The issue of course boils down to tha age old arguement of privacy vs convieneience. Sure it would be nice to vote online, pretty convieneient too, I bet it would even bring out more voters, but how do you make sure people woudnt vote more than once? Well I guess you would have to assign a unique identifier to everyone, so that you could tell whether someone has voted or not. Unfortunately it would be easy to modify it slightly to tell exactly WHO someone has voted for. Even if you could get around that, theres still the issue of what else this id would get used for, would everyone start requiring it like some larger version of social security?
I think that the best way to handle this would be to give people the option to sign up to vote online at an actual polling station, that way they could set up a voting account with all the requred security, plus then they can check to make sure that you're you. All in all I think that if you can trust people to bank online or have online trading accounts, you can have good enough security for online voting. After all, a virtual vote is basically the same as a virtual dollar, i.e. not physically there.
The physical possibility of voting is not really the issue, the technical kinks can and will be worked out, the real issue is wheter or not you trust the people running the polls and the people running for election not to rig it somehow. I mean, if Al Gore invented the internet, he probably could hack the voting servers so that he would win.
regardless of what Real says about it not being a privacy invasion due to the fact that they dont keep the information, it still is clearly an invasion because there is the Potential for there to be a privacy invasion. How do we know that real isnt storing all this info in some big database somewhere then giggling gleefully and telling the public"oh we dont keep any of the information" Real has got to be stopped, as do anyone else who does anything like this.
The Lisa was released in January of 1983, while windows 1.0 didnt come out until 1985 or so. The lisa came out before the mac but it basically had the same GUI as the first MAC. Lisa sold for 10 k and had the following specs announced 19 January 1983 for May delivery at $9,995 with 5 MB Apple ProFile hard drive; also available with 10 MB hard drive; discontinued April1985 CPU: 5 MHz 68000 ROM: 64KB RAM: 1 MB, expandable to 2 MB 12" b&w screen keyboard attached via coiled telephone-like cable mouse attached via DB-9 connector two DB-9 serial ports parallel printer port three expansion slots floppies: two 5.25" 860KB ultra-thin Twiggy drives. One more thing, Apple did not "steal" the Gui from xerox, they purchased it for several million shares of apple when it went public, which xerox made mucho dinero off of.
um NO. orbital velocity is orbital velocity whether youre talking about pebbles or space shuttles. Maybe youre thinking about the amount of energy needed. To place a pebble in orbit takes much less energy than to place the space shuttle in orbit, but the velocity is the same
its easy to isolate something from a magnetic field if the field is know, just build a faraday cage around whatever electronice you want to protect. iirc, most desktops are shielded but laptops arent due to weight considerations.
The official nasa press release for this mag-lev system can be found here This system does use the Inductrack system mentiones earlier, which has several advantages over other forms of mas driver, which this essentially is. The inductrack system is bacically coils of ordinary wire surrounding some sort of ferrous core. The article above mentions that each section of track weighs over 500lbs wich is due laregly to the huge chunk of iron in the center of the coil of wire. This reduces cost and complexety many times. You dont need any cooling apparatus, you dont need any expensive magnets, and its very scalable. To make the track longer just ad a section of track. This is a very promising technology, it could really pave the way for cheap access to space. Heres hoping that nasa will continue to develop it.
There is one problem though, that is, there might be a speed limit associated with it. As the craft accelerates, a larger magnetic field needs to be generated to continue the acceleration, this means more current through the coils of wire. Eventually the wire will overheat and short out or simply melt. Previously a speed limit of 600 mph was mentioned, this seems plausible, but id need more data. Also, if the speed can max out at around say mach 10 (about 6000 mph) then scramjets can be used in place of rockets. Scramjets are much more eifficient than rockets since they burn oxygen in the air, resulting in a further reduction in weight of fuel and a commensurate increase in payload capacity.
Thats just the problem, man wont admit that he has the same powers as god, if he did maybe he would start acting more like god and less like some sort of smart ape. The first step in the proper application of any sort of power is the admission that you have said power. Right now everyone in politics is trying to deny that we have all these newfound powers, like the ability to create life, and the ability to change the environment. This makes the problem go away in the polititians eyes, but the problem of what to o with these powers still needs to be solved. I think that if we start looking at how to intelligently use the powers formerly delegated to the realm of gods we'll be ok. The first step to admitting that we are now the equivilant of a god.
This is the logical next step for the human race. Ever since we discovered agriculture ( about the same time the bible started getting written , coinicedence?) We've basically been thumbing our noses at evolution. Since were the top of the food chain, we dont evolve, since theres no reason to change our genetic makeup , the most pressing reason being change or get eaten. Of course, environmental concerns enter to the picture, skin color and hemophilia (Hemosphilia?;-)) are a result of environmental factors. My point is, humans have outsmarted themselves, WE are now the environmental factor that is influencing our evolution. Instead of stupid kids getting eaten before they can reproduce, we can now just say ok, no more stupid kids, we can change their genes. The effect is the same, evolution. This comes at a perfect time as well, recent fears raised here and by others, most notably Arthur C Clarke, saying that the basic knowledge that a human posesses must be at least college level in order for the race to survive the coming AI revolution. I agree with this, but if we evolve ourselves into a new more intellegent species, homo sapiens sapiens may die out, but homo sapiens neo will continue to survive. Plus itll give those neanderthals in kansas something to think about
>> 2020 : The global warming effect seems to becoming more prominent. Geologists realise that the opening of the ozone layer is not the only cause. The natural cycling of the ice age is coming to a peck in the warm part.
