If that doesn't work, then they would be starting military exercises off the coast of Japan
Since this is cyberwar we're talking here, do you mean we'll send floating LAN parties over there? Or are we just going to display how well we can clog those tubes? I'm sorry, but Stevens is no longer available to spearhead a project like this, so I'm afraid you're mistaken.
Are you ready to reorganize ATF into CMFTMLAH(cocaine, marijuana, firearms, tobacco, meth, lsd, alcohol, heroine)?
Frankly, until we get a more acronym-friendly group of drugs, I am morally opposed to legalizing any more of them.
I believe it is because the only way for the people to write the laws is by voting in an amendment. If congress decides to legalize a drug based on the will of the people, we don't need an amendment to do that.
Wisconsin had a lower drinking age than Illinois had, and the result was large numbers of teen driving fatalities as people cross the border to drink. We don't need the same situation happening with marijuana, so we need major changes to be on a national level. Medicinal marijuana can probably be decided by states, but fully legalized use has to be a federal decision.
While I'll agree she seems well off on her vaccine hypothesis, as far as autism goes, she might be doing useful work. I've heard about her book, and apparently she has observed improvement in her son's condition. I can't help but think of the movie Lorenzo's Oil, where the father that has no medical training figures out how to stop the regression caused by the disease his son had, and prevented his second son from losing control of his body the way the older son had. I suppose more time is needed to see if the results of her attempts at treatment are real and repeatable, but as long as she stops her anti-vaccine campaign, I think her efforts have enough potential that she shouldn't be completely ignored.
This seems like a direct extension from the article a while ago explaining how tools are perceived by the brain to be an extension of the body. In this case, the mannequin is the tool in question. This is interesting, but it doesn't strike me as a huge breakthrough.
Isn't the condition where people have no choice but to starve due to lack of resources essentially the definition overpopulation?
As for the idea of creating immortality: The only way to not create overpopulation is to stop as soon as we hit that resource limit, but if we aren't dying, that means the last generation is denied the ability to have children. I think that is a worse situation than letting people die after a healthy 100 years or whatever we can let life expectancy level out at. (Reaching a resource limit and allowing children would require Ender-esque family size limits, but that should be reasonable enough).
Sorry, that's the next round of funding: $20 for quiz answer key, $40 for chapter test answer key, $60 for the final answer key. Of course, the key isn't guaranteed to be right: add $10 for each letter past C you want the answer key to actually get you.
If she has no idea then going to a large university where she'll be exposed to a number of different fields and opportunities is not a bad idea.
I've heard enough bad things about professors at big universities in intro-level courses to be wary of this idea (maybe you've experienced otherwise). I went to a large high school, but my college is about half the size and all of the professors are really into teaching- about every week while talking to my friend at a big uni I find another example of something that is better here thanks to it being a small school. I admit, though, that my school only offers engineering/math/science degrees, so it is not the place for someone that needs to find direction.
That said, looking for extracurricular groups to try out would be the best choice. They almost always are looking for new members, and they really try to play to peoples' interests. I liked the kind of math where you have to come up with your own method to solve the problem, so I joined math team, and found I really liked that kind of work. Now I'm going to become a professional problem solver by getting a ME degree.
The sound varies by acceleration, so it can determine the unique pattern of drawing a circle or drawing a V, for example. If you watch the video where he controls the song, he uses different gestures for different commands. The only thing it doesn't do anything with is how far you are from the mic.
"Does it matter?"
Either answer to the question is nostalgic, whether on the idea that the universe is this perfect entity that cannot be blemished by humans, or the idea that the purpose of mankind is to survive.
You can say it doesn't matter since if human kind dies out, it is of little consequence to the fate of the universe, but then again the fate of the universe is of little consequence to the universe, isn't it? Just like how you can argue that your life is of no consequence, yet you cling to life, holding it to great importance, an argument that humanity doesn't matter will still not change the fact that it DOES matter to you, because you are human. That is reason enough for it to matter: because you are human.
I know you were just going for humor, but we know the dodo was "not tasty" (as noted by Bill Bryson in his book A Short History of Nearly Everything, page 470).
Theft is where you, without permission, obtain something while depriving the legal owner of it. In the days of absurd DRM, this can be possible, as making a copy may deprive the legal owner of their copy. In any reasonable sense, theft should not apply to copyright infringement... and the RIAA strikes again.
The article says he was charged with Identity Theft (which would imply that he did touch the data), but it is hard to tell if they just picked the charge, or if he was actually found to have made a copy of some of the data for himself. If all he did was access the file, realize what it contained, and then reported it, I would say looked at the data, but he never interacted with it (touched it) i.e. copied, edited. As far as the article is concerned, it is ambiguous, so if we side with the kid, then he probably did not touch the data. I should think he'd be smart enough, if he actually was actively looking to commit identity theft, to do a better job of being truly anonymous when informing the principal.
If he did not touch the data, this is more like finding a door unlocked, opening it, then shouting in "Hey, just so you know, the door's unlocked," and walking away.
