I remember 60 minutes doing a piece on the gender bending of animals in the everglades over 10 years ago. They reported that it was a big warning sign that this is happening right now to humans.
How long did it take for the government to take action on the hazards of cigarettes?
Thanks to salesmen, cheats, liars and lobbyists humans are the slowest animals on earth.
CC
So how many people are unaware of this danger? How many of these bulbs are being thrown out in the garbage? does my local government know how to handle CFL's (I will have to find out).
History repeats itself, people are stupid. This is a prime example of people in a responsible position going ahead with a 'bright idea' and not thinking ahead.
Yet another unnecessary man-made environmental problem. thanks stupid guys.
Not a lawyer here: A corporation has rights as a person and it owns property, but it never dies and never pays an inheritance tax on their coveted IP property or copyright. Their lifespan can far exceed a persons. It does not sound fair to me. What do the corp lawyers say?
Perpetual motion should be replaced by "perpetual motion like" because no one is calling it perpetual motion:
As the parent says: the inventor is not calling it a perpetual motion machine. The magnets could be a source of energy, so could....? Give the guy credit for letting it be scrutinized by a peer group.
- A lot of discoveries (most?) come from experiments that have unexplained results. - The unexplained is a puzzle to solve - When the puzzles reasoning/solution is found it sometimes adds to the worlds knowledge.
1) realize that in North America and Europe there is not much of a market since a 4GB HD and 7" screen are pathetically inadequate. 2) hype the heck out of it while, all the time, ignoring "1)" 3) Market it for $350 (TheSource (circuit city) price for it here in Canada). 4) pray I sell all the units I made and never make the same mistake again.
If it is another black hole it is common and not so newsworthy. If it is the same black hole it is old and so newsworthy.
cc PS: its the same black hole, the poster is just a bit slow on the uptake. I suspect that it was posted to see how many Star Wars postings would be made for the annual Slashdot year end pool.
"Mempile's DVD drives will initially retail for between $3,000 and $4,000, and a 700GB platter -- the first model expected out around 2011 -- will sell for $30"
No one ever said that Rogers did not pay for permission and got revenue from an advertiser (I don't know the details....maybe they did not pay the provider of the feed). Its just an example of them taking content and replacing it with their own; just like they did with the Google webpage.
1) For many years Canadian Cable companies were picking up American TV stations, without payment or permission (stolen content), and inserted their own commercials. This did tick off the Americans. It was a big money maker for Rogers.
2) Ever watch a televised American or other sporting event on Canadian television? Global TV inserts/superimposes local ads over stadium banners and big tv displays. It really takes away from the feeling of being there; there is no Canadian Tire in Miami people!
Rogers has poor record when it comes to ethics (I did do 3rd party work for them and I had to repair significant damage their butcher crews did to my driveway), they will do anything for the almighty dollar if they can get away with it. Is there some sort of law for intercepting Internet communications in Canada? Maybe there should be. Whats next? Rogers opens your email and inserts advertisements? Wispering of subliminal messages over their VOIP service?
Note to Rogers: don't alter the content of the web page that I am broadcasting on the Internet. I do not want to be associated with you in anyway; don't pervert my broadcast!
CC PS: just in case you had not guessed it yet; Rogers communications does not gotten a red cent from me for 5 years and won't for at least another 5. If they keep it up they never will.
The heading "troll" on this slashdot article is correct and appears to be a fabrication that misrepresents the article "How to Justify a Desktop Upgrade." Why is garbage like this allowed to stay up?
1) The MS tutorial mentions older operating systems as a generic, it does not diss XP, it does not even mention XP!
2) "newer operating system, such as Windows Vista". Vista is the example, put "XP" or other OS in there if you want.
3) The article is a template to help frustrated IT admins/managers show reason and overcome objection to a proposal of migrating to a newer OS. Any admin in any environment could use this template.
I am not commenting on the PCWorld article here, just the misrepresentation in the first part of the article. Let me know if the poster is talking about a differnt version of "How to Justify a Desktop Upgrade" because from what I see the posting is a lie, plain and simple.
All this talk about Best Buy rules. Is it being assumed that there was a rule against copying CDs?
