Thanks for enlightening me on that. I admit I didn't RTFA and took the word 'trojan' at face value, while 'personal delivery' is also listed in TFA. I'll definitely be looking at a hardware VOIP solution to brag about my plans of world domination after reading this.
On another note, I'm quite surprised that only Windows 2k/XP are mentioned in the article. Police quietly breaking in and installing spyware would never cross my mind otherwise, but if I'm going to come home to a different OS I might get suspicious.
However, before this can be done, there really needs to be more (free) education regarding the legal system (think high school); lawyers aren't there because people can't just do research on the subject and argue their case, lawyers exist because there are people who don't feel confident arguing their own case. Educating everyone about the legal system would go a long way to correct this. Medical school? Sure! I want to be absolutely certain I won't come out in a bag or missing something. Law school? Make it a mandatory subject in public schools and encourage community colleges to hold refresher courses. There's no reason people shouldn't be confident in court if they feel they're in the right.
So? It's a trojan, meaning that one has to willingly open it; more bluntly, it means that the police will need to trick people into opening them. Also, with this information out in the open now, anyone with a lick of sense will be even more wary of such rogue email attachments.
tl;dr - No one has to convince you to pick up a tapped phone.
NOAA said unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAV) could operate for sustained periods at lower altitudes and give meteorologists a continuous sampling of data, including wind speed, temperature, pressure and moisture, unlike most manned operations that occur today.
I know next to nothing about the subject, so I'm just making assumptions, but I'm sure it would be difficult to measure much more than the amount of ice and wind speed (with clouds present to move in said wind, something that seems unlikely in an area with next to nothing evaporating) without having instruments in the atmosphere.
Also, you can bring back a UAV for maintenance for everything short of a dead engine; with a satellite, you're going to have to wait for someone to get up there and fumble around miles above the planet, and to maintain ground equipment you need to send someone out (or more likely leave someone) there for when problems arise.
Why do we have issues? We can buy individual tracks now for a dollar, make backups for free, take thousands of songs with us on cheap players and put all of our old stuff on the PC we use in minutes. Assuming your 'cheap player' supports the DRM'd track you just bought for $1 and you have $1 for each of those 'thousands of tracks'. Oh, and don't forget the part about each song being tied to a specific computer and player. Yeah, have fun never upgrading hardware or rebuying every few years.
And either way, does it really cost that much to push a paper airplane out of orbit? It's not like you need special equipment (unless you're too lazy to fold and throw it). I doubt time matters, either; just give it a nudge and have fun counting off minutes. Who's going to wait for a plane they can't possibly find?
Or rather 'stupid design', as the above post points out. If an elephant is born without legs, it's getting eaten; if an elephant is born without wrinkly skin and large ears, it's likely going to die from the heat. Speaking of elephants, just look at all the number born without tusks now. This would have been more or less neutral if people hadn't started killing them specifically for ivory or had just tranqed the elephants and removed the tusks that way. Instead, tusks became a negative trait and those without tusks increased. While one could make a case for this being 'artificial' selection because it was done by humans, and thus an 'intelligent' process, humans weren't doing it to breed tuskless elephants; humans were targeting elephants with tusks because they wanted the tusks, making it a more or less 'blind' process.
Regardless, scent also does a great deal to help people recall events. Though this feature seems useless without scaring the fuck out of the target beforehand while also releasing the scent.
On another note, do we really want a government that knows the best ways to keep us in line?
That's why gravitation is a theory. *cough* We prefer the term 'Intelligent Falling' around these parts. Don't go pounding your untested 'theories' into impressionable children, please.
At least you can ask questions and do something when you're disliked based on your own merits; but what can you do if someone targets you solely because you believe something?
Good luck with that. Plan on typing out a model? Ignoring that, taking into account that a coder/modeler isn't all that unlikely, you can't just slap up a game that's a notch above 'hello world' in complexity and wake up to a thriving community eager to have your children. If you want to start a game without paying people to work on it, it'll take time (probably months to years) and a few very interested/dedicated people to get it to go anywhere. Why do you think so few FOSS games have a plot?
Did you mean http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/? I'm getting an 'under construction' page with your link. It looks quite interesting so far, thanks for pointing it out!
Yes, it's not easy to look at the world through paper windows.
Virtual worlds with scientifically accurate simulations could permit learners to tinker with chemical reactions in living cells, practice operating and repairing expensive equipment, and experience microgravity - making it easier to grasp complex concepts and quickly transfer this understanding to practical problems.
I've been wanting something like this for years now. It sounds like a damn good idea and I'd probably lose a few months to it if it wasn't going to be shot down before the first line could be typed out.