Technically, you'd go to the Seneca River and skim off some oil that has reached its way to the surface from the river, and sell that ("Seneca Oil" got contracted to "Snake Oil" over time), but I digress...
How about an analogy:
There is a story of a man who was very attached to his dog, and brought the dog everywhere. One day he went into an east-asian restaurant- as he sat down he told the waiter to take care of his dog. The waiter asked if he wanted the special, and the man agreed. A while later, the man received and ate a dish he enjoyed more than anything he had ever eaten, and after he was finished, he asked the waiter about his dog. The waiter was confused, as the dog was the special the man just ate.
If the man was told what he was eating as he was served the meal, would it make sense for him to refuse to eat it? If you are offered treatment that involved destroying a human life, would it make sense to be opposed to the treatment? Obviously, since the man's best friend is already dead, the man may as well go ahead and eat and enjoy it guilt free...
The difference is the man knew the dog very well, but the embryo isn't something you can relate to very readily- somehow because the embryo doesn't look human, it becomes justifiable to ignore any meaning of its existence as a living being. I am sure there are children out there who were once embryos frozen in a facility somewhere and then adopted (those embryos are the ones that are used for stem cell lines)- if a heartless scientist killed one of those children in the name of science, then offered to restore your ability to walk by harvesting stem cells from the child, you should be disgusted at the proposition. Same goes for gaining from the destruction of an embryo.
Case in point:
I have a bad install of Office or something, so every time I open Word I get a popup that says "Cannot open this document template $(file location)". Sure, that says something useful. But on top of that a second popup appears, saying "The command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open. Click OK, then close open dialog boxes to continue".
I don't know about you, but I think a dialog box that opens just to tell you that there is a dialog box open is the most helpful thing I've ever seen.
I don't know much about microbiology, but would it make sense to assume that we can develop enough different antibacterial products that no bacteria can resist all of them? I suppose the question is whether resistance is a positive 'effort' by bacterial DNA, or whether susceptibility is more of a glitch in the DNA. Can I argue there is only room for X number of resistances before bacteria have to choose which ones to keep and which to drop? If so, would it ever be reasonably possible to produce X +1 antibacterial chemicals?
This question has been bugging me (sorry!) for a while.
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If that doesn't work, then they would be starting military exercises off the coast of Japan
Since this is cyberwar we're talking here, do you mean we'll send floating LAN parties over there? Or are we just going to display how well we can clog those tubes? I'm sorry, but Stevens is no longer available to spearhead a project like this, so I'm afraid you're mistaken.
Are you ready to reorganize ATF into CMFTMLAH(cocaine, marijuana, firearms, tobacco, meth, lsd, alcohol, heroine)? Frankly, until we get a more acronym-friendly group of drugs, I am morally opposed to legalizing any more of them.
I believe it is because the only way for the people to write the laws is by voting in an amendment. If congress decides to legalize a drug based on the will of the people, we don't need an amendment to do that.
Wisconsin had a lower drinking age than Illinois had, and the result was large numbers of teen driving fatalities as people cross the border to drink. We don't need the same situation happening with marijuana, so we need major changes to be on a national level. Medicinal marijuana can probably be decided by states, but fully legalized use has to be a federal decision.
While I'll agree she seems well off on her vaccine hypothesis, as far as autism goes, she might be doing useful work. I've heard about her book, and apparently she has observed improvement in her son's condition. I can't help but think of the movie Lorenzo's Oil, where the father that has no medical training figures out how to stop the regression caused by the disease his son had, and prevented his second son from losing control of his body the way the older son had. I suppose more time is needed to see if the results of her attempts at treatment are real and repeatable, but as long as she stops her anti-vaccine campaign, I think her efforts have enough potential that she shouldn't be completely ignored.
For the sexiest DNA splicing yet!
You clearly haven't realized the potential this technology has for C-Span. Those politicians will almost seem like real human beings!
This seems like a direct extension from the article a while ago explaining how tools are perceived by the brain to be an extension of the body. In this case, the mannequin is the tool in question. This is interesting, but it doesn't strike me as a huge breakthrough.
But can we get pigs and cows to grow in the ocean, too...
Isn't the condition where people have no choice but to starve due to lack of resources essentially the definition overpopulation? As for the idea of creating immortality: The only way to not create overpopulation is to stop as soon as we hit that resource limit, but if we aren't dying, that means the last generation is denied the ability to have children. I think that is a worse situation than letting people die after a healthy 100 years or whatever we can let life expectancy level out at. (Reaching a resource limit and allowing children would require Ender-esque family size limits, but that should be reasonable enough).
doors that could be closed remotely so that when something like C4 is detected in some area you could seal the area
I'll keep that in mind so when I get sealed into an area of an airport I can calmly remind myself all it means is I'm trapped in a room with a bomb.
Sorry, that's the next round of funding: $20 for quiz answer key, $40 for chapter test answer key, $60 for the final answer key. Of course, the key isn't guaranteed to be right: add $10 for each letter past C you want the answer key to actually get you.
