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Comment New on EBAY: Gamers keyboard(macro enabled) (Score 1) 65

Anti cheating techniques are successful at first, then there is the circumvention, nothing is bullet proof however using certified hardware in an controlled enviroment is a good start.

For online gaming high stakes = high interested = much energy leading to:

a.) broad band solutions for common cheaters
b.) specialised expensive hand crafted cheats

History:
1.) Nvidia looking glas hack - driver version detector+screenshooter
2.) dummy OpenGL dll wrapper - file scanner+screenshooter
also solved rat auto fire.
3.) game engine hooking - game engine hooking detector - game engine hooking detector unloader - detector for this - special cheat drivers running top priority - special anti-cheat drivers running top priority ..

What I want to say:
Cheating has evolved and ever will. Console play perhaps is now free of cheating because the stakes are too low and the dangers are too high.

Raise the stakes, get a horde of chinese DRM hackers flipping bit by bit till the consoles break, have cheating enabled again.

guess for the future:
FPGA & DSP + CV enabled cheating - looping through the DVI/HDMI signal capturing at 50/60Hz 1080p (the grabbers for this res & freq. is affordable) automatic object recognition.
feeding in commands direct into the mouse and keyboard.

AntiCheat would be statistics & pattern based.

AntiCheat: for direct signal capturing: using 4k
Anti AntiCheat: splitt mirror or (two) cameras with an angle and polarized filters (->3D) and CV again lower res but who cares..

The evolution is about to start, again!

Irony:
I call the Google Car a cheater car ;)

Comment Flashlight: enables near relativistic speeds .. (Score 1) 480

from "The hobo guide to travelling the galaxy"

After a certain amount of many many many yrs. and hopefully not your energy source running out you will have gained mass by speed without jogging and not by eating:

but relativistically which is why it is sooo hard to reach even near relativistic speeds[1].

So with this "flash light" with a certain amount of power and energy (and direction) you can travel the universe.

Back to topic:
So the described idea is basically that of a "photon gun" or flashlight or microwave gun

Micro waves are "also" part of the electromagnetic spectra therefore we can ask them "wave" or "particle" and they will answer "trans" and decide politcally correct in a s(p)lit to interfere into a figure of light and shadow.

But therefore the laws of physics still apply:
Photons have a mass equivalent to their energy the energy of a photon can be descbribed by it's frequency, the higher the frequency the higher the energy the higher the mass and if there is mass there is an impulse.

final advise to travel the universe with a flash light, a wodden back plate and some mylar sheets:

And for goods sake if you're in space use a monochromatic high power photon gun (L.A.S.E.R.) or a (M.A.S.E.R.) or a Magnetron for propulsion. Not an old flash light!

And use some solar sails where solar sailing is ultimatly cheaper.

rubber bullet point
And if you want to be initially driven by your friend standing on the moon shooting with objects at you, demand (s)he takes elastic objects like a rubber ball and make sure to have your solid deflection plate perpendicular to the intended flight vector but between you and the "ball" otherwise your journey start will be painful or deadly (but it would work, however not that good)

And if you think after all these experiments that you have violated the laws of physics .. No you don't have.

physical bullet points to rubber ball propulsion
The rubber ball will transmit force when hitting you and when bouncing off instead of an inelastic object (Elastic collision)[2].

- "solar sails"
- photonic impulse

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

Comment Disabling Heartbeat - scroll down! (Score 4, Insightful) 156

Hi,

anybody being annoyed to be asked over and over and over again?

My stance is, if "fucking" developers can't feel the vibe of the users or lack common sense, they should not develop software for common people. ..Rate me - shape me - anyway you want it - as long as I'm alive..

If Picasso would have also asked the people if they liked his early works, he would have commited suicide and not created something great.

Disabling Heartbeat

We understand that any interruption of your time on the internet can be annoying.

        open about:config
        set browser.selfsupport.url to ""
        enjoy the rest of your day!

Comment Re:It be 12m above sea - max Tsunami: 7m (Score 1) 122

Please lay out the physical principles on an engineers level! Stating something isn't simply possible because it simply is a newer design isn't engineer worthy. (it's the why'se and becauses that count)

And actually, argumentation that fails to adress the Y's mostly stinks.

1.) a backup generator, when not running hot but been put in "warm" start condition, will NOT fail to start ?
- it has a chance of not starting
- it has a chance of producing an /internal/ grid fault when being connected to the internal grid

Yes, even when a backup generator is not flooded it can fail. Ohh yes, and a backup generator chances of failing are even better when subjected to earth quakes.

And another poster corrected you on wave height.

Also the coast line in Fujian "looks" a bit shallow don't you think ?

2.)
the advertising anouncement you posted does not state much of the information you "suggested".

Especially the term "much more adequate fashion"
meaning it's conventional but has more fail safes built into.

Again please don't try to suppress physics.

You need to actively pump coolant into the reactor and in this case it means sustain the operation of all three cooling loops.

If one loop fails you have safety margin, increasing the energy amount in one cooling loop == make it hotter but this gives only time to fix something.

And this means pumping pumping and pumping and then vaporizing water.

There is no hint given at certain intercoolants like salt or low temp. melting metall, or even a free convection style cooling of any kind.

