>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?
I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.
Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.
What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.
Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.
This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.
I also want a mini-display port connector.
They already have that. You can plug your phone into a monitor with a SlimPort adapter.
So the CPU is on the daughterboard. Everything that's specific to the CPU type (North/South bridges, etc) would have to go on there as well. Likely memory as well.
Congratulations. They've re-discovered the backplane and single board computer.
I haven't posted a journal here in almost three years, because I couldn't find the button to start a new entry.
So... hi, Slashdot. I used to be really active here, but now I mostly lurk and read. I've missed you.
The bottom line is that a 750 mile object of 4% the mass of the Moon, colliding at the far side of the Moon (as suggested in this article) would have had a very noticeable effect on the Moon's orbital trajectory around the Earth, providing an eccentric elliptical orbit, make it non-tidally locked, and most importantly would be sending the Moon on a spiral towards us, rather than away from us as we are currently seeing.
If the 750 mile object were in the same orbit as the moon, it would have the same orbital velocity as the moon. With a very small difference in velocity between it and the moon, it wouldn't change the moon's orbit much at all. Since the theory is that the smaller moon would have started in either the L4 or L5 Earth-Moon Legrange points, they would have had the same velocity.
For CompSci, you'll probably be looking at digital signals more often than analog. Consider getting a logic analyzer instead.
I've worked with LeCroy LogicStudio 16. It's a logic analyzer that connects to your PC over USB. It does I2C, SPI, and UART triggering & decoding, and can capture 16 channels at 500 MHz. It costs just under $1000.
They've got the full application available on their website, it'll use a simulated device as a demo. http://www.lecroy.com/logicstudio/
My car has a built-in range check and its computer tells me how far behind I am behind the car in front of me.
...I have currently set the range check to start blinking warningly at 1.5 seconds or less.
What car has these features? Sometimes I check myself by timing 2 seconds, but keeping my eyes fixed on some feature on the road surface or roadside for 2 seconds isn't the safest thing.
...500 times further away from the Sun than the Earth...
An observatory at 500 AU? Really? Considering the two farthest man-made objects, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, are only at 94 and 84 AU, this seems overambitious to the point of completely unrealistic.
A car with yaw control...
I am in favor of cars being controlled by Yaw.
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This is good advice, and gives me an opportunity to speak to the community at large: some of us who go to cons and are in a position to shake tons of hands politely decline. It's not because we're being dicks, it's because we know it's a good way to substantially decrease our chances of catching and spreading any germs.
I played the PAX Pandemic game, where the Enforcers handed out stickers to attendees that read [Carrier] [Infected] or [Immune] (There was also a [Patient Zero].
I got the [Immune] sticker, and by the time I got home on Monday, it was clear that I had the flu. I've had a fever between 100 and 104 all week that finally broke last night, but I'm going to the doctor today because I think whatever I had settled into my lungs. I'll tell him about the H1N1 outbreak and get tested if he wants to run the test, but at this point I think it's safe to assume that I was [Immune] to the Pig Plague, but definitely [Infected] with the damn PAX pox.
Even though it's been a week of misery, it was entirely worth it, and I don't regret going to PAX for a single second.
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