The bigger issue is more then 500 million people fly in the US every year. Of these lets say that 500 terrorists flew in a year. Thats only.0001% of people who took a flight. Lets say you have just a.01% false positive rate. At this point you are stopping 50,000 people a year to try and find 500 terrorists even if you detect 100% of terrorists.
In reality the number of terrorist trying to hijack a plane is zero. Because of public awareness no one would let anyone hijack a plane in the air. To stop a terrorist attack on a plane you need to take just a few precautions.
#1) Re-enforced cockpit doors so terrorists gaining physical control of the plane is not possible.
#2) Checking all luggage for weapons and explosives.
#3) Background checks on airport workers and flight crew.
#4) Making sure people have valid ID
Screening individual people serves no good purpose.
That is part of it but the bigger part is you are an engineer. It is not your job to search for patents. Patents are a never ending black hole as far as time goes. You develop the product. Leave the legal matters to the company lawyers. That is what they get payed for.
He could very well fall under federal wiretapping laws. (Although in this case all he has to do is bribe enough Congressmen to grant himself retroactive immunity.)
In a business you can close a branch, sell a division, shutter a plant. As a government what are you going to do? Fire all the teachers, fire fighters, police officers, accountants, clerks, etc? That doesn't work. Governments have obligations that they must uphold. California can't just shut down and move somewhere cheaper.
RTFA. It would take 9 months to return the back pay owed to state employees after a budget has been approved. Also they fired most of the workers who had been taken out of retirement specifically to maintain the payroll system so now you have to hire and train new workers.
Heat is dissipated by a temperature difference. By pumping heat out to a higher temperature radiating surface you can dramatically increase the amount of heat dissipated at the cost of power. A small single radiator could be fitted some where actually lowering the temperature inside the case (but raising the temperature of the exhaust.) This is good for cooling but bad for power consumption.
ID is a piece of garbage trying to pose as a scientific theory. ID is garbage because there is no way of proving or disproving it. There are no testable consequences of ID. It does not give any prediction on what will happen. It is only a statement of belief of what already happened.
Evolution give consistent repeatable and observable predictions that have huge repercussions in your everyday life. Drug resistance staph infections have moved from a curiosity to a reality to a virtual epidemic. Sticking your head in the sand and saying God did it and continuing as normal is a recipe for disaster.
In America the saying is the Corporation is always right. If the corporation is for some reason wrong they will just get their lapdogs to change the law retroactively. Welcome to America where our motto is "Liberty and Justice for the Rich".
It is already economical to extract the gold and copper and several heavy metals from waste electronics. Its going on all over the world in illegal "factories" using third world labor. It is much more expensive to do in a safe way but if it can be implemented in a large scale automated factory I'm sure the cost can come down to where it is not prohibitive.
That is just as ridiculous. You don't require your mechanic to have a PI license and he sure as hell will report you to police if you have child porn in the glove box or a dead body in the trunk.
You wouldn't invite a plumber over and have a kilo of heroin hiding under the sink. Why would you give your computer to someone with illegal material on the hard drive?
And who exactly would you sell this gas to? You can't exactly fence gasoline in a flea market or on ebay. Small potatoes gas theft is on the rise but large scale tanker theft would require a large organized crime network with buyers already set up. Its not exactly easy to hide a tanker truck. Theres no reason for organized crime to steal a tanker full of hard to offload gas when they can steal a box of ipods worth just as much that fits on the trunk of a car and can be easily transported and sold to anyone worldwide.
Sure its only 4-8x what desktop processors are today but you have to look at it in comparison to how it performs vs the competition. A low end graphics card coasting $100 can easily render quake wars at a better frame rate.
Intel is basically stuck because the average user has no need for more processing power. Not only that, they can not keep ramping up clock rates. By putting more processors on a core they increase power but do not increase performance for most applications because they can not efficiently make use of so many threads.
In the end Intel has a product they want to sell so they are trying their hardest to make an application for it. The problem is the hardware is not particularly good for the application. You could almost certainly get better performance for cheaper from a dedicated ray tracing chip.
Tell this to the guy who was kidnapped, flown to Afghanistan, and Tortured for 5 months because he happened to have the same name as a suspected terrorist.
