1. What makes you think they would stop at 60m? 2. What makes you think they would not collectively accumulate a lot more?
By your logic:
- One should never share one's M&Ms, because what makes you think the other person won't take the whole bag? - One should never bathe, because what makes you think you won't fall in and drown? - One should never, ever receive fellatio, because what makes you think she won't swallow you whole?
And if it were a sphere of neutronium only 60m diameter, I suspect it wouldn't remain neutronium for very long either.
My first guess is that if such an object somehow blinked into existence, it would instantly become a rapidly expanding sphere of plasma and gamma rays.
So put one underneath every one of those trough urinals in football stadiums and hockey rinks. Use the power generated to run the stadium lights, recharge electric cars, or hydrolyze water to create fuel for more portable fuel cells.
If the implications are that it can be changed by modifying the default settings, its not really hard-coded, is it ?
FTFS: Unless the default settings were altered during deployment, impacted systems are using a known key
You missed an important bit there. It's very probably stored on an EPROM or SD Card, requiring physical access to the DASDECs. Some of my employer's products are used in the same market (local TV stations) and that's a pretty common method of configuring equipment for a particular customer.
Hard-coded, as in: Yes it's code, but there's no external interface protocol which permits changing the keys. In order to alter it, you have to remove the unit from the rack, take the cover off, and then you can upload a new config file. More recent products use external USB ports, but I bet these DASDECs are older than that...
Yes, it would resemble the outcome of this 1986 Trident II test, which I have seen captioned as "Navy Successfully Tests New Self-seeking Missile" in this still photo.
If your company does business with the federal government, then FAR might be skewing the numbers.
Direct expenses, including non-recurring material costs, can be billed direct (i.e., to the contract) whereas marketing costs are by definition indirect (cannot be billed to contracts but do count towards overhead, G&A, etc.).
This means that a lot of "non-labor engineering expenses" could be hidden from that ratio due to the fact that they're billed to the customers.
David Brin's settings in his novels Earth and Kiln People included ubiquitous surveillance, and it was a primary topic in his nonfiction work, The Transparent Society.
This "coming war" is just the birthing pains of the kind of society he predicts, wherein everyone wears cameras akin to Google Glass, the government records and monitors video everywhere, and privacy is a luxury available only to the wealthy and/or the criminal classes. (Not much of a distinction between the two anymore...)
So now I have to monitor every self-appointed investigative forum after every public event I attend in the event there was some incident there so that I can prove my innocence to defend against unsubstantiated speculation that can come from a practically infinite number of irrational and unpredictable directions?
Um. No. That's not anything resembling fair or just, let alone practical.
This research has potential to become a treatment to repair the lesions in the brain caused by MS.
From the second linked article:
In multiple sclerosis, the destruction of oligodendrocytes and myelin results in symptoms such as loss of balance, problems moving arms and legs, loss of coordination and weakness, according to the National Institues of Health. Other problems include loss of bladder control, impaired vision, depression, and memory loss.
To fix these problems, not only must the autoimmune reaction be brought under control, but the myelin must be repaired. That implies producing new oligodendrocytes. Hence, the OPCs, which researchers think could become effective sources of the olgodendrocytes when transplanted. (Transplantion of fully mature cells doesn't seem to work in such studies; the cells seem to need to complete the last step of maturation in their new enviroment to wire into the nervous system.)
My wife has recurring-remitting MS and suffers from mild to moderate permanent symptoms that remain after her relapses. She takes betaseron to help prevent relapses, but this does not in any way treat the symptoms. Sometimes the lingering effects of a relapse will fade over time as new circuits get wired around the damage, but this never a full recovery. The possibility of regrowing myelin to actually repair this damage would represent a kind of treatment that is currently not available... she'll be excited about this news.
Your uncle sounds like he has progressive MS, which is much more severe and debilitating. As advanced as his case is, a treatment like this may not be able to completely repair the damage he suffers, but it would certainly offer an improvement in his quality of life. Progressive MS patients need the other part of the cure --the prevention of autoimmune damage-- as well as a cure for the damage caused. I wish him the best.
Robot is one of those terms like "artificial intelligence" that keeps getting diluted by overreaching marketing use. The cumulative effect is to drag down the term rather than inflate the product.
"Robot" has devolved from meaning a conscious, completely autonomous, usually humanoid, self-contained machine capable of making its own decisions (thus the need for Three Laws of Robotics) to meaning any servomechanism under human control aided by a PID Loop or Kalman Filter to relieve the operator from the most routine tasks.
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You also missed the part in TFA where they compared the planes of rotation of these disks and the galactic plane and discovered no correlation.
I suggest referring to PornHub instead.
... if the territory is uninhabited, then it's a 'cultural artifact.' But if it's inhabited, then it's a 'frontier.'
Right. Gotcha.
Oh, gee, look at the time. I need to water my cat. Bye.
Umm... I think the idiom involving that gesture involves a posture other than standing, and possibly also nonzero angular momentum.
Ignorance.
