More fabbers! Then I'd use those to fab more fabbers. Once I've got enough fabbers to produce a mole of fabbers per yoctosecond, I would start fabbing baby monkeys, and those monkeys would be cute. Soon, the space will be so dense with cuteness that it will collapse into an adorable singularity with a Kitten Radius exceeding that of the earth.
Roaches, in fact all insects, are very resistant to short doses of radiation. The reason behind this is that radiation does the most damage to cells when they're dividing. It just so happens that roaches molt about once a week, which is a single cell division. If you aren't radiating the roach when this is happening, your radiation will mostly fall on deaf ears.
However, after a nuclear blast, the fallout would be a source of constant radiation and would probably kill any roaches that had to live in it for a week or two.
I, for one, welcome our new robotic ant-like overlord swarm. However, I would like to remind them that as a relative unknown, I will be mostly useless rounding up others to toil in their underground robot sugar caves. I can play a good supportive role with words of encouragement. Go RobotAnts Go!
If everything were copyrighted (most things sort of implicitly are), and we upheld MLB's version of Fair Use, then lawyers' motions would be copyrighted and as such could not be discussed by other lawyers or judges. Nobody would be able to talk about anything that had been written down or produced in any way. One could even claim that all speech is a derivative work and we could only use words and letters that hadn't been used in the same combinations anyone has used in the last half century!
Nobody would be allowed to do anything because they would be sued by people who wouldn't be allowed to sue!
Now that I think about it, such inability to enforce anything would be like having no copyrights at all. One end of the spectrum is exactly the same as the other. Too bad circles are copyrighted.
I have found that a combination of Heise Security's ctupdate and nLite can be used to create a very nice custom Windows installation CD that not only includes any updates you choose to include, but you can also specify a large number of custom registry settings that will be set when you install.
Is very nice
Does this mean that you now have to keep a permanent record of everything that goes into or out of your RAM? Does this mean that every write to RAM has to be accompanied by a write to disk? Even if it is buffered and then written in larger chunks, I wonder what kind of performance hit this would cause
When technicians pulled up the affected cable, it appeared to have been shot up over a length of a kilometer
Somebody has obviously been working on this piece of fiber for quite a while. Either that or they got one of these and were practicing strafing with a Warthog.
I much prefer the idea of a steam-powered bionic arm than a rocket-powered one. I myself would like to see someone typing on the steampunk keyboard at breakneck speeds with such an arm. Rocket-powered arms are better for breaking things, though.
There have been many, many experiments in superluminosity (things seemingly traveling faster than light), however, quantum tunneling is certainly not a case of information moving faster than light.
Quantum tunneling is when a particle passes through a region in which its presence is disallowed according to classical mechanics. However, in this region, the particle's wave function satisfies the time-independent Schroedinger equation and takes the form of an exponentially decreasing function (as opposed to the time-dependent solutions, which are a superposition of sines and cosines). Since the equation is not dependent on time, it would be a mistake to claim that the particle is actually moving through that space.
So yes, if you choose to interpret speed as distance over time, you could say that something travels faster than light, but at the quantum level such interpretations are meaningless, and you can't even claim that it's the same particle that comes out the other side of the potential barrier.
True enough, I would say all of those things fall under the category of instinct. However you define free will, I would think it requires the ability to do higher-level reasoning in the brain. Isn't the ability to reason and form abstract thoughts a necessity for free will lacking in robots and something that has been a goal of artificial intelligence researchers and programmers?
So the article seems to be saying that in the absence of external stimuli, the flies tend to move in patterns that match a mathematical model. I fail to see how this precludes them from merely having brains with hardwired instruction sets that tell them how to fly in zigzag patterns looking for food. Couldn't a robot do exactly that?
There are certain things that I would expect everyone to have learned by the time they reach adulthood. It just so happens that one of them is that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
The lawyer in this story may have been quick to pick up information from conversation, but I find it VERY difficult to believe that a highly intelligent person does not spend nearly all of their conscious time paying attention to surroundings and absorbing information.
That being said, I have to assume that either the story is BS or the lawyer was just playing a game with the poster and the people around her to see if she could play a convincing dunce. I'm sure she isn't the only smart person who likes to see if she can fool people who think they're smarter than her.
Qualifications include being able to transition seamlessly between high functioning autistic and Simon Cowell during presentations and board meetings.
I'm glad bgates has parlayed that into a marketable (and enviable?) skill. It gives the rest of us needlessly cruel bastards something to dream about while rocking back and forth in our chairs.
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I'm really amused that if you type "fhgwqads" into Google, it asks "Did you mean: fhqwhgads."
Yes, of course I did! Thank you Google for correcting my nonsense string of characters.
After Earth is pummeled with gamma rays, Hulks and Spider-Men become the norm, even passé. Marvel Comics sadly goes out of business.
A portable tool that I can use to ideate while I'm on the road. I hope it has wi-fi enabled buzzword bingo built in.