Anyone have this Best Buy rulebook for posting?
It sounds like a made up rule to me, as someone wrote earlier, just an excuse a jackass manager (and bad person) used to fire someone. If thats true shame on them (like their conscious void soul cares).
1) hopping from one router to another is detected via traditional means 2) higher than average roundtrip times are noticed via traditional means 3) signal is triangulated via traditional means to put a location on a suspected signal.
A new but an obvious proceedure that someone has decided to put to paper and product. It is a nice product to notice but this is about as ground breaking as peanut butter and chocolate.
Nothing wrong with making a blog post about 5 minutes worth of work that really amounted to nothing. Blogs are always full of brain farts. But, then posting this on slashdot...thats an entirely different type of stinky brain fart.
The photic sneeze reflex has nothing to do with the sun hitting your nose and everything to do with cross-talk from your optic nerve (at least that's the last hypothesis I heard).
So is that a hypothesis or a fact? Your saying your acting like you have facts but you bring hypothesis? So when when the sun hits my nose and I feel my nose tingle and then I sneeze even when my eyes are covered my a cap and closed I am just imagining it? Then again the sun always (even if indirectly) hits my my eyes when it hits my nose. I never sneeze when I am facing away from the sun or with any other type of light. Regardless, my body (nose) feels something strange in the presence of an environmental factor.
As for the nose magnet, yes there is a bit of magnetite in the nasal region, but given how poor people are at finding their way around I doubt it has much of any effect. Furthermore, a quick google and pubmed search failed to demonstrate that a proper study of this has yet been performed. So, I wouldn't hold my breath that this compass is actually functional.
You doubt? you would not hold your breath? Your putting down "plausible" with you doubt? WTF? Get off your high horse boy. The structure to tell direction is there, its about as useless as an appendix (you do know that the appendix isn't useless don't you? Its rarely used by it works). We all have a sense of smell, but some have a much keener sense of smell. Maybe, just maybe some people have a better sense of direction than others.
Why did you even bother posting? Oh wait...this is slashdot....I take that question back.
I am not about to invest a ton of cash in some company that makes its money off of dowsing but if someone has a rep for finding water when others couldn't then I am giving the guy a look when others can't find water. Why? Its plausible.
That is an oxymoron. Anecdotal evidence is not real evidence. When you have data from properly controlled experiments that reach statistical significance, let me know.
Even if it is an oxymoron its an accepted oxymoron. "Spend thrift" is another example of an accepted oxymoron
If I typed "real evidence through ancedotes" or "real, ancedotal, evidence" well you might have had a point.
I said that dowsing was "plausible", I did not say it was proven. To be proven would require some sort of properly controlled experiments that reach statistical significance. When I insert "dowsing is provable/proven" into my original statement I will let you know so you can have a point.
Can someone give me a plausible explanation of how this guy got 2 mod points and I got zero?
I don't think its the rods that do the actual finding of water. Its the people who use them.
-almon return to their place of hatching. -people have a biological magnetic compass built into their nose (look it up, I am not going to do it for you). -I automatically sneeze when the first warm sun hits my nose due to genetics(look it up, I am not going to do it for you). -take 2 straighted coat hangers that are bent into an "L" and go look for metal. It works.
Why is it not plausible that people can sense the presence of a large body of water that is close (even buried)? I am sure that there are a lot of frauds out there, but, don't be so quick to call it quakery or stupid. There is real ancedotal evidence supporting it.
I think the article was written as an executive summary, its not going to give many details.
Will it provide jam resistance? Yes. Through, as you said, frequency hopping schemes. The antenna will morph to shift its frequency response, perhaps it will have better directional abilities too. Its an executive summary, the audience does not care how it will do it just that its a promising use of the technology.
The idea that this could lead to a reconfigurable antenna is a bit farfetched
obviously some smart guys have worked on the problem and have come up with something worthwhile. Your insight of the hurdles that may have lay in the way are certainly worthy of causing discussion.