1. What makes you think they would stop at 60m?
2. What makes you think they would not collectively accumulate a lot more?
By your logic:
- One should never share one's M&Ms, because what makes you think the other person won't take the whole bag?
- One should never bathe, because what makes you think you won't fall in and drown?
- One should never, ever receive fellatio, because what makes you think she won't swallow you whole?
And if it were a sphere of neutronium only 60m diameter, I suspect it wouldn't remain neutronium for very long either.
My first guess is that if such an object somehow blinked into existence, it would instantly become a rapidly expanding sphere of plasma and gamma rays.
After their spirits get broken, the workers actually start functioning as a well-oiled team. It sounds both awesome and bizarre.
This has otherwise been known as "Boot Camp" or "Basic Training" for generations of soldiers.
the devices are not quite portable
So put one underneath every one of those trough urinals in football stadiums and hockey rinks. Use the power generated to run the stadium lights, recharge electric cars, or hydrolyze water to create fuel for more portable fuel cells.
If the implications are that it can be changed by modifying the default settings, its not really hard-coded, is it ?
FTFS:
Unless the default settings were altered during deployment, impacted systems are using a known key
You missed an important bit there. It's very probably stored on an EPROM or SD Card, requiring physical access to the DASDECs. Some of my employer's products are used in the same market (local TV stations) and that's a pretty common method of configuring equipment for a particular customer.
Hard-coded, as in: Yes it's code, but there's no external interface protocol which permits changing the keys. In order to alter it, you have to remove the unit from the rack, take the cover off, and then you can upload a new config file. More recent products use external USB ports, but I bet these DASDECs are older than that...
Aye. Heartily seconded. See my sig.
A state wherein only the government is entitled to privacy is not a nation of free men.
It would smell like a small cafe full of appreciative Vikings and a visiting British couple complaining about the food.
Yes, it would resemble the outcome of this 1986 Trident II test, which I have seen captioned as "Navy Successfully Tests New Self-seeking Missile" in this still photo.
Or possibly fimicolous.
backlight control boards are only 400Hz carrier for efficiency. If you are dimming to 10% that is 20Hz pulses
No it isn't. I recommend you brush up on the concept of pulse width modulation.
The news that /. is not always timely is old news.
So that would be meta-old-news?
If your company does business with the federal government, then FAR might be skewing the numbers.
Direct expenses, including non-recurring material costs, can be billed direct (i.e., to the contract) whereas marketing costs are by definition indirect (cannot be billed to contracts but do count towards overhead, G&A, etc.).
This means that a lot of "non-labor engineering expenses" could be hidden from that ratio due to the fact that they're billed to the customers.
David Brin's settings in his novels Earth and Kiln People included ubiquitous surveillance, and it was a primary topic in his nonfiction work, The Transparent Society.
This "coming war" is just the birthing pains of the kind of society he predicts, wherein everyone wears cameras akin to Google Glass, the government records and monitors video everywhere, and privacy is a luxury available only to the wealthy and/or the criminal classes. (Not much of a distinction between the two anymore...)
bad drivers, the ones who get in accidents don't just use cell phones, they drive more wrecklessly while using them.
Your statement (as currently spelled) seems to imply that bad (i.e., accident prone) drivers should use their cell phones while driving!
Either Kerstyun's spelling would benefit from using the speech recognition feature of his device, or he's got a horrible speech impediment.
This is one of the most insightful comments I've ever seen attached to a /. story with 'Apple' in the title.
(I know, that's faint praise...)
So now I have to monitor every self-appointed investigative forum after every public event I attend in the event there was some incident there so that I can prove my innocence to defend against unsubstantiated speculation that can come from a practically infinite number of irrational and unpredictable directions?
Um. No. That's not anything resembling fair or just, let alone practical.
This research has potential to become a treatment to repair the lesions in the brain caused by MS.
From the second linked article:
My wife has recurring-remitting MS and suffers from mild to moderate permanent symptoms that remain after her relapses. She takes betaseron to help prevent relapses, but this does not in any way treat the symptoms. Sometimes the lingering effects of a relapse will fade over time as new circuits get wired around the damage, but this never a full recovery. The possibility of regrowing myelin to actually repair this damage would represent a kind of treatment that is currently not available... she'll be excited about this news.
Your uncle sounds like he has progressive MS, which is much more severe and debilitating. As advanced as his case is, a treatment like this may not be able to completely repair the damage he suffers, but it would certainly offer an improvement in his quality of life. Progressive MS patients need the other part of the cure --the prevention of autoimmune damage-- as well as a cure for the damage caused. I wish him the best.
Apparently so.
Robot is one of those terms like "artificial intelligence" that keeps getting diluted by overreaching marketing use. The cumulative effect is to drag down the term rather than inflate the product.
"Robot" has devolved from meaning a conscious, completely autonomous, usually humanoid, self-contained machine capable of making its own decisions (thus the need for Three Laws of Robotics) to meaning any servomechanism under human control aided by a PID Loop or Kalman Filter to relieve the operator from the most routine tasks.