Tiny Morphing Electricity-Stealing Spy Planes flown by Tiny Mighty Morphing Power Rangers on secret missions to defeat Tiny Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
Seriously, how many people think that this is how you spell "gibberish"
More fabbers! Then I'd use those to fab more fabbers. Once I've got enough fabbers to produce a mole of fabbers per yoctosecond, I would start fabbing baby monkeys, and those monkeys would be cute. Soon, the space will be so dense with cuteness that it will collapse into an adorable singularity with a Kitten Radius exceeding that of the earth.
As it has been foretold.
Roaches, in fact all insects, are very resistant to short doses of radiation. The reason behind this is that radiation does the most damage to cells when they're dividing. It just so happens that roaches molt about once a week, which is a single cell division. If you aren't radiating the roach when this is happening, your radiation will mostly fall on deaf ears.
However, after a nuclear blast, the fallout would be a source of constant radiation and would probably kill any roaches that had to live in it for a week or two.
Next thing you'll tell me is that my mail server is sending domain names of people who email me to Spamhaus! Is there no safe haven?
I, for one, welcome our new robotic ant-like overlord swarm. However, I would like to remind them that as a relative unknown, I will be mostly useless rounding up others to toil in their underground robot sugar caves. I can play a good supportive role with words of encouragement. Go RobotAnts Go!
Although I would like to see who would win in a fight between Microsoft and Ebola.
If everything were copyrighted (most things sort of implicitly are), and we upheld MLB's version of Fair Use, then lawyers' motions would be copyrighted and as such could not be discussed by other lawyers or judges. Nobody would be able to talk about anything that had been written down or produced in any way. One could even claim that all speech is a derivative work and we could only use words and letters that hadn't been used in the same combinations anyone has used in the last half century!
Nobody would be allowed to do anything because they would be sued by people who wouldn't be allowed to sue!
Now that I think about it, such inability to enforce anything would be like having no copyrights at all. One end of the spectrum is exactly the same as the other. Too bad circles are copyrighted.
I have found that a combination of Heise Security's ctupdate and nLite can be used to create a very nice custom Windows installation CD that not only includes any updates you choose to include, but you can also specify a large number of custom registry settings that will be set when you install.
Is very nice
Does this mean that you now have to keep a permanent record of everything that goes into or out of your RAM? Does this mean that every write to RAM has to be accompanied by a write to disk? Even if it is buffered and then written in larger chunks, I wonder what kind of performance hit this would cause
I much prefer the idea of a steam-powered bionic arm than a rocket-powered one. I myself would like to see someone typing on the steampunk keyboard at breakneck speeds with such an arm. Rocket-powered arms are better for breaking things, though.
There have been many, many experiments in superluminosity (things seemingly traveling faster than light), however, quantum tunneling is certainly not a case of information moving faster than light.
Quantum tunneling is when a particle passes through a region in which its presence is disallowed according to classical mechanics. However, in this region, the particle's wave function satisfies the time-independent Schroedinger equation and takes the form of an exponentially decreasing function (as opposed to the time-dependent solutions, which are a superposition of sines and cosines). Since the equation is not dependent on time, it would be a mistake to claim that the particle is actually moving through that space.
So yes, if you choose to interpret speed as distance over time, you could say that something travels faster than light, but at the quantum level such interpretations are meaningless, and you can't even claim that it's the same particle that comes out the other side of the potential barrier.
his judgment has confirmed that it commits a crime and violates copyright laws for the act of using (BitTorrent) software to upload and distribute
Bah! I was about to put a link to one of my favorite page with nonsensical translations but it has been fixed. Weak.
I wonder if the current rise in prizes being offered for discovering vulnerabilities in code might lead to some sneaky behavior.
1. Leave subtle flaw in your code
2. Share information with distant acquaintance
3. Profit!
True enough, I would say all of those things fall under the category of instinct. However you define free will, I would think it requires the ability to do higher-level reasoning in the brain. Isn't the ability to reason and form abstract thoughts a necessity for free will lacking in robots and something that has been a goal of artificial intelligence researchers and programmers?
So the article seems to be saying that in the absence of external stimuli, the flies tend to move in patterns that match a mathematical model. I fail to see how this precludes them from merely having brains with hardwired instruction sets that tell them how to fly in zigzag patterns looking for food. Couldn't a robot do exactly that?
There are certain things that I would expect everyone to have learned by the time they reach adulthood. It just so happens that one of them is that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
The lawyer in this story may have been quick to pick up information from conversation, but I find it VERY difficult to believe that a highly intelligent person does not spend nearly all of their conscious time paying attention to surroundings and absorbing information.
That being said, I have to assume that either the story is BS or the lawyer was just playing a game with the poster and the people around her to see if she could play a convincing dunce. I'm sure she isn't the only smart person who likes to see if she can fool people who think they're smarter than her.
I guess the long intro will give people time to stand there stupidly and finish their beers before the actual song starts.
Qualifications include being able to transition seamlessly between high functioning autistic and Simon Cowell during presentations and board meetings.
I'm glad bgates has parlayed that into a marketable (and enviable?) skill. It gives the rest of us needlessly cruel bastards something to dream about while rocking back and forth in our chairs.
...not when you're having weird seizures in your leisure suit.
How was this story not tagged with 'slownewsday'