In 2003, Khalid El-Masri, a Kuwait-born citizen with German nationality, was detained by Macedonian agents in the Republic of Macedonia. While on vacation in Macedonia, local police, apparently acting on a tip, took him off a bus, held him for three weeks, then took him to the Skopje airport where he was turned over to the CIA.
El-Masri says he was injected with drugs, and after his flight, he woke up in an American-run prison in Afghanistan containing prisoners from Pakistan, Tanzania, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. El-Masri said that he was held five months and interrogated by Americans through an interpreter. He declared that he had been beaten and kept in solitary confinement. Participating in some of these interrogation sessions was an officer of the German foreign intelligence service (Bundesnachrichtendienst or BND) using the pseudonym "Sam", who has reportedly been identified by al-Masri as Gerhard Lehmann. Lehmann served on the UN Mehlis commission into the Rafik Hariri assassination before he was withdrawn in early February 2006, possibly to prevent the repercussions of his identification.[39]
Then, after his five months of questioning, he was simply released. "They told me that they had confused names and that they had cleared it up, but I can't imagine that," El-Masri told ABC News. "You can clear up switching names in a few minutes." Khalid el-Masri had allegedly been confused with Khalid al-Masri, wanted for contacts with the Hamburg Cell involved in the September 2001 attacks.
Khalid el-Masri was then flown out of Afghanistan and dumped on a road in Albania, from where he made his way back home in Germany. Using a method called isotope analysis, scientists at the Bavarian archive for geology in Munich subsequently analyzed several strands of his hair and verified his story. During a visit to Washington, German Interior Minister Otto Schily was told that American agents admitted to kidnapping El-Masri, and indicated that the matter had somehow got out of hand. Masri was held for five months largely because the head of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center's al Qaeda unit "believed he was someone else," one former CIA official said. "She didn't really know. She just had a hunch."
If T-mobile will not block your text messages just tell them you will switch carriers. It only took 5 mins last time I renewed my plan to get Sprint to turn off text messaging.
Without a monitored location it is impossible to tell if the person voting is who he claims to be making it easy to buy votes. Voter hands over the voting card, pockets a grand.
I adhere by the standard that if you are too dumb to figure out how to vote then your vote shouldn't be counted in the first place. Give me reliable and cheap.
The basic fallacy of your premise is that you want to win at blackjack but you don't want to get cancer. Preventative treatment is far cheaper then major surgery and aftercare. Many major disorders are easily treated if found early but life threatening if caught late.
The other major fallacy is the premise that people but insurance based on the likely hood they will need treatment. The main driving force with insurance has always been cost. Most people who are uninsured tend to be so because they can not afford it. People who are predisposed to certain conditions may still be unlikely to get them and people who are not predisposed may still be likely to to get them.
For example, 1/8 of US women are diagnosed with breast cancer. No one who can afford insurance would want to turn it down just because they are not disposed to breast cancer.
On the other hand MS afflicts roughly 1/1000 people. Even if you were twice as likely to be diagnosed with MS it is unlikely that that would be the driving decision in you buying insurance.
Meet the laptop of 1992:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/07/19/forgotten_tech_ibm_thinkpad/
15 years on an we still use the same basic design. I doubt that another 7 years will drastically change what a laptop is. The reason laptops wont change much is a laptop is designed well for its intended purpose. That was as true 15 years ago as it is today.
What other new devices might appear in the future is a different question all together. Laptops are now replacing desktops and PDA's and multimedia devices are replacing laptops. What new devices will emerge in the next decade is the interesting question.
Sure, Apple and the Big record labels stand to make a killing from plans like these but how exactly do the Musicians get payed? You know, the people who make the music. Musicians already make next to nothing on the $0.99 you pay to download a track off of iTunes. Downloading isn't killing music. Greedy record labels are killing music.
That doesn't make any business sense. The ones who stress the bandwidth are the viewers not the up-loaders. I'm sure Coke would love to have unlimited hosting for high res videos for just a few dollars a month. I don't think Google enjoys paying for all that extra bandwidth.
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The bigger issue is more then 500 million people fly in the US every year. Of these lets say that 500 terrorists flew in a year. Thats only .0001% of people who took a flight. Lets say you have just a .01% false positive rate. At this point you are stopping 50,000 people a year to try and find 500 terrorists even if you detect 100% of terrorists.
