Point taken, I figured that might be a problem. Although I also have another suggestion, what about using a very weak radio isotope embedded in the instruments? That would be fairly easy to scan for as well and since it doesn't have any kind of circuit in it I would think that's it's sterilization proof as well. I'm none too sure about the details, but there has to be some kind of very weak, non-poisonous isotope out there that fits the bill. What I'm getting at is that there has to be some way for a doctor or member of the staff to do a very quick check over the body of the patient prior to finishing the surgery that hasn't been tried yet. I'm non genius and I'm sure someone smarter than me has thought of all the things that I've mentioned, but awareness of the possibilities is important methinks.
I am constantly amazed at my own ignorance and lack of common sense. Anyway, I don't know where that guy came up with the idea that the waves are reflected back and it's some kind of perfect and closed system. If that were the case I think that we would have a real problem on our hands since the tsunami that destroyed the pacific a couple years ago would still be bouncing back and forth between them and our west coast.
I think that an RFID would be great too. Have one on each surgical instrument and after everything is complete and you're ready so sew them back together you run a quick scan over the person's body to check for any RFID. That might be over generalized since I'm not a doctor, but I'm sure that everyone here gets the idea.
Great, we now have the nerd equivalent of the Weekly World News Zodiac Astrologer (WWWNZA?).
Taurus: Your code will compile with unexpected results. Also a diet of cheetos and soda pop will lead to weight gain.
Scorpio: Experts predict that current will flow from the anode to the cathode terminal in the near future. Also romance prospects with your new Macbook Pro look promising.
So on and so forth.
"I know 4 year olds who have grasped that" I know a four year old that memorized a Hanes Tear down manual for a '67 camaro, people learn and retain what's interesting to them and maybe that's not interesting to this person. As for reading the article I agree there, but this is slashdot. Honestly how many people RTFA?
*Drops candy wrapper, grabs pink flamingo, and walks calmly off the lawn whilst the oldster teeters after with his cane.*
Easy there, just because someone reads slashdot does not mean that they have ever been interested understanding radio waves. It was a legitimate question and deserves a legitimate answer. That's called improving the discussion and educating along the way. For all you know this guy could be a master of accounting and if you asked a (to him) basic question about accounting and he responded like you did I don't think that you would be very appreciative. Yes, I see your low UID and I also don't care rude is rude.
Not if he's pretty good with a directional antenna. That's the magic of a parabola. For instance look at this, particularly the parts about Bluetooth. Hence why you never do anything important of any kind of wireless unless it has very good encryption.
That's amazing , I just hope that it doesn't affect my internet usage. As long as that's the case I don't really care if governments hack each other's computer systems to bits.
Well for the hive mind thing, it's easier to make generalizations of the worst case to get a point across, would you rather I throw a car analogy in? As for the rest, considering that the reasons for the XO are altruistic for the most part and Microsoft as well as Intel have much shadier histories than say the OLPC project it's not that hard to pick sides. If I could believe that MS and Intel were being a little more altruistic in their push then as I said in my parent post I don't mind if they jump in, the thing is though that their track record really doesn't lend itself to altruism.
Ummmm, the kids don't really have a choice about which one they get. They are ordered by the kids' respective governments. The other problem with the Wintel offering is that it's not environmentally hardened like the XO. For a kid in a mud hut having a computer that can take intense amounts of punishment is very important. Another thing I don't like about Wintel interfering is that it really isn't geared towards learning, they're worried about a bunch of kids learning something other than M$ software and intel Hardware. The XO is pretty much agnostic when it comes to software and hardware, they're going for cheap durable and good for learning which they have with the current setup. Now if Wintel were worried about the kids not getting something important to education and took steps to mitigate that lack then I don't see anything wrong with them getting involved, but really all they're worried about are future profit margins.
Thank you for making assumptions about me. Too bad what you don't realize is what I've done and where I've been, Iraq...twice. Now, I've worked with helicopters, UAV, and many other really cool gadgets and I can tell you that something like what these are capable of would be a great boon. I do know that the technology for something carrying a payload to do this isn't there yet. That's the key word though, yet. What I was getting at as well is looking at how they have that helicopter and R/C plane configured to do this and maybe some research into ways we can make unmanned craft do similar things. What we soldiers don't need is some SUV drivers in office parks in suburbs who are blissfully seperated(sic) from the realities of what their machines do telling us what gadgets we do and don't need. Oh and yes my profile says ex-soldier, however I'm still in the national guard. Mountain combat as a matter of fact and a UAV that could take off like that little plane did as well as carry a useful payload distributed across multiple packs would be a huge boon to us.
That was amazing. The military needs to figure out how he does all of that. While a human would not be able to take the forces something acting like that would exert, a remotely controlled fighting craft would be incredible.
Back on topic that's some pretty interesting stuff. Most UAV require a landing strip like an airplane to take off and land on, if they could just do what these do it would make them much more portable and much easier to use in the field. Amazing world that we live in these days. My dad couldn't imagine having a phone in his car when he was a kid in the 50's much less aircraft that could fly themselves around.