It would be ungodly expensive to teach everyone the science behind it all. (And not just for NASA/schools, either.) What better solution than to allow anyone even slightly interested in space flight to learn all about it for under $200/year? Hell, NASA could even try to make use of all the idle cycles on every player's machine to run simulations (with users' permission, of course).
Yes, and then we'll all clean the soda/juice off of our hands by slapping balls of water. Also, wouldn't the helix cup be just as messy? I'm a little worried by how the liquid was bulging out in the first picture.
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Or for that matter, when it'll crash? (Though, I suppose one could get a good idea where it would fall just by knowing when it'll stop circling.)
I hear metalized mylar is the latest thing in fashion!
Or perhaps posting speed is inversely proportional to the length of one's UID.
Thanks for enlightening me on that. I admit I didn't RTFA and took the word 'trojan' at face value, while 'personal delivery' is also listed in TFA. I'll definitely be looking at a hardware VOIP solution to brag about my plans of world domination after reading this.
On another note, I'm quite surprised that only Windows 2k/XP are mentioned in the article. Police quietly breaking in and installing spyware would never cross my mind otherwise, but if I'm going to come home to a different OS I might get suspicious.
Medical school? Sure! I want to be absolutely certain I won't come out in a bag or missing something. Law school? Make it a mandatory subject in public schools and encourage community colleges to hold refresher courses. There's no reason people shouldn't be confident in court if they feel they're in the right.
So? It's a trojan, meaning that one has to willingly open it; more bluntly, it means that the police will need to trick people into opening them. Also, with this information out in the open now, anyone with a lick of sense will be even more wary of such rogue email attachments.
tl;dr - No one has to convince you to pick up a tapped phone.
Also, you can bring back a UAV for maintenance for everything short of a dead engine; with a satellite, you're going to have to wait for someone to get up there and fumble around miles above the planet, and to maintain ground equipment you need to send someone out (or more likely leave someone) there for when problems arise.
Yes, a license plate won't end up on a car six miles away in a matter of months/years. (Hours in the case of dial-up.)
Netcraft confirms it?
(IHBT?)
256MB of RAM? They couldn't get that much right when a lot of people had 256MB. (On the bright side, at least hardware gets cheaper.)
Nah. There's no /vista.
And either way, does it really cost that much to push a paper airplane out of orbit? It's not like you need special equipment (unless you're too lazy to fold and throw it). I doubt time matters, either; just give it a nudge and have fun counting off minutes. Who's going to wait for a plane they can't possibly find?
Because getting a $5 refund after a few years is really worth the trouble.
Or I could just reload before replying. :(
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/18/0329252 Or you could just wait for the dupe.
I'm sad to say 'no'. I spent about two minutes, absolutely bewildered by that line on my RSS feed (clicking is cheating).
Or rather 'stupid design', as the above post points out. If an elephant is born without legs, it's getting eaten; if an elephant is born without wrinkly skin and large ears, it's likely going to die from the heat.
Speaking of elephants, just look at all the number born without tusks now. This would have been more or less neutral if people hadn't started killing them specifically for ivory or had just tranqed the elephants and removed the tusks that way. Instead, tusks became a negative trait and those without tusks increased.
While one could make a case for this being 'artificial' selection because it was done by humans, and thus an 'intelligent' process, humans weren't doing it to breed tuskless elephants; humans were targeting elephants with tusks because they wanted the tusks, making it a more or less 'blind' process.
Regardless, scent also does a great deal to help people recall events. Though this feature seems useless without scaring the fuck out of the target beforehand while also releasing the scent.
On another note, do we really want a government that knows the best ways to keep us in line?
At least you can ask questions and do something when you're disliked based on your own merits; but what can you do if someone targets you solely because you believe something?
Good luck with that. Plan on typing out a model?
Ignoring that, taking into account that a coder/modeler isn't all that unlikely, you can't just slap up a game that's a notch above 'hello world' in complexity and wake up to a thriving community eager to have your children. If you want to start a game without paying people to work on it, it'll take time (probably months to years) and a few very interested/dedicated people to get it to go anywhere.
Why do you think so few FOSS games have a plot?
Did you mean http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/? I'm getting an 'under construction' page with your link. It looks quite interesting so far, thanks for pointing it out!
It would be ungodly expensive to teach everyone the science behind it all. (And not just for NASA/schools, either.) What better solution than to allow anyone even slightly interested in space flight to learn all about it for under $200/year? Hell, NASA could even try to make use of all the idle cycles on every player's machine to run simulations (with users' permission, of course).
Yes, and then we'll all clean the soda/juice off of our hands by slapping balls of water.
Also, wouldn't the helix cup be just as messy? I'm a little worried by how the liquid was bulging out in the first picture.