In reality the number of terrorist trying to hijack a plane is zero. Because of public awareness no one would let anyone hijack a plane in the air. To stop a terrorist attack on a plane you need to take just a few precautions.
#1) Re-enforced cockpit doors so terrorists gaining physical control of the plane is not possible.
#2) Checking all luggage for weapons and explosives.
#3) Background checks on airport workers and flight crew.
#4) Making sure people have valid ID
Screening individual people serves no good purpose.
That is part of it but the bigger part is you are an engineer. It is not your job to search for patents. Patents are a never ending black hole as far as time goes. You develop the product. Leave the legal matters to the company lawyers. That is what they get payed for.
That excuse works for Japan but why does Canada, which is both larger and less populated then the US, have 3x the average speed?
He could very well fall under federal wiretapping laws. (Although in this case all he has to do is bribe enough Congressmen to grant himself retroactive immunity.)
All monitors were very curved for many many years. Its a great deal more difficult to make flat monitors.
In a business you can close a branch, sell a division, shutter a plant. As a government what are you going to do? Fire all the teachers, fire fighters, police officers, accountants, clerks, etc? That doesn't work. Governments have obligations that they must uphold. California can't just shut down and move somewhere cheaper.
RTFA. It would take 9 months to return the back pay owed to state employees after a budget has been approved. Also they fired most of the workers who had been taken out of retirement specifically to maintain the payroll system so now you have to hire and train new workers.
Heat is dissipated by a temperature difference. By pumping heat out to a higher temperature radiating surface you can dramatically increase the amount of heat dissipated at the cost of power. A small single radiator could be fitted some where actually lowering the temperature inside the case (but raising the temperature of the exhaust.) This is good for cooling but bad for power consumption.
ID is a piece of garbage trying to pose as a scientific theory. ID is garbage because there is no way of proving or disproving it. There are no testable consequences of ID. It does not give any prediction on what will happen. It is only a statement of belief of what already happened.
Evolution give consistent repeatable and observable predictions that have huge repercussions in your everyday life. Drug resistance staph infections have moved from a curiosity to a reality to a virtual epidemic. Sticking your head in the sand and saying God did it and continuing as normal is a recipe for disaster.
Most of them tried to cancel but AOL wouldn't let them.
In America the saying is the Corporation is always right. If the corporation is for some reason wrong they will just get their lapdogs to change the law retroactively. Welcome to America where our motto is "Liberty and Justice for the Rich".
It is already economical to extract the gold and copper and several heavy metals from waste electronics. Its going on all over the world in illegal "factories" using third world labor. It is much more expensive to do in a safe way but if it can be implemented in a large scale automated factory I'm sure the cost can come down to where it is not prohibitive.
That is just as ridiculous. You don't require your mechanic to have a PI license and he sure as hell will report you to police if you have child porn in the glove box or a dead body in the trunk.
You wouldn't invite a plumber over and have a kilo of heroin hiding under the sink. Why would you give your computer to someone with illegal material on the hard drive?
And who exactly would you sell this gas to? You can't exactly fence gasoline in a flea market or on ebay. Small potatoes gas theft is on the rise but large scale tanker theft would require a large organized crime network with buyers already set up. Its not exactly easy to hide a tanker truck. Theres no reason for organized crime to steal a tanker full of hard to offload gas when they can steal a box of ipods worth just as much that fits on the trunk of a car and can be easily transported and sold to anyone worldwide.
Sure its only 4-8x what desktop processors are today but you have to look at it in comparison to how it performs vs the competition. A low end graphics card coasting $100 can easily render quake wars at a better frame rate.
Intel is basically stuck because the average user has no need for more processing power. Not only that, they can not keep ramping up clock rates. By putting more processors on a core they increase power but do not increase performance for most applications because they can not efficiently make use of so many threads.
In the end Intel has a product they want to sell so they are trying their hardest to make an application for it. The problem is the hardware is not particularly good for the application. You could almost certainly get better performance for cheaper from a dedicated ray tracing chip.
Heres my sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition_by_the_United_States#Examples_and_specific_cases
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/03/AR2005120301476.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6316369.stm
Wheres yours?
Yes but if we call them PoW's then they would be subject to the Geniva Convention and you would not be able to torture or question them.