We have your limited edition Star Wars Princess Leia figurine still in its original packaging. You do what we tell you when we tell you unless you want something....bad to happen to her. Just so you know what we're serious we have sent you the packaging from your original Jabba the Hut figurine.
Just a note, I agree with you and you're right. Also WHOOOOOOSH!!!(Cluebyfour: Post was about the difference between morality and ethics. Burning IVF waste is still a moralistic decision rather than ethical.)
I understand perfectly what you're talking about, but it's not ethics that are the issue it's morality. To a dying man using a blastocyst to cure him is the ethical decision as it saves his life and allows him to continue to contribute to society. To a person who believes that the blastocyst is a living person then this is an immoral decision because to them it's killing another human. I hate to nitpick, but people often confuse the two.
If I had billions and wanted to get into this kind of thing what I would do is buy all the gold that I can so that I can have a hard gold standard currency. Then I would buy an island (large), declare it a sovereign state, build the infrastructure to support the science facilities and data centers, and finally a nice place for people to live. After all of that I would invite any scientist that wants to have fewer chains on them to come live and research there. There would be a few basic rules such as no WMD, no full human cloning, no human chimera, and human experimenting. I would also encourage scientists there to sell finished projects to help support the island. Just a little idea for anyone with far vaster amounts of money than I.
I think that DaVinci was the kind of man to lead a secret society that hides the Holy Grail and the truth behind the sacred feminine.
Anyway, I don't dismiss things like this completely out of hand as it's certainly within the realm of possibility. I read the article and they didn't provide a link to the song and I hope that they're not trying to get some kind of copyright on it as there is most certainly prior art(heh heh) here. Also a musician that truely loves his work can find music in just about anything hence songs like Flight of the Bumblebee, Blue Danube, and that one where the whole song tries to sound like a Typewriter.
The other problem that I see with this is that the way they are going about it only serves to reinforce what the defendent was saying in the first place. I would think that as an elected official the simplest way to deal with something like this is to completely ignore it and if a question is posed directly then give a direct answer. Should someone reference the site a simple "Everyone is entitled to an opinion." would suffice for 99% of people.
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Point taken, I figured that might be a problem. Although I also have another suggestion, what about using a very weak radio isotope embedded in the instruments? That would be fairly easy to scan for as well and since it doesn't have any kind of circuit in it I would think that's it's sterilization proof as well. I'm none too sure about the details, but there has to be some kind of very weak, non-poisonous isotope out there that fits the bill. What I'm getting at is that there has to be some way for a doctor or member of the staff to do a very quick check over the body of the patient prior to finishing the surgery that hasn't been tried yet. I'm non genius and I'm sure someone smarter than me has thought of all the things that I've mentioned, but awareness of the possibilities is important methinks.
Oooooweeeeeoooooooo I see script-fu!
I am constantly amazed at my own ignorance and lack of common sense. Anyway, I don't know where that guy came up with the idea that the waves are reflected back and it's some kind of perfect and closed system. If that were the case I think that we would have a real problem on our hands since the tsunami that destroyed the pacific a couple years ago would still be bouncing back and forth between them and our west coast.
I think that an RFID would be great too. Have one on each surgical instrument and after everything is complete and you're ready so sew them back together you run a quick scan over the person's body to check for any RFID. That might be over generalized since I'm not a doctor, but I'm sure that everyone here gets the idea.
Great, we now have the nerd equivalent of the Weekly World News Zodiac Astrologer (WWWNZA?). Taurus: Your code will compile with unexpected results. Also a diet of cheetos and soda pop will lead to weight gain. Scorpio: Experts predict that current will flow from the anode to the cathode terminal in the near future. Also romance prospects with your new Macbook Pro look promising. So on and so forth.
This and this idea of copyright cops will not end well.
*Waves hand in the air* I am not the monkey you are looking for.
"I know 4 year olds who have grasped that" I know a four year old that memorized a Hanes Tear down manual for a '67 camaro, people learn and retain what's interesting to them and maybe that's not interesting to this person. As for reading the article I agree there, but this is slashdot. Honestly how many people RTFA? *Drops candy wrapper, grabs pink flamingo, and walks calmly off the lawn whilst the oldster teeters after with his cane.*
Easy there, just because someone reads slashdot does not mean that they have ever been interested understanding radio waves. It was a legitimate question and deserves a legitimate answer. That's called improving the discussion and educating along the way. For all you know this guy could be a master of accounting and if you asked a (to him) basic question about accounting and he responded like you did I don't think that you would be very appreciative. Yes, I see your low UID and I also don't care rude is rude.
Not if he's pretty good with a directional antenna. That's the magic of a parabola. For instance look at this, particularly the parts about Bluetooth. Hence why you never do anything important of any kind of wireless unless it has very good encryption.