If she has no idea then going to a large university where she'll be exposed to a number of different fields and opportunities is not a bad idea.
I've heard enough bad things about professors at big universities in intro-level courses to be wary of this idea (maybe you've experienced otherwise). I went to a large high school, but my college is about half the size and all of the professors are really into teaching- about every week while talking to my friend at a big uni I find another example of something that is better here thanks to it being a small school. I admit, though, that my school only offers engineering/math/science degrees, so it is not the place for someone that needs to find direction.
That said, looking for extracurricular groups to try out would be the best choice. They almost always are looking for new members, and they really try to play to peoples' interests. I liked the kind of math where you have to come up with your own method to solve the problem, so I joined math team, and found I really liked that kind of work. Now I'm going to become a professional problem solver by getting a ME degree.
The sound varies by acceleration, so it can determine the unique pattern of drawing a circle or drawing a V, for example. If you watch the video where he controls the song, he uses different gestures for different commands. The only thing it doesn't do anything with is how far you are from the mic.
"Does it matter?"
Either answer to the question is nostalgic, whether on the idea that the universe is this perfect entity that cannot be blemished by humans, or the idea that the purpose of mankind is to survive. You can say it doesn't matter since if human kind dies out, it is of little consequence to the fate of the universe, but then again the fate of the universe is of little consequence to the universe, isn't it? Just like how you can argue that your life is of no consequence, yet you cling to life, holding it to great importance, an argument that humanity doesn't matter will still not change the fact that it DOES matter to you, because you are human. That is reason enough for it to matter: because you are human.
If this thing stalls while you're out on a walk, does it come with roadside assistance, or do you need to call a friend to give you a jump?
I know you were just going for humor, but we know the dodo was "not tasty" (as noted by Bill Bryson in his book A Short History of Nearly Everything, page 470).
I suspect you can blame plankton and brine shrimp more for the ammonia present than you can blame Human space programs
What about plankton space programs?
Theft is where you, without permission, obtain something while depriving the legal owner of it. In the days of absurd DRM, this can be possible, as making a copy may deprive the legal owner of their copy. In any reasonable sense, theft should not apply to copyright infringement... and the RIAA strikes again.
The article says he was charged with Identity Theft (which would imply that he did touch the data), but it is hard to tell if they just picked the charge, or if he was actually found to have made a copy of some of the data for himself. If all he did was access the file, realize what it contained, and then reported it, I would say looked at the data, but he never interacted with it (touched it) i.e. copied, edited. As far as the article is concerned, it is ambiguous, so if we side with the kid, then he probably did not touch the data. I should think he'd be smart enough, if he actually was actively looking to commit identity theft, to do a better job of being truly anonymous when informing the principal.
If he did not touch the data, this is more like finding a door unlocked, opening it, then shouting in "Hey, just so you know, the door's unlocked," and walking away.
Technically, you'd go to the Seneca River and skim off some oil that has reached its way to the surface from the river, and sell that ("Seneca Oil" got contracted to "Snake Oil" over time), but I digress...
How about an analogy:
There is a story of a man who was very attached to his dog, and brought the dog everywhere. One day he went into an east-asian restaurant- as he sat down he told the waiter to take care of his dog. The waiter asked if he wanted the special, and the man agreed. A while later, the man received and ate a dish he enjoyed more than anything he had ever eaten, and after he was finished, he asked the waiter about his dog. The waiter was confused, as the dog was the special the man just ate.
If the man was told what he was eating as he was served the meal, would it make sense for him to refuse to eat it? If you are offered treatment that involved destroying a human life, would it make sense to be opposed to the treatment? Obviously, since the man's best friend is already dead, the man may as well go ahead and eat and enjoy it guilt free...
The difference is the man knew the dog very well, but the embryo isn't something you can relate to very readily- somehow because the embryo doesn't look human, it becomes justifiable to ignore any meaning of its existence as a living being. I am sure there are children out there who were once embryos frozen in a facility somewhere and then adopted (those embryos are the ones that are used for stem cell lines)- if a heartless scientist killed one of those children in the name of science, then offered to restore your ability to walk by harvesting stem cells from the child, you should be disgusted at the proposition. Same goes for gaining from the destruction of an embryo.
Case in point:
I have a bad install of Office or something, so every time I open Word I get a popup that says "Cannot open this document template $(file location)". Sure, that says something useful. But on top of that a second popup appears, saying "The command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open. Click OK, then close open dialog boxes to continue".
I don't know about you, but I think a dialog box that opens just to tell you that there is a dialog box open is the most helpful thing I've ever seen.
I don't know much about microbiology, but would it make sense to assume that we can develop enough different antibacterial products that no bacteria can resist all of them? I suppose the question is whether resistance is a positive 'effort' by bacterial DNA, or whether susceptibility is more of a glitch in the DNA. Can I argue there is only room for X number of resistances before bacteria have to choose which ones to keep and which to drop? If so, would it ever be reasonably possible to produce X +1 antibacterial chemicals?
This question has been bugging me (sorry!) for a while.