CC
I read TFA but have not used the feature so I am basing this scenario there being only 1 timer per xbox:
-Billy is 7 and his sister Katie is 12. Their parents set the xbox to 10 hours of play per week. -Billy likes to get home early and get up early to play xbox. By Friday Billy has used up all 10 hours of xbox time. -On Saturday Katie wakes up and calls her friend over to play xbox.
Question: How much time elapses before Katie beats on her younger brother?
The guys comments were very obviously a joke....why is this "interesting"?
Are the people giving out mod points on this this board in grade school? Retarded?
Lame jokes get modded as 5 "funny" and usually among the first posts becuase the poster cant think of anything intelligent to say AND get the first post. Point modders: Stop encouraging this stupidity please. How about "troll"
Posts that are obviously from people who know nothing about the subject are modded as "insightful" is that because a modder knows nothing about a subject and ignorantly mods becuase what the person said would sound intelligent to the uneducated? How about a "ignorant" mod point for those ones?
Maybe I am wrong, maybe people are trying to drag down slashdot even further. I think I have said enough for people to get what I am saying.
Please mod this post as "troll" if you are offended.....it will serve my purpose of having people who don't know how to mod use up their mod points and out of the pool
CC
"closer to Star Trek".....the guy is making a joke. Why is this insightful? What is wrong with the people giving out mod points? Are they in grade school or of low intelligence Modding totally lame jokes funny, funny jokes 'interesting' and posts that are just plain wrong and have no basis in fact as 'insightful'????
Reading these posts remind me of "none of us are a dumb as all of us" I have a dream that all the ignorant mods just not use their points....use them up on this and mark them "troll" just so you will get out the pool quicker. Maybe I am wrong and its just people trying to destroy slashdot.org by making it look like a place of low intelligence.
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I remember 60 minutes doing a piece on the gender bending of animals in the everglades over 10 years ago. They reported that it was a big warning sign that this is happening right now to humans.
How long did it take for the government to take action on the hazards of cigarettes?
Thanks to salesmen, cheats, liars and lobbyists humans are the slowest animals on earth. CC
I follow the same process when making sandwiches for my kids.
So, why are my sandwiches good while McDee's are bad?
McDee's has an extra secret step: add ass.
cc
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell
Risk of the stupid: we die earlier.
Risk of the intelligent: we don't get to use "nano-technology" right away.
I would rather follow the intelligent and alleviate the doubts then follow the stupid and end up dead.
computerchimp
PS lead exists in nature.....that is not too good for humans, is it?
So how many people are unaware of this danger?
How many of these bulbs are being thrown out in the garbage? does my local government know how to handle CFL's (I will have to find out).
History repeats itself, people are stupid. This is a prime example of people in a responsible position going ahead with a 'bright idea' and not thinking ahead.
Yet another unnecessary man-made environmental problem. thanks stupid guys.
cc
PS. I am happy to know about it now.
Most taxes are placed as a percentage not as an insignificant fee. What are the fees? cc
Not a lawyer here: A corporation has rights as a person and it owns property, but it never dies and never pays an inheritance tax on their coveted IP property or copyright. Their lifespan can far exceed a persons. It does not sound fair to me. What do the corp lawyers say?
cc
Comon....this has got to be a hoax cc
Perpetual motion should be replaced by "perpetual motion like" because no one is calling it perpetual motion:
As the parent says: the inventor is not calling it a perpetual motion machine. The magnets could be a source of energy, so could....?
Give the guy credit for letting it be scrutinized by a peer group.
- A lot of discoveries (most?) come from experiments that have unexplained results.
- The unexplained is a puzzle to solve
- When the puzzles reasoning/solution is found it sometimes adds to the worlds knowledge.
cc
This is what I would do with this laptop:
1) realize that in North America and Europe there is not much of a market since a 4GB HD and 7" screen are pathetically inadequate.
2) hype the heck out of it while, all the time, ignoring "1)"
3) Market it for $350 (TheSource (circuit city) price for it here in Canada).
4) pray I sell all the units I made and never make the same mistake again.
5) pray for profit (and not a loss).
CC
Sort of a catch22:
If it is another black hole it is common and not so newsworthy.
If it is the same black hole it is old and so newsworthy.
cc
PS: its the same black hole, the poster is just a bit slow on the uptake. I suspect that it was posted to see how many Star Wars postings would be made for the annual Slashdot year end pool.
