarter than everybody else in their field of "knowledge". The problem is, they just end up making idiots of themselves in the end.
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Sig Sauer.
Ooooohhhhh.....BURNED!
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Sig Sauer
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