3.)
"The ACP1000 is a pressurized reactor in a large dry containment, that can contain a molten core without overpressurizing the containment."

Please don't try to alter physics, if your inner cooling loop is broken - which is - if the link is correct on that detail - water, can separate Hydrogen from Oxygene your reactor can go boom.

Heat something up, it expands, encase it and you have increased pressure.

The only solution would be to "vent" which will vent radioactivity into the air. - only true for inner most loop.

And as you stated yourself it's a pressureized reactor - here comes the Y for the pressure, increase the boiling point of water, because when water boils it looses it's "wanted" moderating function inside the reactor, and it would drastically increase it's volume = in a containment building up pressure.

Comment Re:It be 12m above sea - max Tsunami: 7m (Score 1, Informative) 122

And you are only concentrating on one point, you find inconclusive, and this is your basis to call everyone to shut up?

If you would have taken the time, and glimpse at a satellite image of that region, you might have recognized that the surrounding area has a nice beach style "ramp" on the west side.

a nuclear power plant needs cooling == fresh water
a tsunami will suck all water from the beach for approx 30s
a tsunami will struck down the surrounding grid (== fukushima)
a failing over flodded backup generator is bad (== fukushima)
an emergency stop of a nuclear reactor will need after cooling or it will melt the core (== fukushima)

And this is why it remains a very bad idea to built a nuclear reactor at a tsunami site, because a nuclear reactor needs a functioning infrastructure to safely operate.

Comment Re:chlorine? (Score 1) 224

The question is in what composition you have chloride, for example your 12" LP (polyvinylCHLORIDE) won't kill anyone except you play Xena the Warrior princess.

But this is why you should read the security warnings because you can get a reaction working to set chlorine(that from WWI) free.

Bleach
What is used in bleaches is HClO not Cl2, HClO is called hypochloric acid - strong oxidizer.

Pool
Yes, in big pools chlorine (enclosed in steel gas cans) is used.
Yes, it can be set free by acident.
Yes, there are emergency plans and safety precautions.

Comment It's the missuse of chemistry. / Abusing science. (Score 2) 224

Most chemical weapons were not invented to be weapons at first, but during the era when chemistry evolved, many compounds were created to be used in chemical processes, to produce things like poly vinyl chloride (for the old folks modern 12" LPs are made of this)

Phosgene for example. Till today is produced in tons and tons and tons. And this very day today you had a 100% chance to touch things or ingest things(medicine) were produced using phosgene or familiar compounds.

Not weapons kill people, people kill people, but this is not ment as a let go for engineers and scientists to use this as an excuse.

Comment The Revolution (DIVX) was ~1998/1999 (Score 1) 81

So there were moving pictures - from - the internet and sound.

And even before that was the "realplayer" and Flash was its honorable successor/competetor to the title security desaster(Realplayer got also ported to linux!! - yes and it worked).

And yes it was live streamed, I can remember that Tina Turner concert on Realplayer .. Tina was the most beautiful moving pixel I have ever seen!

Comment Re:Sounds like a business opportunity... (Score 1) 121

Actually your thought is a very good one, but if we miss that opportunity, and not convert the former "crudeoil" into CO2 ;)

landfill
But the landfills are actually unused energy reserves however during the last 40yrs. you will find there "Teflon" like compounds that when burnt will react to HF (fluoridic acid) which is very nasty stuff as it will etch your plastic to fuel machinery

And that's the problem.

(most "plastic" which could be PVC, PE, PP, etc.. is made from oil - in future it can be made from ethanol -> PE )

And thinking further:
Plastic is conserved CO2 so we should turn CO2 into plastic bags. It would be better to store/conserve it that way than to pump it into unreliable caverns.

CO2 dump at home in your private drawer. Called the bag stack.

Comment "ingenius tipps for an optimal system" (Score 1) 716

this is not a typo it's the from german hard translated headliner of the Sep/2014 monthly of the german Chip Linux magazine.

it also stated
- adjust unity
- remove crap
- increase speed

So, yes, most distros are either a heavy crap loaded like a lenovo-compaq-hp-acer craptop, or are uncomfortable as hell-

I stopped being aggrovated, I just started to use FreeBSD some 15 yrs. ago. when Mandrake turned bad and gotten fuzzier each release.

Comment Advise (Score 3, Insightful) 175

1.) don't be an asian helicopter mother
- you are not their parents

- best way to engage most children is when they have fun taking things step by step, with fun and encouragement

- some kids want a challenge, those are eager, give them a challenge they can handle, be present, wait for the question, don't explain things they want to tackle themselves

2.)
show them how they can let their computer + learned skills work for them
- understand what they are doing in school (don't introduce partial differential equations to a 5th grader except they ask you to do so)
- explain their current topic on math with the help of excel (no VBA)

-sine, cosine tables, sine charts etc..

3.)
The computer is a tool, make it a place to toy with things

4.)
- don't be ProfX
- use your empathy
- but actually the best choice would be to empower them to tackle their current tasks, a little surplus of knowledge won't hurt
- don't present big problems, demonstrate how you can approach a - school-world-problem by breaking it down,

These are computer/programming skills: to understand a problem, breaking it up into small understandable pieces then describing the whole problem, formulate a solution approach and testing that method.

With the help of a useful tool called computer+software.

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