FTFA:
"Mempile's DVD drives will initially retail for between $3,000 and $4,000, and a 700GB platter -- the first model expected out around 2011 -- will sell for $30"
Not sure what the "um" is about:
No one ever said that Rogers did not pay for permission and got revenue from an advertiser (I don't know the details....maybe they did not pay the provider of the feed). Its just an example of them taking content and replacing it with their own; just like they did with the Google webpage.
History repeating itself
cc
1) For many years Canadian Cable companies were picking up American TV stations, without payment or permission (stolen content), and inserted their own commercials. This did tick off the Americans. It was a big money maker for Rogers.
2) Ever watch a televised American or other sporting event on Canadian television? Global TV inserts/superimposes local ads over stadium banners and big tv displays. It really takes away from the feeling of being there; there is no Canadian Tire in Miami people!
Rogers has poor record when it comes to ethics (I did do 3rd party work for them and I had to repair significant damage their butcher crews did to my driveway), they will do anything for the almighty dollar if they can get away with it. Is there some sort of law for intercepting Internet communications in Canada? Maybe there should be. Whats next? Rogers opens your email and inserts advertisements? Wispering of subliminal messages over their VOIP service?
Note to Rogers: don't alter the content of the web page that I am broadcasting on the Internet. I do not want to be associated with you in anyway; don't pervert my broadcast!
CC
PS: just in case you had not guessed it yet; Rogers communications does not gotten a red cent from me for 5 years and won't for at least another 5. If they keep it up they never will.
The heading "troll" on this slashdot article is correct and appears to be a fabrication that misrepresents the article
"How to Justify a Desktop Upgrade." Why is garbage like this allowed to stay up?
1) The MS tutorial mentions older operating systems as a generic, it does not diss XP, it does not even mention XP!
2) "newer operating system, such as Windows Vista". Vista is the example, put "XP" or other OS in there if you want.
3) The article is a template to help frustrated IT admins/managers show reason and overcome objection to a proposal of migrating to a newer OS. Any admin in any environment could use this template.
I am not commenting on the PCWorld article here, just the misrepresentation in the first part of the article. Let me know if the poster is talking about a differnt version of "How to Justify a Desktop Upgrade" because from what I see the posting is a lie, plain and simple.
CC
All this talk about Best Buy rules. Is it being assumed that there was a rule against copying CDs?
Anyone have this Best Buy rulebook for posting?
It sounds like a made up rule to me, as someone wrote earlier, just an excuse a jackass manager (and bad person) used to fire someone. If thats true shame on them (like their conscious void soul cares).
CC
1) hopping from one router to another is detected via traditional means
2) higher than average roundtrip times are noticed via traditional means
3) signal is triangulated via traditional means to put a location on a suspected signal.
A new but an obvious proceedure that someone has decided to put to paper and product. It is a nice product to notice but this is about as ground breaking as peanut butter and chocolate.
CC
That Geist guy rules. Here is a link on what you are referring to:
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2251/125/
CC
Nothing wrong with making a blog post about 5 minutes worth of work that really amounted to nothing. Blogs are always full of brain farts.
But, then posting this on slashdot...thats an entirely different type of stinky brain fart.
Was this a slow news day?
CC
The photic sneeze reflex has nothing to do with the sun hitting your nose and everything to do with cross-talk from your optic nerve (at least that's the last hypothesis I heard).
So is that a hypothesis or a fact? Your saying your acting like you have facts but you bring hypothesis? So when when the sun hits my nose and I feel my nose tingle and then I sneeze even when my eyes are covered my a cap and closed I am just imagining it? Then again the sun always (even if indirectly) hits my my eyes when it hits my nose. I never sneeze when I am facing away from the sun or with any other type of light. Regardless, my body (nose) feels something strange in the presence of an environmental factor.
As for the nose magnet, yes there is a bit of magnetite in the nasal region, but given how poor people are at finding their way around I doubt it has much of any effect. Furthermore, a quick google and pubmed search failed to demonstrate that a proper study of this has yet been performed. So, I wouldn't hold my breath that this compass is actually functional.
