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International Space Station Comes Together

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:40:14 -0500

This little animation is pretty cool. I knew we had come a long ways with it, but seeing it like this makes it seem a lot more impressive.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2008-11-19-issassembly_N.htm

Deep Space One? :)

dis is da brine

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:05:11 -0500

hey thar,

i had some time to kill in a book store about a month ago, so i headed off to the reference setion to check up on a perl manual when a glossy image of a nija caught my eye. i was higly entertained. ive been doing low-key web application development for a couple years, mainly with php. i am learning however the many security flaws with php and am trying to pick up on some new know-how. i hope i can mingle and learn from the 1337 h4x0rs here.

much obliged.

brine

The Promise of Hope

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:46:59 -0500

This is a break down of the promises Obama has made thus far. These are very liberally worded, but that's ok b/c I'm hoping for the best.

Which do you think are possible and which do you think are just leading statements?

"
Taxes

� Give a tax break to 95% of Americans.

� Restore Clinton-era tax rates on top income earners.

� "If you make under $250,000, you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime. Not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital gains taxes. Nothing."

� Dramatically simplify tax filings so that millions of Americans will be able to do their taxes in less than five minutes.

� Give American businesses a $3,000 tax credit for every job they create in the U.S.

� Eliminate capital gains taxes for small business and startup companies.

� Eliminate income taxes for seniors making under $50,000.

� Expand the child and dependent care tax credit.

� Expand the earned income tax credit.

� Create a universal mortgage credit.

� Create a small business health tax credit.

� Provide a $500 "make work pay" tax credit to small businesses.

� Provide a $1,000 emergency energy rebate to families.

Energy

� Spend $15 billion a year on renewable sources of energy.

� Eliminate oil imports from the Middle East in 10 years.

� Increase fuel economy standards by 4% a year.

� Weatherize 1 million homes annually.

� Ensure that 10% of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012.

Environment

� Create 5 million green jobs.

� Implement a cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

� Get 1 million plug-in hybrids on the road by 2015.

Labor

� Sign a fair pay restoration act, which would overturn the Supreme Court's pay discrimination ruling.

� Sign into law an employee free choice act � aka card check � to make it easier for unions to organize.

� Make employers offer seven paid sick days per year.

� Increase the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2009.

National security

� Remove troops from Iraq by the summer of 2010.

� Cut spending on unproven missile defense systems.

� No more homeless veterans.

� Stop spending $10 billion a month in Iraq.

� Finish the fight against Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaida terrorists.

Social Security

� Work in a "bipartisan way to preserve Social Security for future generations."

� Impose a Social Security payroll tax on incomes above $250,000.

� Match 50% of retirement savings up to $1,000 for families earning less than $75,000.

Education

� Demand higher standards and more accountability from our teachers.

Spending

� Go through the budget, line by line, ending programs we don't need and making the ones we do need work better and cost less.

� Slash earmarks.

Health care

� Lower health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year.

� Let the uninsured get the same kind of health insurance that members of Congress get.

� Stop insurance companies from discriminating against those who are sick and need care the most.

� Spend $10 billion over five years on health care information technology.
"

restaurant ripoffs

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:01:47 -0500

I remember when my brother used to work at Steak n Shake, he'd always order something like a double steak w/ american and provolone on sourdough, which was the exact same thing as their frisco melt sandwich in every way except it was provolone instead of swiss cheese, and for some reason it was noticeably cheaper.

I was reminded of this when ordering a personal pan from pizzahut.com's online delivery service, and I noticed there is a $2 difference between a "create-your-own" pizza and a "pre-selected" pizza with the exact same toppings (see attachment).

Do you know of any similar ripoffs? Please share...

Hi

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:47:34 -0500

I'm psg1ben, I checked this site out after reading '1337 h4x0r h4ndb00k', which I found very entertaining, and useful in some ways. Only recently have I been interested in programming, so I'm what you might call a n00b, but everyone has been a n00b at some point right?.
I've read the rules, and will follow them.

No-Tech Hacking Video

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:25:50 -0500

http://tinyurl.com/5qdr7t

Excellent vid. Enjoy.

Robot Hypothetical

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:16:18 -0500

Supposing you could build a useful robot, no more than 10 inches tall, what would you have it do for you?

center of the universe

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:45:03 -0500

okay, so i just finished watching the link monkey provided in irc: http://tv-links.cc/documentary/atom.htm#

i have one question, and one observation..

the observation:
i think, for all we know the atom could be made up of infinitely small pieces compared to the universes supposedly infinite size. i mean, if we don't know how small we really are compared to whats in space, then how can we claim to know what the smallest components of life are whilst labeling them unpredictable? i don't think it's really fair to say, "these are the key pieces which have always existed, from which all life was created in an explosion of nuclear energy." i think there is something more, even smaller. of course, it is just speculation and intuition that makes me feel that way. or maybe i'm just way off topic.

anyway, my question (which is apparently a common one):
if we know that the universe is expanding, then why can't we pin-point a center? why can't we say: "because things are expanding in this direction, the center must be here, or wrapped around another dimension here" ?? where are things expanding to or from? if we don't know, then how can we say it's expanding? if we do know, then why isn't there a point of origin?

Xbox live

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:11:19 -0500

Im not sure if anyone else here plays xbox live. If you do though it would be cool to add people from ICV.
Mine is xtmntxmikeyx.
Add me if you want.

java cant find method SharpenPic()

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:33:34 -0500

[code]
import java.awt.Color;

public class imageSharpening {
public static void main(String[] args) {
//let the user shoose a file to sharpen
Picture source = new Picture(FileChooser.pickAFile());
//open the orginal picture and let the user explore it
source.explore();
//create a new picture object assigning to it the orginal picture after it has been modified
source = new Picture(source.sharpenPic(source)); This is where the compiler is saying the error is at
//explore the modified picture
source.explore();
}//end of the main method
public static void sharpenPic(Picture sourcePicture) {
//get the width of the source picture
int width = sourcePicture.getWidth();
//get the height of the source picture
int height = sourcePicture.getHeight();
int targetX, targetY = 0;
Pixel sourcePixel = null;
Pixel targetPixel = null;
Color color = null;

//create a new target picture with the same dimensions as the source picture
Picture target= new Picture(sourcePicture.getWidth(),sourcePicture.getHeight());
//loop through the colums in the source picture
for(int sourceX = 1; sourceX < width - 1; sourceX++) {
//loop through the rows in the source picture
for(int sourceY = 1; sourceY < height - 1; sourceY++) {
//get the pixels of the source picture and assign it to sourcePixel
sourcePixel = sourcePicture.getPixel(sourceX, sourceY);
//get the current color
color = sourcePixel.getColor();
//get a lighter color
color = color.brighter();
//set targetPixel to the color of sourcePixel
targetPixel.setColor(color);
}//end of the inner for loop
}//end of the outer for loop
//copy the source picture into the target picture
target.copyPicture(sourcePicture);
}//end of the SharpenPic method
}//end of the sharpenImage class
[/code]

for some reason I cant get it to compile when I make it a static method and place it in the same class file as the Main method, but when I put it in a separate file it compiles and runs but it says I have to return a something. Any help I would really appreciate it.

EDIT: it is supposed to be lowercase that was a typo.sharpenPic()