The US Government basically wants to treat these people like criminals but keep them from having any of the rights that they are entitled to.
Tell this to the guy who was kidnapped, flown to Afghanistan, and Tortured for 5 months because he happened to have the same name as a suspected terrorist.
In 2003, Khalid El-Masri, a Kuwait-born citizen with German nationality, was detained by Macedonian agents in the Republic of Macedonia. While on vacation in Macedonia, local police, apparently acting on a tip, took him off a bus, held him for three weeks, then took him to the Skopje airport where he was turned over to the CIA.
El-Masri says he was injected with drugs, and after his flight, he woke up in an American-run prison in Afghanistan containing prisoners from Pakistan, Tanzania, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. El-Masri said that he was held five months and interrogated by Americans through an interpreter. He declared that he had been beaten and kept in solitary confinement. Participating in some of these interrogation sessions was an officer of the German foreign intelligence service (Bundesnachrichtendienst or BND) using the pseudonym "Sam", who has reportedly been identified by al-Masri as Gerhard Lehmann. Lehmann served on the UN Mehlis commission into the Rafik Hariri assassination before he was withdrawn in early February 2006, possibly to prevent the repercussions of his identification.[39]
Then, after his five months of questioning, he was simply released. "They told me that they had confused names and that they had cleared it up, but I can't imagine that," El-Masri told ABC News. "You can clear up switching names in a few minutes." Khalid el-Masri had allegedly been confused with Khalid al-Masri, wanted for contacts with the Hamburg Cell involved in the September 2001 attacks.
Khalid el-Masri was then flown out of Afghanistan and dumped on a road in Albania, from where he made his way back home in Germany. Using a method called isotope analysis, scientists at the Bavarian archive for geology in Munich subsequently analyzed several strands of his hair and verified his story. During a visit to Washington, German Interior Minister Otto Schily was told that American agents admitted to kidnapping El-Masri, and indicated that the matter had somehow got out of hand. Masri was held for five months largely because the head of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center's al Qaeda unit "believed he was someone else," one former CIA official said. "She didn't really know. She just had a hunch."
If T-mobile will not block your text messages just tell them you will switch carriers. It only took 5 mins last time I renewed my plan to get Sprint to turn off text messaging.
Without a monitored location it is impossible to tell if the person voting is who he claims to be making it easy to buy votes. Voter hands over the voting card, pockets a grand.
I adhere by the standard that if you are too dumb to figure out how to vote then your vote shouldn't be counted in the first place. Give me reliable and cheap.
The basic fallacy of your premise is that you want to win at blackjack but you don't want to get cancer. Preventative treatment is far cheaper then major surgery and aftercare. Many major disorders are easily treated if found early but life threatening if caught late. The other major fallacy is the premise that people but insurance based on the likely hood they will need treatment. The main driving force with insurance has always been cost. Most people who are uninsured tend to be so because they can not afford it. People who are predisposed to certain conditions may still be unlikely to get them and people who are not predisposed may still be likely to to get them. For example, 1/8 of US women are diagnosed with breast cancer. No one who can afford insurance would want to turn it down just because they are not disposed to breast cancer. On the other hand MS afflicts roughly 1/1000 people. Even if you were twice as likely to be diagnosed with MS it is unlikely that that would be the driving decision in you buying insurance.
Meet the laptop of 1992: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/07/19/forgotten_tech_ibm_thinkpad/ 15 years on an we still use the same basic design. I doubt that another 7 years will drastically change what a laptop is. The reason laptops wont change much is a laptop is designed well for its intended purpose. That was as true 15 years ago as it is today. What other new devices might appear in the future is a different question all together. Laptops are now replacing desktops and PDA's and multimedia devices are replacing laptops. What new devices will emerge in the next decade is the interesting question.
Sure, Apple and the Big record labels stand to make a killing from plans like these but how exactly do the Musicians get payed? You know, the people who make the music. Musicians already make next to nothing on the $0.99 you pay to download a track off of iTunes. Downloading isn't killing music. Greedy record labels are killing music.
That doesn't make any business sense. The ones who stress the bandwidth are the viewers not the up-loaders. I'm sure Coke would love to have unlimited hosting for high res videos for just a few dollars a month. I don't think Google enjoys paying for all that extra bandwidth.