You doubt? you would not hold your breath? Your putting down "plausible" with you doubt? WTF? Get off your high horse boy. The structure to tell direction is there, its about as useless as an appendix (you do know that the appendix isn't useless don't you? Its rarely used by it works). We all have a sense of smell, but some have a much keener sense of smell. Maybe, just maybe some people have a better sense of direction than others.
Why did you even bother posting? Oh wait...this is slashdot....I take that question back.
I am not about to invest a ton of cash in some company that makes its money off of dowsing but if someone has a rep for finding water when others couldn't then I am giving the guy a look when others can't find water. Why? Its plausible.
CC
That is an oxymoron. Anecdotal evidence is not real evidence. When you have data from properly controlled experiments that reach statistical significance, let me know.
Even if it is an oxymoron its an accepted oxymoron. "Spend thrift" is another example of an accepted oxymoron
If I typed "real evidence through ancedotes" or "real, ancedotal, evidence" well you might have had a point.
I said that dowsing was "plausible", I did not say it was proven. To be proven would require some sort of properly controlled experiments that reach statistical significance. When I insert "dowsing is provable/proven" into my original statement I will let you know so you can have a point.
Can someone give me a plausible explanation of how this guy got 2 mod points and I got zero?
CC
I don't think its the rods that do the actual finding of water. Its the people who use them.
-almon return to their place of hatching.
-people have a biological magnetic compass built into their nose (look it up, I am not going to do it for you).
-I automatically sneeze when the first warm sun hits my nose due to genetics(look it up, I am not going to do it for you).
-take 2 straighted coat hangers that are bent into an "L" and go look for metal. It works.
Why is it not plausible that people can sense the presence of a large body of water that is close (even buried)? I am sure that there are a lot of frauds out there, but, don't be so quick to call it quakery or stupid. There is real ancedotal evidence supporting it.
cc
Will it provide jam resistance? Yes. Through, as you said, frequency hopping schemes. The antenna will morph to shift its frequency response, perhaps it will have better directional abilities too. Its an executive summary, the audience does not care how it will do it just that its a promising use of the technology.
The idea that this could lead to a reconfigurable antenna is a bit farfetched
obviously some smart guys have worked on the problem and have come up with something worthwhile. Your insight of the hurdles that may have lay in the way are certainly worthy of causing discussion. CC
I read TFA but have not used the feature so I am basing this scenario there being only 1 timer per xbox:
-Billy is 7 and his sister Katie is 12. Their parents set the xbox to 10 hours of play per week.
-Billy likes to get home early and get up early to play xbox. By Friday Billy has used up all 10 hours of xbox time.
-On Saturday Katie wakes up and calls her friend over to play xbox.
Question: How much time elapses before Katie beats on her younger brother?
CC
The guys comments were very obviously a joke....why is this "interesting"?
Are the people giving out mod points on this this board in grade school? Retarded?
Lame jokes get modded as 5 "funny" and usually among the first posts becuase the poster cant think of anything intelligent to say AND get the first post. Point modders: Stop encouraging this stupidity please. How about "troll"
Posts that are obviously from people who know nothing about the subject are modded as "insightful" is that because a modder knows nothing about a subject and ignorantly mods becuase what the person said would sound intelligent to the uneducated? How about a "ignorant" mod point for those ones?
Maybe I am wrong, maybe people are trying to drag down slashdot even further. I think I have said enough for people to get what I am saying.
Please mod this post as "troll" if you are offended.....it will serve my purpose of having people who don't know how to mod use up their mod points and out of the pool CC
"closer to Star Trek".....the guy is making a joke. Why is this insightful?
What is wrong with the people giving out mod points? Are they in grade school or of low intelligence
Modding totally lame jokes funny, funny jokes 'interesting' and posts that are just plain wrong and have no basis in fact as 'insightful'????
Reading these posts remind me of "none of us are a dumb as all of us"
I have a dream that all the ignorant mods just not use their points....use them up on this and mark them "troll" just so you will get out the pool quicker. Maybe I am wrong and its just people trying to destroy slashdot.org by making it look like a place of low intelligence.
CC