Man, nobody here can catch a pun. Hack each other's computers to BITS ?
There was supposed to be a in there, but I forgot to turn off HTML formatting.
That's amazing , I just hope that it doesn't affect my internet usage. As long as that's the case I don't really care if governments hack each other's computer systems to bits.
Well for the hive mind thing, it's easier to make generalizations of the worst case to get a point across, would you rather I throw a car analogy in? As for the rest, considering that the reasons for the XO are altruistic for the most part and Microsoft as well as Intel have much shadier histories than say the OLPC project it's not that hard to pick sides. If I could believe that MS and Intel were being a little more altruistic in their push then as I said in my parent post I don't mind if they jump in, the thing is though that their track record really doesn't lend itself to altruism.
Ummmm, the kids don't really have a choice about which one they get. They are ordered by the kids' respective governments. The other problem with the Wintel offering is that it's not environmentally hardened like the XO. For a kid in a mud hut having a computer that can take intense amounts of punishment is very important. Another thing I don't like about Wintel interfering is that it really isn't geared towards learning, they're worried about a bunch of kids learning something other than M$ software and intel Hardware. The XO is pretty much agnostic when it comes to software and hardware, they're going for cheap durable and good for learning which they have with the current setup. Now if Wintel were worried about the kids not getting something important to education and took steps to mitigate that lack then I don't see anything wrong with them getting involved, but really all they're worried about are future profit margins.
Thank you for making assumptions about me. Too bad what you don't realize is what I've done and where I've been, Iraq...twice. Now, I've worked with helicopters, UAV, and many other really cool gadgets and I can tell you that something like what these are capable of would be a great boon. I do know that the technology for something carrying a payload to do this isn't there yet. That's the key word though, yet. What I was getting at as well is looking at how they have that helicopter and R/C plane configured to do this and maybe some research into ways we can make unmanned craft do similar things. What we soldiers don't need is some SUV drivers in office parks in suburbs who are blissfully seperated(sic) from the realities of what their machines do telling us what gadgets we do and don't need. Oh and yes my profile says ex-soldier, however I'm still in the national guard. Mountain combat as a matter of fact and a UAV that could take off like that little plane did as well as carry a useful payload distributed across multiple packs would be a huge boon to us.
That was amazing. The military needs to figure out how he does all of that. While a human would not be able to take the forces something acting like that would exert, a remotely controlled fighting craft would be incredible. Back on topic that's some pretty interesting stuff. Most UAV require a landing strip like an airplane to take off and land on, if they could just do what these do it would make them much more portable and much easier to use in the field. Amazing world that we live in these days. My dad couldn't imagine having a phone in his car when he was a kid in the 50's much less aircraft that could fly themselves around.
Dear TPB Admin,
We have your limited edition Star Wars Princess Leia figurine still in its original packaging. You do what we tell you when we tell you unless you want something....bad to happen to her. Just so you know what we're serious we have sent you the packaging from your original Jabba the Hut figurine.
MAFIAA
Just a note, I agree with you and you're right. Also WHOOOOOOSH!!!(Cluebyfour: Post was about the difference between morality and ethics. Burning IVF waste is still a moralistic decision rather than ethical.)
No hard feeling?:P
I understand perfectly what you're talking about, but it's not ethics that are the issue it's morality. To a dying man using a blastocyst to cure him is the ethical decision as it saves his life and allows him to continue to contribute to society. To a person who believes that the blastocyst is a living person then this is an immoral decision because to them it's killing another human. I hate to nitpick, but people often confuse the two.
If I had billions and wanted to get into this kind of thing what I would do is buy all the gold that I can so that I can have a hard gold standard currency. Then I would buy an island (large), declare it a sovereign state, build the infrastructure to support the science facilities and data centers, and finally a nice place for people to live. After all of that I would invite any scientist that wants to have fewer chains on them to come live and research there. There would be a few basic rules such as no WMD, no full human cloning, no human chimera, and human experimenting. I would also encourage scientists there to sell finished projects to help support the island. Just a little idea for anyone with far vaster amounts of money than I.
Old Testament or New? Also, hello Mr. Boyd good to see you again =)
Thank you.
I think that DaVinci was the kind of man to lead a secret society that hides the Holy Grail and the truth behind the sacred feminine. Anyway, I don't dismiss things like this completely out of hand as it's certainly within the realm of possibility. I read the article and they didn't provide a link to the song and I hope that they're not trying to get some kind of copyright on it as there is most certainly prior art(heh heh) here. Also a musician that truely loves his work can find music in just about anything hence songs like Flight of the Bumblebee, Blue Danube, and that one where the whole song tries to sound like a Typewriter.
The other problem that I see with this is that the way they are going about it only serves to reinforce what the defendent was saying in the first place. I would think that as an elected official the simplest way to deal with something like this is to completely ignore it and if a question is posed directly then give a direct answer. Should someone reference the site a simple "Everyone is entitled to an opinion." would suffice for 99% of people.