2: Climatoligists study global warming, not geologists, geologists study rocks.
3: The ozone layer is not "opening" it has a hole in it
4: The ozone hole has NOTHING whatsoever to do with global warming, they are two completely seperate problems, just because they happen in the same atmosphere doesnt mean they have the same cause
5: Rio de Janeiro
>>2026-2050 : This is considered the darkest age of human history.
6: youd be pretty hard pressed to have an age darker than the dark ages, I mean c'mon, a thousand years of theocracy, dictatorship and general suppression of every basic human right? Even if every Govt on the planet went to a theocratic dictatorship like in afghanistan, it would still only be for 24 years according to you, and still wouldnt qualify as the darkest age on the planet.
>>2059 : More earthquakes strike the Indian sub-continent. Scientists realise that the Himalayas are actually rising. Advances in seismic prediction shows scientists that the earths is still mighty active under the crust, and identifies a lot of problem areas.
7: We already know this, the hymalayas rise between 1 and 12 inches every year. Mount everest will always be the tallest unclimbed mountain except when someone is actually standing on the peak because as soon as they leave it will be a little bit taller, and no one will have climbed that high yet.
8: We also already know that there is plenty of action going on underneath the earths surface and that the plates are still moving, thats why earthquakes happen.
>>Bill gates second son (Willian H Gates II)
9: Bill Gates is William H Gates III already, so his son would be William H Gates IV
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Yes, except this article said NOTHING whatsoever about creationism. Read the article first please
I think that the best way to handle this would be to give people the option to sign up to vote online at an actual polling station, that way they could set up a voting account with all the requred security, plus then they can check to make sure that you're you. All in all I think that if you can trust people to bank online or have online trading accounts, you can have good enough security for online voting. After all, a virtual vote is basically the same as a virtual dollar, i.e. not physically there.
The physical possibility of voting is not really the issue, the technical kinks can and will be worked out, the real issue is wheter or not you trust the people running the polls and the people running for election not to rig it somehow. I mean, if Al Gore invented the internet, he probably could hack the voting servers so that he would win.
The Lisa was released in January of 1983, while windows 1.0 didnt come out until 1985 or so. The lisa came out before the mac but it basically had the same GUI as the first MAC. Lisa sold for 10 k and had the following specs announced 19 January 1983 for May delivery at $9,995 with 5 MB Apple ProFile hard drive; also available with 10 MB hard drive; discontinued April1985 CPU: 5 MHz 68000 ROM: 64KB RAM: 1 MB, expandable to 2 MB 12" b&w screen keyboard attached via coiled telephone-like cable mouse attached via DB-9 connector two DB-9 serial ports parallel printer port three expansion slots floppies: two 5.25" 860KB ultra-thin Twiggy drives. One more thing, Apple did not "steal" the Gui from xerox, they purchased it for several million shares of apple when it went public, which xerox made mucho dinero off of.
There is one problem though, that is, there might be a speed limit associated with it. As the craft accelerates, a larger magnetic field needs to be generated to continue the acceleration, this means more current through the coils of wire. Eventually the wire will overheat and short out or simply melt. Previously a speed limit of 600 mph was mentioned, this seems plausible, but id need more data. Also, if the speed can max out at around say mach 10 (about 6000 mph) then scramjets can be used in place of rockets. Scramjets are much more eifficient than rockets since they burn oxygen in the air, resulting in a further reduction in weight of fuel and a commensurate increase in payload capacity.
Thats just the problem, man wont admit that he has the same powers as god, if he did maybe he would start acting more like god and less like some sort of smart ape. The first step in the proper application of any sort of power is the admission that you have said power. Right now everyone in politics is trying to deny that we have all these newfound powers, like the ability to create life, and the ability to change the environment. This makes the problem go away in the polititians eyes, but the problem of what to o with these powers still needs to be solved. I think that if we start looking at how to intelligently use the powers formerly delegated to the realm of gods we'll be ok. The first step to admitting that we are now the equivilant of a god.
1: Naive is spelled naive not naieve
>> 2020 : The global warming effect seems to becoming more prominent. Geologists realise that the opening of the ozone layer is not the only cause. The natural cycling of the ice age is coming to a peck in the warm part.
2: Climatoligists study global warming, not geologists, geologists study rocks.
3: The ozone layer is not "opening" it has a hole in it
4: The ozone hole has NOTHING whatsoever to do with global warming, they are two completely seperate problems, just because they happen in the same atmosphere doesnt mean they have the same cause
5: Rio de Janeiro
>>2026-2050 : This is considered the darkest age of human history.
6: youd be pretty hard pressed to have an age darker than the dark ages, I mean c'mon, a thousand years of theocracy, dictatorship and general suppression of every basic human right? Even if every Govt on the planet went to a theocratic dictatorship like in afghanistan, it would still only be for 24 years according to you, and still wouldnt qualify as the darkest age on the planet.
>>2059 : More earthquakes strike the Indian sub-continent. Scientists realise that the Himalayas are actually rising. Advances in seismic prediction shows scientists that the earths is still mighty active under the crust, and identifies a lot of problem areas.
7: We already know this, the hymalayas rise between 1 and 12 inches every year. Mount everest will always be the tallest unclimbed mountain except when someone is actually standing on the peak because as soon as they leave it will be a little bit taller, and no one will have climbed that high yet.
8: We also already know that there is plenty of action going on underneath the earths surface and that the plates are still moving, thats why earthquakes happen.
>>Bill gates second son (Willian H Gates II)
9: Bill Gates is William H Gates III already, so his son would be William H Gates IV