Female customers who have recently 1) purchased a pregnancy test kit, 2) stopped buying tampons, and 3) purchased morning sickness remedies such as Saltine crackers.
This demonstrates low cost mass production. Just add mobility, communication, coordination, and sensing. Drop a swarm of these into any dangerous environment and, voila, instant info. Now, think of GPS surveillance, peeking through walls for IR signatures, drone surveillance aircraft, night vision,... The first use of microbots will be for military or hazardous waste cleanup or such. But microbots, like their predecessors, will ultimately be used to monitor the general public.
Like so many other collapsed fisheries, this is another example of over-exploitation of a scarce resource. "The tragedy of the commons is a dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently and rationally consulting their own self-interest, will ultimately deplete a shared limited resource, even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long-term interest for this to happen." And the fishermen always argue for the status quo.
Either complain about dropped calls and other service defects OR complain about rationing or usage-proportional tariffs OR complain about AT&T attempting to buy out a competitor to absorb their under-utillized network. But you cannot take all three sides.
Why is it an employer's job (no pun intended) to make sure we exercise?
Why is it an employers' right to pass along healthcare costs of employees that they require to be sedentary 40+ hours a week?
But that line of reasoning is pretty flabby (pun intended) on either side of the argument. Let's raise awareness that fitness is a system problem: (Caloried consumed - Calories burned) / ~3500 = 1 pound of body weight gained or lost. If you want to reduce healthcare costs, one part of the solution will be to redesign work to include motion.
My brother is over 50 and a baggage handler for a major airline. On his feet, lifting, walking, on the move continuously several hours a day. He's had no flab... until this year. I saw him in November with a bulge around the middle. He had put on 30 pounds.
"What happened?"
"Desk job."
Employers wake up! You are not the innocent victim of the obesity epidemic, you are a primary contributor. Every job description must include some activity other than "sit in chair, click mouse, press keys, answer telephone." Put labor back in work and your employees will get more work done and cost less in the long run.
Iran spoofed GPS signals and tricked the drone to land, undamaged, where they wanted it to land. What prevents someone them from doing the same (or far worse) with Homeland Security drones in the US?
I've been wondering about illuminating my license plate with inexpensive infrared LEDs at each corner. They won't help during daylight hours, but IR-sensitive night cameras should be rendered useless. Great holiday gift for those with foil hats and hate the thought of automated license plate scanners that are being used to troll traffic for black hats.
Go back and read the comments on the Dec 2010 Slashdot item. A great deal of ire was vented over racetrack memory being in the 10-to-15-year-where's-my-flying-car distant future. And here we sit 12 months later with a functioning CMOS chip. I can't wait to fly around the block.
The cathode reaction liberates H
The anode reaction liberates O
The two reactions need to happen in balance, so the slower one determines the rate of hydrolysis.
Speed up the slow anode reaction and the whole thing goes bazingah.
So. When will someone plug a graphene cpu into a motherboard?
When they work out the bits about adding special sauce, lettuce cheese, pickles, onions and sesame seeds. TFSummary is honest enough to say "one step closer."
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Female customers who have recently 1) purchased a pregnancy test kit, 2) stopped buying tampons, and 3) purchased morning sickness remedies such as Saltine crackers.
This demonstrates low cost mass production. Just add mobility, communication, coordination, and sensing. Drop a swarm of these into any dangerous environment and, voila, instant info. Now, think of GPS surveillance, peeking through walls for IR signatures, drone surveillance aircraft, night vision, ... The first use of microbots will be for military or hazardous waste cleanup or such. But microbots, like their predecessors, will ultimately be used to monitor the general public.
Rate * Time = Usage
There is a fixed amount of time in a month.
If your rate is limited, your usage is limited.
Either complain about dropped calls and other service defects OR complain about rationing or usage-proportional tariffs OR complain about AT&T attempting to buy out a competitor to absorb their under-utillized network. But you cannot take all three sides.
The inflated damage amount was calculated by Professor Cockburn.
Shocked. I am completely shocked.
So, how many Lego pieces (ABS plastic) are there in a kilo?
About 400
About 400.
The video cannot be viewed on the iPad it features.
(provided they can find out whose random thing from the sky it is).
That's easy: Their video is on YouTube.
Why is it an employer's job (no pun intended) to make sure we exercise?
Why is it an employers' right to pass along healthcare costs of employees that they require to be sedentary 40+ hours a week?
But that line of reasoning is pretty flabby (pun intended) on either side of the argument. Let's raise awareness that fitness is a system problem: (Caloried consumed - Calories burned) / ~3500 = 1 pound of body weight gained or lost. If you want to reduce healthcare costs, one part of the solution will be to redesign work to include motion.
My brother is over 50 and a baggage handler for a major airline. On his feet, lifting, walking, on the move continuously several hours a day. He's had no flab ... until this year. I saw him in November with a bulge around the middle. He had put on 30 pounds.
"What happened?"
"Desk job."
Employers wake up! You are not the innocent victim of the obesity epidemic, you are a primary contributor. Every job description must include some activity other than "sit in chair, click mouse, press keys, answer telephone." Put labor back in work and your employees will get more work done and cost less in the long run.
Iran spoofed GPS signals and tricked the drone to land, undamaged, where they wanted it to land. What prevents someone them from doing the same (or far worse) with Homeland Security drones in the US?
You have managed to come up with a topic for which there is no article in Wikipedia . I am duly impressed.
100% efficiency. No administrative overhead. Complete certainty that your gift wasn't squandered.
I've been wondering about illuminating my license plate with inexpensive infrared LEDs at each corner. They won't help during daylight hours, but IR-sensitive night cameras should be rendered useless. Great holiday gift for those with foil hats and hate the thought of automated license plate scanners that are being used to troll traffic for black hats.
Isn't that roughly where these guys were headed?
Go back and read the comments on the Dec 2010 Slashdot item. A great deal of ire was vented over racetrack memory being in the 10-to-15-year-where's-my-flying-car distant future. And here we sit 12 months later with a functioning CMOS chip. I can't wait to fly around the block.
"According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, up to 1 billion birds may be killed annually by colliding with windows."
And, thanks to fractals, the shorter the yardstick the greater the circumfrence.
Well, yes and no. If a yardstick was shorter or longer it would in fact just be a stick.
You are so right, I should've used "ruler" for "yardstick". Of course that would only lead to Napoleonic short ruler comments.
The cathode reaction liberates H The anode reaction liberates O The two reactions need to happen in balance, so the slower one determines the rate of hydrolysis. Speed up the slow anode reaction and the whole thing goes bazingah.
Of course, this only works if it's a perfect circle, which is unlikely.
And, thanks to fractals, the shorter the yardstick the greater the circumfrence.
Good job MS!
Psst, this is Slashdot. You can't say that here.
So. When will someone plug a graphene cpu into a motherboard?
When they work out the bits about adding special sauce, lettuce cheese, pickles, onions and sesame seeds. TFSummary is honest enough to say "one step closer."
War is peace. Ignorance is bliss.